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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
according to the Olmsted brothers' initial landscaping plan, contrasts pleasingly with the buildings' red brick and echoes their white painted trim. White-flowered shrubs and trees such as Japanese barberry, white fringe trees, and... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
products to Asia, who would have guessed that this decision would influence where the most important component for tomorrow's electric vehicles—the batteries—would be produced? But that is what happened. The offshoring of consumer electronics production (often... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1727508 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 711-464 Vodafone in Japan (A) Despite a rough start in the Japanese telecom market, by late 2003, Vodafone seemed to have weathered the storm,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
Not so long ago, multinational firms were associated with a specific national identity. Caterpillar was a prototypical U.S. company. Honda was a classic Japanese company. The location of headquarters of these and other firms served as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
called Death Note. It's based off a Japanese manga, which is a Japanese comic book and was very successful. It had I think three or four live action movies off of that manga. And we just shot it in... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
1,000 cars per year as compared to, say, the Chevrolet division of GM, which has an average much less than 1,000. Moreover, the Japanese company has about 1,500 distributorships in the United States; Chevrolet has about four times that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
style and personality; it could be language. Language is a barrier. I'm teaching in an executive program right now and the Koreans and the Japanese speak very rarely. It's not that they don't have a lot to contribute, it's that they can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
number of companies are placing users at the core of their business strategies. Take MUJI, a leading Japanese design retailer, which has created a range of products designed by customers including a car, light fixtures, and sofas. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
theme parks—was to ensure a steady flow of creative software for its global hardware businesses. Senior MCA management agreed to the acquisition, expecting the new, cash-rich Japanese parent to provide capital for acquiring more record... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
option when they look at their financial returns and decide to share some of the wealth with their employees or their communities. That's what John Tu and David Sun did when they sold 80 percent of their company, Kingston Technologies, to Softbank, the View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best practices in other countries, and it adapts accordingly. A prime example is America's absorption of Japanese manufacturing techniques in the 1980s."... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
is America’s absorption of Japanese manufacturing techniques in the 1980s.” Over time, with this kind of ongoing cross-pollination, today’s system of global management, to the extent it can still be called American, will look less like it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
Mikito Kiname and Tango Matsumoto, embarked on the journey to strengthen Fujitsu’s marketing and innovation platform in North America and to transform the company’s innovation culture by making the Japanese giant more open and leaner in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than ten market share points, beating back the View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
faculty to each other to share their latest work and to stimulate new cases and research. The series attracted more than 4,000 attendees from 50-plus countries. News Story Asia Pacific Marking Ten-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
http://hbr.org/search/713405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 409-112 Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/409112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident population near their firm headquarters. We use the formation of World... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
for example—in addition to commodity products. It describes how the firm's sales strategy—including changes in structure and compensation—changed as its overall product line evolve. The case also offers an interesting contrast for students studying sales forces, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
widely to the totality of its functions and processes. How much does it cost us to make our steel? How can the Japanese do it so much less expensively? How can we redesign our whole chain of activities, from purchasing raw materials to... View Details