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Mari Sako is Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School and Professorial Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. Her main areas of expertise include global business strategy and comparative political economy of business. At Oxford, she teaches on a number of programmes, and directs the Executive Diploma in Global Business.

Her most recent research is on the future of professional work (how professionals are responding to artificial intelligence (AI)) and on AI startup ventures. Since 2016, she has conducted a study of alternative legal service providers with Thomson Reuters. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, Vice President for Waseda University, and a member of Thomson Reuters’ strategy board.

Mari made a significant contribution to the analysis of the Japanese economy, business, and labour. In the 1990s and 2000s, she was a researcher for the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), which provided an invaluable opportunity to observe lean production and work organization at automakers and their suppliers in Japan, Brazil, Europe and the United States. Her research continues to be informed by qualitative fieldwork and quantitative data analysis.

Her research has been published in the form of five books and numerous journal articles.

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