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Nov 13, 2006 · Akio Morita, the naval officer, and Masaru Ibuka, the engineer, would stay partners and friends for more than 40 years, along the way building Sony, one of the iconic brands of the...
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- Dubbed “Student Inventor of Genius”
- Bought Rights to Transistor
- Attributed Success to U.S. Military Orientation
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As co-founder and longtime president of the Sony Corporation, Japanese executive Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997) conceived of and brought to fruition several of the most popular and fundamentally influential consumer electronics innovations of the twentieth century. The public face of Sony for decades was its chairman and marketing wizard, Akio Morita, bu...
Born on April 11, 1908, in Nikko, Japan, in Tochigi Prefecture, Ibuka was interested in radio from the time he was young, and was an avid “ham” or amateur radio operator. His father was a beer brewer, and it was expected that young Ibuka would take over the family business. Ibuka attended Waseda High School and Waseda University, where he studied c...
Ibuka visited the United States in 1952, hoping to explore new recording technologies. While there, he encountered a then-obscure device called a transistor, a miniature semiconductor that could be used to amplify electronic signals. The transistor's U.S. manufacturer, Western Electric, marketed it primarily for use in military applications and hea...
Ibuka's consistent record of innovation flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which held that while Japanese manufacturers were efficient at developing existing ideas to perfection, they generally lacked creativity. Ibuka pointed to Sony's consumer orientation as an explanation. “The American electronics industry is spoiled by the emphasis on mi...
Daily Mail(London, England), October 4, 1999. Fortune, February 24, 1992. Fresno Bee, December 20, 1997. Guardian(London, England), December 20, 1997. Independent(London, England), December 22, 1997. New York Times, December 20, 1997. Times(London, England), December 29, 1997.
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007, http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC(December 6, 2007).
Masaru Ibuka was born on April 11, 1908, as the first son of Tasuku Ibuka, an architectural technologist and a student of Inazo Nitobe. [4] His ancestral family were chief retainers of the Aizu Domain, and his relatives include Yae Ibuka and Ibuka Kajinosuke. Masaru lost his father at the age of two and was taken over by his grandfather. [5]
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Japanese. Biography: Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Sony Corporation, one of the world's leading technology and entertainment companies. Alongside his business partner Akio Morita, Ibuka played a pivotal role in the development of innovative consumer electronics products that revolutionized the ...
1908–1997. The engineering genius behind such products as the tape recorder and the all-transistor television, Masaru Ibuka grew his small electronics business into the giant Sony Corporation with cofounder Akio Morita. Masaru Ibuka was born in Nikko City, Japan, in 1908. He studied electronics at Waseda University, Tokyo, where he became ...
Sony's distinctive style of personnel management derives from the founding prospectus Masaru Ibuka penned for Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering), Sony's former name. In that prospectus, Ibuka wrote of his wish to build a company whose employees gained satisfaction and pleasure from their work and to create a fun, dynamic ...
In 1946 Ibuka and Morita founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation (Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K.), which was later renamed Sony Corporation. Ibuka and Morita had a long and highly successful partnership.
