Professor Magnier-Watanabe is Associate Professor in the MBA Program in International Business at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management in France (BS, MS), holds an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. His research has been published, among others, in International Business Review, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Workplace Learning, and Knowledge Management Research & Practice. While at Harvard, Dr. Magnier-Watanabe will conduct research on how Japanese firms use knowledge management when making decisions about foreign direct investment in the United States.