Yoshitaka Saeki
Position:
Lecturer, GLOBIS University
Discipline:
Accounting and Finance
Courses:
Finance I (Corporate Finance)
Finance II (Valuation and M&A)
Education:
MBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business
BA in Politics and Economics, Waseda University
Biography:
Yoshitaka Saeki is a finance professional with over twenty years of experience. He started his career at the Development Bank of Japan, a government financial institution, where he played a leadership role in technical assistance projects to China, Russia, and other emerging countries, in cooperation with the World Bank and the Japanese government.
Later, he joined AllianceBernstein, a US-based asset management firm, first as an analyst and then as senior vice president and portfolio manager.
He currently serves as a corporate financial advisor, writes books on the basics of financial analysis, and runs an English school in Kichijoji, Tokyo. At GLOBIS University, he teaches courses on finance.
Finance can be one of the most challenging courses in that it requires extensive quantitative analyses and an accurate output of numbers. At the same time, it is rewarding because finance is an essential tool for managers who want to create values and measure them. Effective managers need to be able to make decisions and communicate in terms of numbers.
In my class, I try to bring in real-world settings through vigorous class discussions. The more committed you are, the more you’ll find your learning experiences rewarding.
