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What’s wrong with Archegos? Part2
2021年4月22日 Family BusinessInvestment Highlights
We were talking about why Bill failed despite of religious behaviors. As Kazuo Inamori, the founder and honorary chairman of Kyocera group, stresses that top management should have religious mindset so that he can maintain ethical behaviors. However, even though Bill had remained very humble and devout Christian, he made such a huge mistake, and …
What’s wrong with Archegos? Part1
2021年4月20日 Family BusinessInvestment Highlights
A couple of weeks ago, due to Archegos default, several global financial institutions got a lot of loss. As I was working for a bank around Lehman brothers’ clash in 2008, I am interested in Archegos case: whether we could find the similar background and mechanism as we saw for Lehman in the past. What …
The reason why a venture business fails part 1
2020年11月29日 Philosophy
Kyocera actually started its business as a venture business and, over past several decades, it has grown as billion dollars sales conglomerate. Mr. Inamori* has shared a lot of tips to the fundamental attitudes and its business philosophy which allow them to drive such a business success. Key words are 1 Humanity, 2 Universal, 3 …
Why the new hotel business failed: three crucial reasons?
2020年10月6日 Philosophy
Eccentric Co, (Anonymous ), originally started as a company dealing with pachinko, Japanese slot machine business, during the inbound boom late 2010s’, started hotel business. Their hotel chain called Ecc hotel had developed in a short term to the nation wide hotel chain. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Ecc had been underperforming as their main target …
Why 70% of M&A deals fail?
2020年5月9日 Investment Highlights
I attended a seminar arranged by Hiro*, a friend of mine, who has been a super active SDG advisor. The topic was M&A. He mentioned that almost 70 percent of M&A deals end up unsuccessful. There should be some definitions of “unsuccessful deals” however, from my point of view, I feel that means poor financial …
