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...other faculty members leading the program are Senior Associate Dean Srikant M. Datar, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology Vicki L. Sato, Figgie Professor of Business Administration Gary P. Pisano, and Lawrence Professor of Business Administration Michael L. Tushman...
...This much is known about Abe. He is a born conservative?literally. As the grandson of Nobusuke Kishi and the grandnephew of Eisaku Sato?two of postwar Japan's most powerful and conservative Prime Ministers?Abe always knew which side he was on. Katsuei Hirasawa, now an LDP Diet member, tutored a young Abe for two years, and he recalls taking the primary-school student to his dorm at the University of Tokyo, at the heart of Japan's 1960s political tumult. "He would be right in the middle of pacifist, anti-Sato protests," Hirasawa recalls. "He wasn't angry...
...into a behemoth with a market value as high as $8 billion helped spark a broader M&A boom. Rivals in Japan's go-go Internet industry learned that they too could grow by gobbling up corporate minnows. "A lot of people have followed the Livedoor model," says Tom Sato, founder of Tokyo IPO, a financial-information website. Softbank has executed 140 mergers or acquisitions; Rakuten, Japan's leading online-shopping site, has executed 55 of them; Yahoo! Japan has done 24. Although Japan still accounts for only 5.6% of the world's M&A market, dealmaking has become...
...trail. Officials of the temple at Bodh Gaya estimate that 15,000 foreigners come each year to see the holy tree. Peak season is from November to March, when the temperature drops, but there are pilgrims year round. "It's very peaceful here. It's easy to meditate," says Sato Yuji, 41, a Buddhist from Japan who has visited Bodh Gaya regularly for the past decade...
Retailers big and small have responded to the trend by turning to ethnic-clothing importers from around the globe. "We have an Indian importer who visits me every week with new things. They just keep selling," says Kristen Sato, who along with her mother owns the children's-clothing store Flicka in Los Angeles. "We sell long, tiered peasant skirts and tie-dyed tunic shirts, some with embroidery and beading. There's a lot of mixing and matching. We also sell rock T shirts by the truckload. They're $60, with band names on them like the Rolling Stones...