News & Events
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What's New
- Watch Dean Takeuchi on 60 Minutes (CBS News)
- Cornes Establishes a Scholarship at Hitotsubashi ICS for Students from Mainland China and Hong Kong
- Guest Speakers Visit Equity Investments Course: Bill Wilder, Ross Hikida, Ed Merner, and Kouji Yamada (May 14, 2009)
- Knowledge Week 2008 (February 8, 2009)
- Knowledge Week at ICS Featured in The Daily Yomiuri (August 14, 2008)
- Guest Speakers: Takeshi Hashiguchi, Director, and Yo Narita, Executive Manager, International Planning Division, Kumon Institute of Education, Co., Ltd. (May 19, 2008)
- Guest Speaker: Hiroshi Sato, President and CEO, BOOKOFF Corporation (May 15, 2008)
- Thoughts on Breaking with Market Norms in Service of the Long Term: A Discussion with Michael Dell (May 12, 2008)
- Guest Speakers: Tadamitsu Matsui, Chairman, and Kei Suzuki, Executive Officer, General Affairs and Personnel, Ryohin Keikaku, Co., Ltd. (May 12, 2008)
- Guest Speaker: Hironobu Tamaki, Founder and Chairman, Satura Cakes (May 8, 2008)
- Wall Street Journal Ranks Professor Ikujiro Nonaka as One of the World's Most Influential Business Thinkers (May 5, 2008)
- Guest Speakers: Nobuo Sato, Partner, and Yuji Tokunaga, Consultant, Egon Zehnder International (April 24, 2008)
- GIMV Establishes Chaired Professorship at ICS. Sherman Abe Appointed. (April 1, 2008)
- Professor Yoko Ishikura Discusses the Critical Role that Universities are Playing in Globalization and Innovation (March/April 2008)
- Guest Speaker: Michinari Nishimura, Founder and President of Greenfield Consulting (February 14, 2008)
- Guest Speaker: Akira Iwamoto, Partner and Managing Director, Advantage Partners (February 5, 2008)
- Guest Speakers: Keith Yamashita and Susan Schuman of Stone Yamashita Partners (February 4, 2008)
- Symposium on Knowledge Creation and the Learning Organization (January 30, 2008)
- Guest Speaker: Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School (December 6, 2007)
- Professor Yoko Ishikura Interviewed by Newsweek (December 2, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Yoshiki Watanabe, President of Tokaibane (November 30, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Akio Toyoda, Vice President of Toyota Motor Corporation (November 29, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Andreas Dannenberg, Founder, President, & CEO of Ad-comm Group (November 27, 2007)
- MBA Program Director, Taeko Sugeno, Featured in China's Star Daily Newspaper (November 25, 2007)
- Nanatomo Aoi Teaches Traditional Japanese Dance to ICS Students (November 10, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Hiroshi Kumamoto from REALFLEET, Founder & CEO (November 9, 2007)
- ICS Students Study the Tea Ceremony with Tea Master Soukoo Suyama (November 3, 2007)
- ICS Participates in the World MBA Fair in Tokyo (November 2, 2007)
- ICS Students Practice Zazen at Zensho-an (October 25, 2007)
- ICS Students Learn Traditional Japanese Cooking from Miyoko Isomura (October 21, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Hermann Simon, Chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners (October 12, 2007)
- 5th Year Reunion (July 28, 2007)
- First Annual Alumni Day (July 27, 2007)
- Guest Speakers: Bill Wilder, Ed Merner, Kouji Yamada, and Campbell Gunn
- Guest Speaker: Kazuo Iwano from IBM Japan, Vice President in Equity Investments 2007 (July 17, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Hiroshi Nakagawa from Toyota, General Manager of Toyota Motor Corporation (July 6, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Hideo Nozu from Sumitomo 3M, ex-Vice President (June 29, 2007)
- Special Event: Seoul National University MBA Students Visit ICS (June 23, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Joe Badaracco, John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, Senior Associate Dean, and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School (June 14, 2007)
- Knowledge Week (June 4-8, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Takashi Sakamoto from BOOKOFF Corporation (May 17, 2007)
- Guest Speakers: Nobuo Sato and Yuji Tokunaga of Egon Zehnder International (April 19, 2007)
- Hitotsubashi ICS Students Compete in Moot Corp 2007 (March 20-22, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Haruo Tsuji, Corporate Advisor of Sharp Corporation (February 16, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Akira Iwamoto, Partner and Managing Director, Advantage Partners (February 15, 2007)
- Nikkei Net Plus Symposium: "Knowledge Management in the Network Era" (February 8, 2007)
- The HBR List of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007: "Act Globally, Think Locally" by ICS Professor Yoko Ishikura (February 1, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Bijan Khosrowshahi, President & CEO of Fuji Fire and Marine Co., Ltd. (January 29, 2007)
- Guest Speaker: Andreas Dannenberg, Founder, President, & CEO of Ad-comm Group (December 5, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Troy Little from Morgan Stanley, Executive Director (December 4, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Go Yoshida, Head of Recruitment, Shinsei Bank (November 28, 2006)
- Tea Master Soukoo Suyama Teaches ICS Students the Japanese Tea Ceremony (November 25, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Yoshiki Watanabe, President of Tokaibane (November 24, 2006)
- ICS Students Visit Uchida Yoko (November 21, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: David Swan, Director of Financial Services at Robert Walters (November 14, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Hiroshi Kumamoto from REALFLEET, Founder & COO (November 14, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Kunio Watanabe from Canon (November 10, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School (November 9, 2006)
- Nanatomo Aoi Teaches ICS Students Traditional Japanese Dance (November 4, 2006)
- ICS Students Practice Zazen at Zensho-an Temple (October 20, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Hermann Simon, Chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners (October 19, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Penelope J. Dobson from Banyu Pharmaceuticals (October 16, 2006)
- Miyoko Isomura Teaches Traditional Japanese Cooking to ICS Students (October 15, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Shinichiro Watari, President & CEO of Cornes & Company Limited (October 11, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Steve Van Andel, Chairman of Alticor Inc. (October 2, 2006)
- @MBA Business Plan Contest 2006 (July 28, 2006)
- Special Announcement: Former Visiting Professor Takuma Hatano Appointed Japanese Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (July 20, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, President of the Science Council of Japan (July 18, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Takashi Sakamoto and Mayumi Hashimoto from BOOKOFF Corporation (July 13, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Miha Pogacnik on Corporate Transformation and Change Management (June 28, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Nobuo Sato of Egon Zehnder International (June 26, 2006)
- Guest Speakers: Masayuki Adachi and Hiroshi Kawamura from Horiba (June 16, 2006)
- Dr. Alka Kaul (Class of 2003) Returns to ICS (June 2, 2006)
- MBA Program Revisions
- Annual ICS Cherry Blossom Viewing (April 1, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Ed Merner, Parker Simes, Kouji Yamada, and Tee Lim in Equity Investments (Spring 2006)
- Gary Okamoto is the First Recipient of the DBA Degree in International Business Strategy from Hitotsubashi ICS (March 28, 2006)
- Hitotsubashi ICS Students Selected to Compete in the Asian Moot Corp Competition in Thailand (March 22-25, 2006)
- Round 2 Applications for the MBA Program Completed (March 24, 2006)
- The Princeton Review of Japan (February 16, 2006)
- Open Campus for the MBA Program at Hitotsubashi ICS (January 13, 2006)
- Dean Takeuchi Interviewed on 60 Minutes (January 8, 2006)
- Guest Speaker: Andreas Dannenberg of Ad-Comm Lectures at Hitotsubashi ICS (December 6, 2005)
- Guest Speaker: Michael Porter - "Strategy: Competing to Be Unique" (December 1, 2005)
- Open Campus for the MBA Program at Hitotsubashi ICS (November 25, 2005)
- ICS Students Experience Zazen (November 22, 2005)
- Hitotsubashi ICS Students Visit Nihon COMSYS (November 10, 2005)
- Guest Speaker: Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Chairman and CEO of ORIX (November 7, 2005)
- Guest Speaker: Orjan Solvell of the Stockholm School of Economics (November 4, 2005)
- Guest Speaker: Kazumichi "Casey" Shimamoto, Managing Partner at Shimamoto Partners, Consultants in Executive Search (November 1, 2005)
- Guest Speaker: Thierry Porte, President and CEO of Shinsei Bank (June 28, 2005)
Past Events
- Special Lecture: Michael Porter on Strategy (December 3, 2004)
- Hitotsubashi ICS Forum (October 12, 2004)
- Knowledge Management Forum (March 23, 2004)
- Special Seminar by Michael Dell (March 23, 2004)