This case talks about the 3P (People, Planet, Profit) strategies of Ant Group backed MYbank, which was established as an online bank in China, as part of Alibaba’s ecosystem, with the vision of providing inclusive finance services to SMEs and farmers in rural China.
In April 2022, however, the...
Set in 2021, the case highlights how S4Capital, a digital-first advertising and marketing services company, develops a disruptive and innovative business model to meet the industry’s growing demand for agility, digital prowess, flexibility, and efficiency, better than the traditional, analogue,...
Set in April 2022, this case delves into supply chain disruptions faced by 3M in and after the Covid-19 pandemic, and the strategies used by the company to cope with the challenges. The case begins by tracing the history of 3M as an ‘Innovation Machine’, and its internationalization strategy in its...
This is a game simulation case on yield management for the hotel industry. Students play the role of the reservation manager and are allowed to make hotel bookings for consumers who want to book hotel rooms at the InnorOut hotel. Students are encouraged to accept the bookings based on the...
It was April 2021, and Widjaja Suki, Director of Business Development at NetLink Trust (NLT), was contemplating on his firm’s future growth and revenue prospects.
NLT was the sole broadband fibre infrastructure provider in Singapore for the residential segment, and had played a key role in the...
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) company NIO had launched Battery as a Service (BaaS), in a competitive bid to reduce vehicle price and make its products more attractive to its consumers. By 2021, almost 40% of its consumer base had switched to using BaaS, and NIO had plans to expand its BaaS services...
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...
Set in July 2021, this case talks about the launch and discontinuation of the very large aircraft, A380, by leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The development of the A380 had been motivated by two key factors – the projected market trend of increased hub-and-spoke travel and the success of...
In November 2020, after the world’s largest online shopping festival, also known as Singles’ Day or “11.11 Global Shopping Festival” in China ended on a high note, the express delivery industry was again confronted with issues of burgeoning packaging waste and increasing carbon footprint from...
Set in April 2020, the case talks about TAIGER, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company providing natural language processing (NLP) solutions in a rapidly growing market where demand and competition for such solutions are high. TAIGER solutions could process and digitise large amounts of physical...
