Recipient of the Funai Overseas Scholarship from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology for 2016-2018. This was the first Funai scholarship given for the subject of business administration.
Winner of the 2020 Best Student Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for “Enduring Effects of Nationalistic Ideology on Strategy Formation Process: The Case of Nippon Gakki 1938-1960.”
Runner up for the 2020 Best International Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for “Enduring Effects of Nationalistic Ideology on Strategy Formation Process: The Case of Nippon Gakki 1938-1960.”
Finalist for the 2020 Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize for ”Frame Evolution: Temporal Dynamics of Cognitive Frame, Organizational Capability, and Technology Lifecycle at Fujifilm 1985–2018.”
Finalist for the 2020 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference PhD Paper Prize for “Frame Evolution: Temporal Dynamics of Cognitive Frame, Organizational Capability, and Technology Lifecycle at Fujifilm 1985–2018.”
Yusaku Takeda is a Ph.D. candidate in business administration jointly offered by Harvard Business School and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Yusaku examines how incumbent organizations, faced with cultural and technological jolts, ensure long-run viability through a series of transformative product class transitions. Yusaku focuses on the role of cognitive frames and framing processes and mechanisms that either enable or prevent organizations from reconceptualizing their organizational identities, organizational capabilities and core competencies, and the competitive landscapes necessary for such transformations. Yusaku uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, seeking to build and elaborate novel theories based on concrete social and organizational phenomena using qualitative data such as field observation, interview, and archival methodologies, and to validate those theories using quantitative data such as survey, content analysis, and computational textual analysis methodologies. His most recent research examines the processes and mechanisms of (1) the enduring effects of nationalistic ideology on corporate strategies, (2) the co-evolution of top management cognitive frames, corporate strategies, and technology lifecycles, and (3) the group dynamics of framing and reframing innovation ideas within the senior management team through a four-year longitudinal comparative case studies of innovation projects in a design consulting firm.
Yusaku’s research has been recognized as the winner of Best Student Paper Award and the runner-up for Best International Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management (2020). He has also been named among the finalists for Best Conference Paper Prize and Best Conference PhD Paper Prize by Strategic Management Society (2020). He is also the recipient of the Funai Overseas Scholarship from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology—its first recipient in the field of management and organizational studies.
Yusaku earned a B.A. with honors from the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University as a Freeman scholar in 2014, studying political philosophy, government, economics, and modern history. Before joining HBS, he worked as a research assistant at Hitotsubashi University Business School in Tokyo and as an IT consultant in NYC.
He holds a third-degree black belt (Sandan) in Judo, teaches at a local Judo club, and won Connecticut-state and New England championships.
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- Nonaka, Ikujiro, Ayano Hirose, and Yusaku Takeda. "'Meso'-Foundations of Dynamic Capabilities: Team-Level Synthesis and Distributed Leadership as the Source of Dynamic Creativity." Global Strategy Journal 6, no. 3 (August 2016): 168–182. View Details
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Recipient of the Funai Overseas Scholarship from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology for 2016-2018. This was the first Funai scholarship given for the subject of business administration.Winner of the 2020 Best Student Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for “Enduring Effects of Nationalistic Ideology on Strategy Formation Process: The Case of Nippon Gakki 1938-1960.”Runner up for the 2020 Best International Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for “Enduring Effects of Nationalistic Ideology on Strategy Formation Process: The Case of Nippon Gakki 1938-1960.”Finalist for the 2020 Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize for ”Frame Evolution: Temporal Dynamics of Cognitive Frame, Organizational Capability, and Technology Lifecycle at Fujifilm 1985–2018.”Finalist for the 2020 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference PhD Paper Prize for “Frame Evolution: Temporal Dynamics of Cognitive Frame, Organizational Capability, and Technology Lifecycle at Fujifilm 1985–2018.”
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