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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case study on Rakuten. “One day the idea just struck me: ‘Why don’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Going Down Easy
Duda Photo courtesy A&E/THE WELL-SEASONED TRAVELER The Well-Seasoned Traveler, a food series on the A&E network, goes to the source for enlightenment: Italy for pasta, France for truffle hunting, Tokyo for sushi, Switzerland for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: Chicago and NY Regional Events
prior to the evening’s program. Thai Lee (MBA 1985) delivered remarks. Upcoming Regional Events Around the World Atlanta Shanghai Palm Beach, FL Dallas Washington, DC Istanbul More to follow Mumbai Hong Kong Miami, FL Paris São Paulo Dubai View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: California Regional Events
Lynton (MBA 1987) hosted the Los Angeles Regional Campaign event. An interactive experience was created to help alumni find others in attendance with similar interests. Regional Events Around the World Chicago Mumbai Hong Kong Miami, FL Washington, DC São Paulo New... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Campaign Begins
1997) Katie Vogelheim & John Hansen (MBA 1985) An interactive experience connected alumni with similar interests. Regional Events Around the World Boston San Francisco New York Chicago Mumbai More to follow Paris São Paulo Los Angeles Mexico City Houston Dallas London... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Events Around the World
Northern California at ThirstyBear Brewing Company. 11 TOKYO: Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) at the Campaign’s Tokyo Regional Event in January 2015. To see more photos from past Campaign events, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/CampaignPhotos. View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
said in an interview in Tokyo Wednesday. “What you find where you have had the expansionary monetary policy that has been useful, what you’ve also found is that it has led to maybe potential weaknesses in banks,” according to Oteh, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
whose father had been stationed in Tokyo after World War II and brought back objects and stories about Japan. “But I also wanted to learn a non-Western language because, in the back of my mind, I thought I might eventually teach English... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
competitiveness. Winners are selected by a committee made up of Japanese academics with expertise in competitive strategy from institutions such as Keio University, Kobe University, Tokyo University, and Hitotsubashi University. Prize... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
support to more students from middle-income backgrounds. Following the Dean's visit to Los Angeles, he plans to travel in coming months to Singapore and Tokyo for events with alumni in Asia. The Dean began this series of alumni gatherings... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
“I’ve been jet-lagged for more than two decades,” he writes. A reader should expect great stories from a first-person account combining rock stars, high-octane politicians, and ruthless business executives, and Roedy doesn’t disappoint. There’s the time with Bono... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
hours later I was on a plane to Tokyo to advise the US-Japan Task Force. It’s very hard in chaos to make well-informed decisions because all the information is out there in small pockets. My first priority was to contribute all available... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
went directly to HBS; after earning a joint degree from Harvard Law School, he worked as an associate with law firms in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo before moving to international banking. "I learned Russian and German in college and had a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
an ambitious global agenda for growth and greater transparency. His goal of listing the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was realized in 1998. Changes to the company’s retirement policy encouraged a more performance-oriented culture,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
reach out to its constituents. Without section correspondents Tim Calkins and Holly Decker Harrity, for instance, there would be no Bulletin notes for Section C, Class of 1991. The dynamic efforts of HBS club presidents such as Junichi Amano (75th AMP) in View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
studied at Tokyo University, is president and CEO of Fanuc India, an arm of Japan-based Fanuc, a world leader in factory automation and robots. Kulkarni was invited by the Indian government to participate in the meeting because of his... View Details
- 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 stranglehold of the dominant... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley