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- 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
- 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
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
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Mark Fields (MBA ’89) was handed the keys to the Mazda Motor Corporation and, as its newly named president and CEO, asked to guide the faltering Japanese carmaker back into the black. At 38 (considered shockingly young to lead a major... View Details
- Web
IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
learn from social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who have developed innovations with a social purpose. Finally, the course will expose students to Japanese culture and traditions, allowing them to gain a deeper appreciation of a unique... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
seven Cs. Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises As demonstrated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese businesses have a unique capability for long-term survival. Hirotaka Takeuchi... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Ford and Alfred Sloan Corporate strategy and marketing techniques used by pioneers in the American automobile industry Japanese Capitalism How a late developer caught up fast with the West and in some industries surpassed it Toyoda... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
policies of Western entities such as the IMF and the World Bank are often contrary to India's best interests, he told the newspaper that a strategic agreement between India and Japan would greatly benefit both countries over time. Kulkarni predicted that an alliance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
you’re the head of marketing for a logistics company. My parents emigrated here from Japan. There were very few Japanese restaurants in Washington, D.C. when I was growing up, so my grandmother would pack sea-mail packages to us every... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
import-export. Watanabe went to school in Japan until the eighth grade before moving to America where he completed his higher education, joined McKinsey, and eventually returned to Japan. It was there he had an idea for a book, pitched to middle-schoolers, “in response... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
at the failure of the Japanese economy in light of Levitt's insights. When Levitt wrote "The Globalization of Markets" in 1983, Japanese companies were held up as model competitors. Today, the... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
interactions can have a profound impact, even if they are not with what I used to define as my best friends. The most memorable moment for me came on a typical case day. To give a quick background, I used to have a mindset that I needed to cover my identity as a View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
representing a large part of what remains of the American industrial economy. Should these companies file for Chapter 11 and fail to get financing, there could be a loss of several million jobs. But the threat is far worse than those numbers suggest. I was speaking... View Details
- 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