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Speaker: Takahiro Fujimoto
Topic: An Insider's Look at Capability-Building Competition in the Auto Industry
When: Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, 2 September 2007
Admission: Buy a copy of Competing to Be Really, REALLY Good from Good Day Books Takahiro Fujimoto has served since 1998 as a professor in the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Economics. Since 2003, he has also headed the University of Tokyo's Manufacturing Management Research Center. Fujimoto-sensei's primary research emphases are technology, operations research, and business administration. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of To-
kyo in 1979 and a doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1989. After earning his Ph.D., he remained at Harvard as a researcher, a visiting professor (1996-97), and a senior research associate (1997). Fujimoto-sensei has also served as an associate professor on the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics, a visiting professor at the University of Lyon in France, and a visiting researcher at
INSEAD. He is a co-author of Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization, and Manage-
ment in the World Auto Industry (Harvard Business School Press, 1991); a co-author of Transforming Automobile Assembly (Springer-Verlag, 1997); the author of The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota (Oxford University Press, 1999); and a co-author of Toyota Shisutemu no Genten [Origin of the Toyota System] (Bushindo, 2001). Your ticket for admission to Takahiro Fujimoto's BOOKNOTES presentation, "An Insider's Look at
Capability-Building Competition in the Auto Industry," will be a copy of Competing to Be Really, REALLY Good bought from Good Day Books. Paperback copies of this book may be purchased at Good Day Books for two thousand yen (¥2000) each, tax included.
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