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Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷浩史, Mikitani Hiroshi) (born March 11, 1965) is a Japanese billionaire business magnate and writer. He is the founder and CEO of Rakuten, Inc.
At HBS, where Mikitani graduated in 1993, he began to formulate ideas for his own venture. Studying hundreds of cases of startup success, he was transformed. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he recalled.
Hiroshi Mikitani is the founder and CEO of Rakuten, the world’s third largest e-commerce marketplace company. He is the author of the English-language book Marketplace 3.0: Rewriting the Rules...
Jan 1, 2012 · Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993. Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. • Download Mikitani profile (pdf) • Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page. In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was then one of the worst earthquakes in Japan’s history.
Mar 1, 2012 · Speak English, Please! In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning announcement: all 7,100 of them would have two years to become proficient in English, or risk demotion.
Jun 15, 2012 · Roppongi Hills was briefly the headquarters of Tokyo’s bad-boy jet-set and the focus of a heated debate about the infiltration of rapacious Wall Street practices. Mikitani, who in 2005 was ...
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hiroshi mikiTani. Chairman and Ceo, rakuTen, inC. ball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. it is the num-ber one e-commerce company in Japan and competes globally with the likes of Amazon.com and eBay.
