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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Directors of Research Centers Share Global Perspectives
Last May, executive directors from the School's global research centers came to campus for a daylong retreat hosted by the HBS Global Initiative. The event marked the first time that executive directors Gustavo Herrero (MBA '76), Latin America Research Center; Masako... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
president of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Japan, based in Tokyo. Porté serves as a trustee of the American School in Japan and of Camp Rising Sun, an international leadership camp. A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard... View Details
- 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
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
truths about people and organizations — a foundation that serves as a springboard for an evolutionary leap into a new, networked age." Can Japan Compete? by Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, and Mariko Sakakibara (Perseus... View Details
- 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
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Ltd. Japan Research Center The Japan Research Center (JRC) helped facilitate research-related activities for Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell during a global research fellowship in Tokyo. He spent six... 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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
never forget — the men understood that no invasion of Japan would be necessary and that the war’s end was near. In 1947, I was discharged from the Navy and began teaching at HBS ten days later. As we all know, HBS is a very special place,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
linked every Asian nation to its regional neighbors and to the rest of the world through three main avenues: information and technology, capital flows, and trade. HBS professor Michael E. Porter moderated “Japan towards the 21st Century: How Should View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
multicultural, turnaround artist and shake-things-up executive, born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, educated in France, and revered in Japan (One poll there had Japanese women selecting the happily married Ghosn as their top choice for an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
KAO: Out of conflict and apparent mistakes, a beautiful, coherent melody. The Economist magazine has called him “Mr. Creativity” and a “serial innovator.” A former keyboard player for Frank Zappa, John Kao (MBA 1982), an HBS faculty member from 1982 to 1996, holds an... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it would take to build a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mentoring women to become leaders in Japanese business
Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) talks about being a leader and mentor for women in Japanese business and society. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Capitalizing on the power of knowledge
Yoshito Hori (MBA 1991), founder and dean of Globis University in Japan, on the power of knowledge and the opportunity to innovate. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning announcement: all 7,100 of them would... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Management Program, the Program for Management Development, and the International Senior Management Program in Switzerland. The author or coauthor of eight books and dozens of articles, Yoshino's next book on corporate restructuring in Asia will be published next year.... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
achievement. “There are four big things we’ve learned from studying bright spots,” Sharma says. “The first is belief. The expectations for what kids can do in mathematics in a country like Japan or Taiwan or Singapore are completely... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
easy. This norm is kaizen, and it basically states that whatever you do today is “not good enough.” It is one of the reasons Toyota, Honda, and Sony piled up such quick successes as Japan was still lifting itself out of the rubble of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
Cohen is considering a career transition into health care. "I'd like to apply my skills in marketing and communications to health and medical services. In particular, the e-health world is exploding with incredible opportunity." This August, Cohen and 125 breast cancer... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker