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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
managing the incubators. You talk about Singapore as doing a good job at “setting the table” for entrepreneurial ventures. What is the secret of that country’s success? Singapore has been keenly aware of the... View Details
- June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics: Creating and Implementing a Sage Culture
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh, Susan J. Winterberg, Nancy Hua Dai and Shalene Gupta
Suzhou Good-Ark, a Chinese semiconductor implemented "Sage Culture" management based on traditional Chinese philosophy. Productivity doubled, turnover decreased, and employee satisfaction shot up. By 2015, more than 2,000 companies had toured Wu’s factories, and Wu had... View Details
- May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World
By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah
This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mine; Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Operations; Management; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; China; Singapore
Jones, Geoffrey, and Essie Alamsyah. "Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World." Harvard Business School Case 316-178, May 2016. (Revised April 2019.)
- Profile
Aspa Lekka
delivery company, Delivery Hero, expanded both the geographic reach and skills depth of her career, taking her from Russia to Malaysia to Singapore then back to Germany again, but now with the experience of managing over 100 employees... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
faculty at partner universities. (Partner universities typically followed a schedule that ran several days after Boston's to allow time for the digitized material to be posted on the Web.) In-class guests included Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños, Connecticut... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
2014' Significant negotiation-related achievements from the career of Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of his background and career. In light of these accomplishments, Koh was selected as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…
HBS alum, Aaron Mitchell, MBA 2011, provides an update on his career post-HBS. Current Position: Lateral Recruitment Lead – Asia Pacific ResourcingCurrent Location: Singapore Tell us what you’re up to these days. When not home sharing in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
Singapore and built an alumni club from the ground up, serving as committee member, secretary, and president between 1970 and 1988. In 1994, Teo became publisher and chief executive of Far East Trade Press and moved to Hong Kong — a city... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore factor Feng shui into the design and construction of buildings, because its principles are widely known to make work less tedious and human interactions more harmonious, and to... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
support to more students from middle-income backgrounds. Following the Dean's visit to Los Angeles, he plans to travel in coming months to Singapore and Tokyo for events with alumni in Asia. The Dean began this series of alumni gatherings... View Details
- January 2018
- Supplement
OldTown Berhad
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
In December 2017, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE, a Dutch coffee company) made an offer to acquire OldTown Berhad (OTB), a Malaysian coffee company. Three large shareholders, representing more than half of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender their shares and... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Discounted Cash Flow (DCF); Malaysia; Coffee; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Free Cash Flow (FCF); Multiples; Bidding Premia; Netherlands; Tender Offer; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Value Creation; Food; Investment Return; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Malaysia; Netherlands; Singapore; Asia
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy (TN)
Teaching Note for [809004]. View Details
- Web
Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
work. National Archives of Singapore The National Archives of Singapore’s collection of 3,453 oral histories is searchable by keyword and includes multiple interviews from 1980 onwards with entrepreneurs and business leaders in Singapore.... View Details
- Blog
Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
tries to bring the human side of risk management to the fore. "I recently visited our team in Singapore and used the opportunity to present some lessons I took away from the Columbia space shuttle mission case and the importance of... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-017 Singapore Airlines: Premium Goes Multi-Brand Singapore Airlines had long been considered the gold standard for its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
debt and challenges in its restructuring. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210081-PDF-ENG Remaking Singapore Michael E. Porter, Boon-Siong Neo, and Christian H.M. KetelsHarvard Business School Case 710-483 Looking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped... View Details
- 2011
- Article
Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
By: Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between group size and incentives to contribute in the setting of Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese language version of an online encyclopedia that relies entirely on voluntary contributions. The group at Chinese Wikipedia... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing; Behavior; Satisfaction; Size; Government and Politics; Economics; Information Technology Industry; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Singapore
Zhang, Michael, and Feng Zhu. "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia." American Economic Review 101, no. 4 (June 2011): 1601–1615.
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
meaning? To illustrate his ideas, he told the story of a fateful 2010 flight from Singapore to Sydney. READ MORE Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny, pilot of Qantas Flight 32 Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny, pilot of Qantas... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
"Good point, Tom, and that isn't all we'll need. We also have to have somebody in Asia. Either Singapore or Tokyo would be an ideal base. Probably Tokyo works better because more potential clients are headquartered there than in the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle