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- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
reasons for this correlation," Cohen says. "In California, for instance, you may have more Japanese immigrants because it's the closest point of entry with Japan. And you may also do more trade with Japan because it's the closest place...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan...
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- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named the winners in the...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
percent of men. As she enters her second year at LinkedIn, Tanaka hopes to keep building the platform’s stature within the Japanese business community. She believes the transparency and learning opportunities it offers have the power to...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and Sharp - remain on that path, and they are all in Japan. In computers, the Japanese have been and remain major challengers to the U.S. industry, with growing market share in large systems, servers, and software. These have been...
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Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA
business was conducted), enrolled me in Japanese classes when I was in middle school. I continued learning the language until college and visited Japan a handful of times in between as both an exchange student and a tourist. As a young...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit
Americans in the group were often eager to settle, Choo said, "the Japanese guys and I and another guy from Singapore, we were very patient, and we always got the best deal." But as an acting chief executive, he noted, "I think you must...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
import-export. Watanabe went to school in Japan until the eighth grade before moving to America where he completed his higher education, joined McKinsey, and eventually returned to Japan. It was there he had an idea for a book, pitched to middle-schoolers, “in response...
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- Portrait Project
Joe Nagae
To be Joe. I have inherited two extremely different Asian cultures: Indian and Japanese. I love both of my home countries and embrace their dualities. As the only non-Japanese looking boy in my Japanese nursery school, I was asked from an...
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Databases: searching in native languages
Language Code Language Code Bulgarian bg Hungarian hu Catalan ca Italian it Chinese (Simple) zhcn Japanese ja Chinese (Traditional) zhtw Norwegian no Czech cs Polish pl Danish da Portuguese pt Dutch nl Russian ru English en Slovak sk...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in Japan, "it is going to completely...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
companies failed in China in the mid-1990s." Chen, who worked with QianJiang Motorcycle among many other companies, pointed out that of the five top-selling motorcycle brands in China in 1997, only two remained in the top five in 2002, just five years later....
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by Julie Jette
Jacob H. Schiff
in the overall market for industrial finance. Throughout his tenure, Kuhn, Loeb conducted fundraising for such concerns as the Pennsylvania Railroad and Anaconda Copper, but also for the Japanese government during the Russo-Japanese War.
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- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult for women to enter into...
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
book with the title Can Japan Compete?" It was some nine years ago, at a time when Japan's economic success was overwhelmingly credited to its government's involvement with industry, that Porter and his team began an in-depth study of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
you’re the head of marketing for a logistics company. My parents emigrated here from Japan. There were very few Japanese restaurants in Washington, D.C. when I was growing up, so my grandmother would pack sea-mail packages to us every...
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Julia Hanna
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
as a commodity and an investment. Japanese culture has always valued art and incorporated it into nearly everything, Shibayama notes. Something as minor as the gift wrapping on a box is usually carefully considered and meticulously...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Mark Fields (MBA ’89) was handed the keys to the Mazda Motor Corporation and, as its newly named president and CEO, asked to guide the faltering Japanese carmaker back into the black. At 38 (considered shockingly young to lead a major...
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