Talent@Tencent

Name: Talent@Tencent (English version)
SKU: 722413

Khanna, Tarun; Lin, Shu; Dai, Nancy Hua

Product #:722413

Supplier:Harvard Business School

Discipline:Human Resource Management

Setting:China, 2016

Details:Case (PDF) • 27 pages • 2022-03-07

Subjects:

Emerging markets Employee training Entrepreneurship Globalization Innovation Internet Leadership development Management Strategy Economics Developing employees Web-based technologies Leadership Leadership and managing people Organizational culture Organizational behavior

Geography:

China Asia

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On November 11, 2016, Xi Dan, Senior Vice President of Tencent, and Ma Yongwu, Dean of Tencent Academy, were discussing how Tencent could develop new capabilities to sustain its growth miracle and entry into new technologies, expansion into B2B businesses, and internationalization.

Learning Objectives

To understand the context of the development of the Internet companies in China, decode their competitiveness against their foreign competitors that had entered China, analyze the evolution of Tencent's talent management systems from within Tencent and in the Shenzhen ecosystem to other cities in China, and discuss whether its current approach in talent management would sustain its growth miracle and support its entry into new technologies, expansion into B2B businesses, and internationalization.