Considers entrepreneurial career founding Mitsubishi, Yataro Iwasaki, who built a large shipping company against the opposition of powerful Western incumbents. Although sometimes backed by the Government of Japan, and often contradictory, case determines entrepreneurial talent Iwasaki and organization-building skills as the key success factors. This case serves as a tool for the study of business factors remarkable transition of Japan from a feudal to a modern society in the second half of the nineteenth century. "Hide
by Jeffrey J. Jones, Masako Egawa, Mayuka Yamazaki Source: Harvard Business School 27 pages. Publication Date: June 23, 2008. Prod. #: 808158-PDF-ENG