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- 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
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
coauthor of Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, to answer alumni questions about what this trend might portend. With property price slides precipitating previous financial crises in Japan and the United States, what... 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 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
'65) New York, NY Kenzaburo Mogi (MBA '73) Tokyo, Japan Wilson P. Nolen (MBA '51) New York, NY Vasil J. Pappas, Jr. (MBA '76) Philadelphia, PA Robert P. Piccus (MBA '59) Hong Kong Max Pine (MBA '58) New York, NY Eileen C. Shapiro (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
on market superiority). They discovered that Chinese firms "show a unique combination of bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism." In contrast, say the authors, their earlier studies of firms based in Thailand and Japan showed that Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
course and IMM use the CD-ROM case; and IMM includes a videoconferencing hookup to executives in Japan that enables students to ask questions of case protagonists in real time. Technology also spurred "The Future of Interactive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Planning Process with Minimal Effort by Tracy Morgan (MBA 1990) (North Star Strategies) Supreme Commander: MacArthur's Triumph in Japan by Mike Morris (MBA 1971) (HarperCollins) Morris combines political history, military biography, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
at Harvard Business School. MBA in hand, he arrived at P&G at the age of 30 as an assistant brand manager for Joy dishwashing detergent. A variety of other assignments followed, such as helping turn around P&G's beauty products business in View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
Thoren Photo courtesy Beth Thoren Related Links View video of confrontations in the Southern Ocean Have you noticed that when you live in a big city long enough, your thoughts can struggle to travel further than the building in front of you? When I was in my 20s,... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
pipeline at every stage; if we could, then good things would happen,” he says. After HBS, Rice worked at Walt Disney Co. for four years, in new business development and marketing. Next he joined the National Basketball Association as managing director of NBA View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
behavior of the customers is so vastly different that having the same policy often doesn’t make sense. It’s very much like you’re selling a certain type of product in Japan and China: different markets with different competitors and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
catalyst for growth in the neighboring countries, in much the same role as Japan played in Asia. Such collaborative activity across borders is common in other regions, but until recently has been all but absent in the Middle East. Even... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
government will lead to heightened tensions with the United States and allies such as Japan and Taiwan by 2020. What about Europe? The European Union poses a less immediate challenge, but a real one nonetheless. There is an element of the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
though he didn’t realize it at the time, leading those services would signal the beginning of a shift in his career path. The banker and Naval officer would ultimately become an ordained Episcopal priest. On his second tour of duty, Quainton served in View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Mar 2011
- News
Managing in Asia
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
year our yield (the rate of acceptance on offers of admissions) surpassed an astounding 90 percent — the highest of any business or professional school. Global Outreach On the global front, we officially launched the Japan Research Office... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg