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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 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
THE BOTTOM LINE: TOTO’s ad campaign turned heads. Did it win U.S. customers? Photo courtesy Toto Usa Inc. It’s installed in 63 percent of all Japanese homes but rarely found in the United States: a combination bidet-toilet with an... 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
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details
- Portrait Project
Stephen Elliott
take her to concerts, go on long walks in Manhattan, eat Italian food, cheer on Japanese runners at the Boston Marathon, and allow her to spoil our toy poodle/terrier Lupin. I have finally realized that memories are the most important... View Details
- Portrait Project
Brendan Sullivan
elderly Japanese women and men. They respond with curiosity by stroking my blonde, almost white, hair. My reluctance during this weekly ritual led to protests that my parents dismissed. My mother, a Colombian immigrant, and my father, an... View Details
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020
opportunities for me in terms of learning and contacts in Boston,” he shares. Sasago also found support in Boston’s Japanese business community and from fellow ramen enthusiast Masato Nakamura (MBA 2020), who became his business partner.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shahar Ziv
funny” echoed in my head and imbued a sense of inferiority. Luckily, I wasn’t alone. My first friend, Renske, spoke only Japanese in response to my Hebrew. Together we learned to communicate and play cheerfully through the prose of games,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Assaf Harlap
Japanese teacher — the tallest 4'-10" woman I have ever met. The lesson was consistent: They expected more from me, a lot more. In 2004, I took these lessons and have doubled-down my bets on education, the power of human potential,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
things: I am not Steve Jobs. I am not a genius.” — Tomoko Namba (MBA ’90), on stepping down as head of the Japanese mobile-games company DeNA to care for her husband. (Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2011) View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
and the European Central Bank as lenders who have already adopted negative rates. Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., echoes Oteh’s warning in the article, arguing that the policy will “gradually undermine View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
as well as handsets) suffer from a "Galapagos effect": like the unique fauna of these remote islands they are only found in the Japanese archipelago. Similarly, while Japanese anime is renowned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult for women to enter into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
book with the title Can Japan Compete?" It was some nine years ago, at a time when Japan's economic success was overwhelmingly credited to its government's involvement with industry, that Porter and his team began an in-depth study of the View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
political leadership and negotiation skills with enabling Japan to join talks that could lead to one of the world’s largest trade deals. In addition to filling a succession of high-level posts in Japanese trade and economic policy,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
a situation in which events appear to be out of the control of a responsible private organization. Differences of opinion arise over whether an "out of control" situation exists. In just the last few weeks, we have seen the View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
labor organizations should be in their death throes." The kind of thinking needed to meet these challenges for organized labor can be found, according to Walter Blass, in Japan. In his words, "I suggest you look at Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
Warburg, Egawa has also worked for Salomon Brothers in New York and Tokyo. "Although Japan has experienced major economic problems since the 1990s, it is still a significant economy, and many Japanese companies are major global players,"... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
as a commodity and an investment. Japanese culture has always valued art and incorporated it into nearly everything, Shibayama notes. Something as minor as the gift wrapping on a box is usually carefully considered and meticulously... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
led the way in this field from its beginnings in 1919 through the next four decades. But by the 1970s, Japanese companies such as Sony and Matsushita had taken over the market. Similarly, it was the Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner