All articles by Bobbie van der List

Women account for less than 10 percent of company presidents in Japan. But Kathy Matsui, a longtime champion for boosting female employment and leadership, is optimistic about the future.

In Stockholm, heat recovered from data centers is captured and deployed to warm homes. Can other cities follow?

Arthur Huang, CEO of Miniwiz, wants to build a circular economy by changing people’s minds about the value of trash.

With the oldest population in the world and a worsening shortage of nurses, Japan has become a test market for new technologies to care for the elderly.

Efforts to dismantle cross-held shares and improve board oversight are succeeding amid heightened interest from private equity and activist investors.

The Dutch turned adversity into a compelling economic opportunity. Other countries could do the same.

Yasuyuki Nambu, CEO of Japan’s Pasona Group, is reframing short-term employment as a means of social benefit.

For Shin Sakane, CEO of Japan’s Seven Dreamers Laboratories, the key to innovation is satisfying unrecognized customer needs.

A few companies in Tokyo are using U.S. management methods to resolve the trade-off between long employee tenures and global competitiveness.