into non-Japanese market. Change was necessary for the global growth that we were aiming at. The initial goal to achieve TOEIC score, over 650 by April 2012 was set. Lots of foreign media such as CNN, Financial Times, covered our challenge and Harvard Business School made a case study about Rakuten’s Englishnization. However, this is not a temporary campaign or a astunt for publicity, but a must-do thing in order for Rakuten to become a globally successful company. This is good thing for Rakuten
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Collapse, The Real Crash: A Blueprint for a Bankrupt America. Ian Bremmer and Minxin Pei were on the team of against the motion. Ian was much energized and casually dressed without a tie. Minxin Pei was from China, and earned his Ph. D from Harvard University. Currently he serves as Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. In 2006, he published his second book, China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy. From the book title, one can discern Pei’s dismissive
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Ready, D. & Truelove, E. (2011, December). The power of collective ambition. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-power-of-collective-ambition/ar/1 What is the article saying? After intensive study of the past three years, the firms that are emerging from the recession the strongest have done so by, “creating a compelling story of the company’s future and a collaborative process for building the capabilities to achieve it.” Authors Ready and Truelove guide us through
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Buyer Utility Map Buyer Utility Map – Software Development Company The buyer utility map assists organizations in knowing how their customers experienced their products and services. According to Kim & Mauborgne, 2005, “a buyer’s experience can usually be broken into a cycle of six stages, running more or less sequentially from purchase to disposal. Each stage encompasses a wide variety of specific experiences”, (pg. 122). Also, “cutting across the stages of the buyer’s experience are what we
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hbr.org As a market, women represent a bigger opportunity than China and India combined. So why are companies doing such a poor job of serving them? The Female Economy by Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea 2 The Female Economy Reprint R0909D The Female Economy The Idea in Brief • Women represent the largest market opportunity in the world. • But despite women’s
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From a simple greeting of a handshake and “hello,” to a resume submitted by an applicant, correct language is crucial. As a matter of fact, that first impression can depend on if a potential employee lands a job or not. Kyle Wiens, an author for Harvard Business Review, states “If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort
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Assignment One Reading a Strategic Plan As a volunteer radio presenter for ArtsoundFM in Canberra, I am very interested in community radio and its benefits to the local community through its varied program mix and community announcements. With this in mind, I have selected the Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) to evaluate their Strategic Plan. I see the benefit of this organisation, in terms of them being an “independent non-profit funding agency”, to be valuable to their stakeholders
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Narayanan, V.G., Ananth Raman, and J. Singh. "Agency Costs in a Supply Chain with Demand Uncertainty and Price Competition." Management Science 51, no. 1 (January 2005). Narayanan, V.G., and Ananth Raman. "Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 11 (November 2004). Kraiselburd, Santiago, V.G. Narayanan, and Ananth Raman. "Contracting in a Supply Chain with Stochastic Demand and Substitute Products." Production and Operations Management Journal 13, no. 1 (spring 2004)
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during the past two decades, has consistently outperformed its rivals in terms of ROI through bull and bear markets, and has been a fixture on Fortune’s list of the top companies to work for. It’s a safe bet that just Getty Images and IPNstock 82 Harvard Business Review | April 2008 | hbr.org It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t, neither can anyone else. Can You Say
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professor named Harvard B-school Dean WASHINGTON: An India-born professor and IIT alumnus who has long championed a pledge for organizational leaders and managers on the lines of the Hippocratic Oath for doctors to enhance accountability in the corporate world has been named Dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School. Nitin Nohria, who is currently the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the School's 10th dean, Harvard President
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