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Cloud Wars Go Global: How Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba Compete in Web Services

By  Jason P. Davis,  Anne Yang
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Cloud computing, a concept unknown until relatively recently, has been adopted by organizations around the world, both large and small, as part of their computing strategy. Many companies have experienced the cost and flexibility advantages of cloud computing and are using various cloud computing models to solve their business problems.

    Published 19 Mar 2020

    Reference 6577

    Topic Entrepreneurship

    Region Global

    Industry Computer Networking

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    Cloud Wars Go Global: How Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba Compete in Web Services

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    Cloud computing, a concept unknown until relatively recently, has been adopted by organizations around the world, both large and small, as part of their computing strategy. Many companies have experienced the cost and flexibility advantages of cloud computing and are using various cloud computing models to solve their business problems.
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      Circles.Life: Business Model Innovation and Digital Entrepreneurship in Telecommunications

      By  Jason P. Davis,  Minh Vo,  Anne Yang
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      Circles.Life is the new telco challenger startup in Asia. Securing several rounds of funding from Sequoia Capital, Singapore’s EDBI, Silicon Valley’s Founders Fund, and Warburg Pincus for its fully-digital technology and business model innovation, it offers cloud-based telecommunications services around simplified data-focused plans, a simple onboarding process, and easy-to-use mobile app.

        Published 05 Mar 2020

        Reference 6572

        Topic Entrepreneurship

        Region Asia

        Industry Telecommunications

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        Circles.Life: Business Model Innovation and Digital Entrepreneurship in Telecommunications

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        Circles.Life is the new telco challenger startup in Asia. Securing several rounds of funding from Sequoia Capital, Singapore’s EDBI, Silicon Valley’s Founders Fund, and Warburg Pincus for its fully-digital technology and business model innovation, it offers cloud-based telecommunications services around simplified data-focused plans, a simple onboarding process, and easy-to-use mobile app.
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          Careem - Selling Rides or Selling Tech? Strategic Agility and Scope in a Platform Business

          By  Neil Jones,  Jean Wee
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          In 2012, when Careem first started operations in Dubai as a private limousine booking business, it was a tiny start-up working with just US$100,000 of its founders’ savings. Selim Turki is hired (its 18th employee) to develop and market its platform as a ‘white label’ solution for companies’ transport arrangements.

            Published 12 Nov 2019

            Reference 6546

            Topic Entrepreneurship

            Region Middle-East

            Industry Consumer Services,  Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

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            Careem - Selling Rides or Selling Tech? Strategic Agility and Scope in a Platform Business

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            In 2012, when Careem first started operations in Dubai as a private limousine booking business, it was a tiny start-up working with just US$100,000 of its founders’ savings. Selim Turki is hired (its 18th employee) to develop and market its platform as a ‘white label’ solution for companies’ transport arrangements.
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              Network Leadership (A): Global Informality Project

              By  Stanislav Shekshnia,  Alexandra Matveeva
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              In less than five years The Global Informality Project evolved from a one scholar's dream to a global network-based research exercise uniting hundreds of people across the world. It produced two volumes of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, published by UCL Press in early 2018, a wiki-site and dozens of events around the globe.

                Published 28 Jun 2019

                Reference 6508

                Topic Entrepreneurship

                Region Global

                Industry Printing,  Publishing

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                Network Leadership (A): Global Informality Project

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                In less than five years The Global Informality Project evolved from a one scholar's dream to a global network-based research exercise uniting hundreds of people across the world. It produced two volumes of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, published by UCL Press in early 2018, a wiki-site and dozens of events around the globe.
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                  Network Leadership (B): Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

                  By  Stanislav Shekshnia,  Alexandra Matveeva
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                  In less than five years The Global Informality Project evolved from a one scholar's dream to a global network-based research exercise uniting hundreds of people across the world. It produced two volumes of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, published by UCL Press in early 2018, a wiki-site and dozens of events around the globe.

                    Published 28 Jun 2019

                    Reference 6508

                    Topic Entrepreneurship

                    Region Global

                    Industry Printing,  Publishing

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                    Network Leadership (B): Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

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                    In less than five years The Global Informality Project evolved from a one scholar's dream to a global network-based research exercise uniting hundreds of people across the world. It produced two volumes of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, published by UCL Press in early 2018, a wiki-site and dozens of events around the globe.
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                      Unlocking the Closet: Venture Capital and the Global Expansion of a Middle East Luxury Goods Marketplace

                      By  Vikas A. Aggarwal,  Katia Kachan
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                      In 2018, the Luxury Closest (TLC), an e-commerce marketplace for pre-owned luxury goods based in Dubai, receives Series C investment from two venture capital firms, Middle East Venture Partners and Wamda Capital. CEO Kunal Kapoor needs to evaluate three distinct paths for the company’s expansion over the coming 18 months.

                        Published 31 May 2019

                        Reference 6505

                        Topic Entrepreneurship

                        Region Middle-East

                        Industry Venture Capital,  Luxury Goods and Jewelry,  E-Commerce

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                        Unlocking the Closet: Venture Capital and the Global Expansion of a Middle East Luxury Goods Marketplace

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                        In 2018, the Luxury Closest (TLC), an e-commerce marketplace for pre-owned luxury goods based in Dubai, receives Series C investment from two venture capital firms, Middle East Venture Partners and Wamda Capital. CEO Kunal Kapoor needs to evaluate three distinct paths for the company’s expansion over the coming 18 months.
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                          Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM): Sink or Sail?

                          By  Joost de Haas,  Esther Val,  Anne-Marie Carrick
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                          The case describes how a loss-making ferry company was brought back to financial health, modernised and recapitalised in less than two years, amidst a context of political pressure, stakeholder hostility and a €600 million fine from the European Union. The Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM) was sinking under the weight of French blockades and belligerent unions.

                            Published 26 Jul 2019

                            Reference 6500

                            Topic Entrepreneurship

                            Region Europe

                            Industry Maritime

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                            Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM): Sink or Sail?

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                            The case describes how a loss-making ferry company was brought back to financial health, modernised and recapitalised in less than two years, amidst a context of political pressure, stakeholder hostility and a €600 million fine from the European Union. The Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM) was sinking under the weight of French blockades and belligerent unions.
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                              ByteDance Beyond China: Leveraging Consumer Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Toutiao to Musical.ly and TikTok

                              By  Jason P. Davis,  Minh Vo,  Anne Yang
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                              ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, the viral short video app, made headline news when its valuation jumped to $75 billion, surpassing Uber ($72 billion) to become the world’s most valuable start-up.

                                Published 31 May 2019

                                Reference 6489

                                Topic Entrepreneurship

                                Region Global

                                Industry Computer Networking,  Consumer Services,  Information Technology and Services

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                                ByteDance Beyond China: Leveraging Consumer Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Toutiao to Musical.ly and TikTok

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                                ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, the viral short video app, made headline news when its valuation jumped to $75 billion, surpassing Uber ($72 billion) to become the world’s most valuable start-up.
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                                  Outfit7 (A): Human Resource Management and Culture at a Start-up

                                  By  Miha Skerlavaj,  Spencer Harrison,  Ziga Vavpotic
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                                  Outfit7 is a digital entertainment firm that develops and publishes animated video games for mobile phones, tablets and desktops. It’s flagship product is a series of mobile apps called “Talking Tom and Friends”, with close to 10 billion downloads globally.

                                    Published 22 Feb 2019

                                    Reference 6459

                                    Topic Entrepreneurship

                                    Region Europe

                                    Industry Broadcast Media

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                                    Outfit7 (A): Human Resource Management and Culture at a Start-up

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                                    Outfit7 is a digital entertainment firm that develops and publishes animated video games for mobile phones, tablets and desktops. It’s flagship product is a series of mobile apps called “Talking Tom and Friends”, with close to 10 billion downloads globally.
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                                      Outfit7 (B): Entrepreneurial Leadership at a Scale-up

                                      By  Miha Skerlavaj,  Spencer Harrison,  Ziga Vavpotic
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                                      Outfit7 is a digital entertainment firm that develops and publishes animated video games for mobile phones, tablets and desktops. It’s flagship product is a series of mobile apps called “Talking Tom and Friends”, with close to 10 billion downloads globally.

                                        Published 22 Feb 2019

                                        Reference 6459

                                        Topic Entrepreneurship

                                        Region Europe

                                        Industry Broadcast Media

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                                        Outfit7 (B): Entrepreneurial Leadership at a Scale-up

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                                        Outfit7 is a digital entertainment firm that develops and publishes animated video games for mobile phones, tablets and desktops. It’s flagship product is a series of mobile apps called “Talking Tom and Friends”, with close to 10 billion downloads globally.
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                                          Outfit7 (C): Scaling up a Unicorn - Continuity and Renewal

                                          By  Miha Skerlavaj,  Spencer Harrison,  Ziga Vavpotic
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                                          Outfit7 is a digital entertainment firm that develops and publishes animated video games for mobile phones, tablets and desktops. It’s flagship product is a series of mobile apps called “Talking Tom and Friends”, with close to 10 billion downloads globally.

                                            Published 22 Feb 2019

                                            Reference 6459

                                            Topic Entrepreneurship

                                            Region Europe

                                            Industry Broadcast Media

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                                            Outfit7 (C): Scaling up a Unicorn - Continuity and Renewal

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                                            Outfit7 is a digital entertainment firm that develops and publishes animated video games for mobile phones, tablets and desktops. It’s flagship product is a series of mobile apps called “Talking Tom and Friends”, with close to 10 billion downloads globally.
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                                              Alibaba in Blockchain: Integrating Blockchain-based Remittances into Cloud Services

                                              By  Jason P. Davis,  Minh Vo,  Anne Yang
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                                              When Alibaba, China’s leading digital platform and cloud-based services company, fails to acquire the US firm Moneygram, CEO Jack Ma decides to go it alone and develop a digital strategy using blockchain technology as the basis for a global remittance service, GCash, within its cloud services business.

                                                Published 29 Oct 2018

                                                Reference 6442

                                                Topic Entrepreneurship

                                                Region Asia

                                                Industry Financial Services,  Internet

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                                                Alibaba in Blockchain: Integrating Blockchain-based Remittances into Cloud Services

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                                                When Alibaba, China’s leading digital platform and cloud-based services company, fails to acquire the US firm Moneygram, CEO Jack Ma decides to go it alone and develop a digital strategy using blockchain technology as the basis for a global remittance service, GCash, within its cloud services business.
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