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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
policies of Western entities such as the IMF and the World Bank are often contrary to India's best interests, he told the newspaper that a strategic agreement between India and Japan would greatly benefit both countries over time. Kulkarni predicted that an alliance...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
representing a large part of what remains of the American industrial economy. Should these companies file for Chapter 11 and fail to get financing, there could be a loss of several million jobs. But the threat is far worse than those numbers suggest. I was speaking...
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- 12 May 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Tetsuji Shibayama (MBA 1990) is helping Japanese businesses understand the importance of art to their corporate cultures and their bottom lines, while also introducing art students to the principles and practices—and the ready market—of...
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- 16 Dec 2014
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Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
students will be our future leaders. I would like to increase the number of cases on Japanese companies so that they really understand Japan,” explains Sato. Drawing on his experience as a partner in an executive search firm, Sato...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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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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- 01 Feb 2002
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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 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business
countries—including Brazil, China, and the United States—and plans to add seven more this year. Success as a global player takes more than an aggressive acquisitions plan, says Mikitani. It requires that all 7,100 of the firm’s Japanese...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
enterprises have long held a special place in society, and none more so than Mitsubishi. Its origin goes back to the 1870s, when three sailing ships transported raw materials to Japanese manufacturers and carried exports to markets...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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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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- 01 Sep 2004
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Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
York, before joining the Navy in 1941, before Pearl Harbor. A few months later, I was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lexington when Japanese planes attacked us in the Battle of the Coral Sea. I was a supply and disbursing officer, and...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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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
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
multicultural, turnaround artist and shake-things-up executive, born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, educated in France, and revered in Japan (One poll there had Japanese women selecting the happily married Ghosn as their top choice for an...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, he is a past member of the board of directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also served on the executive committee of the Asia Center at Harvard University...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Taking the Plunge
THE BOTTOM LINE: TOTO’s ad campaign turned heads. Did it win U.S. customers? Photo courtesy Toto Usa Inc. It’s installed in 63 percent of all Japanese homes but rarely found in the United States: a combination bidet-toilet with an...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes
on market superiority). They discovered that Chinese firms "show a unique combination of bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism." In contrast, say the authors, their earlier studies of firms based in Thailand and Japan showed that Japanese...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 2000
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Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
master's degree in Japanese studies from the University of Michigan and served four years with the Air Force in Japan after graduation. Baxter then followed a friend's example and applied to HBS with no business experience. "By the end of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
enterprises delivering high-impact goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income populations, which he cofounded in 2007. At HBS, his work examines businesses serving low-income markets around the world, which means he is learning from and sharing...
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April White
- 01 Feb 2002
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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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- 11 May 2016
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World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
and the European Central Bank as lenders who have already adopted negative rates. Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., echoes Oteh’s warning in the article, arguing that the policy will “gradually undermine View Details
- 05 May 2022
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Like-Minded
Seki. “We want to prove that we can maximize the return by installing ESG thinking in younger companies and, hopefully, nurture global startups from Japan.” In a Japanese business culture still widely dominated by men, gender has proven...
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