Faculty introduction

Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship; DX Management; Corporate Transformation; Global Management;  Creating Shared Value

NAWA Takashi graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. He later joined the Harvard Business School and was awarded an MBA and recognized as a Baker Scholar there. He worked in the machinery division of Mitsubishi Corporation (in Tokyo and New York) for about 10 years. For about two decades until 2010, he was engaged in consulting as a director at McKinsey & Company. At the consulting firm, he served as the head of the Asian region in the automotive and manufacturing fields and the head of its Japanese branch in the high-tech and communications fields. He has been involved in a wide range of projects in various industries, such as those for next-generation growth strategies and company-wide structural reforms, in Japan, Asia, and the U.S. In June 2010, he assumed the position of professor at the School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University. He concurrently served as an outside director of DENSO Corporation (until 2019) and still serves as an outside director of Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., Ajinomoto Co., Inc., SOMPO Holdings, Inc., and NEC Capital Solutions, Ltd. He also worked as a senior advisor to Boston Consulting Group (until 2016) and still is a senior advisor to Interbrand and Accenture.