Nobuko Kobayashi

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Nobuko Kobayashi

Nobuko Kobayashi

Nobuko Kobayashi is a partner with EY-Parthenon, a strategic consulting group within E&Y Transaction Advisory Services. Based in Tokyo, she specializes in the consumer sector with a special focus on multinational corporations operating in Japan.

Rethink METI's role in Japanese innovation

Forget about the government picking winners. Foster entrepreneurs

Japan must get a better grip on tourism

Manage the industry actively, instead of just reacting passively to surging inflows

Technology is the key to reforming the inefficient Japanese office

Labor shortages will finally force companies to automate white-collar jobs and dismantle hierarchies

How to revive Japanese innovation

Companies must cut middle management layers that block entrepreneurial ideas

Employers must help cut Japan's suicide rate

Companies should tackle overwork and boost in-house mental health care

Walmart's exit would not spell doom for Japan's bricks-and-mortar retail

Faced with the e-commerce challenge, operators must innovate to make shopping exciting again

Revitalizing the stagnant Japanese office

Companies can boost dismal productivity rates by boosting labor mobility and rewarding talent

Japan's regions must bypass Tokyo and go global

The tech revolution offers a chance to revive declining local economies

Profits and pitfalls -- taking over a Japanese company

Private equity investors should look to boost growth

#MeToo finally comes to Japan

High-profile sexual harassment scandal raises hard questions about men and women at work

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