Download PDF Introduction Europe is recalibrating its industrial strategy for an era of geopolitical rifts and economic rivalry. After decades of prioritizing open markets and strict competition policy, EU leaders are now increasingly willing to foster “European champions” in critical sectors to secure the continent’s strategic autonomy. Supply chain shocks Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Generative AI has gone mainstream at a blistering pace worldwide. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, launched in late 2022, reached 100m users in just two months and was valued at around $29bn by January 2023. Now, on the verge of finalizing a new funding round, its valuation is expected to Read more…
Download PDF An introduction to the airline industry and the ecosystem around it When assessing the state of the economy of a country, sometimes we overlook the importance that the airline industry plays in its smooth functioning. This is due to the fact that its contribution to GDP is only Read more…
Introduction The term eCommerce has been around for years, now. Definitions of it have been imprecise and, most of the time, people tend to associate it to companies like Amazon and Alibaba and not without a reason since their business is commerce through the internet. Virtual Commerce, however, is more Read more…
Lyft inc. [LYFT: NASDAQ] – Market Cap as of 5/4/2019 $21.28bn Introduction On March 29, Lyft – a leading US ride-hailing company – went public on the Nasdaq. Its IPO price settled at the top end of the pricing range, with shares at $72 a piece valuing the company at Read more…
Samsonite Market Cap: $24.43bn (as of 12/03/2016) Tumi Market Cap: $1.83bn (as of 12/03/2016) Introduction Last week, the world’s biggest luggage company, Samsonite, zipped up a deal to acquire luxury rival Tumi for around $1.8bn. This acquisition will be the largest one for Samsonite since its IPO in 2011. After Read more…
This week we had the extraordinary opportunity to meet and talk with Sir Michael Moritz, Chairman of Sequoia Capital, who was at Bocconi to talk at the Lectio Inauguralis Rodolfo De Benedetti Chair in Entrepreneurship. Sir Moritz gave us a speech for about an hour, here we summarize the contents Read more…