Yutaka Nakashima

Dr. Nakashima is pursuing dual careers in business and teaching.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he joined Fujitsu in 1984 and w as assigned to HR. After 10 years of experience in the one of the most ICT com panies, he worked for three different U.S. companies, Levi Strauss, GM and Gap  as HR Professional.

In 2005, he was hired by Rakuten as the head of HR where he introduced perform ance based HR policies and practices to help them to globalize their businesse s.

Since 2007, he has worked for the U.S. based financial companies as the Head o f HR and managed the organizational development after the financial crisis. In  2010, he joined Giblartar Life Insurance, one of the Prudential companies in Japan.  He was involved in the one of the biggest M&A project in Japan, which Prudential acquired two life insurance companies from AIG.

He also started to his teaching career in 2004 in several graduate schools in Japan, and joined Chuo Business School in 2008. He earned MBA from University of Michigan and PhD. from Chuo University.