Gion Festival 
August 30th, 2010
Two of our GMBA students, Mr. E. Barden Smedberg, Jr. and Mr. Joey Zhou and our DBS faculty Dr. Andrew Staples participated in the Gion Festival on July 17th, 2010.
The Gion Festival is one of Japan's three biggest local festivals with a long tradition stretching back to 869 A.D.. It was a great honor and opportunity for DBS students and faculty to be involved with the festival.
The DBS representatives were joined by other international students and alumni of Doshisha University as they participated in the ‘Minami kannon yama' or the grand parade of floats (called hook) which are spectacularly decorated with beautiful tapestries and materials. These float are dedicated to Yoryu Kannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy and the parade is the culmination of the festival.
It was a beautifully hot and sunny day as participants pulled the floats through the city of Kyoto the magnificent hoko to the accompaniment of rhythmic music.
Please enjoy a video introduction of Gion Festival by Dr. Staples, and interviews with DBS students and international students of Doshisha University. Click here!
Also, please enjoy message from Mr. Smedberg and Mr. Zhou.
Mr. E. Barden Smedberg Jr. >> Click here!
Mr. Joey Zhou >> Click here! (Chinese only)
Greetings from the Dean
August 17th, 2010
Dear Prospective candidates
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to our DBS website. On this website you can find full details of our program, application information and video interviews with faculty, students and visitors. The Global MBA is a young, globally focused and rapidly developing program based in Kyoto which, along with Osaka and Kobe, is part of the vibrant Kansai region of Japan. We deliver an intellectually robust curriculum in English on a full-time basis over two-years at our excellent facilities in the heart of this UNESCO World Heritage City. Our students join us from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences which adds to our international and cosmopolitan outlook. Indeed, including those joining us in September this year, twenty different nationalities are represented by our students.
We believe that the quality of our in-house teaching on campus along with regular seminars by leading scholars and global business executives from around the world will inspire our students to become the future business leaders of the 21st century.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce to you some key features of our MBA.
I hope that this brief message will encourage you to apply to our program and please do not hesitate to get in touch with our dedicated office staff with any enquiries that you might have. I look forward to your application and to welcoming you as a student at Doshisha Business School in September 2001.
With warm regards,
Harukiyo Hasegawa
Dean, Global MBA
Global MBA Executive Seminar
July 30th, 2010
The Global MBA Executive Seminar series continued on July 30th when Mr.Stephen Mansfield, CEO of New Perspective, a fund asset manager based in Tokyo, delivered a talk titled 'Risk - and how to take advantage of it'.
Mr. Mansfield drew upon his previous experiences in the financial world (Credit Suisse, Credit Lyonnais and the Citadel Investment Group) and his present role as co-founder and CEO of New Perspective, the asset manager for hotels owned by Japan Leisure Hotels which listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in early 2008. Mr. Mansfield was instrumental in creating the strategy and executing the listing process and New Perspective currently has 6 properties under management. Participants learnt the importance of focusing on the cash flow and how this drives the management and operations of the hotel portfolio with Mr. Mansfield giving clear examples of innovative and effective approaches to cost cutting.
Mr. Mansfield has also supported the GMBA by hosting internships where students are given live issues to work with while based in the heart of Tokyo. We thank Mr. Mansfield for his efforts and look forward to continuing relations between New Perspective and Doshisha Business School.
Global MBA Executive Seminar
July 2nd, 2010
The second Global MBA Executive Seminar, which was organized by Prof. Yasuo Nishiguchi was held on June 25th DBS welcomed Mr. Matthias Kurth, President of the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (Germany) to speak on the topic of “The Future of Information Technology”. The seminar was attended by students from both the Global MBA and Japanese MBA as well as by staff and students from within and beyond Doshisha University. The stimulating lecture was followed by a Q&A session on key issues of IT influences upon our economy, business and society. The focus was mainly upon Germany and EU, with discussions on how coordination and harmonization were essential for various key industries if full advantage is to be taken of effective and efficient networks based upon information technology. The issue is however common to the rest of the world and has great relevance beyond the EU. Mr. Kurth also touched upon how the government will regulate the system of information technology in order to maintain effective competition for the society. The seminar offered insightful and thought provoking perspectives, which was received with great appreciation by the audience.
At the end of the seminar, Dean Hasegawa presented gifts from the Univ. and two books; Open Integrated Business Management System (Hakuto Shobo) written by Prof. Yasuo Nishiguchi and Asian Business & Management (PalgraveMacmillan) co-edited by Dean, Hasegawa. President Kurth was then met by President Eiji Hatta of the University. We hope that this seminar will be the beginning of long term relations between Doshisha University and Germany.
Material from this seminar is available to download. Click Here.
Online Business Seminar
June 17th, 2010
We have added the Interview with Professor Andrew Ford,
Professor, Washington State University, PhD, Dartmouth College "Environment Modeling"
Interviewer: Kaoru Yamaguchi
Online Business Seminar
June 17th, 2010
We have added the Interview with Professor Rosalie L. Tung,
Former President of Academy of Management "International Management and Organizational Theory"
Interviewer: Andrew Staples
Online Business Seminar
June 14th, 2010
We have added the Interview with Mr. Yoshikatsu Ota,
Chairman of the Board, Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. "Management Integration for Stronger Global Competitiveness"
Interviewer: Hiroshige Hayashi
Online Business Seminar
June 11th, 2010
We have added the Interview with Professor Anthony D'Costa,
Professor of Indian Studies, Asia Research Center, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark "Technology and globalization in India and Japan"
Interviewer: Andrew Staples
Doshisha hosts executives from HEC
May 18th, 2010
DBS was delighted to again welcome a group of senior French executives from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris (HEC School of Management) as part of a two-week visit to Japan on Wednesday, 13th May. HEC is a consistently highly ranked business school and was evaluated by the Financial Times as the number one business school in Europe and second worldwide for executive education in 2009.
The seminar was convened around the theme of successful firms in Kyoto and followed a visit by the executives to Kyocera. Following greetings and a brief overview of the Global MBA progrmame from Prof. Staples, Prof. Kondo delivered a presentation that examined how the unique environment of Kyoto (geography, political importance, lack of physical resources and culture) has shaped local firms that today include Nintendo, Omron, Kyocera and Rohm. The second half of the seminar was led by Mr. Kenichi Kano, Director, Corporate Planning at Ippodo Tea Co., Ltd., who, in addition to delivering an engaging presentation about the history and development of this prestigious company, offered freshly brewed examples of the company's product to the enthusiastic audience. DBS is most thankful to Mr. Kano for his presentation and looks forward to strengthening the links between DBS and Ippodo Tea Co., Ltd.
A reception followed the seminar offering Global MBA students the opportunity to network with the visiting executives and for the audience as a whole to enjoy a glass of Doshisha branded wine from the Tanba Wine Company, also located in Kyoto.
We look forward to hosting further executive groups from HEC in the future.
Global MBA Research Seminar
May 18th, 2010
The new research seminar series got off to a great start on Saturday, 15th May with a presentation from Prof. Alex Mohr of Bradford School of Management, U.K. Prof. Mohr kindly took time from his busy three week visit to Japan to deliver a lecture on his latest research into issues of trust and performance in international joint ventures (IJVs). Using a data set from German companies operating in China, Prof. Mohr sought to challenge - and did so convincingly - the conventional wisdom within strategic management that performance follows trust. As a business school professor with considerable experience of teaching on MBA programmes, Prof. Mohr also sought to balance the academic rigour of the paper with relevance to practioners and the discussion that followed the lecture touched on how this research would be directly relevant to managers involved in structuring and managing IJVs. In addition to Global MBA students the audience included Professors from Rikkyo, Kobe and Ritsumeikan universities, and we thank them for their attendance.
Tateisi Nobuo Scholarship Ceremony
March 29th, 2010
We are very pleased to announce that Doshisha Business School (DBS) has received a very generous personal donation from Mr. Nobuo Tateisi, Executive Advisor at the OMRON Corporation.
A ceremony was held on the morning of March 27th, 2010 to commemorate this great honour.
The ceremony was opened by Dr. Yuzo Murayama, Dean of DBS, who welcomed Mr. Tateisi and his fellow representatives from the OMRON Corporation. Mr. Tateisi, a graduate of Doshisha Junior High School and Doshisha University, recalled the great influence that his junior high school English teacher, Ms. Alice E. Gwinn, and his time at Doshisha University had made on his life and work as an international businessman.
Professor Minoru Oya, Chancellor of Doshisha University, then warmly thanked Mr. Tateisi and presented him with a certificate from Doshisha to express the university's sincere appreciation of his generosity. He described how the OMRON Corporation has long supported the university and Doshisha Business School.
Professor Murayama then introduced attending faculty members including Dr. Harukiyo Hasegawa, (Dean of the Global MBA Programme), Dr. Philippe Byosiere, Dr. Hiroshige Hayashi and, Dr. Andrew Staples. He noted how this funding will assist in promoting DBS both internationally and within the local community. He outlined how receipt of this scholarship fund marks a major step in the history of Doshisha Business School and how DBS will be able to give back even more to the community in Kyoto as a well-recognised business school.
The fund shall be made available to international students in the form of a scholarship, to be known as the “Tateisi Nobuo Scholarship”, for incoming GMBA and JMBA cohorts, thereby providing more excellent funding opportunities for international students to study at Doshisha Business School. Thanks to Mr. Tateisi‘s very kind donation, DBS looks forward to welcoming many more international students on its MBA programmes. For full details of the Tateisi Nobuo Scholarship and other funding opportunities, please see here.
See the DBS Student Blog for more pictures of this event. Click here.
Online Business Seminar
March 25th, 2010
We have added the Interview with Professor N. Sue Bruning,
Department of Business Administration, I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada "Organizational Behaviour – A safety and health perspective, and issues of global firms"
Interviewer: Harukiyo Hasegawa
New funding opportunities for 2010 entry
February 26, 2010
We are delighted to announce a range of new funding opportunities for 2010 entry.
For full details of these and other funding opportunities please see here.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Applicants who wish to be considered for these generous funding opportunities MUST APPLY by MARCH 31st 2010. Early applications are therefore strongly encouraged.
Doshisha University gains membership of AACSB International –the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
February 22, 2010
We are pleased to announce that Doshisha Business School has succeeded in becoming a member school of the international accreditation body, AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
This development serves to demonstrate our strong determination to be recognised as a world-class institution with faculty and staff dedicated to the continued improvement of the education we provide.
We very much look forward to working toward obtaining AACSB accreditation in the future.
300 Chinese Students visit DBS for MBA lectures 2010.02.02 - 03
February 21, 2010
Over the two day period, February 2-3, as part of the Short Study Abroad Programme for Chinese International Students hosted with the support of the China-Japan Cultural Exchange Centre, Waseda Business School and Doshisha Business School, Chinese students from all over China (Fudan University, Jilin University, Dalian University of Technology, Harbin University of Science and Technology [HUST] and the Northeast Normal University of China) attended lectures by professors from both the Global Studies Faculty and DBS.
Setsubun Event @Kindergarten 2010.02.02
February 21, 2010
Some of our students went to a kindergarten for the Setsubun event on February 2nd, 2010. They wore oni costumes and played with the children. After the Mame-maki (throwing beans), they had lunch with the children and talked about their hometowns, played some games, played the piano and so on. They had such a nice, special experience. A fun time was had by all!
Online Business Seminar
February 3, 2010
We have added the Interview with Professor Oliver Yau Hon Ming, Chair Professor of Marketing and Director of the Unit for Chinese Management Development Faculty of Business at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) Kowloon, Hong Kong. " How the effects of " Guanxi " (friendship and mutual obligation) on business performance are comparable between the market econmy of Hong Kong and the transition economy of Mainland China. "
Interviewer: Hiroshige Hayashi
Online Business Seminar
January 28, 2010
We have added the Interview with Professor Bruce M. Belzowski, Associate Director Automotive Analysis Division, Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) The University of Michigan, USA. "The Future of the North American Auto Industry: Gradual Recovery or Continued Recession."
Interviewers: Andrew Staples, Charlie Chen (Global MBA student),
Joey Zhou (Global MBA student)
Online Business Seminar
January 22, 2010
We have added the Interview with Professor Simon Deakin,
Senior Associate of Cambridge Judge Business School and Director of the Corporate Governance Programme at the Cambridge Centre for Business Research. "Hedge fund activism in Japan: lessons for corporate governance"
Interviewers: Andrew Staples, Mathew Ferguson (Global MBA student), Shekhar Anand (Global MBA student)
Greetings from the Dean
January 15, 2010
Dear Prospective candidates
I would like to thank you for your interest in our programme. Let me take this opportunity to introduce to you some key features of our MBA programme so that you can get a better understanding of the course and see whether it meets your needs and requirements.
1. Our mission is to educate young managers/executives willing to take the initiative in business and society as proactive leaders capable of making a contribution to the well-being of our society. We offer distinctively 'cosmopolitan values' that will enable you to thrive in the global arena.
2. A research-led curriculum based on faculty expertise in global comparative management, green business practices and sustainable development, and the management of technology.
3. A wide range of financial support including:
a) Doshisha scholarships equivalent to 30% of tuition fees for a number of international applicants.
b) A limited number of prestigious Japanese government scholarships which cover full tuition and living expenses.
c) Research assistantships amounting to 80,000 yen per month.
d) An introduction to part-time jobs for those who might require an additional source of income during their period of study.
4. Career development support utilizing internal specialist advisors and a network of external recruitment consultants including Wall Street Associates,
Business Paradigm and JAC Recruitment.
I hope that the above details will help you in making this key career decision and we are very much looking forward to maintaining contact with you. Thank you once again for your interest in the Global MBA at Doshisha Business School.
With warm regards,
Harukiyo Hasegawa
Dean, Global MBA