The Early Legacy of the Tatas: Steel, Science and Power
How Jamshetji’s sons carried out his legacy — and laid the foundation for the business empire — after his death.
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A collection of cases about Asian tycoons and their conglomerates.
How entities — companies, firms, protocols — design effective incentives to accomplish effective goals.
Stories of succession in a family business.
What power looks like in dealmaking and in business.
What good and bad capital allocation looks like.
Cases of companies navigating the capital cycle: whether successfully, or not.
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.