Professor Masahiro Kotosaka

Masahiro Kotosaka is an Associate Professor at Keio University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi ICS. He is an expert in Internationalization strategy and early-stage business development, and advisor to several global start-up/multinational companies.

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Before moving to Keio, he was an associate professor at Ritsumeikan University, a teaching and research assistant at the University of Oxford, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company based in Frankfurt and Tokyo. As a practitioner, he worked for projects with sixteen clients in nine countries and spent four years running three businesses before joining McKinsey.

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He graduated from the University of Oxford with D.Phil. (Ph.D) in Management Studies and MSc in Management Research with Distinction. His recent publication includes STARTUP (Co-authored, NewsPicks Publishing, 2020), Raksul (Co-authored, HBS, 2019), The Element of Strategic Management (Toyo Keizai, 2018), and The Japanese Business in Evolution (Co-authored, Routledge, 2017).