In 1998, his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography / autobiography.

In addition to Our Iceberg is Melting ( 2006 ) and Leading Change ( 1996 ), Professor Kotter is the author of The Heart of Change ( 2002 ), John P. Kotter on What leaders Really Do ( 1999 ), Matsushita Leadership ( 1997 ) ( which won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography / autobiography, Corporate Culture and Performance ( 1992 ), A Force for Change ( 1990 ), The Leadership Factor ( 1988 ), Power and Influence ( 1985 ), The General Managers ( 1982 ), and five other books published in the 1970s.

*" The Japanese Television Cartel: A Study Based on Matsushita v. Zenith " by David Schwartzman ; Takashi Hikino, in Business history review.

) by Keidō Matsushita, published in volume 5 of the journal Shōnai Minzoku (, Shōnai Folk Customs ) on June 15, 1957 ).

He traveled all the way to the lands of Imagawa Yoshimoto, daimyo of Suruga Province, and served there for a time, only to abscond with a sum of money entrusted to him by Matsushita Yukitsuna.

It was founded in 1991 under the name SMSG, Inc. ( for San Mateo Software Group ) by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins in a partnership with seven companies, including LG, Matsushita ( now Panasonic ), AT & T, MCA, Time Warner and Electronic Arts.

It was developed by the SPARC Architecture Committee consisting of Amdahl Corporation, Fujitsu, ICL, LSI Logic, Matsushita, Philips, Ross Technology, Sun Microsystems, and Texas Instruments.

by Sony, Philips, Matsushita, and JVC and is referred to as the White Book standard.

Sony's MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems, introduced in 1992, that were both targeted as a replacement for the Philips analog cassette audio tape system: the other was Digital Compact Cassette ( DCC ), created by Philips and Matsushita.

The RCA unit was designed by Matsushita, and was the first VHS-based VCR manufactured by a company other than JVC.

Quasar and General Electric would follow-up with VHS-based VCRs-all designed by Matsushita.

DIVX players manufactured by Zenith Electronics, Thomson Consumer Electronics ( RCA and ProScan ), and Matsushita Electric ( Panasonic ) started to become available in mid 1998.

Before its outright purchase by Nokia in December 2008, Symbian Ltd. was owned by Nokia ( 56. 3 %), Ericsson ( 15. 6 %), Sony Ericsson ( 13. 1 %), Matsushita ( 10. 5 %), and Samsung ( 4. 5 %).

Psion's stake was bought by Nokia, Matsushita, Siemens AG and Sony Ericsson in July 2004.

The Panasonic brand was created by Matsushita in 1955 for the Americas region because the National brand, which was its principal brand in its home market of Japan, was already registered by others.

Panasonic was founded in 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita as a vendor of duplex lamp sockets.

In the same year, MCA was purchased by the Japanese multinational conglomerate Matsushita Electric.

It was forced to sell the station in 1991 by the Federal Communications Commission after Matsushita Electric's takeover of MCA because foreign companies could not own over 25 % of a US TV station.

In the same year, the MCA Inc. parent company was purchased by the Matsushita group.

Later on, the Seattle Camera Club was started by a group of Japanese-American pictorialists, including Dr. Kyo Koike, Frank Asakichi Kunishige and Iwao Matsushita.

Matsushita ( which later took the name Panasonic ), while not a zaibatsu, was originally also targeted for breakup, but was saved by a petition signed by 15, 000 of its union workers and their families.

In February 2006, the group became 100 % owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi SA when Vivendi purchased the last 20 % from Matsushita, the group's sole owner from 1990 to 1995 and co-owner from 1995 to 2006.

In 1994, Paramount was sold to Viacom, followed by Seagram's purchase of a controlling stake in MCA ( of which Universal was a subsidiary ) from Matsushita the next year.

Visc was a mechanical video disc system developed in Japan by Matsushita subsidiary National Panasonic.

* Matsushita Konosuke ( 1894-1989 ) His Life & His Legacy: A Collection of Essays in Honor of the Centenary of His Birth by Matsushita Konosuke, PHP Research Institute ( 1994 )

Born in Tokyo, Ito graduated from Faculty of Law, Keio-Gijuku University and joined Matsushita Institute of Government and Management in 1984.

He attended the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management from 1987 to 1991.

Founded in 1995 as Rising Tide Records, the label would ultimately begin to thrive the following year when its name was changed to Universal Records to complement the branding overhaul of the Universal Studios structure since MCA Inc. was purchased from Matsushita Electric by The Seagram Company Ltd ..

DPOF was developed by a consortium of printer and camera manufacturers including Canon, Inc., Eastman Kodak, Fujifilm and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

On May 29, 1974, Motorola, Inc., sold its television manufacturing division — including its plants in Pontiac, Illinois ; Franklin Park, Illinois ; and Markham, Ontario — to Matsushita, who continued production of home television receivers under a newly incorporated entity, Quasar Electronics, Inc., an American managed subsidiary of Matsushita Electronic Corporation of America ( MECA ).

* 1989 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist, founder of the Panasonic Corporation ( b. 1894 )

* 1939 – Tadahiro Matsushita, Japanese politician ( d. 2012 )

Under the name, he first joined the Imagawa clan as a servant to a local ruler named Matsushita Yukitsuna.

* November 27 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist ( d. 1989 )

* April 27 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist ( b. 1894 )

In October 1995, The 3DO Company sold its next generation console, M2, to Matsushita, and changed its business to develop and publish games for other game consoles and PCs.

Matsushita vacuum cleaners use microcontrollers running fuzzy algorithms to interrogate dust sensors and adjust suction power accordingly.

Hideki Shimizu and Kazuyuki Matsushita designed the original International Fountain.

JVC originally collaborated with Sony Corporation and Matsushita Electric ( aka Panasonic, National in Japan ) in building a home video standard for the Japanese consumer.

Soon after, Sony and Matsushita broke away from the collaboration effort, in order to work on video recording formats of their own.

Sony started working on Betamax, while Matsushita started working on VX.

It was a major key to have Matsushita on board because Matsushita was Japan's largest electronics manufacturer at the time.

JVC succeeded in persuading Matsushita to back the VHS format because Matsushita was afraid to allow Sony to become a leader, and Betamax could only record one hour of video.

By 1978, Matsushita alone produced just over half of all Japanese VCRs.

The deal ultimately earned David Geffen an estimated US $ 800 million in stock ( until the Japanese conglomerate, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd .' s cash acquisition of MCA in 1991, made Geffen a billionaire ) and an employment contract that ran until 1995.