[1] In another spell at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 1996, Takeuchi served as a visiting professor in the Advanced Management Program.

[5] He has served on the planning board of the World Economic Forum[1][6] and is an external director at Mitsui & Co.[4] and an outside director at Daiwa Securities Group Inc.[7] Takeuchi collaborated on a number of articles with Ikujiro Nonaka (野中 郁次郎), a colleague at Hitotsubashi University, including the 1986 Harvard Business Review article The New New Product Development Game, in which they emphasized speed and flexibility for new product development.

The authors drew attention to the practice in those companies of having an overlapping development process ('like Sashimi'), rather than the older sequential approach.

[8] The authors found that teams in the most successful companies they examined exhibited the following conditions:[8][9] The article attracted attention when it was published[3] but its significance for software development was born seven years later when a team at Easel Corporation led by Jeff Sutherland alighted on the article and spotted the opportunity it offered to achieve their goal of delivering software on schedule and under budget.

[11] Takeuchi's colleague Ikujiro Nonaka wrote an article The Knowledge-Creating Company in the Harvard Business Review, 1991.