Gerhard Fasol – Press & TV

For Gerhard Fasol’s list of books and academic research publications see:

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1WzJAPIAAAAJ
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerhard-Fasol
• https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1765312
• author page on Amazon.com
• author page Springer Verlag (Springer.com)
• https://www.fasol.com/gerhard-fasol/publications/

Gerhard Fasol has presented research results at a large number of scientific conferences on his scientific research, and over the last 25 years has been invited speaker at a large number of international conferences, Chamber of Commerce events, Embassy events. Some of these are listed here.

Click the links below to watch the video clips or read the articles on the BBC website.

1. Sony earnings boosted by weak yen and smartphone sales (1 August 2013)
2. Sony reports first annual profit in five years (9 May 2013)
3. What happened to Japan’s electronic giants? (2 April 2013)
4. Samsung to buy 3% stake in Japanese rival Sharp (6 March 2013)
5. PlayStation 4: Expert views on Sony’s games console reveal (20 February 2013)
6. CES 2013: Can Japan’s tech firms reverse their losses? (8 January 2013)
7. Renesas shares flat despite a $1.8bn bailout deal (11 December 2012)
8. Yen ‘not the cause of woes of Japan’s electronics firms’ (15 November 2012)
9. Sharp shares jump on Intel investment report (14 November 2012)
10. Sony executives face weary shareholders at AGM (27 June 2012)
11. Sony and Panasonic announce TV panel tie-up (25 June 2012)
12. Toshiba in $850m deal to buy IBM’s point-of-sale unit (18 April 2012)
13. Elpida plunges 98% after bankruptcy protection filing (29 February 2012)
14. Japan watchdog halts fund on fears over lost assets (24 February 2012)
15. Former Olympus chairman arrested in accounting probe (16 February 2012)
16. Prosecutors raid the HQ of Olympus in earnings probe (21 December 2011)
17. Olympus saga to have far-reaching consequences in Japan (10 November 2011)
18. Can Sony succeed where Sony-Ericsson partnership failed? (13 October 2011)
19. The earthquake’s economic impacts (23 March 2011)
20. Japan’s ambitious digital future (16 June 2009)

• live interviews and BBC news site interviews mainly about Japan’s electronics sector
• more BBC interviews

• August 13, 2008, Foreign Correspondents’ Club FCCJ Tokyo, “Gerhard Fasol & Tetsuzo Matsumoto: The iPhone And Japan’s Mobile Phone Industry”
• July 2014, Dr. Gerhard Fasol, CEO of Eurotechnology Japan, who shared his entrepreneurial expertise on ways “to make Japan even more fantastic.” It was hard hitting analysis, and a reality check for some.
• “Gerhard Fasol: Apple-Samsung Patent War and Impact on Japans Industries” October 2, 2012, Foreign Correspondents’ Club FCCJ Tokyo,
• March 12, 2018, Foreign Correspondents’ Club FCCJ Tokyo, “Gerhard Fasol: Corporate Governance Reforms in Japan” Foreign Correspondents Club FCCJ Tokyo

Gerhard Fasol at the FCCJ on Japan’s Corporate Governance Reforms:

https://youtu.be/6AbYAjnStsI

• “Japan’s new energy policy” Interview by The Ecomomist (April 24, 2014)
• “Keeping the lights on – deregulation, new and renewables, and Japan’s energy mix” briefing for The Economist Corporate Network, Tokyo (April 24, 2014)
• Life without nukes (8 April 2013)
• No country is an island (29 Nov 2007)
• Vodafone: Not so big in Japan (30 Sept 2004)
• Phones with eyes (10 March 2005)
• The future of money: A cash call (15 Feb 2007)
• “In the very near future” Communications: “Near-field communication” technology could fuse tickets, key cards and cash with mobile phones (8 Dec 2005)
• Japanese telecoms – Change is in the air (18 Jan 2007)
• Japan telecoms: outsmarted (20 July 2009)

Interviews in Economist

• Japan’s Billionaire Brawl: SoftBank’s Son vs. Rakuten’s Mikitani
• Billionaire Cannibals Erase $4B in Son-Mikitani Fight
• Softbank isn’t small fry
• Baidu Thinks It Can Play in Japan
• Decline of entrepreneurship blamed for Japan woes
• Lasers Are About to Enter Their Blue Period
• Vodafone’s Bad Connection In Japan
• Japan: Some Cell Carriers May Have Wrong Number
• Japan’s Cell Phones Playing Apple’s Tune? (about first rumors about an “iPod-phone” by Apple for SoftBank)
• Setting Fire To The Cell-Phone Market
• more interviews in BusinessWeek…

interviews in BusinessWeek

https://www.fasol.com/gerhard-fasol/press-and-tv/cnbc/

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https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=gerhard+fasol

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Sharp’s New Focus: How an also-ran made a bet on flat-panel televisions as the critical path to being a major player in electronics, Monday Sept 19, 2005

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1106322-2,00.html

A Sharper Focus

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1056339,00.html

https://time.com/search/?q=gerhard+fasol&site=time

Energy news: Japan’s Utilities Suffer Staggering Losses

https://spectrum.ieee.org/japans-utilities-suffer-staggering-losses

https://spectrum.ieee.org/search/?q=gerhard+fasol

The Formidable Dimensions of Boeing’s Dreamliner Problem (Jan 17, 2013)

Boeing’s 787 Crisis: No End in Sight (Jan 22, 2013)

https://www.forbes.com/search/?q=fasol

• Vodafone K.K.’s Tsuda Seeks Growth in Japan, Not Sale (Update1)
• Vodafone’s Tsuda Seeks Growth of Company in Japan, Not Sale
• Softbank May Not Retain Customers at Vodafone Japan (Update5)

https://www.bloomberg.com/search?query=fasol

Sanyo Plots Restructuring Course. As Losses Drain Capital Nov 21, 2005

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113251341775502475

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• Unleashing R&D in Japan, December 9, 2002, by Jean-Francois Tremblay, Chemical and Engineering News.
• see also: http://www.fasol.com/2002/12/09/rd-in-japan-interview-for-chemical-and-engineering-news/
• http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8049/8049bus1.html
• BASF backs $100 million Japanese investment fund Feb 11, 2008 https://cen.acs.org/articles/86/i6/BASF-backs-100-million-Japanese.html

https://cen.acs.org/search.html?q=gerhard%20fasol&sortBy=relevance&rpp=10&startYear=1998&startMonth=08&startDay=01&endYear=2024&endMonth=4&endDay=17&topics=all

• Foxconn veut racheter Sharp (22 January 2016)
• Foxconn et un fonds japonais se disputent le sauvetage de Sharp (21 January 2016)
• Smartphones : la révolution low cost venue de Chine (12 March 2014)
• Tizen, le concurrent d’Android et d’iOS, est presque mort-né (January 21, 2014)
• more

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Au Japon, Sharp de plomb sur l’électronique https://www.liberation.fr/futurs/2016/02/29/au-japon-sharp-de-plomb-sur-l-electronique_1436582/

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Supercellin ostaja Masayoshi Son on Japanin supermies (Japan’s superman Masyoshi Son invests in Supercell (October 27, 2013)

• Talouselämä online article (printed article is longer)
• My notes in preparation for the interview

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• Toshiba vows more management changes amid accounting scandal (21 July 2015)

search www.theglobeandmail.com for more interviews in The Globe and Mail

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• What Is SoftBank’s Endgame in the U.S.? (14 August 2017)
• Analysts: What SoftBank’s Takeover Would Mean for DreamWorks Animation (28 September 2014)
• Inside SoftBank’s Studio Grab: Is a DreamWorks Deal Really Dead? (1 October 2014)

For more interviews in The Hollywood Reporter

Lessons Japan Inc. Must Learn from Carlos Ghosn

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• 20 Nov 2018 Carlos Ghosn und die Fallen der Macht
• 20 Nov 2018 Ghosn soll Nissan-Geld für vier Luxus-Wohnungen veruntreut haben

More in Handelsblatt:

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