NewsPicksに記事「JT、リクルートの海外展開、失敗事例に学ぶ」を投稿しました。
An article titled "Learning from the overseas-expansion failures of JT and Recruit" has been posted to NewsPicks.
2007年、英Gallaherを過去最大規模で買収し、グローバルカンパニーとしての基盤を強化した日本たばこ産業。2030年をめどにグローバルNo.1を目指し、中期的に7000億円規模のM&A余力を持つというリクルート。両社の若き経営企画トップである日本たばこ産業 執行役員企画副責任者・筒井岳彦氏、リクルートホールディングス 経営企画室長・林宏昌氏、国際化戦略論の専門家である立命館大学 経営学部 准教授（当時）・琴坂将広氏が、SPEEDA Global management seminarに集結。日本企業のグローバル化と、その推進役である経営企画部門のあり方について激論を繰り広げた（全4回）。
In 2007, Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) made what was then the largest-ever Japanese M&A — the JPY 2.2 trillion acquisition of UK-based Gallaher — and reinforced its base as a global company. Recruit, for its part, has declared a goal of becoming Number One globally in talent and marketing by around 2030, while keeping roughly JPY 700 billion in M&A capacity at the medium-term horizon. The young heads of corporate strategy at both firms — Takehiko Tsutsui (Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Planning, JT) and Hiromasa Hayashi (Head of Corporate Strategy, Recruit Holdings) — joined Masahiro Kotosaka, then Associate Professor of International Management at Ritsumeikan University and an expert on internationalisation strategy, at Uzabase's SPEEDA Global Management Seminar. Together they had a genuinely heated debate about the globalisation of Japanese companies and what corporate strategy departments should look like in that role (a four-part series).