Curriculum Vitae
Hirotaka Takeuchi
(As of September 2010)
Office and Contact Information:
Harvard University
Graduate School of Business Administration
Morgan Hall 289
Boston, MA 02163
Ph: 617-495-5486
Fx: 617-496-5859
Email:
Education:
Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, December 1977
MBA from University of California, Berkeley, December 1971
BA from International Christian University, Tokyo Japan, June 1969
Work Experience:
McKinsey & Company in Tokyo, Japan: 1973 and 1974 summers
McCann-Erickson, Inc. in San Francisco: 1970 to 1972 (part-time)
McCann-Erickson Hakuhodo in Tokyo: 1969 to 1970
Teaching and Administrative Positions:
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School, 2010 to present
Dean and Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, 1998 to 2010
Visiting Professor, Harvard Business School, 1995 to 1996
Professor, Hitotsubashi University School of Commerce, 1987 to 1998
Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University School of Commerce, l983 to 1987
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School, 1977 to 1983
Lecturer, Harvard Business School, l976 to 1977
Research:
Research interests are focused on the knowledge creation process within organizations, the competitiveness of Japanese firms in global industries, and the link between strategy and innovation.
Primary Outside Affiliations:
Board member of ORIX Corporation: 2004 to present
Board member of Trend Micro Inc.: 2005 to present
Board member of Integral Corporation: 2008 to present
Advisory board member of World Economic Forum, Fast Retailing, All Nippon Airways, Yoshimoto Kogyo, Japan Association of Corporate Directors, Japan Sports Association, and others.
I. Publications
A. Books
1. Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi (ed.), Keiei no Ryugi: Jisedai Leader Ikusei-juku [The Management Way: Developing Next-generation Leaders] (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun-sha, 2010)
2. Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World’s Best Manufacturer (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008) Awarded the Best 30 Business Books of 2008 Award by Soundview Executive Book Summaries
3. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ken Kusunoki, Innovation wo Umidasu Chikara [The Mother of Innovation] (Tokyo: Goma Books, 2007) [in Japanese]
4. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Tsutomu Shibata (ed.), Japan Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy: Advanced Knowledge-Creating Companies (Washington D.C.: World Bank Institute, 2006)
5. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka (ed.), Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management (Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Asia, 2004)
6. Mitsuaki Shimaguchi, Junzou Ishii, Yukihiko Uehara, Naoto Onzou, Hotaka Katahira, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Yawarakai Kigyou Senryaku: Marketing Ambition no Jidai [Soft Corporate Strategy: The Age of Marketing Ambition] (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2001) [in Japanese]
7. Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara, Can Japan Compete? (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2000)
8. Mitsuaki Shimaguchi, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hotaka Katahira, Junzou Ishii (ed.), Marketing Kakushin no Jidai 2: Seihin Kaihatsu Kakushin [The Age of Marketing Innovation 2: Product Development Innovation] (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1999) [in Japanese]
9. Mitsuaki Shimaguchi, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hotaka Katahira, Junzou Ishii (ed.),
Marketing Kakushin no Jidai 3: Brand Kouchiku [The Age of Marketing Innovation 3: Brand Building] (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1999) [in Japanese]
10. Mitsuaki Shimaguchi, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hotaka Katahira, Junzou Ishii (ed.), Marketing Kakushin no Jidai 4: Eigyou Ryuutsuu Kakushin [The Age of Marketing Innovation 4: Sales and Distribution Innovation] (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1998) [in Japanese]
11. Mitsuaki Shimaguchi, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hotaka Katahira, Junzou Ishii (ed.), Marketing Kakushin no Jidai 1: Kokyaku Souzou [The Age of Marketing Innovation 1: Customer Creation] (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1998) [in Japanese]
12. Hirotaka Takeuchi, Kigyou Rinri to Jinken: Harvard no Kangae-kata [Corporate Ethics and Human Rights: Perspectives from Harvard] (Tokyo: Dentsu, 1998) [monograph in Japanese]
13. Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) Awarded the 1995 Best Book of the Year Award for the Business and Management category by the Association of American Publishers.
14. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Yoko Ishikura, Ishitsu no Management: Nihonteki Doushitsu Keiei wo Koete [Managing Heterogeneity: Beyond Japanese-style Homogeneous Management] (Tokyo: Diamond, 1994) [in Japanese]
15. Hirotaka Takeuchi, Best Practices Kakumei: Seikou Kigyou ni Manabe [Best Practices Revolution: Learning from Successful Companies] (Tokyo: Diamond, 1994) [in Japanese]
16. Hirotaka Takeuchi, Kiyonori Sakakibara, Tadao Kagono, Akihiro Okumura, Ikujiro Nonaka, Kigyou no Jiko-Kakushin: Chaos to Souzou no Management [Corporate Self-Innovation: Managing Chaos and Creativity] (Tokyo: Chuo Kouron, 1986) [in Japanese]
B. Published Papers
1. Paul S. Adler, Mary Benner, David J. Brunner, John P. MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael L. Tushman, Sidney G. Winter, “Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma,” Journal of Operations Management, vol. 27, issue 2, 2009
2. Hirotaka Takeuchi, Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, “The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success,” Harvard Business Review, June 2008
3. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Marketing to Design [Marketing and Design],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 105, 2007 [in Japanese]
4. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Henkaku no Jidai ni okeru Back-to-Basics [Back-to-Basics in an Era of Change],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 100, 2006 [in Japanese]
5. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Marketing to Benshouhou [Marketing and Dialectics],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 94, 2004 [in Japanese]
6. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Reinventing a Business School in Japan,” Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry(METI), July/August 2003 [in Japanese]
7. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Marketing no Mission towa [What is the Mission of Marketing]”, Japan Marketing Journal, No. 83, 2002 [in Japanese]
8. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Michael E. Porter, “Freeing Oneself from Non-Differentiated Across-the-Board Competition,” Japan Center for Economic Research Journal, January 2001 [in Japanese]
9. Michael E. Porter and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Fixing What Really Ails Japan,” Foreign Affairs, May-June, 1999
10. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Kyousou no Rule wo Kaeru Shuhou to shite no Marketing [Marketing as a Tool to Change the Rules of Competition],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 67, 1998 [in Japanese]
11. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Beyond Knowledge Management: Lessons from Japan,” Monash Mt. Eliza Business Journal, l (1) 1998
12. Emi Osono and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Mega-Denshi Sangyou ni okeru Vision no Wana [The Trap of Vision in the Mega-Electronics Industries],” Business Review, March 1997 [in Japanese]
13. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Compaq: Souzou-teki Hakai ni yoru Market Leader e no Henshin [Turning Compaq Around to Become a Market Leader through Creative Destruction],” Diamond Harvard Business, October-November 1995 [in Japanese]
14. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Chi no Souzou ni yoru Customer Retention [Customer Retention through Knowledge Creation],” Business Review, February 1995 [in Japanese]
15. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Customer Share Shikou no Marketing [Customer Share Focused Marketing],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 58, 1995 [in Japanese]
16. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Emi Osono, “WOW Company: Ko wo Excite saseru 21 Seiki Kigyou [The WOW Company: 21st Century Company That Excites Individuals],” Business Review, August 1995 [in Japanese]
17. Yoshinori Fujikawa and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Shinseihin no Yosougai no Seikou ga motarasu Kyousou Yuui [Competitive Advantage Arising from the Unexpected Success of New Products],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 54, 1994 [in Japanese]
18. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Emi Osono, “Re-engineering: Seikou no Kagi wa Marketing ni ari [Re-engineering: The Key to Success Lies in Marketing],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 51, 1993 [in Japanese]
19. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Nihon-gata Corporate Governance: Koe naki Stakeholder no Fushigi [Japanese-style Corporate Governance: The Mystery of the Voice-less Stakeholder],” Business Review, February 1992 [in Japanese]
20. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Yoshinori Fujikawa, “Shouhin Shiborikomi Genshou ni Miru Nihon Kigyou no Senryaku Kadai [Strategic Issues of Japanese Firms as Evidenced in the Pruning-of-the-Product Phenomena],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 46, 1992 [in Japanese]
21. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “2000-nen no Global Marketing: Motomerareru Paradox no Taigen [Global Marketing in the Year 2000: The Need to Embody Paradox],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 43, 1992 [in Japanese]
22. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Small and Better: The Consumer-driven Advantage in Japanese Product Design,” Design Management Journal, Winter 1989
23. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Kei-haku-tan-shou Shouhin no Kaihatsu: Global Shijou deno Nihon Kigyou no Kyousou Yuuisei [Development of Light-Thin-Short-Small Products: Competitive Advantage of Japanese Firms in the Global Market],” Japan Marketing Journal, No. 40, 1991 [in Japanese]
24. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Dainiji Ryuutsuu Kakumei ga Hiraku Seikatsu Taikoku e no Michi [The Second Distribution Revolution Will Open the Way to a Mega-Nation of Good Living],” Business Review, September 1989 [in Japanese]
25. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Global Product Development,” Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce & Management, December 1988
26. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Hiroshi Kobayashi, “Nihon Kigyou no Kokusai Teikei Senryaku: Data ni Motozuku Genjou Bunseki [International Collaboration Strategy of Japanese Firms: New Findings from Data Analysis],” Business Review, April 1988 [in Japanese]
27. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ryoko Tohyama, “Service Sangyou ni okeru Kyousou: sono Rironteki Framework [Competition in Global Industries: a Theoretical Framework],” Business Review, April 1988 [in Japanese]
28. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Battlefields of the High-tech War,” Tsusan Journal (MITI), March 1988 [in Japanese]
29. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Global Seihin Kaihatsu ni okeru Kyousou Yuii no Senryaku [Strategy for Gaining Competitive Advantage in Global Product Development],” Hitotsubashi Daigaku Kenkyu Nenpou Shougaku Kenkyu [Hitotsubashi University Annual Research Journal: Commerce and Management], April 1987
30. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Global High-tech Sangyou: Kawaritsutsu aru Kyousou no Gensoku [Global High-tech Industries: Changing Paradigms of Competition],” Business Review, August 1986 [in Japanese]
31. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “The New New Product Development Game,” Harvard Business Review, January-February 1986
32. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “The Changing Role of the Japanese Market and Its Impact on Global Strategy,” Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce & Management, December 1985
33. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “Seihin Kaihatsu Process no Management [Management of the Product Development Process],” Business Review, March 1985 [in Japanese]
34. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Kourigyou ni okeru Atarashii Data Kanri System no Kousou: Bumon-betsu ROI no Kaihatsu to Bunseki [A Plan for a New Data Management System in the Retailing Industry],” Business Review, August 1984 [in Japanese]
35. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Michael E. Porter, “Global Marketing no Senryaku-teki Yakuwari: Sekai-teki Kibo deno Coordination no Kanri ni tsuite [The Strategic Role of Global Marketing: Managing Coordination on a Worldwide Basis],” Business Review, August 1983 [in Japanese]
36. Hirotaka Takeuchi and John A. Quelch, “Quality is More Than Making a Good Product,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1983
37. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Productivity: Learning from the Japanese,” California Management Review, Summer 1981
38. John A. Quelch and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Nonstore Marketing: Fast Track or Slow?” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1981
39. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Allan H. Schmidt, “New Promise of Computer Graphics,” Harvard Business Review, January-February 1980
40. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Louis P. Bucklin, “Productivity in Retailing: Retail Structure and Public Policy,” Journal of Retailing, Spring 1977
C. Book Chapters
1. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Globalization 3.0 Will Change the World,” in Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi (ed.), Keiei no Ryugi (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun-sha, 2010)
2. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “The Competitiveness of Japanese Industries and Firms,” in Tsutomu Shibata (ed.), Japan Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy: Assessment and Lessons (Washington D.C.: World Bank Institute, 2006)
3. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “The New Dynamism of the Knowledge-Creating Company,” in Takeuchi and Shibata (2006), op cit
4. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Inter-organizational Knowledge Creation at Shimano,” in Takeuchi and Shibata (2006), op cit
5. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Creating the Dynamics of Hard-to-Imitate Innovation,” in Takeuchi and Shibata (2006), op cit
6. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Maintaining Competitiveness,” in Arnoud de Meyer, Pamela C. M. Mar, Frank-Jurgen Richter, Peter Williamson (ed.), Global Future: The Next Challenge for Asian Business (Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Asia, 2005)
7. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “’The Globalization of Markets’ Revisited: Japan After Twenty Years,” in John Quelch and Rohit Deshpande (ed.), The Global Market: Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005)
8. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “Knowledge Creation and Dialectics,” in Takeuchi and Nonaka (2004), op cit
9. Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation,” in Takeuchi and Nonaka (2004), op cit
10. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Knowledge Creation within a Dialectic Organization,” in Takeuchi and Nonaka (2004), op cit
11. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Nihon Kigyou no Shin-Seihin Kaihatsu ni okeru Gojuu-nen no Hensen [50-Year History of How New Product Development Changed within Japanese Companies],” in Shimaguchi, et al (1999: 2), op cit [in Japanese]
12. Satoshi Akutsu and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Sengo Sewing Machine Gyoukai no Hatten to Seifu no Yakuwari [The Development of the Post-War Sewing Machine Industry and the Role of Government],” in Shimaguchi, et al (1999:2), op cit [in Japanese]
13. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Shouhin Kaihatsu ni okeru Miniaturization Senryaku [Miniaturization Strategy for Product Development],” in Shimaguchi, et al (1999:2) op cit [in Japanese]
14. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “Rugby Houshiki ni yoru Shin-Seihin Kaihatsu Kyousou [New Product Development Competition Using the Rugby Method],” in Shimaguchi, et al (1999:2) op cit [in Japanese]
15. Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “A Theory of the Firm’s Knowledge-Creation Dynamics,” in Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Peter Hagstrom, and Orjan Solvell (ed.), The Dynamic Firm (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
16. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “Seihin Kaihatsu Process no Management [Management of the Product Development Process],” in Hiroyuki Itami, Tadao Kagono, Motoshige Ito (ed.), Nihon no Kigyou System 2: Soshiki to Senryaku [Japanese Corporate System 2: Organization and Strategy] (Tokyo: Yuuhikaku, 1993) [in Japanese]
17. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Michael E. Porter, “Kokusai Marketing to Kyousou Senryaku [International Marketing and Competititve Strategy],” in Itami et al (1993) op cit [in Japanese]
18. Noel M. Tichy, Michael I. Brimm, Ram Charan, Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Leadership Development as a Lever for Global Transformation,” in Vladimir Pucik, Noel M. Tichy, Carole K. Barnnett (ed.), Globalizing Management: Creating and Leading the Competitive Organization (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1992)
19. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Michael E. Porter, “Three Roles of International Marketing in Global Strategy,” in Michael E. Porter (ed.), Competition in Global Industries (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1986)
20. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “Seihin Kaihatsu ni okeru Senryaku to Soshiki [Strategy and Organization for Product Development],” in Ken-ichi Imai (ed.), Innovation to Soshiki [Innovation and Organization (Tokyo: Toyo Keizai Shimpo-sha, 1986) [in Japanese]
21. Ken-ichi Imai, Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, “Managing the New Product Development Process: How Japanese Companies Learn and Unlearn,” in Kim B. Clark, Robert H. Hayes, and Christopher Lorenz (ed.), The Uneasy Alliance: Managing the Productivity-Technology Dilemma (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1985)
22. Hirotaka Takeuchi, “America de Naze ‘Gorin no Sho’ ga Yomarete iruka [Why ‘The Book of Five Rings’ Is Read in America],” Eiichi Yazawa, Gorin no Sho no Yomikata [Interpreting The Book of Five Rings] (Tokyo: Goma Shobou, 1982) [in Japanese; special contribution]