Tomoaki Shimada

PhD Candidate at INSEAD (Technology Management Department)

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  • BEng Information Science, Kyoto University, 1993;

  • MSc Information Science, University of Tokyo, 1995;

  • MBA, National University of Singapore, 2000;

  • MSc Management, INSEAD, 2002.

Tomoaki joined the PhD program at INSEAD in 2000, and was admitted to candidacy in 2002 with a MSc degree in Management. He belongs to POM (Production and Operations Management) Group in Technology Management Department.

After completing his BEng degree in information science at Kyoto University and his MSc degree in information science at the University of Tokyo, Tomoaki worked at A.T. Kearney in Tokyo. He then worked in Singapore as a manager for a manufacturing company (Framatome Connectors), an IT company (Fujitsu Computers), and a venture company in the area of marketing and sales. During this time, he also earned an MBA degree from the NUS (National University of Singapore).

Tomoaki's research area includes supply chain management, electronic data interchange, B2B e-Commerce, and buyer-supplier relationships. Specifically, he is interested in information sharing in a supply chain, opportunism in principal-agent relations, and the evolution of electronic supply chain networks.