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Described as gMr. Strategyh worldwide, Dr. Kenichi Ohmae is regularly sought out as a public speaker and management consultant.
Ohmae, according to the Financial Times of London, is gJapanfs only management guru.h
In 1994, The Economist selected him one of five management gurus in the world.
As an author he has published over 140 books, many of which are devoted to business and socio-political analyses.
He has also contributed numerous articles to major publications (e.g., Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review,
Foreign Affairs, New York Times). The Mind of Strategist (McGraw-Hill), Triad Power (Free Press), Beyond National Borders (Dow Jones Irwin),
The Borderless World (Harper Business), The End of the Nation State (Free Press),
The Evolving Global Economy (editor, Harvard Business School Press), and The Invisible Continent | Four Strategic
Imperatives of New Economy (HarperCollins/Nicholas Brealey Publishing),The Next Global Stage (Wharton School Publishing)
are among the most popular of his books printed in English.
For a period of twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a partner in McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm.
As a co-founder of its strategic management practice, he has served companies in a wide spectrum of industries,
including industrial and consumer electronics, financial institutions, telecommunications, office equipment, photographic equipment,
industrial machinery, food, rubber, and chemicals.
His special area of expertise is formulating creative strategies and developing the organizational concepts to implement them
both for private and public sectors. Some of Japanfs most famous and internationally successful companies continue to seek his help
in shaping their competitive strategies.
Likewise, his counsel is also much in demand among Asian, European and North American-based multinational and governmental institutions.
He has also played a vital role in assisting Asian Governments to develop future oriented-regional strategies.
Dr. Kenichi Ohmae is the Founder of gReform of Heiseih, a citizenfs socio-political movement established on November 25, 1992,
to promote and catalyze the fundamental reform of Japanfs political and administrative systems.
Dr. Ohmae is President and CEO of Business Breakthrough (an around-the-clock interactive satellite television for business and management).
He is founder and Managing Director of the Ohmae & Associates, EveryD.com,
Inc. (an Internet platform for living rooms), Ohmae Business Developments,
Inc. (corporate revitalization and venture incubation), General Services,
Inc. (GSI), and Dean of Attacker's Business School focused on entrepreneurship.
From January 1997, he joined the UCLA School of Public Affairs as Chancellorfs
Professor of Public Policy. He currently serves as member of the board
of directors of ACI (Academy Capital Investment) and IDT International.
He also serves as a Trustee and Professor of Bond University, and is on
the board of SEI (Center for Advanced Studies for Management) at The Wharton
School (University of Pennsylvania). In September 2002, he was named the
advisor of Liaoning Province and Tianjin City in China In March 2004,
he was appointed the Honorary Distinguished Professor of Graduate School
of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Korea, and in July
2004 the Honorary Visiting Professor of Korea University.He is Dean of
Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business of BBT University which opened
in April 2005 to offer MBA through a cyber space platform classroom named
Air Campus.
Dr. Ohmae attended Waseda University (BS), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (MS),
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in nuclear engineering).
Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked for Hitachi as a senior design engineer on Japanfs prototype fast breeder reactor.
He received an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame University in 1995.
He now resides in Tokyo with his wife, Jeannette, and two sons, who share his spare-time interest in ski, music, sailing,
martial arts, motorcycles, and scuba diving.
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