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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Learning to Speak the Language of Business

countries—including Brazil, China, and the United States—and plans to add seven more this year. Success as a global player takes more than an aggressive acquisitions plan, says Mikitani. It requires that all 7,100 of the firm’s Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

the U.S. and Japanese semiconductor industries, he made a surprising discovery: Although U.S. and Japanese firms' development programs were both successful, they appeared to pursue radically different... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • 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
  • 05 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

reasons for this correlation," Cohen says. "In California, for instance, you may have more Japanese immigrants because it's the closest point of entry with Japan. And you may also do more trade with Japan because it's the closest place... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan

On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named the winners in the... View Details
Keywords: awards
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

    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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 19 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

    consumer electronics had conquered world markets. And the five leading Japanese computer companies were seriously challenging the U.S. computer industry worldwide. This epic story of the consumer electronics and computer industries has... View Details
    Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
    • 16 Aug 2022
    • News

    HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

    “Unlike when many of us who studied at HBS, today few Japanese corporations offer their employees scholarships to study at business schools,” says club member and event co-organizer Masako Egawa (MBA 1986). “The HBS Japan Fellowship Fund... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
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