Publications

June 2005
Supplement

Transformation of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 2005 (B)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Yukihiko Endo

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry; Japan

February 2005
Case

Nomura Holdings

By: Tarun Khanna, Masako Egawa and Atsuko Nakajima

Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest investment bank, faced with intensifying competition in the global financial markets, was trying to decide how global its operations should be despite its Japan-centered business. Was the question of how global Nomura should be related... View Details

Keywords: Global Range; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan

April 2004 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Japan: Beyond the Bubble Supplement

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Emily Thompson

Supplements the case Japan: Beyond the Bubble. View Details

Keywords: Japan

December 2003
Case

Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (C) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Moral Sensibility; Safety; Government Administration; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Announcements; Industrial Products Industry; Japan

October 1999 (Revised May 2001)
Background Note

Japanese Financial System, The: From Postwar to the New Millennium

Describes the development of the Japanese financial system, from extensive regulation and fund allocation through administrative guidance in the 1950s to the banking crisis and legal and structural reorganization in the 1990s. Special emphasis is on the processes of... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Japan

April 1995 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

Asahi Glass Company: Diversification Strategy TN

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for (9-794-113). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Japan

August 1993 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

Sharp Corporation: Technology Strategy TN

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for (9-793-064). View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry; Japan

September 1991 (Revised December 1993)
Case

Tombow Pencil Co. Ltd.

Tombow Pencil Co. Ltd., one of Japan's two premier pencil manufacturers, has been using a subcontractor network in order to respond to changing market conditions. The system currently faces a new challenge as Tombow moves to address a volatile business market for... View Details

Keywords: Production; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

2004
Preface

Preface to the Japanese Edition

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Japan

August 1990 (Revised December 1993)
Case

Talbots

By: Walter J. Salmon

Describes the entry of this store and catalog retailer of classic women's clothing into the Japanese market place. Introduces such issues as cross-border management, multi-national retailing, and joint venturing. View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Management; Market Entry and Exit; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Japan

October 1983 (Revised July 1984)
Case

Clark Material Handling Group-Overseas: Brazilian Product Strategy (D)

Expands on Clark Material Handling Group-Overseas: Brazilian Product Strategy (A) and (B). Company considers entry into the Japanese market. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Japan

March 2005
Article

Short- and Long-term Demand Curves for Stocks: Theory and Evidence on the Dynamics of Arbitrage

By: Robin Greenwood

I develop a framework to analyze demand curves for multiple risky securities at extended horizons in a setting with limits-to-arbitrage. Following an unexpected change in uninformed investor demand for several assets, I predict returns of each security to be... View Details

Keywords: Limits To Arbitrage; Event Studies; Demand Curves; Portfolio Choice; Framework; Demand and Consumers; Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Debt Securities; Forecasting and Prediction; Stocks; Assets; Investment Portfolio; System Shocks; Price; Japan

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December 1981
Case

Nippon Steel Corp.

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Steel Industry; Japan

March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Tomoya Nakamura

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Consulting Industry; Japan

October 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Komatsu Ltd.: Project G's Globalization

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

This case describes the major strategic and organizational transformation at Komatsu aimed at changing it from a Japan-based producer of construction equipment to a truly global company with the ability to leverage its groupwide portfolio of resources and capabilities... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Construction; Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Global Strategy; Leadership; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

June 1995
Supplement

Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (D)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant

Supplements the (C) case. View Details

Keywords: Japan

June 1989
Teaching Note

Asahi Breweries Ltd., Teaching Note

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Teaching Note for (9-389-114). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Japan