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Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century, Teaching Plan
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Giacomin, ValeriaTeaching Note HBS-818063-EEconomicsTeaching plan for case 805010.Starting at €0.00
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Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Alamsyah, EssieCase HBS-316178-EThis case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on state-owned and foreign firms. The case describes the formidable challenges she initially faced, her subsequent breakthrough in China, and the subsequent growth as a global water treatmen...Starting at €8.20
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Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Yang, AmandaCase HBS-317045-EThis case examines the recent emergence of Chinese business philanthropy through the case of the SOHO China Foundation established by real estate wife and husband moguls Zhang Zin and Pan Shiyi. After exploring how they became billionaires through investing in the booming China real estate market in the 1990s, the case discusses their decision to found the Foundation in the context of the belated emergence of philanthropy in China, and the contin...Starting at €8.20
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Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Spadafora, AndrewCase HBS-314087-EConsiders the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by Pola of Japan in 2011. The case opens two years later in July 2013 when Sam McKay, the chief executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia, where the brand had been fo...Starting at €8.20