April 8, 2025
Financial Times recently released its Business school professors’ picks featuring insights from Greg Stoller, Master Lecturer of Strategy and Innovation.
This curated selection of Financial Times articles, handpicked by business school faculty, connects real-world events to classroom learning while encouraging critical thinking among students. Greg Stoller selected two articles: “TSMC profits jump 54% on back of AI chip boom” and “Ethereum faces ‘midlife crisis’ as rivals play catch-up.”
The first article focuses on TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, and its significant profit surge driven by soaring AI chip demand and strategic positioning within the global semiconductor supply chain. Stoller underscores its classroom relevance by using it to illustrate real-world concepts such as competitive advantage, scalability, and market strategy.
Similarly, the second article explores Ethereum’s decline from a leading smart contract and DeFi platform to one facing falling value, increasing competition, internal discord, and shifting investor interest toward speculative memecoins. Stoller highlights this as a valuable classroom case for examining strategic repositioning, the innovation lifecycle, and governance challenges in decentralized organizations.
These selections showcase how timely business reporting can enrich academic discussions and help students connect complex global trends to strategic decision-making in real time.
