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Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya

In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan

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12 Mar 2021
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a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated with the firm’s international... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

college roommates who worked in South Central Los Angeles as a community organizer. He was bemoaning the lack of financial services to people who lived there. As a result, I became very interested in what we might call "consumer" or "household" finance. This brand of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

little about your background and what your interest in climate-related issues is. I am currently in my second year of the joint MBA/MPP program with HBS and HKS. I started my career as a generalist at McKinsey’s Hong Kong office and worked on a wide range of View Details

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Ahmed Alimi

accountant" for the small business his mother ran in his home country, Nigeria. He continued to study accounting in high school, then pivoted to the actuarial sciences when he attended the University of Lagos. In the following six years, he assumed accounting and... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

rapidly, and there was so much attention and pressure from the boom cycle. When all of that slows down, it washes out a lot of the projects that in one way or another weren’t sustainable. That means there has been lost value—there have... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

experience: Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing Launching Tech Ventures Founders’ Journey Startup Operations Field X (provides funding) Get additional startup experience: Work on a project for a startup for credit through an Independent... View Details

19 Jul 2023
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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

media space; it’s competitive and interesting – especially when you really believe in the content they make.” Mizuho spent her internship summer deep in reflection, “struggling to move out of finance and find what I want to do long term.”... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

was out on parental leave, my classes were recorded. During each Finance class recording my professor would ask "Do we have a baby yet?"... until one day the recording showed our section president receive a text (that I sent from the... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

largest expense decreases occurred in areas such as advertising, contingent labor, and technical services. Debt Service HBS finances major capital projects with a mix of three sources of funding: gifts,... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will be a combination of case discussions, guests, panels, and workshops. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the finance world by disintermediate... View Details

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the Charles River, an Enterprise Research Campus that will include two lab buildings, a University conference center, a hotel, and two residential towers, is projected to come online by the end of the decade, according to Carl Rodrigues,... View Details

04 May 2020
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6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

concerned that financing such unique opportunities would prove challenging but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how committed the two institutions are at reducing the challenge that money, or lack thereof, may pose for some individuals.... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

was co-authored by Dr. Mahek A. Shah, a senior researcher and senior project leader at Harvard Business School, and Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at HBS. Kaplan helped create the cost... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the joint goal of supplying steel for the war effort. Under the... View Details

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Wilder House | About

to HBS, where the legendary Professor Georges Doriot became a key career influence. Wilder quickly worked his way up through the ranks of institutional sales and corporate finance at Wood Gundy & Company Ltd. He was named executive vice... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

expensive ingredients with less expensive ingredients, and finally, to simply raise price. Q: What other research are you working on? A: At this time I have several other projects going on. In one bit of research, I am looking at the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

to change them.” Blame it on the alcohol Schlesinger’s student coauthors worked with Tam Le as part of the HBS Neighborhood Business Partnership, a field-based second-year course led by Schlesinger and Senior Lecturer Kristin Mugford. (The case was the end product of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

19 Apr 2024
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Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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