Is The Economy Strangled By Our Laws?
One of the greatest barriers to productivity is our tendency to sue one another. Read story
Japan
Nobel Prizes Aren't Enough
By Milton D. Stewart | Jul 1, 1981
Better support of small company R D will help us lead the world in innovative products as well as basic research. Read story
Where Small Companies Are Important
By Robert Wood | Nov 1, 1981
Big business may dominate Japan's image abroad, but 91% of Japanese private employees work in firms employing fewer than 500 workers. Read story
Even Japan Is No Paradise For Small Business
Nov 1, 1981
The Japanese Communist party's periodic festivals are among the best places to meet small businessmen who are willing to talk about their problems. Japan... Read story
Give Government Research Back To Entrepreneurs
By Richard S. Morse | Aug 1, 1982
Federal research laboratories have no business working on gas heaters, solar power, or other programs that compete directly with the private sector. Read story
A Rising Sun, Finally
By Lisa W. Hess
Japan's long-awaited revival is getting under way. This not another false start. Bad deflation is ebbing, business is reviving and the stocks are very ch... Read story
The Amazing Race, By William H. Davidson. John Wiley
Feb 1, 1984
No alarmist he, a business teacher and consultant bets heavily on the American side coming down the homestretch in the race for technological superiority ... Read story
Rising Sons
The success of American growth companies has inspired the first generation of japanese entrepeneurs in the past four decades. Read story
Trading Places: Are America and Japan Locked in a Trade War?
Japanese and American entrepreneurs gather for a freewheeling discussion of the differences that divide them, and the ventures that may bring them together. Read story
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By Shigenobu Nagamori | Oct 1, 1985
"If you come to Japan with the feeling that America is number one, you will not be successful in this country. Americans come to Japan and Speak English b... Read story
West Meets East
By Milton C. Lauenstein | Oct 1, 1985
The divergent and disparate comments by American and Japanese businessmen in "Trading Places" (Face-to-Face, July) reflect reality. What the growing Amer... Read story
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By Virginia Inman | Jan 1, 1986
Japan is the second-biggest market for technology products in the world, but most U.S. companies find it impossible to crack. The primary reason isn't tr... Read story
A Theory By Any Other Name
By Stephen Graves | Jul 1, 1986
"Theory F" (April) merits in "A" for Japan bashing but an "F" for itself. To state that fear is the force that makes Japanese management work is nonsense... Read story
Wheel Of Misfortune;
By Joshua Hyatt | Aug 1, 1986
TOPY CORP. ISN'T QUITE REINVENTing wheels, but it is making them differently. About five months ago, the Japanese-owned company began making steel wheels ... Read story
International;
By Joel Kotkin | Oct 1, 1986
JAPAN'S MUCH BALLYHOOED "VENture business" boom may be going bust. In the past six months alone, more than 25 of that country's growth companies have gon... Read story
Second Thoughts
By Joel Kotkin | Jul 1, 1989
Corruption and decay in the Japanese economy; is it really so wise for the U.S. economy to emulate Japan's? Read story
International: What Next?
By Inc Staff | Dec 1, 1989
Survey: Do Europeans believe their unification in 1992 will protect Europe from the U.S. and Japan? Read story
Hotline
By Martha E. Mangelsdorf | Apr 1, 1990
Hotline information paragraphs: April 1990 Read story
Sign Of The Times
By Martha E. Mangelsdorf | Dec 1, 1990
Japan announces a series of initiatives to make themselves an 'import superpower.' Read story
Making It
By George Gendron | Jun 1, 1991
A quote from "The Next Century," by David Halberstam theorizing about the reasons for Japan's economic success. Read story
Japanese Venture Capital
By Bruce G. Posner | May 1, 1992
Review of a book about tapping into Japanese venture capital markets. Read story
Summer Reading
By George Gendron | Jul 1, 1992
Two summer reading suggestions: 'Outnation' by Jonathan Rauch 'Twenty-First Century Management' by Hesh Kestin. Read story
What About Japan?
By Christopher Caggiano | Sep 1, 1992
FaxPoll results on prevailing sentiments about Japan. Read story
The Love Hotel
By Michael P. Cronin | Mar 15, 1995
Travel to Japen and visit a "Love Hotel," a high tech haven where people use technology to keep liaisons secret. Read story
U.S. Leads in International Patent Applications
Mar 12, 2007
March 12, 2007 -- The United States accounted for more than a third of total patent applications filed with the World International Paten... Read story
Turning Japanese (Entrepreneurial)
By Michael P. Cronin | Jun 1, 2003
Is a start-up wave sweeping Japan? Read story
Innocents Abroad
Feb 1, 1988
With the dollar's recent decline, export opportunities are palpably greater today than at any other time in the past decade. Yet many U.S. companies -- i... Read story
The Power of Purpose
By Rebecca A. Morgan | Mar 1, 2006
How can a statistician working in Japan over fifty years ago help your business? You'd be surprised. Read story
Solar Power Gets Cheaper, But Never Cheap Enough
May 1, 1983
When the U.S. space program began using them on its satellites in the late 1950s, solar cells cost more than $1,000 per peak watt (Wp). At that price, a p... Read story
A Yen For Lending;
By Joel Kotkin | Apr 1, 1988
AFTER BEING DELAYED AND stalled by half a dozen other financial institutions, California developer Ralph Rittenhouse found a local bank that was willing n... Read story
All In The Household
By Robert C. Wood is an associate editor at INC. | Nov 1, 1982
Japanese companies are committed to maintaining the strengths that characterize the best of family businesses everywhere. Read story
Manufacturing: Here, There, Or Everywhere?
By Richard J. Hermon-Taylor | Jun 1, 1985
You focus on automation as the key to the productivity gains that are essential for onshore production to succeed. Automation is fine if it works, but it ... Read story
Going Through Customs
By Joel Kotkin | Dec 1, 1984
Americans are selling the Japanese everything from shampoo to catering trucks. The trick is to play by their rules. Read story
Letter from Silicon Valley: Zen and the Art of Management Coaching
By Andrew Raskin | Feb 1, 2002
Taking the fine art of management consulting to Japan. Read story
Winning in the Asian Era
By Joel Kotkin | Sep 1, 1988
The U.S. must take a new commerce perspective in regard to the changes taking place in the world economy. Read story
Being There
By Edward O. Welles | Sep 1, 1990
How to succeed in establishing a dynamic presence in the Japanese marketplace. Read story
Mr. Iacocca, Meet Mr, Honda
By Joel Kotkin | Nov 1, 1986
Chrysler's famous chairman may be the best of America's auto men, but as a manager and an industrialist, he doesn't hold a candle to Japan's most successful ... Read story
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