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Global Understanding - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
leaders can’t be found anywhere else.” Video clip Global Research Centers Deepen HBS’s Engagement and Impact Silicon Valley Mexico City Sao Paulo Buenos Aires Paris Istanbul Dubai Tel-Aviv Lagos Johannesburg Mumbai Singapore Shanghai Hong Kong View Details
- December 1991
- Article
Bargaining and Market Behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An Experimental Study
By: A. E. Roth, V. Prasnikar, M. Okuno-Fujiwara and S. Zamir
Roth, A. E., V. Prasnikar, M. Okuno-Fujiwara, and S. Zamir. "Bargaining and Market Behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An Experimental Study." American Economic Review 81, no. 5 (December 1991): 1068–1095.
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
grounds, so getting people to the park is key.) And for tourists looking to make the trek from Japan to catch a game, cities like New York and LA have the added benefit of offering an attractive destination. "It's obviously a long commute," says Greyser. A trip from...
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- August 2011
- Article
Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan
By: Tom Nicholas
Independent inventors accounted for approximately half of all patents in Britain and Japan by 1930, despite the rise of the corporate economy and the spread of industrial R&D. A mixture of patent renewal and historical citations data reveals that the quality of...
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Independent Innovation and Invention;
Development Economics;
Research and Development;
Patents;
System;
Motivation and Incentives;
Tokyo;
London;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan." Economic History Review 64, no. 2 (August 2011).
- March 1986 (Revised December 1986)
- Case
British Telecommunications, PLC
Presents a description of international equity markets, including comparisons of the U.S., Japanese, and British markets and recent trends toward deregulation of these markets. The decision focus of the case is on the initial public offerings of British...
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Mason, Scott P. "British Telecommunications, PLC." Harvard Business School Case 286-105, March 1986. (Revised December 1986.)
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
When Hiroshi Mikitani decided, at age 31, to leave a good job at the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo to start a company, he raised more than a few eyebrows. In Japanese culture, where the group is favored above the individual,...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning...
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- July 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Building a Mishap-Free U.S. Navy
In 2021, Kevin “Bud” Couch, a retired Navy captain who was now working as a civilian employee of the Navy Safety Center, was trying to determine how best to reduce the risk of Navy mishaps. The Navy had experienced a series of major mishaps in 2017 that had led to a...
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National Security;
Safety;
War;
Ship Transportation;
Risk Management;
Operations;
Singapore;
Tokyo;
San Diego
Edmondson, Amy C., Herman B. Leonard, Michael W. Toffel, and Michael Norris. "Building a Mishap-Free U.S. Navy." Harvard Business School Case 622-116, July 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course,...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
continued to connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, after 20 years in finance, with stints at Goldman Sachs...
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- January 2016
- Case
Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines the open innovation journey at Fujitsu, a global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small...
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Keywords:
Open Innovation;
Collaboration;
Culture Change;
Leadership;
Japan;
United States;
Inter-organizational Relationships;
Teaming;
Maker Movement;
Nascent Industries;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Organizational Culture;
Emerging Markets;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
Sunnyvale;
Tokyo;
San Francisco
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)." Harvard Business School Case 616-034, January 2016.
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
The Tokyo Stock Exchange Survey David F. Hawkins and Jin YamamotoHarvard Business School Case 112-017 Tokyo Stock Exchange survey raises questions about Japan's readiness to adopt IFRS in 2016. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
important lessons about competition: “At the end of the day, it is a sport,” he says. “You shake hands, win or lose, and move on.” Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993 MIKITANI: In his Tokyo office. Hiroshi Mikitani barely knew the word...
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Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA
Tokyo Sumo Stable, a house where Sumo wrestlers live and train for years before competing nationally. Sumo stables are wrapped in tradition and guarded heavily by a veil of secrecy. We were so lucky to be able to actually visit a stable...
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Burden Park | About
specializing in training films for the US military and the government. After World War II, his focus shifted to still photography for high-end architectural magazines. As Shirley’s talent matured, he experimented with photography as an art form, and his work was...
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- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
such as ground grasshopper miso and live shrimp dipped in brown butter. In doing so, he has resuscitated Nordic cuisine, spawning new restaurants all over the world and expanded his own repertoire of super-local cuisine with a pop-up restaurant in London this year and...
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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
2009. Purchase the video supplement: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409714 Purchase the supplement (D), 409-118: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409118 Tokyo Electron Ltd. Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
the management provided by nuclear power provider Tokyo Electric Power Co. in efforts to control a meltdown at its Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. At the same time, the global public sector stood on the sidelines, waiting for...
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- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
formative. “As is the cliché with most teenagers, I was dying to get out of my hometown,” he says. “For me, Washington was that break. It was the most eye-opening, confidence-building experience of my life up until that point.” Now based in View Details
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Julia Hanna