Kamrul Tarafder was the President and CEO of ASA Philippines Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering women by providing microloans for them to start or run small businesses. Unlike traditional microfinance models, these loans are underwritten by able family members and disbursed in...
The case is set in April 2023, five years since Leow Ban Tat, CEO of Aquaculture Centre of Excellence Pte Ltd (ACE), founded the Singapore-based seafood start-up with the objective to rear healthy fish sustainably and help Singapore improve its food security and self-sufficiency.
ACE’s fish farm ‘...
The two-part case study discusses the challenges faced by the two talented professionals in their respective careers and the influence of mindfulness on their growth and development. Case A focuses on mindfulness concepts applied to help unlock talent while Case B builds on the former case of...
The case is set in September 2023, and talks about the energy transition of the oil and gas industry in context to ExxonMobil (Exxon), which has seen continued backlash from media and climate activists on its stance on climate change, strategies towards pivoting its core business towards more...
Singapore public agency VITAL offered corporate shared services including human resources (HR), payroll, and finance to agencies across the Singapore Public Service. Due to the nature of their jobs, VITAL officers handled a large volume of mundane administrative work. As automation was being...
Set in 2023, the case documents the initiatives of the Safe in India Foundation (SII), a non-profit organisation, that aims to improve workers’ safety and social security in India’s automobile manufacturing industry. The issue is complex and multifaceted as the industry’s deep supply chain has many...
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...
In 2019, the three Do sons, Nam, Hoa and Giang were shocked when their parents, Mr Hanh and Mdm Nghi, announced that they would hand over the joint running of their two companies—Dai Viet (DV) and Chien Thang (CT), to them.
Since 1999, the Do family had consecutively founded and operated multiple...
Afzal Imram, co-founder of State Property, a fine jewellery retailer rooted in Singapore, had achieved a lot. Numerous celebrities, including Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Nicole Kidman, and Emilia Clarke, had worn State Property’s products. A second brick-and-mortar store had been opened in Singapore...
