Open Forum will be held at Hitotsubashi ICS near Jinbocho. (Map) As I am leaving ICS at the end of March, this will be the last of its kind held at ICS. In the past, Open Forum with Aoyama Gakuin alumni and Cold Call Night with Darden alumni were held separately, but this year, these two events and Global Agenda Seminar reunion are put together for the event on March 18. ICS students, alumni and others interested in ICS and/or graduate school are also welcome.
What we plan to do this year is the brainstorming with ideaslab-type format which I have participated at Davos and other places. Four or five people (probably some from Global Agenda Seminar?) will make 5-minute presentation using visual slides (no text) to discuss project and business each has worked on. (At least one of them will be done in English.)
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.
