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Popular: Still Singapore’S Favourite Bookstore, Singapore Management University Nov 2021

Popular: Still Singapore’S Favourite Bookstore, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Popular is evolving into an omni-channel retailer to improve its customer experience


Pivot Or Perish: The Retail Reality, Anne Lepissier, Ryan Vaughan, Shantanu Bhattacharya Nov 2021

Pivot Or Perish: The Retail Reality, Anne Lepissier, Ryan Vaughan, Shantanu Bhattacharya

Perspectives@SMU

Brick-and-mortar retailers are adapting to meet the challenges posed by accelerating e-commerce adoption. Some are doing better than others, but supply chain obstacles could prove decisive


Entrepreneurship And The Great Chinese Urban Migration, Singapore Management University Nov 2021

Entrepreneurship And The Great Chinese Urban Migration, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

A recent research study finds that rural migrants in China are likely to establish bigger companies and universities in big cities can serve as talent importers


Sustainably Feeding The World In The 21st Century, Ren Hua Ho, Husodo Angkosubroto, Oi Hian Lee Nov 2021

Sustainably Feeding The World In The 21st Century, Ren Hua Ho, Husodo Angkosubroto, Oi Hian Lee

Perspectives@SMU

Managing investor expectation, exploiting low-hanging fruit, and farmer education will be key


Why Facebook's Meta-Morphosis Won't Fix Ethics Headache, Rob Nicholls Nov 2021

Why Facebook's Meta-Morphosis Won't Fix Ethics Headache, Rob Nicholls

Perspectives@SMU

Facebook is under fire (again) for its questionable business ethics – what exactly did it do wrong and what will happen as a result?


Entrepreneurial Lessons, Singapore Management University Oct 2021

Entrepreneurial Lessons, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Growth keeps a company interesting and helps retain talent. There are many issues to grapple with, from manpower to asking your clients, “How much would you pay for that?”


Investing For The Future, Saker Nusseibeh Oct 2021

Investing For The Future, Saker Nusseibeh

Perspectives@SMU

Even if you don’t believe in climate change, shifting consumer and governmental attitudes make businesses that prioritise sustainability more profitable


Sustainable Investment Across Generations, Darren Teo, Elaine Teo, Jansen Phee, Mitch Reznick, Reshma Lalvani Sujan, Ronil Sujan Oct 2021

Sustainable Investment Across Generations, Darren Teo, Elaine Teo, Jansen Phee, Mitch Reznick, Reshma Lalvani Sujan, Ronil Sujan

Perspectives@SMU

Children that follow in a successful company’s founder's footsteps are paying more attention to sustainability


Sinwattana: Capital Crowdfunding For Thai Smes, Singapore Management University Oct 2021

Sinwattana: Capital Crowdfunding For Thai Smes, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

A Singaporean entrepreneur falls in love with Thailand, and creates the country’s first online equity crowdfunding platform


The Unknown Benefits Of Black Markets, Singapore Management University Oct 2021

The Unknown Benefits Of Black Markets, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Research on the license plate market in China’s capital finds that black markets can potentially serve as an auction mechanism to redistribute limited resources to those in need


Business Families As Stewards Of Sustainability, John Cheng, Ankesh Shahra, Cynthia Handriani Wijaya, Louise Dudley Sep 2021

Business Families As Stewards Of Sustainability, John Cheng, Ankesh Shahra, Cynthia Handriani Wijaya, Louise Dudley

Perspectives@SMU

The drive to preserve the business for future generations makes family-owned enterprises especially suited to sustainability initiatives. Embracing ESG frameworks will help measure their effectiveness


How Has Covid Changed The Way We Need To Collaborate And Innovate?, Singapore Management University Sep 2021

How Has Covid Changed The Way We Need To Collaborate And Innovate?, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Organisations need to adopt a specific approach to hybrid working in order to improve collaboration, communication, productivity and innovation


How ‘Human’ Should Robots Be?, Singapore Management University Sep 2021

How ‘Human’ Should Robots Be?, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Hotel guests like interaction with devices that look and sound like them, but they can spark displeasure after service failures, new CUHK study shows


Communicating Business, Singapore Management University Sep 2021

Communicating Business, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Communications heads should have a seat in boardrooms to facilitate strategic communication. But they need to demonstrate how communications drive business


Greening E-Commerce In China, Singapore Management University Sep 2021

Greening E-Commerce In China, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Cainiao, Alibaba’s logistics arm, is leading the charge to address e-commerce’s waste and carbon footprint issue


Doubling Down On Asia, Olivier Lim, Arif P. Rachmat, David Su Aug 2021

Doubling Down On Asia, Olivier Lim, Arif P. Rachmat, David Su

Perspectives@SMU

COVID-19 has inflicted major pain on Asian economies but the effects on countries and sectors are not uniform. The tech sector in China could yet present investment opportunities


Innovating In The Digital Economy, Arnoud De Meyer Aug 2021

Innovating In The Digital Economy, Arnoud De Meyer

Perspectives@SMU

It is all about creating and capturing value, building networks, and scaling up quickly


Why The Workplace Chameleon Is A Paradox For Diversity And Inclusion, Singapore Management University Aug 2021

Why The Workplace Chameleon Is A Paradox For Diversity And Inclusion, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Do employees need to be like chameleons to survive certain corporate cultures, despite the best efforts of diversity and inclusion initiatives?


Building A Courier Service Company With It, Singapore Management University Aug 2021

Building A Courier Service Company With It, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

XDel Singapore spent on sophisticated technology even while it was small. Its growth post-investment looks like money well-spent


The Entrepreneurial Scientist, Kush Agarwal Jul 2021

The Entrepreneurial Scientist, Kush Agarwal

Perspectives@SMU

Kush Agarwal is a trained scientist who calls himself “an entrepreneur by DNA”. His advice to budding startup founders: Manage your expectations with VCs


Winning Startup Competitions, Shao Yen Tan, Kush Agarwal Jul 2021

Winning Startup Competitions, Shao Yen Tan, Kush Agarwal

Perspectives@SMU

Tan Shao Yen and Kush Agarwal were a mentor-mentee pairing in the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition. Their organisations are now collaborating to explore the application of new technology in the built environment


A Cio’S Take On Singapore’S Startup Ecosystem, Singapore Management University Jul 2021

A Cio’S Take On Singapore’S Startup Ecosystem, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

New challenges will drive innovation, says CPG’s Tan Shao Yen


Certis: Digital Transformation Of A Physical Security Company, Singapore Management University Jul 2021

Certis: Digital Transformation Of A Physical Security Company, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

How a company synonymous with auxiliary police injected sensors and artificial intelligence into its 21st century operations


The Evolving Chinese Luxury Consumer, Rane Xue, Xiaolei Gu Jun 2021

The Evolving Chinese Luxury Consumer, Rane Xue, Xiaolei Gu

Perspectives@SMU

Chinese who travel frequently or have lived abroad will shape the perception and understanding of luxury consumption going forward


Gucci: Steering Into The Post-Covid Era, Singapore Management University Jun 2021

Gucci: Steering Into The Post-Covid Era, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Marco Bizzarri and Alessandro Michele proved there is life after Tom Ford. COVID-19 could yet make Gucci’s revival a short-lived one


Is Commercial Real Estate Overpriced?, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Jun 2021

Is Commercial Real Estate Overpriced?, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Perspectives@SMU

Valuations are sky-high but realised cashflow growth is sluggish. Much of the dichotomy could be attributed to the increased diversity of the commercial real estate ecosystem


Us Lawmakers Are Taking A Massive Swipe At Big Tech. If It Lands, The Impact Will Be Felt Globally, Katharine Kemp Jun 2021

Us Lawmakers Are Taking A Massive Swipe At Big Tech. If It Lands, The Impact Will Be Felt Globally, Katharine Kemp

Perspectives@SMU

Five antitrust laws proposed in the US aim to aggressively rein in the market power of “big tech” companies and change the way they do business, writes UNSW Sydney's Katharine Kemp


How To Spot And Avoid Greenwashing In Supply Chains, Singapore Management University Jun 2021

How To Spot And Avoid Greenwashing In Supply Chains, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Research draws attention to practice of firms greenwashing their CSR by disclosing supply chain relationships with “green” but concealing “brown” suppliers


Digital Transformation: What? How? Why?, Chee Hau Tan, Darren Thayre, Ewen Plougastel, Mark Shmulevich May 2021

Digital Transformation: What? How? Why?, Chee Hau Tan, Darren Thayre, Ewen Plougastel, Mark Shmulevich

Perspectives@SMU

Leadership and prep work ahead of transformation are key


Digitally Transforming Chicken Rice, Singapore Management University May 2021

Digitally Transforming Chicken Rice, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Lao Hung Jia's dreams of selling Singapore’s national dish all over the world might just happen thanks to cashless payment and a matured food delivery ecosystem. There is just one problem: sorting out the pre-packed chilli sauce