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- April 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
The Great East Japan Earthquake (A)
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Victor Stone
At 2:46pm on March 11th, 2011, a 9.0M earthquake shook the Tohoku (Northeastern) region of Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the coastal waters of Tohoku and reverberations from the quake triggered a tsunami that ravaged the coastal shores of Eastern Japan.... View Details
Keywords: Japan; Earthquake; Tohoku; Tsunami; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; Natural Disasters; Japan
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, and Victor Stone. "The Great East Japan Earthquake (A)." Harvard Business School Case 712-480, April 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- January 2013
- Supplement
The Great East Japan Earthquake (E): Yamato Transport's Response
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Leonard Kosinski, Christina Royce, Anna Stetsovskaya and Evgeny Vasilyev
CEO Kikawa of Yamato Transport gave orders to his managers right after the triple disaster hit the Tohoku region of Japan to do whatever it takes to save lives and not to worry about costs. He also felt that he had to confront the government to make donations to the... View Details
Keywords: Japan; Earthquake; Yamato Transport Company; Natural Disasters; Business and Shareholder Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Transportation Industry; Japan
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, Leonard Kosinski, Christina Royce, Anna Stetsovskaya, and Evgeny Vasilyev. "The Great East Japan Earthquake (E): Yamato Transport's Response." Harvard Business School Supplement 713-442, January 2013.
- October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data
By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephanie Marton. "Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data." Harvard Business School Case 419-033, October 2018. (Revised August 2023.)
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
On March 11, 2011, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake triggered a powerful tsunami, generating waves higher than 125 feet that ravaged the coast of Japan, particularly the Tohoku region of Honshu, the largest and most populous island in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Japan - Global
main program is now held in Tokyo, the group continues to visit the Tohoku region on weekends to maintain a meaningful connection with the area. This year, Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell led 43 students to Japan for the 12th Japan... View Details
- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the paper notes. Government policy has played a leading role. The Biden Administration has continued former President Trump’s tariff policies aimed at Chinese goods, while also offering... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- Profile
Mark McNeill
had in me. It was close... but I won! What is the best thing about your home town? The collective spirit of Japan which manifested itself in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Despite having lost so much in the tsunami, the people of the View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
memorable mix of business education and cultural recreation, a J-Term 2014 trip offered even deeper perspectives. Through the Japan IXP (Immersion Experience Program), she explored entrepreneurship within a unique context: recovery from the 2011 View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Honshu, the largest and most populous island in Japan. Some 16,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands displaced, and 383,000 buildings damaged-including the Fukushima... View Details
- Web
IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
Tokyo and Tohoku; (iv) feedback from partner organizations and peers on project work; and (v) a final report. Tours: Students will have the opportunity to take part in company visits as well as various cultural activities in Tokyo and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
and found a number of broadly applicable factors that allowed clubs to amplify their investments. SIDENOTE: Tanaka's former team is the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, established in 2004 by the Rakuten Group—a company founded by Hiroshi... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
From that vantage point, he observed social media's key role in the Arab Spring and was so impressed that he joined Twitter as an adviser. When the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, Kondo saw how Twitter enabled the... View Details
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and Tohoku; (iv) feedback from partner organizations and peers on project work; and (v) a final report. Tours: Students will have the opportunity to take part in company visits as well as various cultural activities in Tokyo and the View Details