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  • 08 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

Keywords: by Robert Dujarric & Andrei Hagiu
  • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya
In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan
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    Mastering the Management System

    From HBSP: " Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and... View Details
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    Events - Business & Environment

    industry leaders together to learn what every MBA needs to know about the business implications of climate change. Coordinated by Duke Fuqua, hosted at different schools annually. (February) MIT Energy Conference The largest student-led energy conference in the U.S.,... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Redefining How Businesses Operate

    In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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    Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations &... View Details
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    Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

    distinct challenges of leading larger, more dispersed teams Develop strategies for planning and engineering organizational change and innovation initiatives Shape your organizational culture and architecture to maximize talent, leverage... View Details
    • 18 Nov 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

    recognize that risk management is only part of the story and that the benefits of positive values go well beyond problem avoidance. I have seen this progression in some companies that initially turn to values as a damage control measure... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler
    • 15 Jun 2021
    • News

    Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

    Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial popularity among private equity firms and their dramatic decline in use in the late 1980s. Stavros concluded that... View Details
    Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Op-Ed

    Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

    can only be justified, if the rise in exports enhances the effect of other policies that ultimately increase competitiveness. If that happens the initial export subsidies can be eliminated over time. These policies are thus like... View Details
    Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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    A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve learned so much, both about myself and... Starting a For Profit Social Enterprise at HBS Philip Blackett 2016 INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or... View Details
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

    context, and that meant telling the truth about how serious the situation was. People respond to that." Currently, Checchi, still a major Northwest shareholder (he resigned from the company for his political run), is busy with private investments, philanthropy, and... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    An Engine of Innovation

    disciplines and schools working on similar challenges.” In this conversation, Segneri highlights the broadening of the initial i-lab model as an educational collaborative just for students into a three-lab ecosystem that also engages... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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    Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

    Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from... Initiatives focus... View Details
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    Faculty - Private Capital Project

    faculty chair of the Global Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the Harvard Economics Department. Professor Hall received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

    who joined the Climate Circle one year later, teaches children ages 3-11 about climate in six countries. They were recognized as a UNESCO Green Citizens Initiative for their positive and empowering approach to teaching this complex topic... View Details
    • March 2022 (Revised August 2022)
    • Case

    Swvl: Smart Mobility for the Masses

    By: Krishna Palepu, Esel Çekin and Menna Hassan
    The case focuses on strategy and governance issues at Swvl, a tech-enabled mass mobility marketplace. It describes the journey of CEO and Chairman Mostafa Kandil on his journey from founding the company to its listing on Nasdaq. Since its founding in Egypt in 2017,... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; North Africa
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    Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

    Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author Health Care View Details
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    Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

    opportunities for me in terms of learning and contacts in Boston,” he shares. Sasago also found support in Boston’s Japanese business community and from fellow ramen enthusiast Masato Nakamura (MBA 2020), who became his business partner. During his first-year summer... View Details
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    Global Activities 2020

    including the launch of his fashion e-commerce company, Darza. Immersion Offers Students Insight into Development in Sri Lanka In the School’s first immersion in Sri Lanka, HBS students and faculty learned firsthand about China’s Belt and Road View Details