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## Segment 2 — futures

## Article 94 — a094

# Yasuhiro Yamakawa

**Role in the source:** Co-author of the HBR article *"Your AI Strategy Needs to Expand Beyond the U.S. and China"* (Dec 2025), writing with [[entity-thomas-h-davenport]].

**Profile:** Identified in enrichment as a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College whose work spans cross-cultural innovation and strategy — a lens that maps directly onto the article's argument for a [[concept-country-level-ai-ecosystem]] view of AI and for deep cultural localization.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:** As co-author, Yamakawa is a speaker on every claim, framework, and quote here, including the thesis-carrying quotes [[quote-winning-tomorrow]], [[quote-algorithms-mirror-culture]], [[quote-many-codebases]], and [[quote-country-level-lens]]; the [[framework-national-ai-capability]] and [[framework-global-ai-strategy]]; and claims such as [[claim-culturally-relevant-algorithms-win]] and [[claim-us-china-different-models]].

**Canonical reference:** Babson College faculty profile (babson.edu).