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- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
U.S. market in the late 1960s, Firestone, along with most of the major American tire manufacturers, suffered costly setbacks and lost significant market share. By 1988, Firestone had been acquired by Japanese competitor Bridgestone, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
high-tech giant Rakuten’s globalization process for five straight years following an English mandate for thousands of its Japanese employees. “We traveled to eight countries with tremendous assistance from the HBS global research... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of responsibility and counterbalancing management control. Harold Geneen's influence combined with culturally shaped norms to make this company an archetype (some would say a caricature) of a systems-dominated, control-oriented American company. In contrast to European... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
and the European Central Bank as lenders who have already adopted negative rates. Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., echoes Oteh’s warning in the article, arguing that the policy will “gradually undermine View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
book with the title Can Japan Compete?" It was some nine years ago, at a time when Japan's economic success was overwhelmingly credited to its government's involvement with industry, that Porter and his team began an in-depth study of the View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives for risk taking.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Ford and Alfred Sloan Corporate strategy and marketing techniques used by pioneers in the American automobile industry Japanese Capitalism How a late developer caught up fast with the West and in some... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
venture capital firm Globis Group and chairman and CEO of private equity concern Apax Globis Partners & Co., was the only panelist to voice undaunted enthusiasm about a bright future for Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
objective was met. Our space research gave rise to Silicon Valley, and U.S. industrial strength was enhanced by technology innovation derived from products created for our satellite program. By 1980, however, Europe, helped by the Marshall Plan, was back on its feet,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
This case explores the opportunity to purchase the condominium management business of a distressed real estate developer by Advantage Partners, a leading Japanese private equity firm. The case explores investment structuring, bidding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life,... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
made by Japanese manufacturers during that time. Now, however, the overall perceptions of key competitors have dramatically changed. Toyota, in particular, has a significantly diminished reputation due to highly publicized recent recalls.... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
as well as handsets) suffer from a "Galapagos effect": like the unique fauna of these remote islands they are only found in the Japanese archipelago. Similarly, while Japanese anime is renowned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details