Case Archive

What Dhirubhai Ambani’s fight against Nusli Wadia shows us about doing business in rising India.

How Kwek Leng Beng picked the way he played the hotel game, built specifically around the way he was trained ... and won.

How the son of an Singaporean tycoon cut his teeth in the game of business.

How the ‘bad boys’ of the minicomputer boom made a name, made a fortune, and then went away.

How Jim Kilts cut through the noise in the first few months of the Gillette turnaround.

How Jamshetji’s sons carried out his legacy — and laid the foundation for the business empire — after his death.

How Robert Kuok gave way to his nephew, Kuok Khoon Hong, to form Wilmar International.

The dramatic saga of succession at Samsung — which spawned five new conglomerates.

The closest the Kuok Group came to splitting.

How Robert Kuok leveraged a lucrative joint venture into a new business capability.

How Robert Kuok structured employee equity in his holding companies, a rare Asian tycoon to do so.

Rare amongst Asian tycoons, Robert Kuok’s superpower lies in his skill in executing JVs across multiple industries and in multiple geographies.

The birth of one of the oldest, most remarkable business empires in India.

How Professor Mary Lynn Realff created demand for Effective Team Dynamics at Georgia Tech.

How Akmann Van-Mary — with the help of the Flashpoint startup incubator — discovered authentic demand for a payments solution in the logistics space.

How the invention of RAID changed the nature of the data storage industry.

Even the most positive, most convincing indications of early demand may result in startup failure. This is what that looks like.

Vanguard invented the first index fund. But the way it found Product Market-Fit is a multi-decade story of perseverance.

One of the earliest applications of the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework.

How Jobs-to-be-Done Framework pioneer Bob Moesta took a kitchen countertop-materials startup from $500,000 in sales to $18 million.