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Incubation and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Hugh Thomas; Chi Fai Chan; Howard Lam; Icy Fong Lai NgaiCase IVEY-9B19A038-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe chief executive officer (CEO) of the government-owned Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) is setting the marketing policy for the incubation program at HKSTP, Hong Kong’s leading incubator of high-technology companies. Seeing marketing as a driving force to convey the strategy of HKSTP, the CEO must analyze the key services through which HKSTP can increase an incubatee’s chances of success; analyze the advantages and di...Starting at €8.20
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Asia Pulp & Paper: Implementing the Forest Conservation Policy
Hugh Thomas; Shige Makino; Ka Wai Boby ShiuCase IVEY-9B16M129-EStrategyIndonesia’s Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), the world’s largest pulp and paper company, was attacked in 2011 by Greenpeace in a global campaign against buyers of APP packaging, particularly Mattel. The managing director of APP’s sustainability and stakeholder engagement (SSE) had to address lost sales and the accusation of greenwashing and devise an appropriate response to Greenpeace’s challenge while implementing the APP Group chairman’s goals to promo...Starting at €8.20
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China Resources Corporation (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Campbell, DennisTeaching Note HBS-108074-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for [107013] and [107015].Starting at €0.00
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OmniFoods: Plant-Based Pork from Hong Kong to the Rest of China
Pong Yuen Howard Lam; Hugh Thomas; Hang Yee Rosette Leung; Hanni JieCase IVEY-W27829-EKnowledge and Communication, MarketingGreen Monday Group (GMG) was founded in 2012 with a mission to “construct a multi-faceted global ecosystem of future food that combats climate change, food insecurity, public health crisis, planetary devastation, and animal suffering.” In 2020, GMG partnered with McDonald’s in Hong Kong and launched six dishes featuring OmniPork Luncheon Meat, a plant-based meat substitute that GMG had developed. In February 2021, the chief executive officer and ...Starting at €8.20
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LeapFive Technology Co. Ltd.: RISC in the Chip Supply Chain
Hugh Thomas; Shilu TongCase IVEY-W33712-EService and Operations Management, StrategyAglaia Kong, the founder and chief executive officer of Guangdong LeapFive Technology Co. Ltd., a Chinese fabless chip design start-up, is facing a broken supply chain, with issues running from electronic design automation and core internet protocol through to fabrication, packaging, and testing in bringing up her Internet of things chip sets for industrial applications. Using fifth-generation open-source reduced instruction set computing instruc...Starting at €8.20
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Ibrahim Dabdoub at the National Bank of Kuwait
Hill, Linda A.; Teppert, Dana M.Case HBS-413107-ELeadership and People ManagementIbrahim Dabdoub, the Group chief executive of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), reflects on his past 30 years at the helm of the Bank. Under his leadership, NBK grew from a small local bank to one of the preeminent financial institutions in the region. However, following the global financial crisis of 2008 and the Arab Spring, NBK had to slow its regional expansion. Dabdoub wonders if the Bank is positioned to thrive and fulfill its collective a...Starting at €8.20
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Iz-Lynn Chan at Far East Organization (Abridged)
Hill, Linda A.; Mayo, Anthony J.; Teppert, Dana M.Case HBS-415033-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case describes how to champion and implement organizational change from the middle by recounting the experiences of Iz-Lynn Chan at Far East Organization. This case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details.Starting at €8.20
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Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia
Hill, Linda A.; Teppert, Dana M.; Wigen, Allison J.Case HBS-415037-ELeadership and People ManagementSanford C. Bernstein, a premier sell-side research firm, is expanding globally. Three years after launching Bernstein's Asian business, senior management has appointed Ghislain de Charentenay, a six-year sales veteran of the firm, as director of Asian research in Hong Kong. He is the first director of research Bernstein has put on the ground in Asia. As the firm faces the challenging realities of scaling its Asian business and meeting growing cli...Starting at €8.20
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Hung Fook Tong: From Hong Kong to China
Andrew C.F. Chan; Howard Lam; Hugh Thomas; Elsie TsuiCase IVEY-9B16A016-EMarketing, StrategyIn 2014, the general manager of the established and successful Hong Kong-based company Hung Fook Tong, which produced and sold herbal teas, wondered how his company could profitably expand to mainland China. After Hung Fook Tong’s recent initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, its shareholders’ equity had tripled. The initial public offering committed Hung Fook Tong to expanding its business in mainland China; however, that marke...Starting at €8.20
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Dividend Policy at Fuyao Glass
Hugh Thomas; Joyce L. Wang; Wu YuhuiCase IVEY-9B16N059-EFinance, StrategyThe chief financial officer (CFO) of Fuyao Glass Industry Group., Ltd. had to recommend dividend distributions prior to the company’s global initial public offering in Hong Kong. Fuyao was China’s largest automotive-glass manufacturer and the second-largest, most profitable, and fastest-growing automotive-glass manufacturer in the world. Controlled by its founder and largest minority shareholder, Mr. Cho Tak Wong, Fuyao was in the midst of substa...Starting at €8.20