Gercik, Patricia E.

Gercik is managing Director of the MIT-Japan Program. She spent the first 20 years of her life in Tokyo, where she attended the American International School of Japan and worked as a travel guide and radio and TV host. She received a BA from the University of California-Berkeley, and a Masters from Tufts University in Massachusetts. For the past 15 years she has managed the MIT Japan Program where she has developed curricula, taught, and coordinated research and internship programs in the US and Japan. She leads workshops for executives on Japanese Business Practice and consults to firms devel...