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Environmental Supply Chain Strategy

The integration of the environmental issues into the supply chain is becoming increasingly important for firms. Many firms find opportunities to improve environmental performance and reduce cost simultaneously by integrating environmental considerations in their supply chain. Many firms require suppliers to disclose information on environmental performance such as the certification of ISO 14001. This course introduces concepts and practices of environmental supply chain management and strategy. We will review different theoretical approaches in environmental supply chain management and strategy to build our conception foundation on this subject. We will also use case studies to understand how firms integrate environmental considerations into their supply chain. In addition, we touch on the subjects necessary to understand in the supply chain management including ISO 14001, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), environmental accounting and environmental partnership building. We attempt to understand both theories and practices of environmental supply chain management and strategy through this course.

Adding Value Through Internet, Mobile, Communications, and Ubiquitous Connectivity - Degree in One-year

Let us be realisitic. The global business environment has been changing dramatically over the last few years. The impact has led to a complete transformation of business itself, literally any kind of business, and the kind of careers it demands.

E-Business, earlier thought of as just buying and selling using the Internet, has become an undeniable reality with applications for all kinds of businesses from banking to human resource optimization, from manufacturing to sales, from medical fields to logistic management, and from transforming education to creating new forms of government administration. A bank CEO today, for example, can monitor his bank’s performance, literally in real time by implementing technologies based on E-Business. A strategically thinking manager then can use the same infrastructure, or enhance it with compatible technology innovations, to provide a host of services to customers that the bank’s competitors never thought of, thus creating completely new revenue streams for the bank.

While the potential of E-Business is literally unlimited, the success of any E-Business initiative depends on strategies and its integration and alignment with the overall business objectives. In our program, “E-Business” means all kinds of IT technologies, along with Internet, Mobile, and other Ubiquitous connectivity innovations, that can be used to create business value.

This warrants the need for professionally trained managers in E-Business, who understand traditional business processes, the convergence of Technology and Business, the new innovations in tecnology, and who can help the new and existing businesses to seamlessly integrate E-Business and technology initiatives to create value. This ability to create value is what we teach in this program!

After carefully studying current business needs, we have added more practical relevance by linking our curriculum with the “IUJ Platforms” which literally tie what we teach in the program with the most advanced technologies from our partner companies. Notable among them is the world’s most advanced Mobile technology from Japan’s IT giants. With a uniquely designed one-year program, well-experienced faculty, an especially designed hi-tech “E-Lab”, coupled with MBA offerings from our top-rated business school, we are best positioned to offer the technology management and E-Business training to you than any school in Japan or in the Asia Pacific region.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

4080: History of European Economic Integration
Winter Kojima
In this cours, we will discuss the history of the European Economic Integration since the post-First World War period.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

3302: Corporate Strategy
Summer Shintaku
This course gives theoretical foundation and practical issue on strategic management. Main contents are as follows.
- What is strategy
- Competitive advantage
- Cost leadership strategy
- Differentiation strategy
- Competitive position
- Product life cycle
- Technology and innovation
- Definition of business
- Diversification and vertical integration

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

[Term 4] The Information Economy (R. Davies) (2009/Term 3&4 (Spring&Summer))

Advances in digital technologies and network services continue to fuel expansion of the information economy. Epitomized by companies such as Amazon, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony, and Nintendo, the information economy is at the leading edge of new business models for selling products and services, with and without analogues in the traditional economy.

At the center of this evolution are software platform ecosystems, consisting of constellations of mutually dependent communities of businesses and consumers with a symbiotic relationship to one another that create value through the coordinated efforts of their members. Analysis of the underlying economics of these ecosystems provides important insights into business models, product design, pricing structures, and competitive dynamics, as well as the variable nature of the upstream and downstream integration of software platforms with hardware manufacturers, content providers, application and middleware developers, and end users.

These developments have also given rise to profound changes in the retail market, both traditional and virtual, as exemplified in Long Tail economics. The most successful Internet businesses today are capitalizing on new digital technologies that drive demand down the Long Tail distribution curve and create markets of infinite choice for consumers. By applying principles from economics, history, and business analysis to case studies and other media sources, this course aims to identify the fundamental trends that are shaping the information economy, forming new industries, transforming others, and often sweeping away old ones in a wake of “creative destruction.”
Course Structure

The course begins with introductory lectures on (1) the Long Tail, which currently manifests itself largely as an Internet phenomenon, and (2) the underlying features of software platform ecosystems. By mapping these ecosystems, we will discover important principles that influence pricing, design, organization, and the governance of businesses operating in the information economy. Subsequent lessons apply these principles to detailed analyses of some of the most prominent platform-based industries today, including personal computers, smart phones, video games, and digital media (music, movies, and books), identifying sustainable business models and the key technological drivers and revenue streams that lead to profitability. Following an investigation into issues involving copyrights in cyberspace, the focus shifts to an examination of business models that underlie Web-centric services, such as search and advertising, online auctions and payment systems, e-tailing, and social networking. The choice of cases, articles, and topics is updated each year. In the past, the course included cases on Apple iPod/iTunes, Electronic Arts, NetFlix, BitTorrent, Google, Amazon, eBay, NTT DoCoMo, Mobile Felica, and LinkedIn.
Teaching Method

The course will be taught using interactive lectures and class discussions based on assigned cases and other readings. There will be a midterm paper and an in-class final examination (open book), requiring focused analysis of specific industry trends and business models that will allow students to apply insights discovered in class and formulate their own views.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

IEMBA

Globalization has brought many opportunities for business. These opportunities are accompanied by challenges. For many companies, it is a challenge of critical importance for them to be able to successfully capitalize on the benefits brought by the continuous integration of the economies between Hong Kong and the Mainland China.

The International EMBA (IEMBA) program offered by the HKUST Business School, attracts senior executives from Asia, in particular the Greater China area, who, with diverse cultural background and in-depth knowledge of their own unique business environments, exchange their views on topics of common interest while learning from the School’s internationally recognized scholars.

The 15-month IEMBA program’s classes take place in different locations in China, including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan and Shenzhen. It is an inspiring and exciting learning experience that will empower senior executives in Chinese firms or MNCs, with state-of-the-art business and management knowledge that has immediate applications at work.

If you are a senior corporate leader, ready for challenge and on the move to the next level, then the HKUST IEMBA Program will be your best and ultimate choice.

Features of MBA Education

1. Based on the strong teaching and research faculty of RBS
As one of main bases of MBA education in China, RBS has strong teaching and research strength, a library with enormous books and complete specialized materials, advanced computer lab, multimedia network classrooms, a CAD lab, compact disc information searching center, and a video room.

2. Unique premium MBA curriculum
The MBA education at RBS is the embodiment of the research on management theory and corporate practice over half a century. It has drawn the quintessence from the contemporary European and American MBA education, which helped form an extractive curriculum with its own characteristics. Our MBA program is featured by “paying equal attention to both advanced topics and systematic courses, distinguished professors coupled with entrepreneurs, advanced western theory integrated with domestic experience, simulated training with interactive case discussion”. RBS faculty have collectively compiled 15 case study books, and published scores of MBA premium teaching materials in English through the China Machinery Press to meet requirements of MBA case study education. It has also intensified the assessment for teachers and has promptly informed them of feedback from students.

3. Advanced case study education focusing on the integration between theory and practice
In view of MBA’s orientation of practice, we focus on case study in education, intensifying students’ awareness of competition, risks, and decision-making and on-site management capabilities, and organizing them to visit and investigate into enterprises to keep them up to date with economic development in the world, and the reform and opening up of China.

4. Flexible BB On-Line Learning System
As the pioneer in developing on-line education management system in China, RBS has an internationally advanced Blackboard Learning System (BB). With its powerful functions such as on-line course registration, scoring, classroom discussion, learning material distribution, question answering by teachers, teaching affairs management, the BB system has provided a powerful on-line platform for interactions between teachers and students, and between students; and has substantially enhanced the teaching management efficiency.

5. The colorful secondary classroom
RBS has invited senior visiting scholars, the American Fulbright and other foreign teachers to participate in the MBA classroom teaching, and has invited managers of foreign transnational corporations in China and domestic enterprise managers and scholars to give lectures.

6. International exchange activities
RBS regularly send outstanding MBA students on exchange visits to schools in the U.S. A. and Europe. Since 2000, we have signed graduate exchange and study agreements with The University of Texas, San Antonio (the U.S.), the School of Business (EUROMED MARSEILLE Ecole De Management, France), and the School of Business (Aarhus School of Business, Danmark), and have regularly sent MBA students on exchange visits to the above-mentioned schools.

MBA Program from School of Management at Zhejiang University

The MBA Program of the School of Management, Zhejiang University is a Masters-level program that started in 1994. It aims to cultivate executive managerial talents with global vision and thinking as well as abilities of strategic decision, organizational leadership and resource integration.

Education in the MBA program of the School of Management includes orientation, course learning, supervisor selecting, internship, and dissertation writing, etc. The courses of the MBA program are divided into key courses, modular courses, electives and business practice. Through systematic learning and training of these management courses, an MBA student can integrate what he has learned in different courses, think strategically and holistically, and combine newly acquired knowledge with his previous management experience to analyze and solve various kinds of management problems. The key courses in the MBA program include Data Model and Decision, Accounting, Managerial Economics, Organizational Behavior, Information Systems and E-commerce, Finance, Marketing, Operations Management, Strategic Management, etc.