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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in Japan, "it is going to completely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Other grants helped survivors begin to rebuild devastated areas, allowing them to return to their former villages rather than remain in settlement camps, explains Curran. Back on campus, Curran is working to place up to ten MBA students in summer jobs with NGOs in the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau. And yet, as market segments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
- 22 Aug 2021
- News
We Are Not Ready for the Asynchronous Future
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Valley, bringing his wife and two young children along with him. For Mikitani, the 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northeastern Japan brought back memories of the earlier disaster. This time, however, he was in a position to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
regulatory institutions. The book ends by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Crown Business) When the View Details
- 13 Mar 2011
- News
Sympathy and Concern for HBS Alumni in Japan
Dear HBS Alumni, The tragic situation resulting from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan has shocked and saddened the world. On behalf of the Harvard Business School, we extend our deepest sympathy and concern for our alumni and their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
what we know. But now I believe that once again stories are becoming incredibly important. Awash in a tsunami of information, we are looking for more than data and facts. Out of this information overload, we’re trying to make sense of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
tsunami of credit problems isn’t over, for the second wave has yet to come. They break down the complex mortgage products and securities that Wall Street created and show how to find investment opportunities within the rubble and position... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
join York Street, a winner in the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition.) Years earlier, Embuldeniya and Mawilmada bonded at HBS over their Sri Lankan roots, a tie further strengthened by the December 2004 tsunami that struck the country... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
pools. Barely a month later, a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and caused a 10-foot tsunami to smash into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, cutting off grid power and drowning the backup generators. The plants’... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
a world-travel adventure for a year. They were at a Disney resort in Tokyo—riding through a simulated volcano attraction of all things—when the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck. Wilcox says the terror of the moment, the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She... View Details
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- 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
- 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