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May 2023
Teaching Material
Note on Corporate and Government Reskilling Efforts in
Japan
By:
Christopher Stanton
and Akiko Kanno
2023
Book
Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership
By:
Geoffrey Jones
Corporate social responsibility has entered the mainstream, but what does it take to run a successful purpose-driven business? This book examines leaders who put values alongside profits to showcase the challenges and upside of deeply responsible business. Should...
November 15, 2022
Article
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles
What Really Makes Toyota’s Production System Resilient
By:
Willy C. Shih
Toyota has fared better than many of its competitors in riding out the supply chain disruptions of recent years. But focusing on how Toyota had stockpiled semiconductors and the problems of other manufacturers, some observers jumped to the conclusion that the era of...
September 2022
Case
The Pokémon Company: Evolving into an Everlasting Brand
By:
Tomomichi Amano
and Masaki Nomura
Super Bowl 50, the fiftieth annual championship game of the American National Football League played in February 2016, featured 52 commercials, and brands spent more than six million dollars each for a 30-second commercial slot. Surprisingly, the commercial that...
July 2022 (Revised November 2022)
Case
Building a Mishap-Free U.S. Navy
By:
Amy C. Edmondson
,
Herman B. Leonard
,
Michael W. Toffel
and Michael Norris
In 2021, Kevin “Bud” Couch, a retired Navy captain who was now working as a civilian employee of the Navy Safety Center, was trying to determine how best to reduce the risk of Navy mishaps. The Navy had experienced a series of major mishaps in 2017 that had led to a...
February 2022
Case
Sekisui House and the In-Home Early Detection Platform
By:
John D. Macomber
and Akiko Kanno
technologies as the nature of demand changes and as they navigate the digitalization of a very traditional bricks and mortar industry. The company has to consider its core business of building and selling homes, which is now under pressure in
February 2022
Case
Toraya
By:
Lauren Cohen
and Akiko Kanno
Mitsuharu Kurokawa was the 18th generation leader of a family firm that produced and sold premium Japanese sweets, Toraya Confectionery Co., Ltd. He had succeeded the business from his father, Mitsuhiro Kurokawa who had led the firm for thirty years. Mitsuharu was...
January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
Case
Envision Group
By:
Gunnar Trumbull
, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Based in China, Envision was one of the world’s leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the company’s global operations and supply chain by 2022 and 2028 respectively. As part of its...
January 2022
Case
Walmart Goes Global (A)
By:
Juan Alcácer
December 2021
Case
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape
By:
Eugene F. Soltes
, Grace Liu and Muneeb Ahmed
In 2018, automotive tycoon Carlos Ghosn was arrested in
Japan
on financial misreporting charges, followed later by charges of improper payments and misappropriation of funds. Over a year later, still awaiting trial, Ghosn organized his...
Article
Keizaikei [Kanto Gakuin Journal of Economics and Management]
B Corps: Can It Remake Capitalism in Japan?
By:
Geoffrey Jones
concludes by placing the B Corps movement in a wider context of an ongoing paradigm shift away from the era of shareholder capitalism. The low take-up of B Corps in
Japan
reflected Japan's delayed engagement with the new trends which were...
2021
Working Paper
Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999
By: Grace Ballor
In 1991, in the midst of the program to create a liberal Single European Market and in the context of a new Joint Declaration for cooperation with Japan, the European Commission brokered a private deal to restrict Japanese imports into the European Community for nearly...
June 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case
Nissan's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
By:
Ananth Raman
, William Schmidt and Ann Winslow
In January 2020, Ashwani Gupta took over as COO at Nissan Motor Corporation, and several weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic began. Nissan’s Business Continuity Plan (BCP) had been key to the resilience of Nissan’s supply chain. It had enabled Nissan to recover from...
June 2021
Case
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
By:
Linda A. Hill
and
Emily Tedards
In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not...
June 2021
Case
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)
By:
Linda A. Hill
and
Emily Tedards
In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not...
May 2021
Case
André Hoffmann: Beyond Philanthropy
By:
Lauren Cohen
, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Spencer C.N. Hagist
André Hoffmann is a leader of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. His exceptional tenure in philanthropy over the past several decades, including being president of the WWF and the vice-president of the MAVA Foundation, has allowed him access to a far...
January 2021
Case
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (A)
By:
David J. Collis
, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
global company with two thirds of revenue raised outside
Japan
and a diverse management team. What was the implication of acquiring Shire? Was now the right time to take such a big step? Was the acquisition in line with the company’s...
January 2021
Teaching Material
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (B)
By:
David J. Collis
, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
This case is a follow up to HBS Case No. 721-373, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (A). Following the events of the previous case, Takeda reached an agreement to acquire Ireland-based Shire Plc. The case follows some of the achievements and challenges Takeda and...
December 2020
Case
VIA Science (A)
By:
Juan Alcácer
,
Rembrand Koning
, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
Via (a) captures the early days of the data analytics startup as founders Gounden and Ravanis considered which markets offer the right opportunities for their firm and what kinds of experiments will help them narrow their choice. Supplement Via (b) reveals the...
December 2020
Teaching Material
VIA Science (B)
By:
Juan Alcácer
,
Rembrand Koning
, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
Via (a) captures the early days of the data analytics startup as founders Gounden and Ravanis considered which markets offer the right opportunities for their firm and what kinds of experiments will help them narrow their choice. Supplement Via (b) reveals the...
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