Facing a surge in investor interest in EdTech during the COVID-19 pandemic, GSV Ventures must decide whether to raise a larger Fund #2

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Though they''ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine--much less challenge--the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act like scientists. That requires doing five things: (1) being a knowledgeable skeptic and relentlessly questioning assumptions; (2) investigating anomalies--things that are unexpected .....more

When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, digital technologies were on the rise, and innovation needed to become a strategic imperative at the company. Banga tasked Garry Lyons, who had joined Mastercard through the 2009 acquisition of Orbiscom, with infusing innovation into Mastercard''s culture. With a significant incremental investment, and free reign to spend it as he pleased, Lyons created Mastercard Labs-a global .....more

In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal "Ajay" Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard''s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and transformed, driven in part by a core strategy of "Grow-Diversify-Build" and vision of a "World Beyond Cash." During Banga''s recent tenure .....more

When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company''s competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard''s new vision of a "World Beyond Cash" distilled into a three-pronged framework: Grow the core business, Diversify customers and employees, and Build new businesses that reinforce Mastercard''s core capabilities. With digital technologies on the rise, Banga knew .....more

When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company''s competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard''s new vision of a "World Beyond Cash" distilled into a three-pronged framework: Grow the core business, Diversify customers and employees, and Build new businesses that reinforce Mastercard''s core capabilities. With digital technologies on the rise, Banga knew .....more

Many Chinese family businesses are facing a succession crisis due to the lack of succession planning. Contrary to this finding, Chen Koon-yaw, the fourth-generation owner of the Hop Lion Feather Works Corporation, had planned early and handed the leadership role over to the next generation well before his retirement age. Hop Lion is a supplier of processed down and feathers to well-known consumer brands specialising in beddings and winter coats, .....more

In early December 2014, the senior team of Pudong Science and Technology Investment (hereafter, Pudong S&T) gathered in the offices of their chairman, Dr. Xudong Zhu. Before competing its cross-border acquisition of Montage Technology, Pudong S&T-wholly owned by the Chinese state-had to reduce the government''s risks in this investment. To Zhu, the best option seemed to be mixed ownership: that is, involving private shareholders in .....more