Japan - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 1994 (Revised January 1995)
Case

Komatsu Ltd. and Project G (C)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Robert W. Lightfoot

Keywords: Japan

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September 1994 (Revised September 1994)
Case

Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000

By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard C. Wei

In the early 1990s, Acer, Inc. set two goals: to be a top-five PC company worldwide in 1995 and to be a global consortium of companies by the year 2000. The company identified potential obstacles concerning capital, image, number of experienced international managers,... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Experience and Expertise; Marketing Strategy; Production; Rank and Position; Business Strategy; Capital; Computer Industry; Japan

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August 1994
Teaching Note

Nippon Kayaku TN

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Chemical Industry; Tokyo

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August 1994
Case

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan

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August 1994 (Revised November 1994)
Teaching Note

American Connector Company (A) TN

By: Gary P. Pisano

Teaching Note for (9-693-035). View Details

Keywords: Japan; Sunnyvale

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February 1994 (Revised May 1999)
Case

Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant

Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Ethics; Conflict of Interests; Health; Safety; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Japan

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28 Jan 1994
Lecture

American, European and Japanese Corporate Governance: Will the World Converge on Best Practice

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Practice; United States; Japan; Europe

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29 Oct 1993
Lecture

Evolution of the Main Bank System in Japan

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Japan

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October 1993
Case

Zen-Noh: ""I Love Gyu (Beef)""--New Challenges for the Beef Business

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agribusiness; Cooperative Ownership; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Japan

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fall 1993
Article

The Best of Both Worlds: Can the U.S. and Japan Agree on Corporate Governance

By: W. C. Kester

Keywords: Corporate Governance; United States; Japan

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August 1993
Supplement

Japan Confronts an Interdependent World, Supplement

By: George C. Lodge

Provides an update. View Details

Keywords: Japan; United States

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1993
Chapter

Banks in the Boardroom: Germany, Japan, and the United States

By: W. C. Kester

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Germany; Japan; United States

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1993
Working Paper

The Choice Between Public and Private Debt: An Examination of Post-Deregulation Corporate Financing in Japan

By: David S. Scharfstein, Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap

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1993
Chapter

Japanese Corporate Governance: Source of Efficiency or Restraint of Trade?

By: W. C. Kester

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Performance Efficiency; Japan

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April 1993
Case

Sumiko Ito

By: David A. Thomas

Describes the life and career of the first Japanese female investment banker at Nomura Securities, Sumiko Ito, who later became a partner at Alex Brown, a U.S. investment bank. Organized around the major life events and career transitions Ms. Ito experienced. Set in... View Details