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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
Baker and the founding of the School was so well received by alumni that it led to a book-length history of the School that I had the privilege of writing. Special issues on entrepreneurship, alumni in public service, 25th Reunion classes, the View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
is America’s absorption of Japanese manufacturing techniques in the 1980s.” Over time, with this kind of ongoing cross-pollination, today’s system of global management, to the extent it can still be called American, will look less like it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
opportunities for MBA graduates. “It became clear that innovation was no longer taking place only in the United States, and that there were different kinds of innovations in different places,” says Palepu. Beginning in the late 1980s, View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
company seem bigger than it actually was. He was almost discovered when a Japanese customer arrived in the United States and insisted they meet and go to dinner. Two years shy of legal drinking age, Crespin spent the evening in mortal... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Origin—and many you may not, like Astroscale, founded by a Japanese IT executive who quit his job to start a company to clean up space debris. They also offer fundamental tools from economics to understand how the market in space is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
mater and home of The Grove School of Engineering (2005). In 1985, Japanese suppliers overtook the American industry in global share of market for semiconductors. As Intel’s sales slipped, the company clung to its identity in the memory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
machines to cars. The story of Sunil Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) illustrates the challenges entrepreneurs faced in the years before the government loosened its regulatory hold on business. In 1983, Mittal saw a successful enterprise disintegrate overnight when the government... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he became a special adviser at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the Discovery Room, where youngsters can touch a snake skin, model a Japanese kimono, or pet a ten-foot-tall stuffed polar bear. "This museum can be a powerful tool to keep kids interested in science," NMNH director Bob Fri observes.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
corporations. After coming into vogue in the early 1980s when American businesses were threatened by Japanese competition, intrapreneurship was eclipsed by the reengineering and downsizing phenomena of the early '90s. Now, however, it is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
politics, and a business landscape dominated by yesterday’s champions. Murphy places these troubles in a broad historical context, combining analyses of Japanese culture and society over the centuries with accounts of Japan's numerous... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
navigation aides [sic] were "an alarm clock, a compass, a torn page from a schoolbook atlas, and a radio that worked part of the time." War Notes Of all the naval officers who have obtained degrees from the Business School, the one with the highest rank is the View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
PMD, it's OPM for me. Refrain: OPM (OPM), Harvard Square (Harvard Square). You'll learn with all the smartest teachers there. Come on down to Cambridge to spend a week or three. AMP, PMD, it's OPM for me. OPM 34. Wasabi! (from a case about a View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
feared—but Japanese emergency crews were able to replenish the spent-fuel pool water in the nick of time, preventing massive evacuation of Tokyo. US regulators took notice. In 2012, Popik and Mott cofounded the nonprofit Foundation for... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
living suite with a Brazilian stock broker, a Japanese television producer, a Botswanan chemical engineer, and a Danish medical trials manager. The cohort, eight in total, were able to share their unique experiences, thoughts, fears, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
35-year-old males is one based on a lot of accessories like tricked-out exhausts and spoilers, and it’s dominated by Japanese imports. We could lie about the GTI and try to make it live in that world, but instead we developed the “Un-Pimp... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
rush to “go international” was fast and furious when we came on the business scene. “Emerging markets” was the new catchphrase. The robust Japanese economy was the world's envy, and sushi bars were the place to take your date. If you... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution forced the evacuation of all... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
behavior and how this competitive dynamism is reviving the Japanese economy. Conference cochairs Amar Lalvani and Yen Liow (both MBA 2001) were pleased with the event: “The conference’s timing was perfect,” stated Lalvani. “The challenges... View Details