Dollar Shave and Gillette (Mini case)

As geopolitics reshapes markets, leading firms move beyond risk mitigation to use foresight, intelligence, and public-private engagement to create competitive advantage.

Research by the Boston Consulting Group exposes an inconvenient truth about longevity: awareness has never been higher, but action lags far behind.

The case traces the evolution of SF Technology (SF Tech), the technology subsidiary of S.F. Holding (SF), China's largest integrated logistics service provider. Founded in 2009 to support SF's operations, SF Tech became the core driver of the group's digital transformation; it led SF from early IT integration to full-chain digitalization and later, to AI-enabled intelligence. The case follows SF Tech's major milestones: developing its ERP integration across 300 entities, deploying AI-driven scheduling and forecasting systems, and launching its proprietary large models Fengzhi and Fengyu, which optimize logistics operations and decision making across industries. The case examines SF's ESG initiatives and SF Tech's big-data systems that became central to tracking and reducing carbon emissions. By 2025, SF Tech had proven its capabilities at home and begun extending them abroad, applying its modular, AI-native platform to help other companies digitize their supply chains. Yet the path forward remained uncertain. Should SF Tech focus on being a modular technology provider or move upstream as a global orchestrator? Could its China-honed, AI-native system scale in slower, more regulated markets? And how could it sustain its innovation edge as AI became commonplace? The case concludes by inviting participants to consider how SF Tech should balance innovation, scalability and global legitimacy in an era of digital and geopolitical complexity.

The past year has shown how geopolitical disruptions can simultaneously raise risk levels and generate new opportunities across sectors. Trade fragmentation, intensifying strategic competition in technology, and pressure on supply chains have made...

Trump is gouging out chunks of America’s long-established economic data apparatus because he doesn’t like what he sees.

A study of 1,000 executive posts shows how using social media signals can boost meaningful engagement by over 300% and redefine effective leadership online.

From Red Sea attacks to nuclear ships: Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen on the future of global trade.

Many leaders overlook emerging risks and fall into common AI strategy pitfalls. Understand why old approaches fail and what transformation now requires.

Another January, another list of new resolutions. Meditate daily. Read more books. Network strategically. But what if the fastest path to professional impact isn’t adding something new – it’s subtracting something old?

Research has shown that companies that adopt a “one-company” operating model instead of one that prioritizes local autonomy are 2.3 times more likely to rank among the top quartile of healthy, high-performing organizations. Global multinationals l...