President

Next Frame Inc.

101 Federal Street
Suite 1900
Boston, MA 02110

TEL: (617) 426-2999
FAX: (617) 426-3909
E-MAIL: nextframe@aol.com

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  business administration and management; competitive strategy; consumer behavior; consumer products; corporate culture; corporate identity; distribution; entrepreneurship; foreign corporations in Japan; Japanese corporations in the US; marketing, distribution; retail industry; sogo shosha (general trading firms); strategic planning
• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  competitive intelligence; information systems; Japan-America societies; mass media
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  contemporary society; cultural and social change; gender, sex roles, women; organizational decision-making; organizations and institutions; popular culture; social structure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Founder and President, Next Frame Inc., 1993-present; Founder and President, PAOS Boston, Inc., 1988-93; Managing Director and Founder, Witan Associates, Ltd.; Corporate Communications Center, Canon, Inc.

IN JAPAN: 1975-88 - employment.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Developing Critical Competence: How American Businesspeople Learn and Use Japanese," Annals of Political and Social Sciences (September, 1990).