Dr. Mariko Sakakibara

Biography

Mariko Sakakibara joined the UCLA Anderson faculty in 1994, focusing her research on alliances, innovation, intellectual property rights, entrepreneurship, multinational corporate strategy, and national competitiveness. Prior to coming to the United States, she was a Fulbright Scholar and served as deputy director of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Sakakibara has published her research in leading scholarly journals across economics and management including the American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Industrial Economics, Research Policy, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. She co-authored the book 'Japan Can Compete' with Michael Porter and Hirotaka Takeuchi, which was selected as a Book of the Year in 2000 by The Economist. In 2020, she was named the Sanford Betty Sigoloff Chair of Corporate Renewal and teaches courses in strategy and international business in the MBA and Ph.D. programs at UCLA Anderson. Sakakibara has been invited to present her work worldwide, including in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, and Korea. She has also served as a consultant to a variety of corporations on studies of foreign market entry, intellectual property rights, and strategic alliances.

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