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Tech & Sports: Could your next coach be a computer?
As AI is applied to ever more tech, the era of health apps may soon be replaced by something altogether more powerful...
2 March 2023 in CEO Dialogue podcast series
Rakuten CEO Mickey Mikitani tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni how – by challenging conventional wisdom and encouraging all staff to tidy their own offices – he has grown his company from an...
Apple Google SpotifyTwenty-six years ago, Mickey Mikitani quit his position at the Industrial Bank of Japan – an unusual move in the traditional world of Japanese corporate culture. Even more surprisingly, he left not to join another large institution but to pursue an idea he had for an e-commerce startup.
Today, from humble beginnings with just six employees and a single server, his idea has mushroomed into Rakuten (meaning optimism in Japanese), a business ecosystem with 31,000 employees and revenues last year of about $15bn.
In conversation with IMD President Jean-François Manzoni, Mikitani describes his journey; and how an e-commerce startup grew into an online giant, spanning internet services, fintech, and mobile.
23 July 2024 • by Amit M. Joshi, Michael R. Wade in Podcasts
As AI is applied to ever more tech, the era of health apps may soon be replaced by something altogether more powerful...
9 July 2024 • by Michael R. Wade, Joseph Bradley in Podcasts
TONOMUS is creating a ‘cognitive’ city in the desert of Saudi Arabia. Joseph Bradley, the company’s CEO, shares what he’s learned since taking on the hugely ambitious project....
2 July 2024 • by Raphaël Grieco, Karl Schmedders in Podcasts
In her second conversation with IMD, Evgenia Plotnikova, General Partner at Dawn Capital, discusses the importance of specialization...
26 June 2024 • by Michael R. Wade, Amit M. Joshi in Podcasts
In this second part of a three-part mini-series, Mike and Amit cover the rise of esports....
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