Sako Finnbear rifles are hefty, known for their fit, finish. Today’s rifle, the Finnbear L61R, was in production from 1962 to 1973. Drawing on lessons from the Japanese model, she then worked with a number of firms to reconfigure their supplier relationship management. Sako began making rifles for the civilian market in the 1940s.

In the 1990s and 2000s, she was a researcher for the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), which gave her a valuable opportunity to be out in the field, observing and interviewing managers and workers at car manufacturers in Japan, Europe and the USA. Her earlier work on global strategy made a significant contribution to the understanding of the Japanese economy and Japanese firms. She is currently looking at the way cost pressures are contributing to the outsourcing and offshoring of legal services and how this affects the way law firms work. She has also investigated outsourcing and its impact on productivity, concluding that outsourcing works best where it is at the heart of corporate restructuring and where it is a strategic decision, not simply a reaction to the latest fad or fashion. Her research suggests that, unlike manufacturing, productivity growth in business services benefits job creation and contributes positively to the balance of trade. The first civilian rifle bearing the Sako name was the L42 (Luodikko rifle model 1942) chambered for the 7×33mm Sako cartridge, prototyped in 1942, and commercial production started after World War II. For any of you Sako experts out there, does anyone know the year of manufacture of a Sako Forester L-579 Mannlicher with a serial number of 31,XXX Thanks for the help Jim. Professor Sako’s most recent work has focused on business and professional services and on outsourcing.

Sako date of manufacture