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Management article
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Reference no. 96208
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: "Harvard Business Review", 1996
Length: 6 pages

Abstract

Much has been made of what American business can learn from Japan''s manufacturing practices, but its service sector also has lessons to teach. E. Barry Keehn reviews two recent books showing how the Tsutsumi family defined consumerism in Japan: The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan''s Richest Family, by Lesley Downer, and Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enerprises in Twentieth-Century Japan, by Thomas R.H. Havens.

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Abstract

Much has been made of what American business can learn from Japan''s manufacturing practices, but its service sector also has lessons to teach. E. Barry Keehn reviews two recent books showing how the Tsutsumi family defined consumerism in Japan: The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan''s Richest Family, by Lesley Downer, and Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enerprises in Twentieth-Century Japan, by Thomas R.H. Havens.

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