Hiroshi Mikitani Talks Englishnization at Harvard Business School

5 years later, hundreds of MBA programs, including MIT, now teach about Englishization.

五年後，包括麻省理工學院在內的數百個MBA專案現在都開始講授英語化相關內容。

This year, Mickey was invited by a Harvard professor to speak to first-year MBA students about Rakuten and share his motivations動機.

今年，米奇受一位哈佛教授邀請，向一年級MBA學生講述樂天的故事並分享他的動機。

There are few MBA case studies performed at Japanese companies.

針對日本企業的MBA案例研究寥寥無幾。

They usually cover process reforms改革, such as lean manufacturing and Kaizen.

這些案例通常涵蓋流程改革，如精益生產和改善（Kaizen）。

It is very rare for a Japanese company to be raised as an example of how to manage large, sweeping全面的 changes, such as Rakuten's Englishization.

像樂天英語化這樣的大規模變革管理極少被作為日本企業的典型案例提出。

The internet is a global business.

網際網路是一個全球性的商業領域。

Uh and uh you cannot just be domestic國內的.

嗯，你不能僅僅侷限於國內市場。

And now, you know, we are in a living in a very dynamic動態 industry.

如今，我們身處一個非常充滿活力的行業。

We are seeing massive巨大的 change of of the society because of the smart intelligence.

由於智慧技術的興起，我們正在目睹社會發生的巨大變革。

Therefore, Rakuten needs to evolve進化.

因此，樂天需要不斷進化。

And we need to hire the uh best and brightest明亮的 from all over the world.

我們需要從世界各地招募最優秀的人才。

Because of Englishization, we can hire engineers from Facebook, Google, and we can invest投資 in the depth in the Pinterest.

得益於英語化政策，我們可以從Facebook和Google招聘工程師，並在Pinterest等公司進行深度投資。

Uh now, we have our dev center in Kadavy.

嗯，我們在卡達維設有研發中心。

Uh all these out-of-box ideas are coming because we are very diversified多元化的 uh organization.

嗯，所有這些突破常規的想法都源於我們多元化的組織。

The Harvard students had many questions for Mickey.

哈佛的學生們向米奇提出了許多問題。

There were voices that said, although they thought the idea was good, the rollout推出 could have been better.

也有聲音表示，雖然他們認為這個想法很好，但推行過程本可以做得更好。

They asked Mickey if he would have done anything different.

他們問米奇，如果重來一次，他是否會採取不同的做法。

I admit I made a many, many uh immature不成熟的 decisions, and uh we could have done better.

我承認我做過許多不成熟的決定，我們本可以做得更好。

Uh but sometimes just stepping forward without too much thinking is very, very important.

但有時，在不過多思考的情況下果斷前行是非常、非常重要的。

I love my employees.

我愛我的員工。

I I trust them.

我信任他們。

I I'm I'm harvest confident自信的 every single one of them can achieve this.

我對他們中的每一位都能實現這一目標充滿信心。

This is we are Japanese company.

畢竟，我們是一家日本公司。

We are highly proud驕傲的 of Japanese culture.

我們為日本文化深感自豪。

Particularly uh the sense of high hospitality, humanness, hard working, teamwork.

特別是那種高規格的待客之道、人情味、勤奮精神以及團隊協作意識。

That has been uh the uh the strength of the many Japanese uh manufacturing company as well as service company.

這一直是眾多日本製造公司以及服務公司的優勢所在。

We are not going to change our culture.

我們不會改變我們的文化。

Hence, we are going to globalize使全球化 good part of our culture through transformation of language.

因此，我們將透過語言變革，將我們文化中優秀的一部分推向全球。

So, I I'm telling uh the Prime Minister, we have a chance to become the Silicon Valley of Asia.

所以，我告訴首相，我們要抓住機會成為‘亞洲的矽谷’。