I am passionate about teaching and education.
At London Business School, I teach in MBA, EMBA, Masters, and Executive Education programs on business analytics, digital technology, value chain management and innovation, and sustainability, and business resilience.
I have also taught degree and executive programs, in both English and Chinese, at many global universities, including the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, and China and Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
I am honored to have received the Best EMBA Teaching Award at LBS and the HKU-Fudan IMBA Teaching Award.
In addition to academic teaching, I also deliver speeches in companies, financial institutions, and practitioner conferences.
Teaching Cases
AntChain's Blockchain as A Service: Digitising Industry Collaboration
with Nitish Jain, London Business School Case Collection CS-23-011
AntChain’s parent, Ant Group, started to invest in blockchain in 2015 as it believed the technology would build trust between different actors in a system. The case shows how, through AntChain’s technology, HelloBike was able to overcome the issues of bad reputation and fraud that characterised the bike-sharing industry in China to become a trusted and dominant force in several cities across the country. Coupling AntChain with IoT gave HelloBike data credibility and built trust, which attracted investors who otherwise shied away from the industry. The case then describes various potential use cases, including Trusple (distributed trade networks), Quezao (digital intellectual property) and Carbon Matrix (management of companies’ carbon goals). The case concludes by asking what other use cases AntChain could target. These included industrial equipment, renewable-energy generation and storage, the scalability of digital IP and global trade, and other use cases that AntChain had yet to consider.
The Fall of Greensill & the Future of Supply Chain Finance
with Lisa Duke, London Business School Case Collection, CS-21-013
In March 2021, Greensill Capital, the UK-based leading supply chain financing provider, with 16 offices across the world, filed for insolvency; its Germany-based bank closed by regulators. Less than two years earlier, Greensill had received a $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, valuing the company at $3.5 billion. By 2020, the company was targeting a $7 billion valuation with a potential IPO. Supply chain finance was a centuries-old method that enabled companies to better manage their working capital. Greensill had ridden the wave of technological advances to bring supply chain finance into the 21st century, but it had spectacularly failed. The repercussions of this failure touched SoftBank, Credit Suisse and the steel empire of Sanjeev Gupta, and stretched across the globe, potentially putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk. The failure also revealed one of the biggest lobbying scandals to hit the UK Government. What caused the epic fall of Greensill? And how would it affect the future of supply chain finance?