[10] Hori started his career at Sumitomo Corporation in 1986 where he was in charge of new business development and foreign trade of production-plant facilities.
[16] Hori started teaching a single marketing course based on the case study method from a small rented classroom in Shibuya, Tokyo.
[18] By 2022, Globis had 691 employees, offices in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai, Fukuoka, and Yokohama, and overseas subsidiaries in China, Singapore, Thailand, the United States and Belgium.
[15] In 1996 Hori founded Globis Capital Partners (GCP) as a hands-on VC firm to support various startup portfolio companies.
[25] Since founding Globis, Hori's goal had been to create a graduate school of management, but the financial and legal requirements to establish a university in Japan proved too difficult.
However, in April 2003, the Act on Special Zones for Structural Reform (構造改革特別区域法, kōzō kaikaku tokubetsu kuiki hō), which was created by the Second Koizumi Cabinet, allowed provisions for a new for-profit university established by a private company (株式会社立大学, kabushiki gaisha ritsu daigaku).
[26] A first batch of 78 students enrolled in the Japanese taught two-year part-time MBA in April 2006, offered at campus locations in Tokyo and Osaka.
[27] By 2007, Hori had decided that the Graduate School of Management, Globis University should become a non-profit incorporated educational institution (学校法人, gakkō hōjin).
He contends abandoning nuclear power would prompt manufacturers to offshore production, resulting in severe damage to the Japanese economy.
[37][38] Hori lauded the discussion as a win for Japanese citizens in terms of drawing public interest to Japan’s energy policy.
[39] In 2009 Hori founded the G1 Summit as a “forum for the leaders of the next generation to gather, discuss, and paint a vision for the rebirth of Japan in a turbulent world”.
The G1 Institute, which Hori serves as president, was subsequently established to support an increasing number of annual conferences and initiatives around Japan.
[40] In 2011 Hori initiated the 100 Actions (100行動, hyaku kōdō) project, which aimed to create a future vision for Japan and provide public policy recommendations in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
[41] Just days after the destruction of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Hori together with other young entrepreneurs launched Project Kibow to help in the efforts to support and rebuild disaster-affected areas.
[49][50] When Hori visited Mito in August 2015 for a high school swimming team reunion, he was shocked by the decline of the town he grew up in.
[59] For his donations of private funds for the public good, Hori was awarded the Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon (紺綬褒章, konju hōshō) by the Japanese government in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024.
[60][61][62][63] Hori received the Medal with Blue Ribbon (藍綬褒章, ranju hōshō) from the Japanese government for his contributions to society in 2024.
Hori was the main presenter of BS-TBS’s 13 episode Talks on Japan’s Future (ニッポン未来会議, nippon mirai kaigi) television programme aired in 2013.