David James Brunner (djb@davidjamesbrunner.org) is a management scholar interested in computer-assisted organizing, capability ecosystems, organizational learning and knowledge, and Japanese business. Brunner is a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School, a Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation, and the first honoree of the Abegglen Scholarship Fund established in memory of James C. Abegglen. He holds a PhD in Information, Technology & Management from Harvard University. Before entering Harvard, Brunner was an associate in the Tokyo and San Francisco offices of The Boston Consulting Group, where he consulted for firms in the pharmaceutical and software industries.
Brunner is coauthor with Stanford University Professor Emeritus Edward Feigenbaum of The Japanese Entrepreneur: Making the Desert Bloom, a book on the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in Japan. During the summer of 2004, Brunner served as an advisor to Kyoto Prefecture on the promotion of entrepreneurship. Brunner has worked for high-tech startups both in Tokyo and in Silicon Valley, where he cofounded an Internet startup in 1999. In April, 2000, he organized the first Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University. ASES has subsequently grown into a prominent international student organization dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific region.
Brunner holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he received the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award, presented to the top five percent of graduating seniors in the Engineering School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
Brunner has a strong interest in Japanese culture and society. He studied Japanese language and culture as a Ministry of Education Scholar at Shizuoka University and speaks fluent Japanese. Brunner also speaks French, and holds the diploma in advanced French language studies (DALF).
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