Platform and Alliance thinking for your success

                    ~lessons from the success story of mobile payment service in Japan

Professor at Business Breakthrough University,

President, NetStrategy, Inc.

 Carl Atsushi HIRANO                                                
Carl Atsushi HIRANO is well-known as bestselling author in Japan and  currently President and CEO of NetStrategy, Inc., Professor at Business Breakthrough University hosted by Kennichi Ohmae, guest speaker at the Harvard Business School, visiting professor of Okinawa Graduate School, world famous as the mastermind of the Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet credit system.

Born in the United States, he has a B.A. in economics from the University of Tokyo. Joined the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ now merged to Mizuho Financial Group) in 1987, where he was a manager in the International and Investment Banking divisions. He moved to NTTDoCoMo in 1999. There, as head of i-mode strategic alliances, he was a core member of the core project for long-term growth and, embarked on the project to develop and popularize the Mobile Wallet. In 2006, he moved it forward with alliances involving credit card companies. In 2006, he joined Market Platform Dynamics as Senior Advisor. In 2007, he founded NetStrategy, Inc., a company providing support for strategic planning, with Dr. Andrei Hagiu , Associate Professor of Harvard Business School, who is well-known for his multi-sided platform theory or MSP.

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