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- 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 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
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
camaraderie just as seriously as ever. “When you are young and you first start it is more about wanting to win,” said Rush. “We can’t play 80 minutes anymore. At our age, it is more about the after party.” They tipped back a few pints and sang some songs with their... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
inside the machinery to see what makes it all run: "The transistor made the computer revolution possible, which in turn begat the Internet." Among other innovations noted were mass media, plastics, air-conditioning, mass production, View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Japanese ultimately sold virtually all their U.S. properties at a loss. Repairing the damage done by the crash created opportunities to rebuild the business and make it stronger. Morgan Stanley’s Slaughter cites three fundamental, lasting... View Details
- 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
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
another 30,000 visit the company’s elderly day care facilities; and 2,500 people now have the ability to stay home at the end of life like Sato-san, instead of resorting to an overcrowded and more expensive hospital setting. Desperate for solutions and seeing the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 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
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... 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
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
on Iraq. For the Japanese in the room, it’s a sobering reminder of how war, and its aftermath, can affect a country and its people for decades. For the American, it indicates a clear need for political change. When her two-year commitment... View Details
- 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 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
shuns some of Japan’s traditional business formalities, and led the 2011 tsunami relief effort. In 2010, he declared that all Rakuten employees needed to be proficient in English. As Mikitani sees it, in order to compete globally, View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
challenge. However, I mistakenly agreed to hire a Japanese American assistant who felt a strong allegiance to the Sumitomo-appointed general manager of the joint venture. He undercut me at every opportunity, working against the objective... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
area and a mentor from my days at HBS. Professor Hayes had just returned from doing research in Japan and had written a white paper comparing differences in manufacturing management between American and Japanese electronics production.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
called Death Note. It's based off a Japanese manga, which is a Japanese comic book and was very successful. It had I think three or four live action movies off of that manga. And we just shot it in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
widely to the totality of its functions and processes. How much does it cost us to make our steel? How can the Japanese do it so much less expensively? How can we redesign our whole chain of activities, from purchasing raw materials to... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
of their own, and I was very unexpectedly laid off. I know the experience is brutal for everyone, but in that moment, it felt so much harder when I felt like I had lost my mission, I had lost what I was referring to as my ikigai, which is the View Details