Asian immigrants new leaders in Silicon Valley

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Asian immigrants are beginning to explore entrepreneurial ventures in the computer industry, reversing the stereotypes of Asians as excellent engineers but poor managers. The Chinese have become a particularly powerful group, with financial and business links stemming out of East Asia. Companies such as Qume, Everex Systems, Komag, Wyse Technology and Solectron all have Asian founders. While immigrants have always shown remarkable business acumen in the Silicon Valley, many Japanese, Indian and Chinese workers have started new companies often as a result of frustration with corporate careers. Asian businesspeople and company founders still bring in white males to hold upper management positions, either to appease what the industry wants to see or to help with language barriers and other inter-cultural issues. American companies continue to show an under-representation of Asians in upper management positions.

Cases, Silicon Valley, Asians, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Trends, Population Groups, Foreign Investment, Asian

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U.S.-Japan computer pact hailed; Americans see sales rising by $2 billion

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The trade agreement reached between the US and Japan on President George Bush's Jan 92 trip to Japan is being seen as a boon to the computer industry, which anticipates as much as $2 billion in American computer sales in Japan per year due to the pact. Whereas US automobile industry is disappointed at the results of Bush's negotiations, the computer industry is pleased with the opening of the Japanese public-sector market, which previously has been closed to them. Based upon figures from sales in the private sector, industry executives have made the $2 billion per year estimate. The US and Japan already have open markets for supercomputers, and the new agreement applies to mainframe computers, minicomputers, microcomputers and related peripherals. The agreement gives foreign vendors equal access to public sector bidding in Japan.

United States, Japan, International trade, Japanese foreign relations, United States foreign relations, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Sales, Equipment Acquisition, Cooperative Agreements, Market Entry, Sales Analysis

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Hewlett-Packard in a realignment

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Hewlett-Packard Co announces a reorganization intended to streamline the company's computer business and prepare for succession at the top. CEO John Young will now share responsibility with COO Dean O. Morton in a newly created 'chief executive office.' The reorganization calls for establishing a Computer Products Organization, which will include workstations, minicomputers and networking products, and a Computer Products Organization, which will include microcomputers, laser printers and other products sold through dealers. Hewlett-Packard has been faced with an industrywide shift away from larger minicomputers to microcomputers, and though the company managed the transition better than some other minicomputer manufacturers, profit margins diminished.

Hewlett-Packard Co., HWP, Computer Industry, Organization Structure, Reorganization

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