MISHINA kazuhiro, Professor, Institute for Business and Finance

Ph.D. in Business Economics, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Master as well as Bachelor of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University. Taught “Technology and Operations Management” in the first-year MBA program at the Harvard Business School for six years, led “Collaborative Mindset” module of IMPM （International Masters Program for Managers） with Henry Mintzberg as Japan Director for three years, and then spent 21 and a half years as Professor of Strategy at Kobe University before joining Waseda University.BA Faculty of Sociology, Hitotsubashi University

Selected Publications

【Books 】

Two theory books, five teaching-aid books, ten books for general-audience, all in Japanese.

【Best Case】

“Toyota Motor Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc.” Harvard Business School Publishing (1992).
Selected constantly as the bestselling cases in Production and Operations Management by The Case Center (https://www.thecasecentre.org) after more than 30 years.

【Best Papers】

“Learning by New Experience: Revising the Flying Fortress Learning Curve” in Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin (eds), Learning by Doing: In Markets, Firms, and Countries. The University of Chicago Press, 1999, 145-184.