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My Take
Hirotaka Takeuchi is one of those figures where the resume alone makes you pause — born in Tokyo in 1946, just after the war, and somehow ending up at UC Berkeley, one of the sharpest academic environments on the planet. That kind of trajectory doesn't happen by accident; it takes a particular stubbornness about ideas. Business professors tend to get written off as people who live inside models and jargon, but a paper that helped inspire the Scrum way of building software suggests Takeuchi has been reading the patterns right for a very long time. There's something quietly impressive about a guy born in the rubble of postwar Japan who builds his life in the world of knowledge and stays the course, no drama, no reinvention arc needed — just the work.
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Overview
Hirotaka Takeuchi is a Japanese management scholar born on October 16, 1946, in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from International Christian University, he earned an MBA and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, taught at Harvard Business School and Hitotsubashi University, and co-authored The New New Product Development Game, which influenced the development of the Scrum framework.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Hirotaka Takeuchi
- Name (Japanese)
- 竹内弘高
- Reading
- たけうち ひろたか
- Born
- October 16, 1946 (age 80)
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Business scholar / University Faculty
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Dog
2. Background
- University
- University of California, Berkeley
3. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%B9%E5%86%85%E5%BC%98%E9%AB%98
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1620314
4. About this entry
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Frequently asked questions
When was Hirotaka Takeuchi born?
Hirotaka Takeuchi was born on October 16, 1946 and is 80 years old.
Where is Hirotaka Takeuchi from?
Hirotaka Takeuchi is from Tokyo, Japan.
What does Hirotaka Takeuchi do?
Hirotaka Takeuchi works as Business scholar, University Faculty.
Where did Hirotaka Takeuchi study?
Hirotaka Takeuchi attended University of California, Berkeley.