Expertise
Global business and strategy; Japan’s business organization, strategy and management; the political economy, antitrust, financial system and corporate governance, employment system, and innovation policies of Japan
Education
1989 Ph.D., Japanese Studies and Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
1987 M.A., Japanese Studies and Economics, Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany
1985 Translator's Diploma in Japanese, Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany
Experience
2008 – present Professor of Japanese Business, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
July 1999 - June 2000 Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
August - December 1990, and August 1992 - June 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
July 1988 - July 1992 Assistant Professor, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
April 1991 - March 1992 Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Selected Publications and Papers
Books
- Shin Nihon no keiei: hikan baiasu wo haisu (New Japan Management: Overcoming the Negativity Bias), Tokyo: Nikkei Premiere Series Shinsho, 2024.
- In English: Japan Re-Emerges, Amazon Publishing, 2024 (revised version of Shin Nihon no keiei, transposed for the non-Japanese reader).
- The Digital Transformation and Japan’s Political Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia, 2022 (with Kay Shimizu).
- The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why it Matters. Stanford: Stanford University Press (Business Books), 2020.
- Winner, 2021 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize 2021, and Silver Medal, Axiom Book Awards 2021, Section “Economics”.
- In Japanese : Saikō THE KAISHA: Nihon no bijinesu riinbenshion (『再興 THE KAISHA 日本のビジネス・リインベンション』), Nikkei BP Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppan, 2022.
- Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century. Cornell University Press, 2008.
