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  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

enterprises have long held a special place in society, and none more so than Mitsubishi. Its origin goes back to the 1870s, when three sailing ships transported raw materials to Japanese manufacturers and carried exports to markets... 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 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... View Details
Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

open competition. If you were to divide up the Japanese government's energies between repairing ailing industries and spurring on new ones, how would you do that? Not to be too provocative here, but I would say that this is the wrong way... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Insight: Yenball

by Dan Morrell Perhaps the biggest free agent target in major league baseball this off-season was 25-year-old Masahiro Tanaka, a pitcher in the Japanese professional league with a devastating split-finger fastball who made international... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Masahiro Tanaka; Hideki Matsui; Isao Okada; business of sports; Arts, Entertainment

    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
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
    • 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? View Details
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

    ahead for Japan's business leaders and for global companies operating in Japan. Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing The culture of Japan tends to be outer directed. Thus, taking care of other people becomes much more central to its value system.... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • 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
    Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
    • 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,... View Details
    Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
    • 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,... View Details
    Keywords: by Hilah Geer
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
    • 02 Jan 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

    the authors came to believe, government had inflicted detrimental effects not only on industry but also on the Japanese economy as a whole. Their new book Can Japan Compete? is the result of years of research by Porter, the author of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
    • 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... View Details
    • Fast Answer

    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... View Details
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: skincare; beauty products; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Marybeth I. Thoren; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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