Koichi Hori Ph.D

Koichi Hori Ph.D General Information

Biography

Dr. Koichi Hori was the Founder and served as Chairman at Dream Incubator. He worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for 19 years before founding Dream Incubator Inc. (DI) in 2000 and managed to demonstrate the most rapid growth among all worldwide offices during his last 11 years as the President of Japan office. He took leadership in formulating and proposing numerous business strategies, and providing implementation supports in areas such as sales/marketing, e-commerce and medium-term strategies for various industries including financial, high-tech, consumer goods and leisure & amusement. He is known as the pioneer of the consulting industry in Japan and possesses strong and wide relationship in both business and political communities. His interest and activity goes beyond consulting and serves as the Chairman of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Fund Corporation for Innovation, Value-Chain and Expansion Japan. He is also the author of about 60 books in the areas of leadership, management, consulting, etc. and has also contributed many articles to leading newspapers and business magazines in Asian countries. He worked for Yomiuri Newspaper and Mitsubishi Corporation before joining BCG, and holds an MBA (first ever Japanese Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School, a BA in Law from the University of Tokyo and a Ph. D from Newport Asia Pacific University.