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...When weak signals started coming out in 2002, Toyota's top management wasn't listening. By then, the heroic stage of Japan Inc. was over; parts of its business culture had become sclerotic. Compared with the nimbleness seen in Silicon Valley, Japan's manufacturers and their systems began to be seen as inflexible, too removed from a changing global economy to adapt. Analysts describe a Toyota management team that had fallen in love with itself and become too insular to properly handle something like the current crisis. "The reaction to [the situation] is a very Japanese thing," says Kenneth Grossberg...
...recruited by Infoseek, a company that had developed one of the first search engines in the mid-'90s - only to see Walt Disney acquire the company and shift its focus. (Yes, the Mouse House could have been Google before Google.) So in 1999, he and a friend did what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs do: they raised $1.2 million in venture capital, added another $10 million to that the next year, and started up Baidu back home in Beijing. (Read "Google and China: Silicon Valley Is No Longer King...
...Baidu will have the world's most populous country almost to itself. And that won't be a good thing for anybody. "The lack of a strong second player may unmotivate Baidu to improve" is how JPMorgan's Wei puts it. The company has gone from a Silicon Valley start-up, in a field that didn't then exist in China, to a nimble competitor that was challenged by the global king - and won. The risk that one day it could turn into a hoary monopoly simply because it lacks a serious competitor in its home market was a preposterous...
...lack of any such Harvard initiative is surprising, especially considering that, over the last few years, a general consensus among everyone from the line worker in Detroit to the silicon valley venture capitalist has been brewing in affirmation of the fact that renewable energy is the wave of the future. In his latest book, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman asserts that “Green is not simply a new form of generating electric power; it is a new form of generating national power.” The race...
...judgeship in the Santa Clara County Superior Court, Koh began her career at the Department of Justice and then moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles to prosecute violent crime and fraud cases. She later worked as an intellectual property litigator in Silicon Valley with the firm McDermott, Will & Emery...