On January 26, 2021, a webinar titled “DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY: RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND STRATEGY IN THE NEW NORMAL” was hosted by Hitotsubashi ICS and The Berkeley Research Group.

Dean Kaz facilitated the 90-minute webinar, where three prominent professors gave presentations followed by a Q&A session.

Norio Imai, a DBA student of Hitotsubashi ICS shared the event report with us. 

Topics: Faculty Impact, Network, Why Hitotsubashi ICS

In this edition of our faculty interview series, the marketing team sat down with Professor Satoko Suzuki. Her research interests lie in business and culture. She has been invited to various academic conferences to present her research, and has been actively providing advice to central and local governments for marketing and globalization. At the Hitotsubashi ICS MBA program, she teaches Marketing, Design Thinking, and leads the Global Network Week program.

Topics: Faculty Impact, Network

On November 6, 2020, Professor Emeritus Ikujiro Nonaka attended the electronic World Marketing Summit (eWMS) as a speaker on "Humanizing Strategy."

Topics: Faculty Impact

We sat down with Prof. Hiroshi Ono,  the new EMBA director from September, for an in-depth interview on the “many corrections in his life trajectory” in which he turned his childhood passion for math into an engineering degree and then switched to sociology, economics, and statistics after falling in love with social sciences. Drawing on his deep learning in these diverse fields, Professor Ono also publishes award-winning research on human behavior.

Topics: Faculty Impact, EMBA

Chinmay and Sai, two MBA students of class of 2019 interviewed Shingo Oue, ICS Professor, and from this autumn, our new MBA Director. They asked deep, penetrating questions like “What is the one thing from your childhood that has impacted you the most?” before diving into his vision for Hitotsubashi ICS. Below are excerpts from our interview, edited for brevity:

Topics: Faculty Impact

These are the books recommendations from Professor Hiroshi Kanno, to read during this quarantine or any time! 

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19

These are the books and poem Professor Catherine Sibala recommends you to read during this quarantine or any time! 

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19

These are the books Professor Shingo Oue recommends you to read during this quarantine or any time! 

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19

These are the books Professor Takashi Nawa recommends you to read during this quarantine! 

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19

These are the books Professor Jin Suk Park recommends you to read during this quarantine! 

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19

These are the books Professor Tish Robinson has been reading (and re-reading) during the pandemic.

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19

 

We want to congratulate Professor Satoko Suzuki for having her published research paper "Emotional fortification: Indulgent consumption and emotion reappraisal and their implications for well‐being" as one of the top 10% most downloaded papers of the Journal of Consumer Behaviour; (between January 2018 and December 2019). Read here a short comment about her research paper, that Prof. Suzuki shared with us:  

Topics: Faculty Impact, Life at Hitotsubashi ICS, Why Hitotsubashi ICS

Leading through the uncharted, I am picking the brains of great minds with super-long-run perspectives to tackle super-short-term challenges right in front of us.

 

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19

We sat down with Professor Kazuo Ichijo, fondly known as Kaz, for a faculty interview commemorating the 20th anniversary of Hitotsubashi ICS.

Topics: Faculty Impact

Stuck at home?

 

We asked Hitotsubashi ICS faculty to give us their top 3 book recommendations to read in this COVID-19 environment for our students, alumni, and also our blog readers.

 

With more time on our hands, now is the perfect time to get some quality reading done, whether to make sense of this unprecedented age or to briefly escape from all the COVID-19 news. 

 

We will be delivering the recommendations as they come in, so please check our blog every now and then! Today's recommender is Prof. Satoko Suzuki!

 

Enjoy reading!

Topics: Faculty Impact, COVID-19