Nigel Denscombe

“Teaching it in the management classroom, doing it in the real business world”

is a new kind of “hybrid” businessperson standing at the intersection of two key roles: global manager/owner and business educator. This is why in 2001 he created a Tokyo/New York firm, Denscombe Corporation (www.denscombe.co.jp), to “bridge” business and education by providing strategic management solutions for repositioning/creating sustainable value propositions for corporate clients and business schools, and also by providing management education solutions for them as well. On one side, he is a truly globalized Tokyo-based British-American high value-added management professional with a 30-year successful track record of leading positive industry change and finding new value propositions. At the same time, he is also an accomplished management educator who has created new business schools/repositioned existing ones and who also has taught a wide range of high value-added management courses for Asian university business schools and corporate clients. In business education, as a management practitioner in the real world, his mission is to put “business” back into business school and to foster the global leadership required to take practical advantage of the great changes going on for sustainable corporate value propositions. Everything teaches, he does (or has done) in the real world. This gives him a unique learning value proposition because, with his global management track record and wide business education teaching experience, he offers an unparalleled learning experience for all those participating in his management classes. Before shifting his focus to Asia, had extensive management/owner experience in North America and Europe, focused on financial services, new business development, innovating markets and new market entry, and corporate strategy, especially restructuring.

BUSINESS BACKGROUND

• President/CEO, Denscombe Corporation (Asia-focused strategic management consulting firm)
• President/CEO, Denscombe & Co, Inc. (New York merchant banking/strategic consulting firm)
• Managing Director/Vice President, Bank of America (New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City)
• Assistant Vice President, Bankers Trust New York Corporation (New York, London)
• Financial Analyst, Harvard University Real Estate Investment (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Marketing Specialist – French market-entry team, Avon Corporation (London/Paris)
• Steelworker, Avesta Jernverks AB (Avesta, Sweden)

EDUCATOR BACKGROUND

• Denscombe Corporation (Tokyo/New York)
• Lecturer, Management education outsourcing business
• CICOM Brains, Inc. (Co-founding team member and former director/Tokyo)
• Lecturer, HR development/management education business
• Waseda University Graduate School of Commerce (Tokyo, Japan)
• Lecturer: Business Plan, Business Plan Mentoring, Market-Entry, Global Marketing
• International University of Japan, GSIM (Niigata, Japan)
• Specially Invited Professor: Strategic Management, Asian Market-Entry

Specialized fields

Strategic management, corporate repositioning, change management, new market entry, business plan, value proposition, global marketing, emerging Asian markets, corporate governance and restructuring, stakeholder value creation, financial management, critical thinking and decision-making

Academic Background

BA, Harvard College, UCLA, Extension Program (Film Business/Entertainment Studies) Harvard Business School, MBA in General Management Harvard College, AB (Modern History)

Research Interests

Business Plan, Strategic Management, Competing in Emerging Markets, Creative and Critical Thinking

Final Education

MBA, Harvard University

Research Papers

• Business Planning Manual-For Japan market-entry and/or market expansion, Waseda University Graduate School of Commerce, 200906
• Vodafone Group plc-Vodafone's short stay in Japan (1999-2006) , Waseda University Graduate School of Commerce, 200807
• Associated British Foods-Japan market-entry simulation: Culture clash food fight-"Bread versus Rice"!, Corporation, 200806
• IKEA (B)-IKEA's Japan adventures: Getting it right the 3rd time?, Waseda University Graduate School of Commerce, 200805
• IKEA (A)-Business model, global competitive positioning, new market-entry, Corporation, 200805