Profile
Prior to joining Waseda University, Professor Tomonori Ito was a Professor at Hitotsubashi University Business School, School of International Corporate Strategy (“ICS”) for ten years, during which he served as the EMBA Program Director for four years. Before ICS, Professor Ito spent 32 years in finance and investment banking. He worked for UBS as an investment banker, during which time he held the position of (co-) Head of Investment Banking for UBS in Japan. He maintains an extensive network of relationships, developed over the length of his career as an investment banker, incorporating a significant proportion of the senior management of major Japanese corporations. Before joining UBS in 1995, he worked for the Bank of Tokyo, including five years in New York.
Academic Degrees
MBA, Harvard Business School
B.A., University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics
Selected Publications
【Articles】
“Cross-border M&A by Japanese Companies: 10 Lessons from Japan Tobacco’s Experience” (60-1 SUM 2012), Hitotsubashi Business Review
“Cross-border M&A and Management Strategy” (60-4 SPR 2013), Hitotsubashi Business Review
“Is Optimal Capital Structure ‘Optimal’?”(62-3 WIN 2014), Hitotsubashi Business Review
Note: All of the above articles are written in Japanese.
【Cases】
“Japan Tobacco: Domestic Giant Going Global (A), (B)” (ICS-111-018-E)
“ORIX Corporation: Surviving the Financial Crisis (A), (B)” (ICS-112-005-E)
“Fujifilm and Kodak: Surviving the Digital Revolution (A), (B)” (ICS-113-010-E)
Courses in charge
Applied Corporate Finance
Others
Professor Ito has been actively providing consulting and executive training to a number of Japan’s leading companies. He also serves as an outside board member of Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER), Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co.,Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.
