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Mushroom Buddies: Providing Equal Employment Opportunities

by Tan Wee Liang, Nimisha Kesarwani, CW Chan
Discipline:
Community-based organizations
After various failed attempts at finding employment for his son with Down Syndrome, Ong Chin Wah, along with four other caregivers of youths with intellectual disability (PIDs) decided to take matters into their own hands. In 2011, they started a cooperative ‘Employment for Persons with...
S$6.00

Project Ugnayan: Feeding Manila’s Hungry During the Covid-19 Pandemic

by Tan Wee Liang, Cheah Sin Mei
Discipline:
Crisis management
In March 2020, the Philippines government announced the first month-long lockdown in Manila and its surrounding regions to curb COVID-19 transmission. The lockdown measures, including the closure of non-essential businesses and stay-home orders, were sudden and drastic, leading to the urban poor's...
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Succession at Taiwan’s Hop Lion Feather Works: Not Leaving It to Chance

by Tan Wee Liang, Cheah Sin Mei, Chung Hsi-Mei
Discipline:
Family businesses
Many Chinese family businesses are facing a succession crisis due to the lack of succession planning. Contrary to this finding, Chen Koon-yaw, the fourth-generation owner of the Hop Lion Feather Works Corporation, had planned early and handed the leadership role over to the next generation well...
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Honestbee: Adding a Brick and Mortar Store to its Online Business

by Tan Wee Liang, David Gomulya, CW Chan
Discipline:
Competitive Strategy
In January 2019, Raymond Holmes, head of the Singapore Association of Chief Marketing Officers (CMO), an informal roundtable of CMOs from multinational corporations, went to explore Habitat, a hi-tech grocery store by Honestbee, a food and grocery delivery company. The advent of e-commerce allowed...
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Tackling Customer Pain Points One by One: How TranSwap Converted Banking Diehards

by Tan Wee Liang, Neo Kok Beng, Thomas Lim
Discipline:
Start-ups
Fintech company TranSwap Pte Ltd was set up in Singapore by CEO Benjamin Wong and COO Lim Kien Leong to address customers’ bugbears when carrying out overseas money transfers. It began operating in 2017 and has since evolved to include products such as global payment and collections and multi-...
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A Bitter Pill for Pharmaceutical Counterfeits: Behind China’s Serialisation Technology

by Tan Wee Liang, Cheah Sin Mei
Discipline:
Technology and analytics
In January 2014, CITIC 21CN Technology Company Limited (CITIC), a firm that had been under the radar, took the Hong Kong stock market by storm after its stock price soared 372% upon Alibaba Group’s acquisition. Alibaba, the world’s largest e-commerce company, took a controlling stake of CITIC and...
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Emerging Hope Lanka: Empowering Rural Women in Sri Lanka

by Tan Wee Liang, Cheah Sin Mei
Discipline:
Social entrepreneurship
Emerging Hope Lanka was founded by Nilushika Silva Jayaweera (“Nilu”), a domestic worker-turned-entrepreneur in 2016. She had left her hometown in Sri Lanka, orphaned and penniless, to work in Singapore some 16 years earlier. Her determination and thirst for knowledge was the driving force that led...
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