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Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur
By: J. P. Kotter
Kotter, J. P. Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur. New York: Free Press, 1997.
- May 1995
- Teaching Note
Asahi Breweries, Ltd. TN
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Teaching Note for (9-389-114). View Details
- May 1991 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
The Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1990
Japanese firms dominate the facsimile machine industry, accounting for more than 90% of worldwide sales. This case explores the reasons for this dominance. View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Telecommunications Industry; Japan
Enright, Michael J. "The Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1990." Harvard Business School Case 391-209, May 1991. (Revised April 2008.)
- January 1989
- Teaching Note
The World VCR Industry, Teaching Note
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-387-098). View Details
- August 2011
- Supplement
InnoCentive.com (C)
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein
InnoCentive.com enables clients to tap into internal and external solver networks to address various business issues. This case focuses on the outcome of InnoCentive's decision to post challenges related to environmental issues created by the Gulf Oil Spill. It reviews... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Networks; Decisions; Outcome or Result; Pollutants; Natural Disasters; Natural Environment; Japan
Lakhani, Karim R., and Eric Lonstein. "InnoCentive.com (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 612-027, August 2011.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were in the new language. Founding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
company that actually built things, so upon graduation, he signed on at Ford. Then it was off for some serious globe-trotting, first to South America as managing director of Ford Argentina, next to Japan as president and CEO (at age 38)... View Details
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
includes everything from welding machines to surveillance systems. “This know-how of making complicated mechanical things operate smoothly is still alive in Japan and it’s in Panasonic’s DNA,” Higuchi told Bloomberg. READ MORE View Details
- Web
Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
and western New England. This album depicts the aftermath of the disaster including landslides and flood-damaged railroad tracks and bridges of the Boston and Albany Railroad Co. near Becket, Massachusetts. Plucking Cocoons . Central Raw Silk Association of View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
Japan for the Rugby World Cup, their first trip to Asia. John O'Donnell MBA 1977 and Harvard College alumnus Eugene Skowronski John O'Donnell MBA 1977 and Harvard College alumnus Eugene Skowronski “The group has evolved from a core of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
48-hour jaunt to Japan to promote Princess as "the cruise line Audrey loved." (Hepburn—one of Japan's most admired celebrities—christened the Star Princess in 1989.) Doesn't leave home without: Samsonite four-direction roller luggage;... View Details
- 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 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
messier. Countries like Russia, Korea, Brazil, and Japan are major producers of steel. They are going to retaliate, and the United States is a major exporter to those countries,” she said, adding that free trade has worked particularly... View Details
- June 1998
- Background Note
Share Buy-Backs: The European and Japanese Experience
By: Marc L. Bertoneche
Bertoneche, Marc L. "Share Buy-Backs: The European and Japanese Experience." Harvard Business School Background Note 298-134, June 1998.
- June 1997
- Case
Tokyo Electric Power Company
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Tokyo Electric Power Company." Harvard Business School Case 797-046, June 1997.
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
competition, identifying opportunities to enhance global perceptions, and shoring up weaknesses." The Unglobal Consumer The "Unglobalization" of Markets: Japan after Twenty Years Hirotaka Takeuchi, Dean, Hitotsubashi... 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
Miho Sakuma (MBA '20) is from Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a major in history at Williams College. At the Class of 2020 welcoming reception last year, Dean Nohria told us that HBS will transform us in three dimensions – academics,... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
relief efforts in India; Ameera Shah (OPM 42, 2012), managing director at Metropolis Healthcare; Ajay Bijli (OPM 28, 1999), chair and managing director of PVR Cinemas; and Vivek Gambhir (MBA 1997), former CEO of Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
that his generation is leaving them and what they will need to do about it. Japan and the Shackles of the Past (What Everyone Needs to Know) by R. Taggart Murphy (MBA 1981) (Oxford University Press) Japan is... View Details