Kobe, Japan Kobe is a port city below Osaka about 3 hours on the bullet train from Tokyo. From the edge of the hills looking down as your eyes travel towards the water, it is really a very pretty town. It is hard to believe today that almost 12 years ago on January 17, 1995 …
Category: International
Wal-Mart and Bharti on the India Sneak
San Francisco Wal-Mart sales are slipping. It’s stock in on a skid. Expansion plans have been rolled back in the US. This year the company closed shop in Germany and Korea. There’s no smiley face on this season for Wal-Mart. I should have known when they saw Reliance grabbing their business model and threatening to run …
Fighting for Space
Tokyo, Japan Changing planes during my 24 hours of travel back to the United States, it struck me that in both Korea and Turkey I recently heard very interesting stories of community based organizations in difficult markets fighting municipal authorities for office space — and winning! These things matter because in tight and expensive markets the ability …