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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
The Life And Legacy Of Jack Welch
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- News
Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta
adding that since the majority of HBS alumni in Japan are male, “the club has always had male presidents.” The club’s immediate past president, Seiji Yasubuchi (MBA 1990), is a “strong promoter of diversity and inclusion in Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
and the sinking of the Japanese fleet in Truk Lagoon, which became one of the world’s largest ship graveyards. Much later it became a scuba destination because the steel turned out to be a useful foundation for coral reefs and marine... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
What is your favorite HBS case and why? “One of my favorite cases is about the re-emergence of the Swiss watch industry. The case discussed the near collapse of the industry after failing to adapt to Japanese competition from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Mitsuharu’s long-term goal of improving the quality of the Japanese sweets, made from azuki bean paste and sugar, and expanding the company’s client base to reach global customers be in line with Toraya’s well-being? LATIN AMERICA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Tetsuji Shibayama (MBA 1990) is helping Japanese businesses understand the importance of art to their corporate cultures and their bottom lines, while also introducing art students to the principles and practices—and the ready market—of... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
students will be our future leaders. I would like to increase the number of cases on Japanese companies so that they really understand Japan,” explains Sato. Drawing on his experience as a partner in an executive search firm, Sato... View Details
- 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
- 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 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 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