MBA Online

Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration at Hokkaido University

The purpose of this course is to train highly specialized professionals to cultivate profound knowledge in economics and business management, an open perspective, and rich creative ability. This course consists of the following two sub-courses.

1. Economic Policy Course
In this course, we train professionals with the ability to draw up economic policies and then analyze them logically and empirically, and insights on the culture and history of socioeconomic aspects. Upon completion of the course, they can be expected to work for government and public offices, private think tanks, planning and research departments of corporations, universities and research institutions, international cooperation organizations, and NGOs.

2. Business Management (MBA) Course
We train highly skilled professionals who have the expertise and the analytical abilities necessary for business creation and management, along with mathematical and IT skills required to make effective and accurate managerial decisions. The students who have completed the school can flourish as specialists who manage corporations and NPOs, independent entrepreneurs, investigation and research staff for think tanks, and financial analysts.

A Japanese & International Experience
The IUJ experience is both Japanese and international. IUJ’s location in Japan is ideal for an MBA program with a distinct Asia focus. IUJ’s rural location allows students to experience the wonders of traditional Japanese culture. Cosmopolitan Tokyo, arguably the most fun, and definitely the trendiest city in the world, is easily accessible via bullet train. Students have academic and business opportunities in this world financial center.

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

[Term 4] Design & Creativity (T. Kamegai) (2009/Term 3&4 (Spring&Summer))

Learning how to be creative is one of the great managerial challenges in the Knowledge Economy. What was once central to companies – price, quality, and much of the left-brain, digitized, analytical work associated with explicit knowledge – is being shipped off to developing countries. The new core competence is increasingly becoming the right brain that smart companies are harnessing to generate top-line growth. The challenge is no longer just making assembly lines run more efficiently, but creating consumer experiences, not just products, and reconceiving entire brand categories, not just adding a few more colors.

Companies are beginning to realize that design is often the path to innovation as well as the source of competitive advantage. Apple and Samsung are recent cases in point. In these creative companies, design is starting to play a key role in connecting with their customers’ emotions, linking R&D labs to consumer needs, recalibrating employee incentives to emphasize creativity, and constructing maps that show the path to innovation. These creative companies mastered a new design thinking and created products that address consumers’ unmet, and often unarticulated, desires. They built an innovation DNA and culture that bring about high success rates, routinely beating competitors.
Course Structure

The course is structured to empower your creative mind by learning the following:
(1) Strategic approaches to create great design
(2) Synergy of visual images and touch/feel
(3) Building creative relationships with others
Teaching Method

The course will be based on “learning by doing.” We will engage in projects and activities that will make use of both your mind and body.

Full-time MBA
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and its unique MBA Programme is a major participant in, and contributor to, the business culture of Hong Kong and Mainland China.
MBA students today demand an approach that can set them up for success both regionally and across a wider world; a learning experience that bestows upon them a first-class education, real-world experience, and a deep understanding of international business, and cultural differences and nuances. Our MBA Programme is specifically designed to produce those outcomes. The Asia-Pacific and China focus gives our students a unique advantage to build their career in the region and beyond.

Learn business where the business is
Mainland Chinese come to HKU to look at their country from the outside, and to learn the business methodologies of the West; while overseas students get to experience China and Asia firsthand. Both are able to relate their knowledge to a global playing field.

Diversity is key
Our location in a city with such a rich business and entrepreneurial heritage is an immense advantage for students.

Not surprisingly, Hong Kong has become a magnet for MBA students from all over the world. A significant percentage of our student body is from overseas and the PRC, which, combined with local students, produces an exciting and stimulating mix of backgrounds. Our professors are all distinguished in their fields and come from different countries, creating a truly international experience.

Partnerships
The unique partnerships with world-renowned business schools such as London Business School and Columbia Business School offer our students unmatched opportunities in terms of educational experience and networking. Our existing partnership with Fudan University in China further complements the overall experience.

Organizational Behavior (EKM 2402)

The course provides a knowledge of the behaviors in organizational settings by systematically studying individual, group, and organizational process. Among topics covered are individual and psychological characteristics, motivation, group behavior, teamwork, communications, decision making, leadership, culture, organizational structure and design, and managing organizational change. The aim of this course is to equip students with comprehensive knowledge of individual, group, and organizational behavior.

Indonesian Economy (EKU 2147)

Description

The course introduces the mechanism of the Indonesian economic systems.

Topics

Role of history, role of culture, Indonesian economic structure, Indonesian economic developments, and development policies in Indonesia.

Objectives

Provide students with a comprehensive illustration of the system, structure and economic policy in Indonesia.

Industrial Economics (EKU 2230)

Description

The course introduces the way markets and industries are structured and the behavior and performance of institutions in competition, cooperation, corporate interaction with other organizations..

Topics

Oligopoly, collusions, determinants of market and corporate structures, price discrimination, and antitrust laws and policies.

Objectives

Give students understanding on basic concepts and tools of modern industrial economics and to use these tools to examine importance issues in the organization of firms and markets.

FB2801 Experiencing Hong Kong

Course Aims & Objectives:
The aims of this course are to enhance students understanding of the formation of cultures and subcultures; awareness of the formation of Hong Kong culture and it’s subcultures. Upon completion of the course, students should have gained:
First hand experiences of different aspects of Hong Kong culture
Insights on the development of Hong Kong’s many subcultures, and how they affect the livelihood of Hong Kong people
Perception of the cultural development of Hong Kong in the future

Units: 1

Level: A/B

Keyword Syllabus:
Concepts and definitions of culture and the making of Hong Kong culture. The power of media in the shaping of Hong Kong culture. Popular culture. Entrepreneurial culture. University culture. Experiencing Hong Kong study-tours.

Teaching Pattern:
Duration of course: 1 semester
Current mix of lecture/tutorial/laboratory, other: lecture, study tours, presentation & tutorial

Assessment Pattern:
Examination duration: Nil
Percentage distribution of marks for coursework, examination, other: 100% Coursework
Grading pattern: Pass/Fail

FB2800 Corporate Learning Consortium: Business Problem Solving

Course Aims & Objectives:
The Corporate Learning Consortium is a venue whereby business students meet with senior and middle managers of different fields and to learn from these experienced practitioners their ways of resolving problems. Different companies of different fields will have their own culture of problem solving and contingency measures to handle crises. All these are the precious skills students need to learn and accumulate in their work upon graduation. The Consortium will provide students with a peek of real life work experience and prepare them for their future challenges through attending seminars hosted by the company members. The idea of outreach education will definitely supplement classroom teaching and learning.

Units: 1

Level: B2

Keyword Syllabus: Nil

Teaching Pattern:
Duration of course: 1 semester
Current mix of lecture/tutorial/laboratory, other: Seminars/Case Work

Assessment Pattern:
Examination duration: Nil
Percentage distribution of marks for coursework, examination, other: 100% Coursework
Grading pattern: Pass/Fail

Option courses
Name of courses
Senior Management
Corporate Enterpriser Spirit
Marketing Management
Risk Investment Management
Organizational Change and Management
Corporate Finance
Operation Decision-making Simulation
Leadership Human Resource Mangement
Tax Revenue Regulation and Tax Plan
Business Law
International Trade Theory and Policy
Strategy Alliance and Partner Management
Production and Operation Management
Information Resource Management
Corporate Culture
Service Management
Finance Market and Finance Organization
Purchase and Annex
Modern Project Management and Evaluation
Achievement Evaluation Research
Abroad Study and Visiting

French (Business French) at Business School (SIFT)

French (Business French) four years

This project is intended to cultivate advanced and specialized personnel for foreign economics and trade departments and enterprises, foreign-fund enterprises, multinationals and overseas enterprises. Students graduating from this program will be acquainted with the basic concepts and general practices of international trade and economics, while at the same time acquire solid basis of French language and convincing abilities of listening , speaking, reading and writing, especially the ability to apply French language to business field. Moreover, students will have deep understanding of French society and culture and good mastery of English communication skills.

Major courses include: French Intensive Reading, French Listening and Speaking, Survey of France, Business French, Marketing French, French Correspondence and Negotiations of Foreign Economics and Trade, French Journal Reading, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Trade Practices, International Finance, Business French, Marketing Rationales, Second Foreign Language.