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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
negotiate Japan into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and secured nondiscriminatory treatment for Japanese exports. Vernon's role in Japan's postwar recovery and development was recognized by the View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Collin’s father-in-law helps with accounting. Gordon works with her mother-in-law on marketing projects; her own mom is trying to help the company break into the Japanese market; and her grandmother sets up meetings with organizations...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution forced the evacuation of all...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Bó Lè’s acquisition by a Japanese firm was finalized in 2013, the company had a network of 15 offices across Asia. If I were to assess my personal life from an investment-return perspective, however, I would initially get an...
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- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
camaraderie just as seriously as ever. “When you are young and you first start it is more about wanting to win,” said Rush. “We can’t play 80 minutes anymore. At our age, it is more about the after party.” They tipped back a few pints and sang some songs with their...
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Jennifer Myers
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
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
- 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
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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
- 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 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 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
behavior and how this competitive dynamism is reviving the Japanese economy. Conference cochairs Amar Lalvani and Yen Liow (both MBA 2001) were pleased with the event: “The conference’s timing was perfect,” stated Lalvani. “The challenges...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
to be a boon to the brand. The addition of more modular units also allowed the company to grow different types of greens, enhancing R&D and commercial growth. This diversity came into play when they were bidding for the Emirates contract. Up against a very capable...
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- 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
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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
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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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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
inside the machinery to see what makes it all run: "The transistor made the computer revolution possible, which in turn begat the Internet." Among other innovations noted were mass media, plastics, air-conditioning, mass production, View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Japanese ultimately sold virtually all their U.S. properties at a loss. Repairing the damage done by the crash created opportunities to rebuild the business and make it stronger. Morgan Stanley’s Slaughter cites three fundamental, lasting...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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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
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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
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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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