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Decisions through the Ages
In business and education, Japan and the United States seem to alternate as inspirations for one another, and Ken Watanabe (MBA ’05) may be the latest guru in this intellectual game of import-export. Watanabe went to school in Japan until the eighth grade before moving to America where he completed his higher education, joined McKinsey, and eventually returned to Japan. It was there he had an idea for a book, pitched to middle-schoolers, “in response to a national drumbeat of Japanese criticism about its education system that emphasizes rote memorization,” USA Today reported (February 25, 2009). Titled Problem Solving 101, it became a best-selling business book and is now available in America.
The book has two case studies, about a band looking to boost its exposure and a teenager trying to raise money to buy a computer. By getting readers to analyze the issues involved and breaking projects into steps, it helps youngsters (and adults, too) to develop initiative and logical decision-making.
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