In October 2021, Facebook changed the parent corporation name to Meta and announced plans to build a metaverse, a 3D virtual world for work and fun. This case explores whether Meta’s metaverse is likely to be a blue ocean utopia for people and society at large or some form of dystopia.

With a focus on China’s biggest internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent, the case study describes their respective histories, fintech subsidiaries and platform-based ecosystems.

The case focuses on China’s ‘furious five’ smartphone makers – Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo, and OPPO/Vivo, charting the history of the industry and the changing dynamics of the global market.

The case describes General Electric’s transformation from an industrial manufacturer to an industrial analytics giant. It opens in 2009 when CEO Jeff Immelt decides that GE, a hardware maker, needs to be more capable in software. The narrative traces his early efforts to consolidate and coordinate software capabilities in a central unit (GE Software Center) headed by Bill Ruh in Silicon Valley.

This case focuses on the topic of strategic triggering; specifically, how best a commercial provider of WiFi such as T-Mobile might react to Google's entry into the WiFi market. The case write-up includes information about Google and Google Secure Access, the WiFi market and Google's plans to enter the market as well as others' reaction to the move.

The case describes the development of Alibaba.com, an Internet start-up originated from China that had become the world’s largest online business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) conducting international trade.