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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a firm believer that the professional advancement of women is key to addressing this issue, invited Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi to develop a program, now in its third year, to train Japanese women for management...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
describes how Matsushita helped lead Japan's economic growth after World War II, inventing business practices that were adopted fifty years later by many of the world's great corporations. An exemplar of leadership and entrepreneurship, Matsushita used his wealth to...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
another 30,000 visit the company’s elderly day care facilities; and 2,500 people now have the ability to stay home at the end of life like Sato-san, instead of resorting to an overcrowded and more expensive hospital setting. Desperate for solutions and seeing the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
Baker and the founding of the School was so well received by alumni that it led to a book-length history of the School that I had the privilege of writing. Special issues on entrepreneurship, alumni in public service, 25th Reunion classes, the View Details
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Jeff Cruikshank
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
killing of Native American children in compulsory “residential schools” designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today’s inequalities were sown in events in the past...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
on Iraq. For the Japanese in the room, it’s a sobering reminder of how war, and its aftermath, can affect a country and its people for decades. For the American, it indicates a clear need for political change. When her two-year commitment...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
challenge. However, I mistakenly agreed to hire a Japanese American assistant who felt a strong allegiance to the Sumitomo-appointed general manager of the joint venture. He undercut me at every opportunity, working against the objective...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
shuns some of Japan’s traditional business formalities, and led the 2011 tsunami relief effort. In 2010, he declared that all Rakuten employees needed to be proficient in English. As Mikitani sees it, in order to compete globally, View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
area and a mentor from my days at HBS. Professor Hayes had just returned from doing research in Japan and had written a white paper comparing differences in manufacturing management between American and Japanese electronics production....
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
called Death Note. It's based off a Japanese manga, which is a Japanese comic book and was very successful. It had I think three or four live action movies off of that manga. And we just shot it in...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
A longtime advocate of remote medicine, Mediva's work in this field has helped Japan's health care industry adapt to the impact that COVID-19 is having on in-person medical appointments. Oishi is a member of the Medical and Care Section of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
widely to the totality of its functions and processes. How much does it cost us to make our steel? How can the Japanese do it so much less expensively? How can we redesign our whole chain of activities, from purchasing raw materials to...
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- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
of their own, and I was very unexpectedly laid off. I know the experience is brutal for everyone, but in that moment, it felt so much harder when I felt like I had lost my mission, I had lost what I was referring to as my ikigai, which is the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
again with respect to some of the issues raised by China.” Innovation and continuous improvement are the keys to moving to a stronger competitive position, he says. “We changed more than the Japanese did. The Chinese are more...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
opportunities for MBA graduates. “It became clear that innovation was no longer taking place only in the United States, and that there were different kinds of innovations in different places,” says Palepu. Beginning in the late 1980s, View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
feared—but Japanese emergency crews were able to replenish the spent-fuel pool water in the nick of time, preventing massive evacuation of Tokyo. US regulators took notice. In 2012, Popik and Mott cofounded the nonprofit Foundation for...
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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
living suite with a Brazilian stock broker, a Japanese television producer, a Botswanan chemical engineer, and a Danish medical trials manager. The cohort, eight in total, were able to share their unique experiences, thoughts, fears, and...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
mater and home of The Grove School of Engineering (2005). In 1985, Japanese suppliers overtook the American industry in global share of market for semiconductors. As Intel’s sales slipped, the company clung to its identity in the memory...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
rush to “go international” was fast and furious when we came on the business scene. “Emerging markets” was the new catchphrase. The robust Japanese economy was the world's envy, and sushi bars were the place to take your date. If you...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
machines to cars. The story of Sunil Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) illustrates the challenges entrepreneurs faced in the years before the government loosened its regulatory hold on business. In 1983, Mittal saw a successful enterprise disintegrate overnight when the government...
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Julia Hanna