Interview: Mitsui Chemicals President Osamu Hashimoto Discusses Adaptions Amid Volatile Business Environment

摘要

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (TYO:4183) President & CEO Osamu Hashimoto is fast approaching his first-year anniversary since taking up the mantle last April. It has been anything but a typical ride for Hashimoto, who came in right as COVID-19 was taking off and wreaking havoc on the global economy. With society and the business environment changing as drastically as they are, Hashimoto said that Mitsui Chemicals is looking to seize the opportunity to change up conventional ways of thinking and methods of going about things, and incorporate these into its revised long- term management plan.