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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

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

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About - Global

View More Facts Silicon Valley Mid-US Montevideo Paris Istanbul Mumbai São Paulo Shanghai Hong Kong Tokyo Mexico City Dubai Singapore Cairo Tel-Aviv Johannesburg Lagos Nairobi Eighteen global locations help to build on our legacy of... View Details

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Alumni - Global

Latour takes the helm of his family’s centuries-old winemaking company Re: Florent Latour (MBA 1999); By: Julia Hanna 14 Jun 2023 HBS Alumni News Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia With all-alumni events in Singapore and Tokyo last... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

US military and the government. After World War II, his focus shifted to still photography for high-end architectural magazines. As Shirley’s talent matured, he experimented with photography as an art form, and his work was exhibited at museums in View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

delivers food to victims CEO Takeshi Niinami of Lawson, a chain of convenience stores, watched out his Tokyo office window as skyscrapers swayed. Just minutes before the tsunami reached the Tohoku shore, he sent an order to employees:... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2023
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Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Ikenna Okezie

education at the University of Tokyo Medical School. He also kept his quantitative skills honed working summers as a financial analyst in the Surgical Services Administration at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Three and a half... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

the Executive Committee for TN. Andy was integral in the sale to MBNA of a major operating division, TNFS, one of the largest credit card origination companies in the United States. Earlier, Andy worked in the Corporate Development Department at Kikkoman Corporation's... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

applications—a process comprising about 600,000 individual data-entry tasks. The research team matched that data to meteorological data in Tokyo during that period. (Tokyo is a city that sees its share of sunny weather and torrential... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Porter Prize Japan - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

at Harvard Business School. Michael Porter was invited to be the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony of its newly established Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS) in 2000. He made two trips to Tokyo on behalf of... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

satisfied Mikitani’s ambition to empower his homeland. “Our mission is to be the number one Internet company in the world,” he says, dressed casually in his Tokyo office. That goal is a key factor in the decision he made in 2010 to... View Details

30 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

Miho Sakuma (MBA '20) is from Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a major in history at Williams College. Prior to HBS, Miho worked in management consulting for Mickinsey in the Tokyo and New Jersey offices. As a former management consultant,... View Details

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

we can make this work. ” Yasu Sasago MBA 2020 Alleviating Debt Concerns Sasago studied commerce at Waseda University in Tokyo and the University of Sydney in Australia prior to attending HBS. His ability to pursue a graduate school... View Details

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

then went to Tokyo and Singapore immediately after the meeting. Another event is planned for Boston this fall, and more cities will be added through the coming year. Please watch for an HBS event near you and for more updates from the... View Details

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten's Tokyo headquarters and dropped a bomb: all 7,100 workers would have two years to become proficient in English—the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

January 2016
Case

Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines the open innovation journey at Fujitsu, a global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small... View Details

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12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

that ESG factors, including management of carbon emissions, will create value for startups in the long-run. There are some tailwinds in this mission, such as from April 2022, Japan’s Financial Services Agency will require public companies listed in the “prime” segment... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Badaracco Addresses Japan Club

The HBS Club of Japan hosted Professor Joseph Badaracco at the Tokyo American Club in July for a talk on “The Demanding Challenges of Responsible Leadership.” Badaracco’s research focuses on business ethics, particularly on leadership and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services