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Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya

In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan

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September 2020
Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry

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22 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

For example, providers must check cancer patients undergoing radiation for pacemakers, which can malfunction during the treatment. Employees were asked to rank the likelihood that they would report the following near-miss scenarios, which... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

to examine such issues as adverse drug interactions and cost-effectiveness of cancer screening. "Structuring the world mathematically can lead to insights and ideas that might not be obvious," he says. Sources Of Stress For... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

worth living, while others took the opportunity to divulge very personal information. In one case, a female employee shocked her colleagues by relating that she had breast cancer and had been having treatments for months. On that... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

29 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Robots in the Boardroom

effective targets. Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer ToolRadiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

A Happier Ending In an "alternate ending" to the story, Kate apologizes for how the negotiation has gotten out of control, and asks if they can start over. She shares her own anxieties and frustrations about an important conference call regarding FDA approval... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

Rembrand Koning and colleagues. With women representing only 13 percent of patent holders in the United States, the lack of female-driven inventions may well be having a direct impact on health outcomes, Koning says. If fewer inventors are focused on, say, personalized... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

know how to land a human on Mars. The sobering reality of health care is that terrible things—Alzheimer’s or cancer or an accident—can happen to anyone, including very healthy people. And that’s the bulk of health care spending. The... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

scandal hurt not only Armstrong's own reputation, but the reputations of his teammates. Photo: iStockPhoto More than that, Armstrong had transcended himself to become an icon, having overcome testicular cancer and then raising nearly $400... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

industry? How will better data collection transform the ways in which we do clinical trials for new cancer drugs? It is both staggering and exciting to imagine how data and analytic capabilities will transform entire industries and it was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

that you have to spend a whole lot of money before you know if the product is going to work," he says. To that end, Eisenmann teaches the cases "Predictive Biosciences" and "Aquion Energy." In studying Predictive, a venture-backed,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

nourished and lived in conditions of poor hygiene and constant labor. Hair loss was psychologically debilitating for early 20th-century women, as it is today for female cancer patients enduring the ordeals of chemotherapy, for instance,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

found. He's also faced a series of powerful setbacks. So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

writer based in the Boston area. [Image: CasarsaGuru] Related Reading: Related Reading Black Business Leaders Series: Franklin Leonard, 'Black List' Mastermind Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products? Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

the notion that hate speech had no place on the site, Wojcicki rejected the idea that sites containing conspiracy theories or other borderline content such as “Every Cancer Can Be Cured in Weeks” should be barred from the site. Instead,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

news hook, although it may not be as obvious as, say, a breakthrough in cancer research. Remember the aforementioned research by Bazerman et al., which explained the unconscious biases that cause auditors to do a bad job of auditing?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

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