Word: minoru
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keenan points to Minoru Makihara '54, the head of Mitsubishi Corp., as a pivotal figure in Harvard's Asian fundraising...
...Japan Career Forum at the World Trade Center in Boston in October, however, there was no shortage of recruiters. More than 120 companies participated, including Mitsubishi Corp. of Tokyo, which is headed by a Harvard graduate, Minoru B. Makihara...
...brushfire into a blazing inferno. Says Leslie Dach, executive vice president of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and head of its Washington office: "They [Mitsubishi] have effectively shifted the dispute from the courts to the court of public opinion, where they are losing." Shortly after the demonstration, Mitsubishi Corp. chairman Minoru ("Ben") Makihara began sending signals about a settlement. M.M.M.A. is part of Mitsubishi Motors, which is itself part of Mitsubishi Corp., a loose alliance of more than 200 operating companies the Japanese call keiretsu. Top corporate executives fear that the troubles in Normal could reverberate throughout the group...
...admit theirs is still a risky business. Because of the high cost of installation, service is expensive--$40 a month for the average household--and no one expects that cable TV on its own will be a big draw, despite clever new features such as a karaoke station. Says Minoru Akimoto, president of Titus Communications, a cable-TV joint venture involving Itochu, Toshiba, Time Warner and U.S. West: ``In Japan, where housewives have the final say on financial matters, they won't like it. They'll say, `You want me to buy a service that gets my husband to watch...
...City real estate bust, which saw commercial-vacancy rates rise from 8% to nearly 14% over the past five years. To reduce its interest expense, the Japanese company hopes to renegotiate the $1.3 billion mortgage it acquired in 1989. (That was the heady period when another Japanese firm, the Minoru Isutani Group, acquired California's famous Pebble Beach golf course for $840 million, which it sold at a 40% loss two years ago.) Mitsubishi threatened to default on its loan last week, which some analysts say was a calculated move. "They're figuring out that...