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Cases by Kenneth Goh

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Usertip: Early-Stage Financing Considerations

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Rodney Yap, co-founder and CEO of Usertip, a digital adoption platform tech start-up, had completed a pre-seed funding round for the company. Yap and his co-founders had leveraged Singapore’s tech hub status and government support for digital innovation to develop software that would help train...
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An Uncommon Alliance: Unilever’s ‘The Vegetarian Butcher’ Meets Singapore’s ‘The Social Kitchen’

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Set in 2022, the case describes the partnership between Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) and The Social Kitchen (TSK), a social enterprise, to launch Unilever’s flagship alt-meat brand ‘The Vegetarian Butcher’ (TVB) in Singapore. With a focus on ‘future foods’, Unilever planned to double the number of...
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The Other WTO: Using Toilet Humour to Facilitate Global Access to Toilets

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When Jack Sim turned 40, it was the height of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, which had decimated half his wealth. The Singaporean entrepreneur found himself wanting to live a more meaningful life, and decided to devote his remaining years to promoting the need for clean sanitation. He first set...
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Shenzhen Power Solution: Energising Africa’s Base of the Pyramid

Li Xia is the founder of Shenzhen Power Solution (SPS), a social enterprise established to aid people at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). Her family’s financial troubles during her childhood helped her understand the difficulties faced by the BOP consumers. She knew that BOP consumers did not have...
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Duolingo: Play, Not Pay, to Learn Languages

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In July 2021, Duolingo became one of the few mission-driven education-technology companies to list on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in the US. Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon professor from Guatemala, and his doctoral student, Severin Hacker, the start-up was born with a social...
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Federated Hermes – Improving ESG Through Active Engagement with Portfolio Companies

This case study is set in May 2021. It describes how Sarah Lee, Director of Engagement at Federated Hermes (FH) has been engaging with Ruby Goods (Ruby), a consumer goods company that operates in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its...
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Shining a Ray of Hope Through COVID-19

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This case is set in November 2020. Despite COVID-19, Ray of Hope (ROH), a crowdfunding charity in Singapore had grown crowdfunded donations for their clients (individuals requiring financial assistance) six-fold from S$500,000 (US$400,000) in 2019 to S$3 million (US$2.2 million) in the period April...
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Innovate or Dye: How Matex International Innovates for Sustainability

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Public-listed Matex International Ltd, a Singapore-based specialty chemicals and dye manufacturer, was committed to spending up to 10% of its revenue on research and development (R&D), particularly in the area of developing cutting-edge dyes and dyeing processes that were more environmentally-...
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Vodien Internet Solutions: From Building Websites to Powering the Digital Back-end of Business

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The case is set in mid-2015, as Vodien Internet Solutions’ founders Alvin Poh and John Jervis Lee consider their company’s journey from a small-business serving web design and development studio to a full-fledged web hosting company, which now aspires to become the dominant player in the Asian...
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Twitter’s Acquisition of Magic Pony Technology in the Race for AI

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June 20, 2016. It was the day Magic Pony Technology galloped to fame after Twitter announced its acquisition of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up for a reported US$150 million. Co-founded by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang in London in 2014, Magic Pony specialised in using machine learning, a...
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