Prof. Yoshinori Fujikawa Wins Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award
Fujikawa, a visiting professor from Hitotsubashi University Business School’s School of International Corporate Strategy, was honored for seven years of teaching and service at Yale SOM.
Yoshinori Fujikawa, a longtime visiting professor, has received the 2025 Yale School of Management Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award.
The annual award recognizes outstanding teaching by part-time faculty and is based on student course evaluations, with additional consideration given to the faculty member’s contributions to the school.
At SOM, Fujikawa teaches Global Virtual Teams and Service Management. He also leads the International Experience in Japan.
“Prof. Fujikawa held a phenomenal course that is valuable for global as well as domestic virtual teams,” one student wrote in a course evaluation. “The course was a full experience that allowed us to expose our blind spots and expand the precision of our communication.”
Beyond the classroom, Fujikawa has served as a mentor for entrepreneurs at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and helped pioneer SOM’s ed-tech solutions during the COVID pandemic.
“My relationship with Yale SOM goes back more than fifteen years, through the Global Network for Advanced Management, and teaching here over the past seven years has never felt part-time to me,” Fujikawa said. “In my courses, I often talk about value co-creation, and that is exactly how I experience teaching at Yale SOM. Whatever impact my teaching may have had has been co-created with students, TAs, and colleagues who make ambitious learning excellence possible. My appreciation for being part of this community is truly full-time.”
