Hirotaka Takeuchi joined McCann-Erickson Advertising Co., Ltd. in 1969, before taking a position as Research Assistant at the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of California at Berkley in 1972. He became an Lecturer at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University in 1976 and became an Assistant Professor there before returning to Japan in 1983 as an Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University's School of Commerce, where he later became Professor in 1987. He has held his present position at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy since 1998. Takeuchi became a Corporate Auditor of ORIX in June 2000.

Takeuchi's publications include Kigyo no Jiko Kakushin (Individual Reform Within Management), Chuo Koron Publishing Corporation (co-authorship); Ishitsu no Manejimento (Altered Management), Diamond Publishing Corporation (co-authorship), Besuto Purakutisu Kakumei (Best Practice Revolution), Diamond Publishing; The Knowledge-Creating Company, Oxford University Press (co-authorship), and Nihon no Kyousou Senryaku (co-authorship).

Takeuchi was born in October 1946 and he graduated from the International Christian University in 1969. He then went on to receive an MBA in 1971 from the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of California at Berkley and a Ph.D in 1977 from the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University.

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