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James Abegglen
James Christian Abegglen (1926–2007) was an American-born Japanese business theorist and professor in management and economics at Sophia University. He was one of the founders of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 1963, and the first Representative Director (Japan), representative director of its Tokyo branch, founded in 1966. Biography Abegglen was born in Michigan. After graduation from the University of Chicago, he served in the 3rd Marine Division (United States), Third Marine Division to fight at Guadalcanal Island and Iwo Jima. As World War II ended, he left in 1945 for Hiroshima as a member of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS). He visited Japan again in 1955 as a researcher of the Ford Foundation, to study Japanese industrial organization and personnel practices. Abegglen lived permanently in Japan with his Japanese wife after 1982 and took Japanese nationality in 1997. Abegglen served successively as professor and director of the Graduate School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia University
Sophia University (Japanese: 上智大学, ''Jōchi Daigaku''; Latin: ''Universitas Sedis Sapientiae'') is a private research university in Japan. Sophia is one of the three ''Sōkeijōchi'' (早慶上智) private universities, a group of the top three private universities in Japan with the other two being Keio University and Waseda University, according to the Times Higher Education. It is also ranked number 18 in the 2021 Times Japan University Rankings. Founded by the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus in 1913, the university has grown from its three original academic departments of Philosophy, German Literature, and Commerce to 9 undergraduate Faculties and 10 Graduate Schools, with over 13,900 students in total at the moment. Sophia has international students from 77 countries and it has forged agreements with 395 overseas universities in 81 countries to encourage students joining the exchange programs with several other top universities throughout the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
