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...company president Kenta Yamada, whose grandfather founded the business in 1919. An important step was making lacquer more affordable, partly by downplaying pricey occasional pieces in favor of everyday items like picture frames and kids' tableware. New production techniques, such as the use of synthetic varnish instead of traditional sap, helped cut costs, and savvier positioning introduced the brand to new markets. Some years ago, the Yamada Heiando store moved from Nihonbashi, Tokyo's best-known shopping area, to the hip neighborhood of Daikanyama, where funky boutiques and caf?s abound. The payoff? Yamada Heiando's sales have grown...
...Brian Stokes Mitchell hasn?t got this message. The Broadway leading man is making his cabaret debut at Feinstein?s at the Regency (a night club in one of Manhattan?s swanker hotels), and, the poor sap, he wants to please us. His show, a three-week tribute to Valentine's Day emotions, is called ?Love / Life? - which, unless you take the / as a slash (?Love Slashes Life?), couldn?t be sunnier. His advice is to ?Live and laugh and dream.? His mission, he tells the audience, is to send us out ?feeling a little bit better than when...
...scattered houses is disturbed only by giant cranes, cement mixers and trucks piled up with white sand. Buildings of glass and steel are rising all over, as Bangalore's fast-expanding outsourcing industry radiates far beyond the city. Perhaps the most impressive spot in Whitefield is the campus of SAP Labs. The main building, with its comfortable sofas and a sunny atrium, is a sumptuous workplace by Indian standards...
...what is most remarkable about that site, built by the German software giant SAP, is what's going on inside. SAP Labs' 1,400 employees in Bangalore form the company's largest research-and-development unit outside Germany. Instead of dumping its call-center work and low-end programming in Whitefield, SAP relies on the area's computer scientists and engineers to carry out its most critical activity. More than 10% of the patents filed by SAP originate in Bangalore, and the influx of Indian engineers is accelerating the adoption of English at SAP and loosening up its traditionally rigid...
...what is most remarkable about that site, built by the German software giant SAP, is what's going on inside. SAP Labs' 1,400 employees in Bangalore form the company's largest research-and-development unit outside Germany. Instead of dumping its call-center work and low-end programming in Whitefield, SAP relies on the area's computer scientists and engineers to carry out its most critical activity. More than 10% of the patents filed by SAP originate in Bangalore, and the influx of Indian engineers is accelerating the adoption of English at SAP and loosening up its traditionally rigid...