China''s companies have long been acclaimed for their manufacturing prowess and, more recently, for their pragmatic approach to innovation. Now it''s time to recognize how they are reinventing the role of management through an approach the authors call "digitally enhanced directed autonomy," or DEDA. These companies use digital platforms to give frontline employees direct access to shared corporate resources and capabilities, .....more

Follow the Platinum Rule: Help others as they would wish to be helped.

Don''t let fear of not knowing enough freeze you into doing nothing.

When Yonyou''s founder Wang Wenjing was considering the pros and cons of fully embracing the cloud-based SaaS (software as a service) model, the company was on the road to becoming China''s leading ERP software provider. It took years for Yonyou to entirely change its business model from selling software licenses to collecting services fee. Industry-wide, the trend was more than clear that providing cloud-based service would become .....more

This note explores the emerging multi-billion dollars commerce trend of livestream commerce. Livestream commerce is the sale of goods or services directly to consumers via live shows on digital platforms (such as social media or e-commerce platforms). It is a form of social commerce in which consumers engage with real-time videos to complete transactions. Livestream commerce was especially popular in China, where gross merchandise value through this .....more

It is fall 2022, and open-source AI model company Hugging Face is considering its three areas of priorities: platform development, supporting the open-source community, and pursuing cutting-edge scientific research. As it expands services for enterprise clients, which services should it prioritize? Will these projects be in line with Hugging Face''s volunteer community? Further, Hugging Face decided to remove a model uploaded by a contributor, .....more

In cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), post-merger integration is a challenge. The main questions posed are how should the expected operating and financial targets and a smooth transition be achieved and synergies be generated. These factors directly affect the ultimate realization of the value of overseas M&A transactions. This case, as the third one in the series of cases on BlueStar''s acquisition of Adisseo, highlights .....more

Supplement to case 523037 Volt Lines was a next-generation transportation service in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was trying to disrupt the traditional corporate transportation market by developing software that allowed it to offer subscription-based transportation. Under the subscription model, Volt Lines pooled employees from different clients to ride on the same bus and charged its clients using a per-seat pricing model instead of the traditional .....more

Supplement to case 523037 Volt Lines was a next-generation transportation service in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was trying to disrupt the traditional corporate transportation market by developing software that allowed it to offer subscription-based transportation. Under the subscription model, Volt Lines pooled employees from different clients to ride on the same bus and charged its clients using a per-seat pricing model instead of the traditional .....more

Volt Lines was a next-generation transportation service in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was trying to disrupt the traditional corporate transportation market by developing software that allowed it to offer subscription-based transportation. Under the subscription model, Volt Lines pooled employees from different clients to ride on the same bus and charged its clients using a per-seat pricing model instead of the traditional per-bus model. In 2020, .....more