Instructional Team

The EWKLP instructional team is led by JAIMS President Ikujiro Nonaka, who teaches the Knowledge Management and Innovation course along with Ryoko Toyama of Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management.

Nonaka’s valuable contributions to the field of management have been recognized with a Purple Ribbon Medal by the Japanese Government; he was also named by The Wall Street Journal Online as one of 20 influential business thinkers. Nonaka also serves as Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University, as Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of California Berkeley, and as the first Distinguished Drucker Scholar at the Claremont Graduate School.

The EWKLP instructional team members and their EWKLP courses* include:

Sherman Abe, Hitotsubashi University, Corporate Finance and Capital Markets
John Barkai, University of Hawaii, Art of Negotiation
Bill Fischer, IMD, Organizing Work
Mike Kotabe, Temple University, Global Marketing Management
Ikujiro Nonaka, Hitotsubashi University, and Ryoko Toyama, Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management, Knowledge Management and Innovation
Blair Odo, JAIMS, Special Topics and Model for Innovation
Maki Kunimatsu, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, Ltd., and Iris Okawa, Attorney, Business Law
Jon Osorio, University of Hawaii, Globalizing Hawaii
Larry Smith, Christopher Smith & Associates (former Director of Education & Training, East-West Center), Leadership and Ethics
Jack Suyderhoud, University of Hawaii, Economic and Financial Environment of Global Business
Kimio Kase, IESE Business School, Strategy Management