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- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
from South Korea at age 11 without speaking English, was among the pharmaceutical leaders who briefed President Trump on vaccine development in March. The flow of global talent responsible for bringing these innovators to American shores...
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by William R. Kerr
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
and Singapore grew in double digits at the beginning of their economic ascent but slowed, while Chile, Ireland, and South Korea didn't appear on the double-digit chart at all.) In the report Werker identified shared characteristics of...
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by Kim Girard
- June 2017
- Case
AKB48: Going Global? (A)
By: Juan Alcácer, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul and Mayuka Yamazaki
After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities overseas for his artistic creation. This case introduces the business model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what...
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Brand Building;
Brand Extension;
Culture-based Products;
Global Products;
Differentiation;
Intellectual Property;
International Business;
Local Products;
Strategy;
Value Capture;
Market Entry and Exit;
Music Entertainment;
Business Model;
Global Strategy;
Global Range;
Brands and Branding;
Value Creation;
Expansion;
Music Industry;
Japan;
China;
Indonesia;
Taiwan;
Philippines;
Thailand;
South Korea
Alcácer, Juan, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "AKB48: Going Global? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-445, June 2017.
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Working Paper: Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services What South View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
quickly—infrastructure that doesn't currently exist—and address the economic crisis at the same time. And then the question to the philanthropists is, 'Is that worth it to you?'” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer Based in Boston. [Image: CasarsaGuru] Related...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
the Asia-Pacific region. Poised to enter the World Trade Organization, China is sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless technology in South View Details
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 2012
- Working Paper
Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian...
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Immigration;
Gender;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Education;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
East Asia;
Japan;
South Korea;
Taiwan;
Singapore
Kawaguchi, Daiji, and Soohyung Lee. "Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-082, March 2012.
- April 1986 (Revised March 1987)
- Case
Asia's Four Little Dragons
By: Norman A. Berg
Berg, Norman A. "Asia's Four Little Dragons." Harvard Business School Case 386-186, April 1986. (Revised March 1987.)
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
companies such as Sony and Matsushita) led to the migration of R&D in consumer electronics to Japan (and later to South Korea and Taiwan). As consumers demanded ever-smaller, lighter, and more powerful (and power hungry!) mobile...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
India and South Korea before HBS, and then I moved to the US for HBS. So, a lot of the two years at HBS was spent, of course learning about, you know, business and the world around you, but a huge part of the transformation was internal,...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s a sunny May afternoon in LA. Søren Bjerg, a slender and pale 21-year-old with chunky glasses and a black hoodie, is sitting in the den of the house he shares with a half dozen other guys. It’s decorated the way you might expect it to be: lots of technology and...
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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
dramatically underserved for decades? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307086 Korea: After the 1997 Financial Crisis Harvard Business School Case 707-042 Examines what happened to Korea...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- News
Innovations from Emerging Markets
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
in the way of productivity and competition. We see in many countries the price of failure to really deal with microeconomic reforms. Countries like Argentina and Korea and others, which are really, really struggling, even though they were...
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by Staff
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
United States and Mexico have shrunk dramatically, its system is still somewhat foreign to a private businessman from the United States or Western Europe," adds Maurer. "The culture of a country like South Korea may be alien to...
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by Julia Hanna
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
California office, quickly runs afoul of the conservative culture at Hanguk's Korean HQ. Dylan's boss in Korea tells him he needs to be less "girly" if he wants to succeed at the company. Angered, humiliated, and confused, Dylan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless technology in South Korea and elsewhere on the Pacific Rim has leapfrogged U.S. advances. In this dynamic...
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- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
chapter on the impact of multinationals on Asia. This shows that the economies which developed the most diverse, complex, and technologically dynamic industrial sectors—Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan—were precisely those with the...
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