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- 08 Nov 2018
- News
How did Rakuten change in 'English official language'
- 16 Nov 2017
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Language and Globalization: The Mandate to Speak English at Rakuten
- 09 Dec 2013
- News
In Japan, Red Sox Have a Championship Soul Mate
- 28 Aug 2017
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Business in a Common Tongue
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
The Japanese company that ordered staff to speak English
- 14 Sep 2017
- News
Global work orientation: A case study
- 31 Mar 2016
- News
Network Effects Aren’t Enough
- 28 Mar 2018
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Wharton Business Radio with Tsedal Neeley
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
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Nohria’s Next Move
continue to play the role of teacher and mentor that is so meaningful to me.” (See the company’s announcement.) Nohria will remain engaged at Harvard University as the chair of the board of the Harvard Allston Land Company and teaching in some Executive Education short... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
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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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce
hundreds of cases, a light clicked on. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he says. Rakuten operates e-commerce businesses in 13 countries, spearheaded a $100 million investment in Pinterest, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
proficient in English, or risk demotion. “I was simply astonished,” said one engineer interviewed after the announcement. “Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English.” At Rakuten, an online shopping mall that does not sell to... View Details