05-27-08 Is Japan Creating an Entrepreneurial Economy?

  • “Is Japan Creating an Entrepreneurial Economy?”

    Keizai Special Joint Program
    with Stanford University’s US-ATMC

    Speaker:
    Prof. Yoko Ishikura
    Hitotsubashi University

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    When: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
    4:15 – 5:30 pm Program
    5:30 – 7:00 pm Reception
    Where: Skilling Auditorium, Stanford University
    Fees: Free Admission to Friends of Keizai

    Sponsor:

    We are pleased to announce that this program is co-sponsored by the Keizai Society US-Japan Business Forum.

    Japan is at a critical turning point in 2008, with two opposing groups and views. One is the view that Japan, with its current social, political and economic system, will have difficulty renewing itself, while the other view is that the past success formula of a closed corporate innovation system supported by engineers and “hardware driven” technology is still viable.

    With the accelerating pace of globalization and ICT, what will become of Japan, its private sector and public sector? Will its once-leading clean and green technologies survive and make an impact on the resolution of global issues? What are the potential areas for collaboration with the innovative and dynamic Silicon Valley?

    As a professor of business strategy and innovation at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University, Dr. Yoko Ishikura teaches the Competitiveness and Problem Solving courses, is responsible for the Executive Opinion Survey in Japan for the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the Council for Science & Technology Policy at the Japanese Cabinet Office.

    She was a board member of Japan Post and Vodafone KK and is currently a member of the board at Mitsui OSK Lines and the advisory board of All Nippon Airways. She received an MBA from the Darden School, University of Virginia and DBA from Harvard Business School. She worked at McKinsey Inc. Japan in the late 1980s. Her “Act Globally, Think Locally” was one of the breakthrough ideas for 2007 in the Harvard Business Review.