Research &#038; Insights

How to avoid five business ecosystem pitfalls

By Mark J. Greeven, Michael R. Wade and Konstantinos Trantopoulos

The Straits Times

Not just a cheap ride: Chinese EVs come bearing gifts

What executives can learn from Haier’s AI management model

Rise of the Chinese F&B chains: How Chagee, Mixue and Haidilao are conquering South-east Asia

The Straits Times

China needs to show it can compete on more than price

South China Morning Post

What the Labubu craze says about the future of brand strategy

Fast Company

Chinese companies must now focus on wooing consumers at home

South China Morning Post

Want to ride the next wave of globalization? Look to rising powerhouse cities like Hefei – not the usual suspects

WEF Forum

Leadership lessons from China’s largest brewer: Becoming future ready

The future of innovation leadership: Busting five myths and embracing three timeless principles

By Mark J. Greeven and Richard Roi

WEF Forum

Navigating Asia’s new trade reality after the US tariff shock

Sandoz China: Do we stay or do we go?

The Sandoz leadership team faced an important decision as it broke away from Novartis and became a public company. Should Sandoz retain the global geographical coverage it had had in its many years as part of Novartis? Or should it focus on fewer …

By Mark J. Greeven and Jim Pulcrano

China Resources Beer: Becoming future ready

The China Resources Beer (CR Beer) case study is a compelling narrative of the world’s largest beer producer by volume under the leadership of CEO Hou Xiaohai. In 2016 CR Beer embarked on a pivotal transformation journey. This case study offers cr…

By Mark J. Greeven and Wei Wei

Feeding the dragon: Revisiting ChemChina’s acquisition of Syngenta

Basel (Switzerland), March 2024. The acquisition of Syngenta by ChemChina in 2017 was a major event for the agricultural industry and, with a price tag of $43 billion, the largest ever foreign acquisition by a Chinese firm. A number of issues were…

By Benoit F. Leleux and Jiajin Wang

How Fuchs drives autonomy at scale to win in a fragmented world

In a world where agility and global foresight are crucial for business survival and growth, the FUCHS case presents a compelling narrative of transformation. This case study follows FUCHS, a leading global lubricant company, on its journey to navi…

By Mark J. Greeven and Wei Wei

How Fuchs built a future ready China strategy

The case describes the strategic evolution of FUCHS China under the leadership of Zhu Qingping as the company transformed into a vital contributor to the global FUCHS2025 strategy. With 30 years’ experience in the automotive industry, Zhu leverage…

By Mark J. Greeven and Wei Wei

Midea: The digital transformation of a home appliances giant

Over the past decade, Asian companies have been launching accelerated and wide-ranging digital transformation initiatives. This has enabled some of them to become leading national and even international players, as well as digital pioneers in thei…

By Mark J. Greeven, Yunfei Feng and Wei Wei

Transforming Geely: From fridges to motorcycles to EVs … to?

The case is about the continuous entrepreneurial transformation, over two decades, of a company in terms of increasingly advanced technologies and international product markets. It describes how Geely, a leading player in the global automotive ind…

By Mark J. Greeven, Patrick Reinmoeller, Lisa Simone Duke and Wei Wei

CATL: Global battery supremacy (Mini case)

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) was founded in 1999 under the name ATL. Initially, it had no technology of its own, and the founder, Zeng Yuqun, traveled to the US and acquired a patent for a lithium-ion polymer (LiPo) battery from B…

By Mark J. Greeven, Yunfei Feng and Patrick Reinmoeller