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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
working for an underperforming company can produce outstanding results if they have the right leader. Q: What are some of the challenges that Japanese managers face today? A: Globalization. When U.S., European, or Latin American companies...
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Roger B. Smith
Smith made sweeping changes at the auto giant, which had become complacent in its success and was losing share to foreign imports. Smith instituted a barrage of controversial changes at GM that included forming strategic joint ventures with View Details
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
Conservation Society’s activist campaign against the whale hunt in Antarctica. Sea Shepherd vessels use aggressive tactics to stop damage to the sea and its creatures, especially the slaughter that Japanese whalers continue under a...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
of the wildly successful American technology stock market. Launched last year as a joint venture between the U.S. Nasdaq, Japan’s Softbank Corporation, and thirteen leading Japanese and foreign brokerages, Nasdaq Japan aims to break the...
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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 30 Sep 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Building a Global Brand: Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate
Building a Global Brand: Why you arent buying Venezuelan chocolate
The next wave of global challengers will be firms from emergent market countries like Brazil, China, and India. Who are these companies and what are the barriers they are trying to overcome?
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- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
large numbers of global firms adopting company-wide English-only policies, Neeley has spent years studying how the policy affects non-native English speakers. For example, her research into a Japanese company that required all workers to...
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by Roberta Holland
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
consumer electronics had conquered world markets. And the five leading Japanese computer companies were seriously challenging the U.S. computer industry worldwide. This epic story of the consumer electronics and computer industries has...
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- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
“Unlike when many of us who studied at HBS, today few Japanese corporations offer their employees scholarships to study at business schools,” says club member and event co-organizer Masako Egawa (MBA 1986). “The HBS Japan Fellowship Fund...
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and Sharp - remain on that path, and they are all in Japan. In computers, the Japanese have been and remain major challengers to the U.S. industry, with growing market share in large systems, servers, and software. These have been...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade...
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- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
In the opening panel of the conference, titled "Japan Towards the 21st Century: How Should Japan Compete?" moderator and Harvard University professor Michael Porter laid a framework for experts from Japanese business,...
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by Hilah Geer
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
American managerial capitalism, the Japanese cultural heritage fostered a form of management Chandler called "group capitalism." As many observers have noted, the homogeneity of Japanese society,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit
Americans in the group were often eager to settle, Choo said, "the Japanese guys and I and another guy from Singapore, we were very patient, and we always got the best deal." But as an acting chief executive, he noted, "I think you must...
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- Portrait Project
Joe Nagae
To be Joe. I have inherited two extremely different Asian cultures: Indian and Japanese. I love both of my home countries and embrace their dualities. As the only non-Japanese looking boy in my Japanese nursery school, I was asked from an...
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Databases: searching in native languages
Language Code Language Code Bulgarian bg Hungarian hu Catalan ca Italian it Chinese (Simple) zhcn Japanese ja Chinese (Traditional) zhtw Norwegian no Czech cs Polish pl Danish da Portuguese pt Dutch nl Russian ru English en Slovak sk...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in Japan, "it is going to completely...
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- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
reasons for this correlation," Cohen says. "In California, for instance, you may have more Japanese immigrants because it's the closest point of entry with Japan. And you may also do more trade with Japan because it's the closest place...
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by Carmen Nobel