The 41st annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is scheduled for next week in Davos, Switzerland. This year, Mr. Kojima, Chairman of the Mitsubishi Corporation, will serve as one of the co-chairs of the meeting. The theme is the Share Norms for the New Reality.
As thousands of people will be coming to Davos and hundreds of sessions and meetings are scheduled, the staff of the World Economic Forum seem to be very busy arranging materials, session structure, teleconferencing, e-mailing etc. for the meeting. Participants like myself are trying to schedule meetings, appointments, etc. to make the best of the opportunity. You get very confused about which events you respond with Yes, and which events you declined! More from the road.
Yoko Ishikura is a Professor at Hitotsubashi University ICS in the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy in Japan. She has held positions as a professor at the School of International Politics, Economics and Business of Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, as a consultant at McKinsey and Company Inc. Japan and a visiting professor at Darden School.
Professor Ishikura is a consultant to a number of multinational companies and has been a frequent speaker at management conferences, seminars, and workshops throughout the world. She was a member of the Regulatory Reform Committee for the Japanese government and the International Competitiveness Commission for METI. She is currently a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum.
She is the author of Strategic Shift from OR choices to AND paradigm, Building Core Skills of Organization , and the co-author of the following publications: Managing Diversity in the 21st Century, Strategy for Cluster Initiatives in Japan , and Building a Career to the World Class Professionals – all in Japanese. Her books in English include: Asian Advantage, Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management and Trust and Antitrust in Asian Business Alliances.
Professor Ishikura’s current research interests are focused on global competition, innovation, and knowledge management. She received her BA from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan; MBA from Darden School, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; and DBA from Harvard Business School.
