{"id":15798,"date":"2026-04-01T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/?p=15798"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:06:09","slug":"koji-aiba-2-4-4-3-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/faculty-en\/15798","title":{"rendered":"MISHINA kazuhiro, Professor, Institute for Business and Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Profile<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Ph.D. in Business Economics, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Master as well as Bachelor of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University. Taught \u201cTechnology and Operations Management\u201d in the first-year MBA program at the Harvard Business School for six years, led \u201cCollaborative Mindset\u201d module of IMPM \uff08International Masters Program for Managers\uff09 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<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"JA\">\u3010<\/span><\/strong><strong>Books <\/strong><strong><span lang=\"JA\">\u3011<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two theory books, five teaching-aid books, ten books for general-audience, all in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"JA\">\u3010<\/span><\/strong><strong>Best Case<\/strong><strong><span lang=\"JA\">\u3011<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToyota Motor Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc.\u201d Harvard Business School Publishing (1992).<br \/>\nSelected constantly as the bestselling cases in Production and Operations Management by The Case Center (https:\/\/www.thecasecentre.org) after more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"JA\">\u3010<\/span><\/strong><strong>Best Papers<\/strong><strong><span lang=\"JA\">\u3011<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning by New Experience: Revising the Flying Fortress Learning Curve\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b>Courses in charge<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Business Strategy<br \/>\nArts of Innovation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fcom\/wbs\/en\/faculty\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile Ph.D. in Business Economics, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Master as well a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-15798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-en","tag-faculty-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15804,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions\/15804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}