Business Thinking

How do you get better at understanding — and therefore doing — business?

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Vanguard as a Demand-Side Mystery

We study the rise of Vanguard, the index fund management company, as a case study of how customer demand is not always about pain.

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The Jobs to be Done Framework as a Method to Understand Demand

How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your understanding of demand.

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The Sugar King of The East

The life and times of one of the most skilled tycoons of South East Asia: Robert Kuok. This is the fourth case on the rise of a tycoon in the Asian Conglomerate series.

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How to Become an Asian Tycoon

Every Asian tycoon becomes a tycoon in the exact same way. Learning to see this core pattern is half the battle.

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How Reliance Won

How the Ambanis became the richest family in Asia. This is the third case on the rise of a tycoon, and the last one before we start talking about the core pattern in all of these Asian Tycoon’s lives. Part 6 in the Asian Conglomerate Series.

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Speedrunning the Skill of Demand

How to get better, faster at the skill of uncovering demand, which underpins the skill domains of sales, marketing, and product.

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Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates

How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.

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Let’s Talk Corruption

How to think about corruption when talking about Asian businesses. Part 4 of the Asian Conglomerate series.

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The Story of Samsung

How Samsung became the largest chaebol in South Korea, and gained so much power over the country’s economy.

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The Study of Asian Tycoons

What can we learn from the study of Asian conglomerates, and the small group of tycoons that control them?