This case describes the movement towards dual-class listings on Asian stock exchanges and the efforts of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA), a not-for-profit shareholder advocacy group, to discourage this trend. As a not-for-profit organization with no formal regulatory or incentive setting powers, ACGA had been successful in helping to elevate the governance standards in Asian capital markets through its advocacy work, educational .....more

This series of case studies lift the veil of wellness tourism, a popular but relatively niche market. Case A describes how wellness tourism had become more mainstream in recent years. At the foot of the Alps, there is a low-key luxury resort called Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. The resort Group organically combines the tradition of a family business and Swiss innovation in its strategy. On the one hand, all group-level decisions put the protection of the .....more

It had been one year since Anita Basu joined the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz as the Director of the Medical Center and member of the Executive Committee. Basu believed that the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz differentiated itself from other high-end resorts because of the centuries-old thermal spring and five-star experience that integrated medical treatment and other facilities. However, would the diversification of the facilities lead to the dilution of Bad .....more

This case study describes the simultaneous evolution of both Health and Happiness (H&H) International Holdings Limited (referred hereafter as "H&H") and the senior executive protagonist, Laetitia Garnier. The instructor followed the history of company as it evolved from a single-product company in China (then known as Biostime) to a global group encompassing multiple brands following a series of acquisitions. This expansion allowed .....more

The case is based on published sources and was written in 2019, before the announcement in April 2021 of a breakaway European Super League. The idea of different formats and financing models for competition football is not new, however. The case explores this from the viewpoint of FC Bayern Munich the best-known and most successful German football club and one of the elite teams in Europe - and its president, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who has had a number .....more

This case describes the journey of Gucci, a hundred-year-old luxury fashion brand, and how over the years it has reinvented its designs and marketing strategy to grow its market dominance world-wide. In 2015, Gucci''s dismal performance over two successive years led the fashion house to rejig its top management, and bring in Marco Bizzarri, as the new President and CEO, and Alessandro Michele as the new creative director. By end-2019, the .....more

As late as 2020, the supply chain of the global chocolate industry was characterized by modern slavery and child labour, poverty, dire living conditions and deforestation. While players in the cocoa industry had launched certification and in-house sustainability programmes, experts claimed that these have had limited impact. This failing prompted alternative efforts to change the sector from within. One of them, Tony''s Chocolonely, a Dutch .....more

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A mentor is not enough.

Executive Chris Ernst uses a unique personal strategy to define his six life roles (spiritual explorer, natural being, development pioneer, global/local citizen, thriving family, true friend) and achieve harmony among them.