Ikujiro Nonaka

This curriculum was further developed in the 1960s together with the business school of Keio University and offered to companies all over Japan.

[1] In 1967 Nonaka moved to the United States where in 1968 he obtained an MBA and in 1972 a PhD in Business Administration, both at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nonaka was the First Distinguished Drucker Scholar in Residence at the Drucker School and Institute, Claremont Graduate University; the Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, UC Berkeley.

Back in Japan he became professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of Hitotsubashi University.

[2] Nonaka co-wrote several noteworthy articles with Hirotaka Takeuchi, a colleague at Hitotsubashi University, including: In 2008, the Wall Street Journal listed him as one of the most influential persons on business thinking,[5] and The Economist included him in its "Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus".