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- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
average companies in France, Germany, and Japan may all look quite different from each other, those countries’ best-performing multinationals look quite similar. “When you consider the top-quartile companies across multiple sectors — such...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
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On the Road
Scenes from the Dean's visits to HBS clubs around the globein November, December, and January NEW YORK CITY (Photos by Bennet Cobliner) HONG KONG (Photos by Brian Tam)
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
States. But he’s also a business-builder. Most recently, he was president of Novellus Systems Japan and VP and general manager of the Integrated Metals business unit. “The biggest thing that gets me excited about Soladigm is the scale,”...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
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Exploring Global Business Practices
Enhancing the Worldview of HBS Students and Faculty Building on a legacy of global engagement, Harvard Business School has made internationalization a key priority for its second century. To prepare leaders to meet the challenges of today’s society, the School focuses...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
even greater heights. KIYOMI SAITO Kiyomi Saito (MBA 1981), president and CEO, JBond Totan Securities, Tokyo, Japan In my day, college-educated women in Japan were not hired unless they had good connections...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof
ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor track to catch ceiling drips — the...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Valley or Shenzhen. And so this innovation movement of automobile production internationalized—but so did best practice. Think of things like just-in-time manufacturing that emanated out of Japan and is now standard practice around the...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2012
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Thinking Green
As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and Professor of Management Practice Robert Kaplan joined colleagues...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
tensions between China and Japan exploded. On September 18, 1931, less than three months before Moore’s departure, the Japanese Army invaded northeast China, the first incursion of an occupation that would last until the end of World War...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Have Ideas, Will Travel
With a growing body of knowledge supported by its global research centers, the School last May conducted its first research symposium abroad, hosting an all-day event in Rio de Janeiro for a select group of 45 Latin American business leaders and academics. “We wanted...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
percent were early adopters, and 80 percent were “somewhere in between, thinking they might fly under the radar.” Over time, however, TPS was accepted as more than a “tool kit” to layer on top of everyday operations. “We came back from View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
powerhouse. Chinese investment gives rise to a tantalizing possibility: that Africa can industrialize in the coming generation. With a manufacturing-led transformation, Africa would be following in the footsteps of the United States in the nineteenth century, View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
how hard this is on the low-income immigrant community. But part of me is optimistic and proud we can do something." JUNE 9 Kanoko Oishi (MBA 1988) is founder and CEO of Mediva Inc., a health care consulting firm in Japan that owns...
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