Sharing – Huy Luu's business blog

Happy to share that I have joined Shopee Global Leadership Program 2020 from last month. It is a two-year management program that offers strategic and regional exposure in different functions.

I experienced a lot of ups and downs in the first half of 2020, applied to many industries, from FMCG, Financial Investment to Management Consulting then finally I found my destination, Ecommerce. After 2 months making effort to settle down in a new city with new friends, new hobbies, I decided to come back with my blog. For me, this is the place where I remind myself of not focusing too much on daily work execution then forgetting to expand my business horizon.

On more thing, I created a new part in my page named “Ecommerce” to share all the news and analysis of this industry that I read. I am open to anyone who wants to share about this topic then we can grow constantly together.

Shopee Vietnam Business Development team

My team – I am the guy on the far left holding balloons

It’s better to start with why you should learn case solving. From my experience, 3 reasons:

(1) Keep up with the business world, gain practical knowledge and skills through up-to-date cases. It’s extremely meaningful to me, as university classes are mostly theory-based with out-of-date case studies.

(2) Expand relationship network. Join case competitions, make new friends, and network with MNCs’ employees.

(3) Get future job opportunities. After joining business case competitions, you will have stories to tell in the job interview & you can get the position by employee reference after the case competitions.

And now, how to start?

(1) Read fundamental books. You can get the list from internet, but here is my recommendation: [Huy Luu] Case Books

(2) Start the habit of reading news every day. Below are some of the sources that I am following now, I use Feedly.com, a website that allows you to include all the news sources in one place. My mentor Nam Le introduced this website to me. Besides, I subscribe to email newsletter from Finimize and PitchBook.

(3 – most important) Find a learning partner. He/she will be the one who reads & discusses books/news with you. Then maybe, set up a case team to join business case competitions/recruitment programs together.

After these steps, you can jump into some case competitions to apply what you have read, or just follow those habits to expand your knowledge