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Mariko Sakakibara serves as Professor of Strategy and holds the Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal at UCLA Anderson School of Management. She joined the faculty in 1994 after serving as deputy director of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Her academic appointments include teaching strategy and international business in MBA and Ph.D. programs.
Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1995) and MBA (1989) from Harvard University, complemented by an M.E. in Architectural Engineering (1981) from the University of Tokyo and B.E. from Kyoto University (1979).
Sakakibara's research spans strategic alliances, intellectual property rights, innovation systems, and multinational corporate strategy with particular focus on Japanese economic institutions. Her work examines how noncompete agreements affect labor mobility, the dynamics of corporate spinouts, and the economic impact of research consortia. She employs large-scale datasets including geolocational information and longitudinal firm studies to analyze strategic decision-making.
Her publication portfolio reveals consistent contributions to strategic management and industrial organization, with recent work emphasizing high-tech labor markets, acquisition dynamics, and innovation policy. Key trends show increasing methodological sophistication through geospatial data analysis and natural experiments while maintaining focus on intellectual property and alliance structures.
- Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal (2020)
- Book Can Japan Compete selected as The Economist's Book of the Year (2000)
- Distinguished Paper Award, Academy of Management (2016)
- WH Smith Book Awards Finalist (2001)
Sakakibara advises major corporations on foreign market entry strategies, intellectual property frameworks, and strategic alliance formation. Her global consulting engagements reflect her expertise in cross-border business dynamics. She directs research initiatives examining Japanese multinational expansion and innovation policy effectiveness, with recent projects analyzing nanotechnology collaboration networks and noncompete agreement enforcement.
Her laboratory of research centers on strategic management of innovation through longitudinal firm studies and policy analysis, particularly examining how institutional frameworks shape corporate behavior in global markets.
