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Yamamotoyama: Tradition and Change in a 300-Year-Old Shinise

by Jochen Reb, CW Chan
Discipline:
Growth Strategy
Kaichiro Yamamoto is the 10th generation president of Yamamotoyama (YMY), a tea company that is one of Japan’s revered shinise: companies that have operated for more than a century. His only child, Nami Yamamoto, is expected to serve as the first female president of the company after him. YMY had...
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Japan’s Sharp Corporation: Aiming to Boost Its Competitive Edge A & B

by Kannan Srikanth, CW Chan, Tiberiu Ungureanu
Discipline:
Competitive Strategy
Case A is set in 2010. Shinji Tanaka is a senior economist at Kyoto Heritage Foundation, a Japanese think tank, and he wondered if Sharp’s new manufacturing plant in Sakai could turn the company around. Sharp’s vision and innovative culture led it to invest in LCD technology. It played an important...
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Carlos Ghosn: The Rise and Fall of An Automobile Legend (A) and (B)

by Jochen Reb, Abhijeet Vadera, Cheah Sin Mei
Discipline:
Decision making
Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-Lebanese-French, is by many counts, one of the – if not the – most celebrated automotive executives of the late 20th and early 21st century. This is a two-part case about his career, leadership, and decision-making.
Part A starts in 1999, the early days of Ghosn’s arrival...
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Music Securities: Making an Impact through Crowdfunding

by Liang Hao, Anant Kapoor, Bihong Huang, Dave Luo Jia Xuan
Discipline:
Crowdfunding
This case is set in October 2019. Masami Komatsu, CEO of Music Securities (MS), had received a request from Toyomi Electric Co. Ltd. Toyomi Electric had suffered damages to its factory and workforce in the 2011 earthquake that had struck Japan, and needed urgent financing to rebuild its production...
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Japan Airlines: Turning Around to Take Off Again

by Philip Zerrillo, Sheetal Mittal, Havovi Joshi, Akira Mitsumasu
Discipline:
Management of Crisis, General Management
Set in 2013, this case discusses the challenges faced and overcome by JAL to turn around successfully from a situation of bankruptcy in 2009-2010. In 2009, JAL, Asia's largest airline by revenue and an icon of Japan Inc., was besieged by a severe cash crunch crisis. A skewed cost structure with too...
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Olympus: When the Gods Came Tumbling Down

by Anne-Valérie Ohlsson, Michèle Barnett Berg
Discipline:
Organisational Behaviour and Leadership
In April 2011, Michael Woodford, a British national, is appointed president and chief operating officer of Olympus. Within months of becoming president, Woodford discovers that Olympus has made some questionable acquisitions and paid large amounts of money for companies with few assets, and...
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Leadership in Crisis

by Jochen Reb, Havovi Joshi, Yoshisuke Iinuma
Discipline:
Organisational Behaviour and Leadership
This case describes the events and conditions surrounding a critical decision that Masao Yoshida, the plant manager of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, must make on March 12, 2011. A day earlier, a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the region where...
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Causes, Consequences and Implications

by Jochen Reb, Havovi Joshi, Yoshisuke Iinuma
Discipline:
Organisational Behavior and Leadership
This case study discusses the causes, consequences and implications of the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant that was triggered by a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami waves on March 11, 2011. There are two...
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