MBA Online

Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration at Hokkaido University

The purpose of this course is to train future researchers to cultivate profound knowledge in economics and business management, an open perspective, and abundant creative ability.
Titles of Recent PhD Dissertations

Incentive Compatibility of Allocation Mechanisms in Discrete Economic Environments
Essays on Financial and Trade Policies in Developing Countries
Multinational Firms and Host Country Policies
Alternative Growth Theory with Endogenous Money and a Security Market
Fiscal Competition in a Federal State with Mobile Populations
Underpricing, Underwriter Reputation and Venture Capital: Evidence from the Japanese IPO Market
European Integration and Foreign Direct Investment: Experience of Spain
Regulating System of Foreign Trade in Uzbekistan at the Transitional Period

Strategic Management
This course introduces the fundamentals of strategic management, both at the business and corporate levels. While exposing students to the host of conventional analytical tools for strategy design, this course takes the position that strategy design is not separable from strategy implementation. Consequently, it places an emphasis on understanding and enhancement of the process of strategy formation, i.e., the process in which deliberate and emergent strategies dynamically interact and eventually give rise to realized strategies. This course aims to help students:

(1) Acquire a body of concepts and frameworks for analyzing and facilitating strategy design and implementation.

(2) Develop the capability to exercise and integrative perspective of the general manager, utilizing their functional knowledge and experiences

(3) Appreciate the shared sense of corporate “ontology” (reasons for the firm’s existence) and the role of leadership in cultivating the effective dynamics of strategy formation.