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Liftoff! 🚀
(updated with photo of commencement speaker Yamini Rangan, CEO Hubspot with my faculty colleague Wasim Agar)
Friends, very nice to hear from some of you after my last post, on SusHi Tech Tokyo. Missed that? Here it is.
A warm welco...
Back from SusHi Tech Tokyo
Founder grit; NINEJP AI challenge; PM Takaichi ❤️ deep tech startups
Friends, as mentioned in my last post - this past week I was in Tokyo to speak not once but twice at SusHi Tech Tokyo, an annual startup event put on by the Tokyo Metropo...
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026
Friends - very nice to hear from some of you after my last post.
The spring semester is coming down the homestretch. The BHGAP (Berkeley Haas Global Access Program) edition of Strategy for the Networked Economy is in the books. Class ended...
New book out in Japan! On University-Led Regional Revitalization
(cosmetically edited post-publication)
(日本語版は以下に続きます）
Friends, fresh after our first Transpacific Collaboration Forum, I’m happy to announce a new transoceanic collaboration!
Last summer I teamed up with two members of Keio Unive...
Summit, carefully
FPRI commentary on last week's US-Japan leader summit
Friends, after my last post, I had been originally planning to write (more) about the Kumamoto semiconductor ecosystem. However, this post, and the next, will be on recent publications.
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Continuing Lecturer, Berkeley Haas. Teach Strategy for the Networked Economy and Opportunity Recognition. Also: Clusters; Business in Japan; Strategy. Worked in media in US and Japan, then wireless, then services, now teach/train/advise/write.
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