With pavilions mired in budget controversies, laughable design, and, yes, circus clowns, the US and Canada are set to be the embarrassments of Shanghai 2010.READ»
Our ever-increasing reliance on electronics for everything from communications to alternative energy has left with a serious e-waste problem. At the same time, the market for gadgets has resulted in a shortage of the precious ...READ»
Instead of giving each factory the same efficiency overhaul, Panasonic has developed simulation technology to help facilities come up with tailored power-saving and emission-cutting solutions.
The technology, created as part ...READ»
Osaka, Feb 18, 2008 — Thirteen years after Sean White and I published The Total Quality Corporation which showed how companies can make money by going green, McKinsey last week announced to the world that companies can make ...READ»
"There is a growing legion of business people who are hungry to build something of enduring character on a set of values they can be proud of." -- Jim Collins, "Built to Last"
For the 75th anniversary issue of the Harvard Business ...READ»
It was a $3 billion race that Hewlett-Packard simply couldn't afford to lose. Winning would justify its grand strategy -- and prove that it could run with the big dogs. An inside look at an upset, and an upstart's guide to competition.READ»
As I write in The Sushi Economy, the invention of conveyor-belt sushi in the 1950s -- where it is known as kaiten-zushi -- radically changed not only the economics of sushi but its place in Japanese culture, reintroducing the ...READ»
