Word: polaroiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, some U.S. firms have succeeded. IBM, Polaroid, NCR, Ralston Purina and Motorola have flourishing Japanese operations. McDonald's of Japan is the country's largest food-service company, with 457 shops. 7-Eleven has 2,299 stores in Japan, 308 of which opened during the past year. IBM has been operating in Japan since 1937, and earns more than $350 million a year there. Among the reasons: the vast majority of its 15,000 employees in Japan are locals, and the company works with several Japanese partners, including Mitsubishi and Kanematsu-Gosho...
...collaborative project between local business including Harvard, MIT and the Polaroid Foundation--and the city of Cambridge has begun efforts to place about 200 Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School students in summer jobs. The three-year old TeenWork program hopes to place the high school sophomores, junior and seniors in mostly clerical and office jobs, according to Director Susan L. Golden...
...Polaroid employees who worked with Murphy cited his strong leadership and technical skills...
Remembering the "chaotic year" after the AT&T break-up, one of Murphy's co-workers Joyce J. Mullane, said Murphy showed creativity while searching for Polaroid's new telephone vendors...
...shoes. The students are taught go, a traditional Japanese board game, and are introduced to the psychology behind sumo wrestling. The sessions, which combine lectures and role playing, have been a hit with many managers. Firms that have sent executives to the courses include Digital Equipment, Polaroid and Data General. Edward Colbert, chairman of Data Instruments, a maker of electronic sensors that does $1 million in annual business with Japan, was delighted with a seminar on the Japanese use of silence. Confused by the pauses that cropped up when he traveled with Japanese associates, Colbert learned that what strikes...