William V. Rapp
Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION: B.A.,
Amherst College , 1961 (Economics)
M.A.,
Yale University , 1962 (Economics)
Ph.D.,
Yale University , 1966 (Economics)
M.A.,
Stanford University , 1970 (Japanese Studies)
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Henry J. Leir Chair in
International Trade & Business and Research Professor, School of Management, The
New Jersey Institute of Technology; Senior Research Associate, Center on
Japanese Economy and Business, School of Business, Columbia University. Member
board Association Of Japanese Business Studies 2003-2005.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
1964-65
Assistant in Instruction, Economics Dept., Yale University (Taught basic
economics and assisted Henry Wallich in his
undergraduate course on Money and Banking.)
1966-67
Assistant Program Economist, AID, Seoul, Korea (Performed economic analyses,
advised Korean government fiscal and tax policy. Proposed, developed and
managed with Professor Ronald MacKinnon, Stanford, the first application of
effective protective rate analysis to a developing country’s tariff structure
resulting in publications with Park, et al, Effective Protective Rates for
Korean Industries and with Herbert G. Grubel, and
Harry G. Johnson, “Excise Taxes and Effective Protection: A Note.” [See
publications.])
1967-68 Assistant
Program Economist, AID, Saigon, Vietnam (Assessed import needs and monetary
restrictions to analyze inflationary impact of monetary policy and offsetting
import requirements.)
1970-73
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group, Boston and Tokyo (Worked on or led
strategy related case assignments for various companies in the US and Japan.
Firms included Kodak, General Electric, ITT, American Express, Norton
Manufacturing, Motorola, Warwick Electronics and Crown Zellerbach.
Also published co-authored studies on Japanese steel, semiconductor and
automobile industries using experience curves to measure international
competitiveness [see publications].)
1973-75
Financial Services Representative, Morgan Guaranty, Tokyo (Opened office,
responsible private placements and M&A advice for Far East, particularly
Japan, as well as account officer for Japanese companies in oil and gas,
mining, and minerals. Involved in P&G’s entry
into Japan.)
1975-80
Vice President, Morgan Guaranty, Mining and Construction, NY (Unit Head in
Morgan’s Mining and Construction District responsible maintaining major account
relations, structuring transactions, and formulating and executing marketing
plans. Profit contribution about $10 million per annum, with completed
transactions totaling close to $1 billion. These included tax-exempt pollution
financings for Newmont Mining and Azcon,
bank advisor to Newmont Mining on Peabody Coal
acquisition providing $100 million bridge loan, syndicated stand-by letter of
credit facilities for Mideast construction contracts
(over $200MM for J.A. Jones and Blount), and agent and bank advisor for $200
million revolving credit for St. Joe Minerals related to Scallop-Massey Coal
joint venture acquisition transaction.)
1978-80
Toyota Visiting Professor International Business, Columbia University (First
Toyota visiting professor at Columbia introducing courses on Japanese business
and Japan in the 1980s.)
1977-80
Adjunct Professor, Japanese Business, NYU (Introduced course on Japanese
economy and business.)
1980-83
Vice President and Head, Project Finance for Mining, Metals, and Minerals
Worldwide, Bank of America, San Francisco (Responsible administration,
marketing, client contact, strategy formulation, credit review, proposal
preparation, project presentations, advisory analyses, and personnel policies
for section of six professionals. Originated and closed project lending,
advisory and investment banking situations involving mining, metals or minerals
on a global basis, including projects, project personnel and advisory
assignments in Australia, Hong Kong, Caracas and London. Deals closed and
financed over $1 billion. Representative transactions included both direct
responsibilities as team leader and as section head. As team leader did: Glendall Coal ($350MM Australian coal mine), Ping Suo ($600MM Island Creek-Chinese coal mine joint venture),
and study of Western US coal exports to Japan. As supervisor did: California
Nickel ($350MM cobalt/nickel mining and processing project), PreMexsa ($200MM Mexican sponge iron facility), and Far
Eastern coal study for Peter Kiewit. One particular transaction, the $600MM
Island Creek-Chinese Ping Suo coal mine joint venture
involved negotiations between Occidental Petroleum and the highest levels of
the Chinese government.)
1983-85
Commercial Counselor, US Embassy, Tokyo (Senior administrative and policy
position in Japan for US Department of Commerce reporting to Ambassador
Mansfield and Under-Secretary. Had direct administrative responsibility for 45
US and Japanese employees and budget of about $2,000,000. Activities and
programs included commercial specialist advice and export information center
giving investment and trade promotion assistance to US firms. Played active
role in USG-GOJ trade and investment negotiations, follow-up strategies, and
implementation. Helped pioneer new negotiating strategy leading to successful
talks and agreements concerning value added networks, coal, standards, software
protection, depressed industries, acceptance of foreign test data,
semiconductors, NTT procurement, industrial policy, and long-term energy
cooperation. With Top Security Clearance this position provided many insights
into international trade negotiations and the development of government
policy.)
1985-89
Executive Director for North Asia - BA Asia Ltd., responsibility Capital
Markets - Bank of America in Tokyo and Hong Kong (Overall responsibility
Corporate Finance in Japan and North Asia, handling Euro-Finance, swaps,
venture capital, leasing, private placements, M&A, real estate, trade and
project finance. Was actively involved in client marketing and new product
development. Latter included starting real estate trust advisory services that
closed almost $500 million in transactions and on-going asset management as
well as establishing BofA as the first and only US
bank defeasing Japanese Leases. Beginning with one
person built 12 person unit completing more than $1.5 billion in transactions,
generating over $12 million in fees despite difficult financial environment for
BofA. Also, helped close BofA's
innovative $350 million Japanese capital issue and develop its Pacific Basin
international business strategy. As this period was a watershed period for both
BofA and Japan, it yielded many insights on corporate
recovery, the origins of the Bubble, and success criteria in Japan’s financial
markets.)
1988-89
Director Koram Bank, Seoul, Korea (Director of joint
venture Korean bank managed by Bank America
that was supposed to act as a development model for other Korean commercial
banks. Helped arrange innovative parallel loan financings involving Hong Kong
and Korea.)
1989-91
Vice President Mergers, Acquisitions and Finance Mitsui Nevitt Capital Corp.,
NY a joint venture merchant bank with Mitsui & Co. specializing in high
value added leasing, middle market LBO financing, and smaller acquisitions and
strategic alliances. (Responsible for mergers, acquisitions and finance.
Initiated and had responsibility for sourcing and managing potential strategic
alliance, M&A, and joint venture transactions. Sourced and managed over 100
potential transactions. These included several raw material, commodity and
technology related transactions. Particularly focused on working with smaller
US firms with proprietary products and technologies to open the Japan window by
placing alliance proposals in front of large Japanese companies. Most
transactions were in the $5 to $25MM range, though some exceeded $100MM in
market valuation. These activities involved a wide variety of industries, firms
and technologies as well as exposure to the strategic thinking of Japanese
management and their foreign direct investment objectives.)
1991-98
Managing Director, RUE Associates (This was a consulting business I managed
after leaving Mitsui Nevitt. It specialized in providing advice on project
finance and structuring strategic alliances, joint ventures, and other
transactions, particularly between US firms or US and Japanese firms. I
provided advice as well to clients after transactions closed on managing
subsequent business relations or projects and advised on strategic business
issues involving competition and finance. Clients varied widely by size and
industry. Representative assignments included raising $10 million for the
start-up and expansion of a US manufacturing firm, negotiating and closing an
exchange of shares and ownership worth $10 million, negotiating and closing a
multi-million dollar licensing agreement between a US entrepreneur and a large
European company, negotiating and closing a multi-million dollar licensing
agreement between a small electronics company and a large Japanese
manufacturer, successfully solicited an iron carbide project financing proposal
from a large US bank, advised a large Swiss Bank on expansion of its Asian project
financing team, advised a giant US real estate firm on managing its Japanese
shareholding arrangements.)
1991-92
Adjunct Professor Japanese Business, Columbia University (Taught course on
Japanese economy and business)
1991-92
Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, Columbia University (Developed
research and wrote papers on Japanese MNCs and their global development,
focusing on explanations of their competitive success and failure as well as
application of evolutionary theory of the firm to Japanese MNCs. Led to a grant
to study Japanese software [see publications].)
1991-2005
Director Japan Fund (Director mutual fund Investing in Japanese equities,
member audit, executive, and valuation committees, Chairman Investment Policy
Committee 1991-96, designated financial expert 2004-2005)
1992
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University (Introduced
course on Japanese economy and business.)
1992-93 Visiting
Lecturer, School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Taught
courses on Japanese economy and business, international business, and
international trade and monetary policy. Directed 2-year project on Japanese
software industry under grant from Japan-US Friendship Commission, initiated
law-business workshop on intellectual property and international business.)
1992-Present
Senior Research Associate, Columbia University, School Business Administration,
Center Japanese Economy and Business, (Raised funding, undertook and directed
major projects on software and information technology including project on the
future development and impact of Japanese software competition. One was a
2-year study of Japanese software industry under a Japan-US Friendship
Commission grant. The other was a 3-year study on using IT to improve
competitiveness under a Sloan Foundation grant resulting in several papers and
a book.)
1993-96
Chair Economic Relations with Japan and Professor International Business, University
of Victoria, BC, Canada. (Taught undergraduate and MBA courses on international
business, global finance and Japanese economy. Jointly with law school
professor taught a course on managing intellectual property. Sponsored programs
on Japan, including ones on software and information technology.)
7/1/96-99
Academic Director, Graduate Program in International Relations, Yale University
with joint appointment Economics (Taught graduate courses on applied micro and
macro economics and on applied international economic policy, advised 65
students in Graduate Program in International Relations, managed joint degree
programs schools of law, business, environment and public health, developed
curriculum and admission requirements, and represented Yale to APSIA
(Association of Professional Schools in International Affairs). In addition
administered and carried out research for 3-year Sloan Foundation grant in
conjunction with Columbia University on the use of software by leading US and
Japanese firms to achieve competitive advantage, including firms in financial
services.)
9/99-2000
Fulbright Scholar and APSIA Visiting Professor Ritsumeikan University, College
of International Relations, Kyoto, Japan. (Taught courses on the Asian
Financial Crisis and History of Investment Banking. Initiated research project
on the political economy of Japan’s Aging Population. Completed research for
Sloan Foundation IT Project)
1999-Present
President WVResearch Associates: Consulting and
contract research including policy, expert witness and litigation research
related to international business, Japanese economy and finance, complex
banking and loan transactions, strategy, and IT for those wanting in-depth and
practical analysis to support policy positions or legal testimony. Have acted
as expert witness in situations involving project finance, investment banking
and Japanese business. Assignments have varied but have included acting as a
witness in a gold mining financing case, a Latin American raw material project financing
arbitration, and three situations involving Japanese companies and banks. I
have also prepared a report for the UN on the role of derivatives in the Asian
Financial Crisis.
2000-Present
First Henry J. Leir Professor of International Trade and Business at the New
Jersey Institute Of Technology’s School of Management. Teach courses on
international business and IT strategy. Lead research projects related to
international business, global competition and IT strategies. Have developed
undergraduate distance-learning course on international business under NJ-I
Tower grant and completed book on information technology strategies. Currently
finishing a research project on Japanese convenience stores and leading a
real-time on-line case study initiative that includes studies on UPS and
Dendrite. Other responsibilities include School of Management faculty
secretary, member NJIT Intellectual Property committee, member SoM Strategic
Planning committee, and chair School of Management graduate curriculum committee.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Royal Economics Society,
Association of Japanese Business Studies (board member and reviewer), Academy
International Business, Association of Asian Studies, Academy of Management
(reviewer)
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS: Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude
(Amherst 1961), National Science Foundation Fellow (Yale, Economics 1961-64),
Ford Foundation Fellow (Stanford & Inter-University Center Japanese
1968-70), Japan-US Friendship Commission Grant 1993-95, Sloan Foundation Grant
1996-99, APSIA Visiting Professor, Fulbright Scholar, NJ-I Tower 2001 grant
recipient, 2003 recipient of Strategic Information Technology award of Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, and
NJPRO Foundation for book, Information Technology Strategies.
COURSES TAUGHT: International Trade and Monetary
Policy, International Business, Managing Intellectual Property, Japanese
Business, International Finance (undergraduate), Money and Banking,
Introductory Economics, Competing in Global Industries, Applied Micro and Macro
Analysis, Applied International Economic Analysis, History Investment Banking,
Information Technology Strategy, Strategic Management
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
2002 – Information
Technology Strategies: Oxford University Press How leading firms use IT to
gain an advantage, (Book on IT Strategy based results of Sloan case studies and
now in second printing).
2003 published in Japanese by Nikkei Business Publishing
1995 – The
Future Evolution of Japanese-US Competition in Software: Policy Challenges and
Strategic Prospects, Final Report Japan-US Friendship Commission, Columbia
University.
1967 – Park,
et al, Effective Protective Rates for Korean Industries, Korean Development
Institute, Seoul, Korea.
1966 –
"A Theory of Changing Trade Patterns Under Economic Growth: Tested for
Japan," Yale Economic Essays, New Haven, Conn., Fall 1967, pp. 69-135.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
2004 _,
and Hemalatha Subramanian, “Leveraging IT As A
Core Competency To Enter New Businesses: The UPS Case,” Business Review,
Journal Of The American Academy Of Business, Cambridge, October (refereed)
- The MIT Sloan
Management Review features “Putting E-Commerce to Work: The Japanese
Convenience Store Case,” (an article
written by of Prof. Bill Rapp & Mazhar ul
Islam - see below) in its Spring 2004
issue. Click here
to read the article from the MIT Sloan Management Review website. You can also
download a copy of the article in pdf (Adobe Acrobat)
format from here.
_, and
Mazhar ul Islam, “Putting E-Commerce to Work: The
Japanese Convenience Store Case,” Annual Publication, American Society for
Competitiveness, Washington, DC, October, (refereed)
_, and
Mazhar ul Islam, “Putting E-Commerce to Work: The
Japanese Convenience Store Case,” Working Paper of Center on Japanese Economy
and Business, Columbia University, NY – highlighted in the “Intelligence” section of MIT’s Sloan Management
Review, Cambridge, MA, April 2004 (downloadable from Columbia Center’s
website)
_, and
Mazhar ul Islam, “Japanese Convenience Stores And
Telematics Another Approach to Capturing E&M-Commerce Advantages,”
Proceedings Hawaii Conference on International Business, Honolulu (refereed)
_, and
Mazhar ul Islam, “JAPANESE CONVENIENCE STORES’
Telematic Approach to Gaining an E-Commerce Advantage,” Proceedings Association
of Japanese Business Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada (refereed)
_, and
Mazhar ul Islam, “An E-Commerce Alternative: Japanese
Convenience Stores, E-Retsus, and Telematics – Gaining an Advantage in E&M
Commerce,” Proceedings 9th Industrial, Engineering and Management Systems Association
Conference, Orlando, FL (refereed)
2002 _, and Mazhar ul Islam, Japanese Convenience Stores And E-Retsus: An
Alternative Approach to Capturing an E-Commerce Advantage,” Proceedings Asian
Institute of Technology Conference on IT, Bangkok (refereed)
_, Review of the Rice Paper Ceiling, Pacific Affairs, Summer
2001 _, “NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Gaining and
Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology,” Working Paper
of Center on Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan Foundation
Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, “Nationwide Financial Services: Gaining and Sustaining
Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology,” Working Paper of Center on
Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan Foundation Project: Use of
Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, “Nomura Research Institute: Success by
Assisting Others to Gain and Sustain Long-term Advantage Through Information
Technology,” Proceedings Association Of Japanese Business Studies Conference,
June (refereed)
2000 _, “Steel: Nippon Steel, K.K. – Gaining and Sustaining Long-term
Advantage Through Information Technology”, Working Paper of Center on Japanese Economy
and Business for Columbia-Yale Sloan Foundation Project: Use of Software to
Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, “Steel: Tokyo Steel, K.K. – Gaining and Sustaining
Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology”, Working Paper of Center on
Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan Foundation Project: Use of
Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, Nobuhiko Hibara, “Food
Retailing: Ito-Yokado Group -
Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology”, Working Paper
of Center on Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan Foundation
Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, “Automobiles: Toyota Motor Corporation: Gaining and
Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology,” Working Paper
of Center on Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan Foundation
Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, “International Retail Banking: The Citibank Group,
Gaining and Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology,”
Working Paper of Center on Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan
Foundation Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia,
NYC
1999 _, Review Japan’s Technical Standards:
Implications for Global Trade and Competitiveness, Journal of Asian
Business, Vol 15 No 3, Ann Arbor, MI
_, “Life Insurance: Meiji Life – Gaining and Sustaining
Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology”, Working Paper of Center on
Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan Foundation Project: Use of
Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NY
_, “Retail Banking: Sanwa Bank – Gaining and Sustaining
Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology”, Working Paper of Center on
Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia Sloan Foundation Project: Use of
Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NY
_, “Gaining and Sustaining Long-term Advantage Using
Information Technology: Emergence of Controlled Production,” Best Papers Proceedings, Association of
Japanese Business Studies, Salt Lake City, UT. (refereed)
_, Hiroshi Amari, and Hugh
Patrick, “Sustaining Long Term Advantage through Information Technology,
Pharmaceuticals: Takeda,” in Information Processing as a
Competitive Advantage of Japanese Firms, H. Albach,
U. Goertzen, and R. Zobel,
ed., WZB, Berlin
_, and Hiroshi Amari,
“Pharmaceuticals: Takeda - Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information
Technology”, Working Paper of Center on Japanese Economy and Business for
Columbia-Yale Sloan Foundation Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive
Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, and Hiroshi Amari,
“Pharmaceuticals: Merck - Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information
Technology”, Working Paper of Center on Japanese Economy and Business for
Columbia-Yale Sloan Foundation Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive
Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, and Christos Cabolis, “Semiconductors: NEC - Sustaining Long-term
Advantage Through Information Technology”, Working Paper of Center on Japanese
Economy and Business for Columbia-Yale Sloan Foundation Project: Use of
Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, “Gaining and Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through
Information Technology: The Emergence of Controlled Production”, Working Paper
of Center on Japanese Economy and Business for Columbia-Yale Sloan Foundation
Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage, Columbia, NYC
_, “Foreign Firms in Japan’s Securities Industry in the
1980s and Post Bubble Economy,” in Post Bubble Japanese Business,
Raj Aggarwal, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 7 (refereed)
1998 _, Review Growth Theories in Light of the East
Asian Experience, Journal of Asian and African Studies
_, Review The Economic Development of Japan, Studies
in Comparative International Development
_, “Copyright: A Too Strong
Protection Policy for Computer Software?” in volume edited by Koichi Hamada on Intellectual
Property Rights in Japan, MITI, Tokyo.
_, “Life Cycle Model,” Final Report Symposium on Building the
Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Japan & the United
States, Program on International Financial Systems, Harvard Law School.
1997 _, Review Firms and Industrial Organizations in Japan, Journal
of Asian Business, Vol 13 No 1, Ann Arbor, MI
_, Review The Eight Core Values of the Japanese
Businessman, Journal of Asian Business, Vol
13 No 2, Ann Arbor, MI
1996 _, “Customized
Software: Strategies for Acquiring and Sustaining Competitive Advantage: A
Japanese Perspective,“ Canadian Association of Japanese Studies 1995
Conference Proceedings (refereed)
_, Review Japan and Malaysian Development: In the
Shadow of the Rising Sun, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 69 No. 3
_, Review Japanese Industrialization and the Asian
Economy, Journal of Asian Business, Number 4
1995 _, “Capturing Japan’s Attention: Canada’s Evolving
Economic Relation with Japan,” Benchmarking the Canadian Presence in East
Asia, Wendy Dobson, ed., Centre for International Business, University of
Toronto (refereed).
_, “Soft Policies and Hard Competition: Government,
Industry, and User Impacts on the Development of Japan’s Software Industry,”
Columbia Center on Japanese Economy and Business Working Paper No. 94.
_, “Japanese Producers and the Strategic Development of
Vietnam’s Automobile Industry,” Vietnam and Japan, Japanese Aid and
Investment Strategies in Vietnam: Implications for Development Directions,
Barbara Duffield, ed., Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives,
University of Victoria, B.C., Canada
_, Review Economic, Industrial and Managerial
Coordination between Japan and the USA, Journal of Japanese Studies,
August.
1994 _, Review article on Japanese Finance and Unequal
Equities, Journal of Japanese Studies, February.
_, Review Article Zaibatsu, Journal of Asian
Studies, August.
1993 _, "Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the
Product Cycle," Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Business
Studies, January (refereed).
_,
"Japan Inc. at a Crossroads: Outlook for Japan's Economy and Multinational
Corporations through the End of the Decade." The World & I, Washington
Times, November.
1992 _, "Japanese Multinationals: An Evolutionary
Theory and Some Potential Global Political Implications for the 1990's," Center
on Japanese Economy and Business Working Paper Series, No. 61, January.
Published as "Japanese Multinationals: An Evolutionary Theory," in Europe.
Japan. and America in the 1990s: Cooperation and Competition, Vol. III in Europe. Asia-Pacific
Studies in Economy edited by Thomas Leuenberger
and Martin Einstein, Springier-, Berlin, p 221-267 (refereed).
_, "Does the Sun Have to Set?" The World
& I, Washington Times, Washington, D.C., October, p 562-567
1989 _, "Review Japan Facing Economic
Maturity," The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 15, No.1
1988 _, "Demystifying M&A," Mitsui Trade
News, Vol. 25.
1987 _, "Stabilizing the Yen: The Unattractive
Alternatives to Full Import Liberalization," Yomiuri Symposium on International
Economy '87, Yomiuri Shinbun, Tokyo, p 53-56.
1986 _, "Japan's Invisible Barriers to Trade,"
T. Pugel, ed., Fragile Interdependence, D.C.
Heath, NY, p 21-45 (refereed).
1984 _, “Unbundling Japan Inc.," Creative
Computing, August, p 43-48.
1983 _, "Japan's Government Policy on Trade," Encyclopedia
of Japan, Kodansha, Tokyo.
_, "Reevaluating Past Policy Approaches to
US-Japanese Trade Problems," R. Kosobud, ed, Northeast
Asia and the United States: Defense Partnerships and Trade Rivalries,
Chicago Council Foreign Relations, Chicago, p 25-42.
_, "Industrial Structure and Japanese Trade
Friction," Journal of International Affairs, Summer, Vol. 37, p
67-79.
1980 _, "The United States and Japan: Competition in World
Markets: Policy Alternatives for the United States," Special Study on
Economic Change. Vol. 9. The International Economy: US Role in a World Market,
Joint Economic Committee, US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,
December 17, p 354-361.
_, "The Decade Ahead: Japan's Economy in the
1980's," Japan Society Newsletter, NY, Vol. XXVIII, p 5-7.
1979 _, "What the US has to do to Compete with
Japan," Journal of Contemporary Business, Vol. 8, No. 2, p 17-26.
_, and William L. Givens, "What it Takes to Meet the
Japanese Challenge," Fortune, June 18, 1979, p 104-120. (Also
printed in Japanese in President, September, p 254-263.)
_, and Robert Feldman, "Japan' s Economic Strategy
and Prospects," William J. Barnds, ed., Japan
and the United States: Challenges and Opportunities, NYU Press, NY, p
86-154.
1977 _, "Japan: Its Industrial Policy and Corporate
Behavior," Columbia Journal of World Business, NY, Spring, pp.
38-58 (refereed).
1976 _, "Firm Size and Japan's Export Structure: A Microview of Japan's Changing Export Competitiveness Since
Meiji," Hugh Patrick, ed., Japanese Industrialization and Its Social
Consequences, U of C Press, Berkeley, pp. 201-248.
1975_, "Japan's Industrial
Policy," Isaiah Frank, ed., The Japanese Economy in International Perspective,
John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, p 37-66.
_,
"The Many Possible Extensions of Product Cycle Analysis," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Vol. 16,
No. 1, Tokyo, June, p 22-29. (Also published in Japanese in Hitotsubashi's
Japanese Journal and Kojima, ed., Essays in Remembrance of N. Akamatsu.)
1973 _, "Strategy Formulation and International
Competition," Columbia Journal of World Business, NY, Vol. VIII,
No. 2, p 98-112 (refereed).
_, "Supply Management: A Key Element in Japan's
Economic Policy," The Morgan Guaranty Survey, Morgan Guaranty, NY,
September, p 10-15.
1972 _, and James Abegglen,
"The Competitive Impact of Japanese Growth," in J. Cohen, ed., Pacific
Partnership: United States-Japan Trade, D.C. Heath, Lexington, MA, p 19-50.
_, James van B. Dresser, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, "Competitive Development of the Japanese Steel
Industry," in J. Cohen, ed., op. cit., p 201-220
_, and Thomas Hout,
"Competitive Development of the Japanese Automobile Industry," in J.
Cohen, ed., op. cit.
1971 _, "Implications of Japanese Competition for
U.S. Business," Bond Buyer Annual, NY, November 30, p 221-240.
1970 _, and James Abegglen,
"Japanese Managerial Behavior and 'Excessive Competition'," The
Developing Economies, Vol. VIII, Tokyo, December, No. 4, p 427-444
(refereed).
1969 _, Herbert G. Grubel, and
Harry G. Johnson, “Excise Taxes and Effective Protection: A Note,” The
Economic Journal, Vol. LXXIX, September, p 674-675 (refereed).
1967 _,
"A Theory of Changing Trade Patterns Under Economic Growth: Tested for
Japan," Yale Economic Essays, New Haven, Conn., Fall 1967, pp.
69-135 (refereed).
FORMAL PAPERS AND
SPEECHES DELIVERED:
Presentation Doshisha University, Kyoto, “Best Practice IT Strategy Paradigm”
Presentation Tokyo Economics University, “Information Technology Strategies”
Keynote address
on “Leveraging IT As A Core Competency To Enter New Businesses: The UPS Case,”
The International Business and Technology Research Conference, Las Vegas
Poster session,
JAPANESE ‘MINI BANKS’: Retail Banking Services through Convenience Stores,
The Academy of International Business, Stockholm (with Mazhar ul Islam)
Paper
presentation, JAPANESE ‘MINI BANKS’: Retail Banking Services through Convenience
Stores, The Association of Japanese Business conference, Stockholm (with Mazhar
ul Islam)
Presentation University of Missouri at St. Louis and St.
Louis Japan Society “Japanese Consolidation: Leading
firms are Leveraging Japan’s Economic Malaise Using IT & Globalization To
Force Restructuring.”
2003 -
Presentation (October) American Society for Competitiveness Washington, DC “An
E-Commerce Alternative: Japanese Convenience Stores, E-Retsus
& Telematics, Gaining An Advantage In
E&M-Commerce.” (refereed)
Presentations NYU (September) on “Leveraging Japan’s Economic Malaise: Using IT and Globalization to Restructure Japanese Industry”.
Presentation of paper, “Japanese Convenience Stores
And Telematics Another Approach to Capturing E&M-Commerce Advantages,”
Hawaii Conference On International Business, June (refereed)
Presentation
of paper, “Japanese Convenience Stores’ Telematic Approach to Gaining an
E-Commerce Advantage,” Association of Japanese Business Studies Conference,
June (refereed)
Presentation
of paper, “Putting E-Commerce to Work: The Japanese Convenience Store Case,”
Japan Economic Seminar, Washington, DC, April
Presentation paper, “An E-Commerce Alternative: Japanese
Convenience Stores, E-Retsus, and Telematics – Gaining An Advantage In E&M
Commerce,” Industrial, Engineering and Management Systems Conference, March
(refereed)
2002 - Keynote Address, “IT Strategies: Best
Practice Paradigm, How Leading Firms Use IT To Gain Sustainable Competitive
Advantage,” Asian Institute of Technology Conference, Bangkok, December
Presentation
of Paper with Mazhar ul Islam, “Japanese Convenience Stores
And E-Retsus” at Asian Institute of Technology Conference in Bangkok, December
Presentations
at MIT (December) and Columbia (October) on “Strong Get Stronger: The Role of
IT and Globalization in Restructuring Japanese Industry”.
Presentation
on the “Role of IT and Globalization in Restructuring Industry,” Association of
Japanese Business Studies Conference, June
2001 -
Presentation, “E-Banking in Japan,” Association Of Japanese Business Studies
Conference, June
Presentation
paper on Nomura Securities, “Success by
Assisting Others to Gain and Sustain Long-term Advantage through Information
Technology,” Association Of Japanese Business Studies Conference, Finland, June (refereed)
Presentation at Amherst College,
“Great Expectations – E-Business: Some Emerging Scenarios That Will Alter Our
lives,” June
Presentation,
“Great Expectations - E-Banking: Some Emerging Formats”, Conference on Using
Information Technology to Improve Competitiveness, Helsinki, May
2000 -
Presentation of paper to Association of Japanese Business Studies on
Nippon Steel’s E-Commerce Strategy, June (refereed)
National
University of Singapore, Singapore, “Economic Origins of Asia’s Financial
Crises: Are They Really Being Fixed?”, March
Tohoku University, Sendai, “Japan’s Current
Financial & Economic Crisis: a Contrarian View?”, February
1999 - Presentation on Continuing Problems in the Asian
Financial Crisis to joint conference of American University, Korea University,
and Ritsumeikan University, November
Association
of Japanese Business Studies Annual Conference, “Gaining and Sustaining
Long-term Advantage Using Information Technology: Emergence of Controlled
Production,” June
1998 - Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual
Conference, “Case Study on the Use of Information to Achieve Competitive
Advantage: Takeda”, May
Presentation
WHU, Koblenz, Germany on “Japanese Companies Use of
Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage,” February
Presentation WZB Berlin Conference on Japanese Information
Technology, “Use of Information Technology Case Studies on Pharmaceuticals:
Takeda and Merck” (refereed)
1997 - Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual Conference,
“Japanese Software Project”, June
MITI conference at Yale, “Copyright: A Too Strong
Protection Policy for Computer Software?” May (refereed)
1996 - CAPI Conference on “The Asia-Pacific Region and the
Expanding Borders of the WTO: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities”, “The
Persistence of Unilateralism and Bilateral Negotiations: A Practitioner’s
Perspective,” June.
Columbia Program for Chinese Power Firms, “Project Financing:
Difficulties and Strategic Opportunities,” May.
Columbia Conference on Software Users’ Strategies for
Gaining Competitive Advantage: a US-Japan Comparison, “Japanese Users’
Strategies for Achieving Competitive Advantage,” April.
1995 - Canadian Association of Japanese Studies
Conference, “Customized Software: Strategies for Acquiring and Sustaining
Competitive Advantage: A Japanese Perspective,” University of Victoria,
September (refereed).
Seminar on Japan, Computers and
Intellectual Property in an Era of Rapid Technological Change, “Customized
Software: Japanese Strategies for Gaining and Sustaining Competitive
Advantage,” Victoria, September
Association Japanese Business
Studies, “Strategic Evolution of the Japanese Software Industry,” Michigan,
June.
Hong Kong Bank Asian Forum,
”Capturing Japan’s Attention: Canada’s Evolving Economic Relation with Japan,”
Toronto, June (refereed).
Japan Economic Seminar, Columbia on “The Strategic Evolution
of Japan’s Software Industry - Government Policies, Industry Initiatives and
User Economics: an Evolutionary Perspective,” February.
1994 - Osaka University-Columbia conference in Osaka on
Developments in the Japanese Economy and Its Pacific Context, "The Role of
Foreign Firms in the Japanese Securities Industry in the 1980s," June
(refereed).
Center on Japanese Economy and Business Conference on High
Technology, Columbia, "Japanese Software: Strategies and
Frustrations," April.
NIBEN Conference on International Business, University of
Washington, "Japanese Software: Strategies and Competition,"
February.
Association Japanese Business Studies, Vancouver.
"Japanese-US Competition in Software Policy Challenges and Strategic
Prospects. A Research Agenda.," January.
Conference (November): Japan’s Investment and Aid
Strategies in Vietnam, University Victoria. “Japanese Producers and Strategic
Development of Vietnam’s Auto Industry”.
1993 - Yale School of Organization and Management Conference on Foreign
Direct Investment in Japan, "Foreign Direct Investment in the Japanese
Securities Industry, Strategies for Long-term Competitive Success,"
(refereed).
Pacific Institute Conference, Washington, D.C. on The
Convergence of Antitrust and Trade Laws, "Multidimensional Obstacles to
Foreign Competition in Japan's Financial Services."
University of Washington Conference on Intellectual
Property Issues in International Business, "International Processing Inc.,
A Constructed Mini-case Reflecting Transnational Tax Issues Involving
Intellectual Property."
1989 - Australia-Japan Centre' s Conference on the Impact
of Developments of Japan's Financial Market in Asia and the Pacific at
Canberra, "Japanese Overseas Investment and Internal Economic
Stress," (refereed).
1987 - Yomiuri Shinbun's Symposium
on International Economy '87.
Japan Society of New York and Columbia Center on Japanese
Economy and Business Conference on Japan’s Industrial Structure in Crisis:
National Concerns and International Implications, “The New Dualism”.
1984 - New York University Graduate School of Business
Administration Conference on Japanese Business and Economic Structure,
November, "Japan's Invisible Barriers to Trade," (refereed).
1981 - Sweden-Japan Economic Foundation, Symposium,
Stockholm, August, "Japanese Macroeconomic Policies and Their Impact on
Trade."
1980 - Association of Asian Studies, Annual Meeting,
March, Washington, D.C., "The United States and Japan: Competition in World
Markets - Policy Alternatives for the United States."
1979 - US-Japan Economic Relationship in the 1980s Fortune
Conference with US-Japan Trade Council, Washington, DC, October, "Japanese
Competitive Developments in the 1980's," reported Fortune and Wall
Street Journal
Japanese American Relations in the World Economy,
Skidmore, Saratoga Springs, NY, August, "US-Japan Economic Relations in
the 1980's: A Multilateral Perspective."
Second World Congress International Federation of
Purchasing and Materials Management, Mexico City, July, "National Economic
Policies and their Effect on World Trade."
1978 - Japanese-American Relations in the World Economy,
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY August, "Japanese Managerial Style
as a Function of Real Economic Pressure and Successful Long-Term
Strategies."
1973 - American Statistical Association, Annual Meeting,
Pittsburgh, PA, April, "Japan and the US"
1971 - National Association of Business Economists, Annual
Meeting, Pittsburgh, March, "Implications of Japanese Competition for U.S.
Business." Reported New York Times, IEEE Newsletter, and US
News and World Report.
OTHER:
Congressional Testimony: Joint Economic Committee,
"National Economic Policy and U.S. Export Competitiveness."
Interstate and Foreign Commerce, "Industrial Policy and Economic Survival:
The Japanese Case," both 1980, and 1982 hearings before the Committee on
Foreign Affairs on “U.S. Foreign Policy and the Law of the Sea.” Speeches NY
Japan Society on US-Japan Trade, Japanese Economic Structure, Japanese Energy
Demand, and Barriers to Trade, 1975, 1979, 1980, and 1984 respectively. Pacific
Partnership Project 1971-72. Helped raise $180,000 from Japan-US Friendship
Commission in 1976 to sponsor conferences on Japan related teaching modules for
use US business schools.
Japanese TV special on US-Japan Trade, 1979. US PBS TV
special on US-Japan Relations, 1991. Published Interviews in Economist,
in Look Japan. Contributor to Economist's Financial Report
1975-80. Participant several conferences in US, Australia, and Japan including
member Columbia delegation US/Japan/ASEAN conference in Japan, December 1990
and Member of National Academy of Engineering study on the global electronics
industry, 1980-81 and National Research Council study on Protecting
Intellectual Property 1993. A chair and organizer of conferences at Columbia
University on “Software as a Tool of Competitive Advantage: A U.S.-Japan
Comparison”, 1996, “Software as a Strategic Tool of Competitive Advantage:
Japanese and US Industry Case studies”, 2000 and on “Intellectual Property
Rights and the Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation in Asia” 2002.