JAIMS invites you to a Coffee Talk Lecture
Featuring
Dr. Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe
Visiting Professor, JAIMS, East‐West Knowledge Leaders Program
“Global Strategy: When Local Works & Global Fails”
Introduced by Dr. Ikujiro Nonaka, JAIMS President
Friday, September 25, 2009
6:30‐8:00 p.m.
at
Josui Kaikan
Matsukaze no Ma, 3F
2‐1‐1 Hitotsubashi
Chiyoda‐ku, Tokyo 101‐0003
Please reply to Dai Sakashita (dsaka@jp.fujitsu.com) by September 18, 2009.

Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe
The Washburn Chair Professor of International Business and Marketing
The Fox School of Business
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Dr. Kotabe teaches international marketing, global sourcing
strategy (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing interfaces),
and theories of international business. He is also Director
of Research at the Institute of Global Management Studies
at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University
in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial
Endowed Fellow and Professor of Marketing and
International Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Kotabe served as Vice President of the Academy of
International Business in 1997‐1998 and was elected a
Fellow of the Academy in 1998 for his significant contribu‐
tion to international business research and education.