In 2011, Mikkel Larsen, Managing Director, Head of Tax & Accounting Policy, Group Finance at DBS Bank mooted the idea of DBS adopting an integrated reporting approach. He was convinced that this was a more holistic way of reporting on the bank’s business strategy and activities, linking each of...
This case is set in July 2013, shortly after the launch of Surf Air, an all-you-can-fly subscription airline based in California. Wade Eyerly, the CEO of Surf Air, has to decide if the business model is sustainable, and also if Surf Air could be expanded to other locations.
Three directional trends...
The case is set in Phnom Penh in March 2014. Geoff Revell was the Regional Programme Manager of WaterSHED, a non-governmental organisation based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, founded in August 2011. WaterSHED had been established to promote socially impactful businesses in water, sanitation, and hygiene...
In 1995, Titan launched the first branded range of jewellery – ‘Tanishq’ – in India’s highly fragmented and disorganised jewellery market. Tanishq performed exceedingly well, attracting a large customer base that was assured of quality and purity. However, the business recognises customer...
The case looks retrospectively at an integrated geothermal steam field and a 320.8 MW power project in North Medan, Indonesia which reached financial close in March, 2014 after a combined tender and development period of almost 10 years. A critical last stage of the project commenced in April, 2013...
This case won the Entrepreneurship category at the EFMD Case Writing Competition 2015.
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This is a two-part case series. Part (A) of the case is about how Shashank Nigam, CEO of SimpliFlying Pte Ltd, a company based in Singapore, searches for the corporate strategy and vision for...
Sunlabob Renewable Energy is a Laos-based enterprise established in 2001. For the first seven years the business was entirely focused on Laos. Initially the company provided off-grid electrification to the rural poor as an independent power producer (IPP) or by providing equipment and services to...
It is August 2014, and the Citibank conference on leadership and development has just concluded. Immediately after, Sara Roberts, Talent Head of Citigroup Asia Pacific, and Anuranjita Kumar, Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) of Citigroup South Asia, discuss a pressing issue: how talent and...
This relatively short case describes the development of Rolls-Royce’s (RR) Seletar plant in Singapore, and in particular how the plant moved very quickly from a factory receiving information and innovation from its sister facility in the United Kingdom to a node in RR’s manufacturing network. The...
This case study provides insight on how HCL technologies – one of India’s largest IT companies– pulled off the world’s first ever end-to-end recruitment on Twitter. It provides a background of why HCL adopted this strategy, the internal hurdles staff had experienced to launch the campaign as well...
