Category: E-list

●Forum 2025 2025.10.27Mauricio Latapí(Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University, Canada)”Shaping Sustainable Futures: Innovation in Reporting and Zero-Emission Pathways for the Shipping and Energy Sectors” 2025.10.15Cornelia Storz(Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt)”Business Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation” 2025.6.30SHORT, Cole Evan(Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University／Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)”Rare Diseases, Real Options: Unlocking Strategic Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation” 2025.4.9David A. Kirsch(Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the College of Information Studies (by courtesy) at the University of Maryland)”Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery”

●Forum 2024 2024.12.18Michael Cusumano(Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management / Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)”The impact of platform business models on the valuations of unicorn companies” 2024.10.23Hang Yuan(Ph.D. candidate in Management Studies, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University)”Imprinted Language Policy in Post-Colonialism: Unraveling the Tapestry of Language Policies in MNEs and Their Efficiency Paradigms” 2024.7.8Paul Wiegmann(Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology)”Measuring Societal Impacts of Standards” 2024.5.15Paul Jensen(Professor, University of Melbourne)”The effect of university-industry collaboration subsidies on firm performance” 2024.4.25Hee-Chan Song(Assistant Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)”Doing and writing qualitative study: A case of Buddhist temples” 2024.4.24①Dong-hyu Kim(Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow)”Effects of Standards…

●Forum 2023 2023.12.14 Ramya K Murthy (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) ”Digital Platform Ecosystem Design: A Configurational Approach to Understanding Heterogeneity in Platform Meta-Organizations” 2023.11.15 Israr Qureshi (Professor, The Research School of Management, Australian National University) ”Digitally Enabled Social Intermediation: A Research Framework” 2023.10.25 Thomas Åstebro (Professor, HEC Paris and KU Leuven) ”Death and Turmoil in R&D Teams” 2023.7.4 Yoichi Matsumoto (Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University) ”Internal Redeployment Versus External Recruitment of Inventors” 2023.6.7 Anoop Madhok (Professor, York University) ”Value creation in corporate-startup alliance portfolios: The attention-based view” 2023.4.12 Nadine Scholz (PhD Student in Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation, King’s College London) ”Looking for allies:…

●Brown bag lunch seminar 2024 #006  2025.2.6Patrik Ström(Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) and Center for Asian Studies (CAS), Stockholm School of Economics)”Japan-EU relations in times of changing geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics” #005  2024.10.22Kodo Yokozawa(Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences,Yokohama National University)”Anxiety that Drives Kaizen: A Strategic Blueprint for Kaizen Implementation Across Borders” #004  2024.9.10Ilir Haxhi(Associate Professor of Strategy & International Management,Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam)”After the Collapse: Spontaneous Institutionalization and the Emergence of Market Institutions” #003  2024.7.24Mariotti, Francesca(Senior Lecturer, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University)”Recombinant innovation and interfirm networks in the motorsport industry” #002  2024.4.25Sandra Hasanefendic(Group founder Breakthrough Tech Innovation, Assistant Professor in Breakthrough Technology,Faculty…

●Brown bag lunch seminar 2023 #009  2023.11.15 Lee, Kidong (Professor, Incheon National University/ Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) ”Transformation of the Automobile Industries on Societal Impacts -Inroads of Self-Driving Machines” #008  2023.10.4 Emre Yildiz (Associate Professor, Mälardalen University, Sweden) ”Reconsidering Distance in International Business Research” #007  2023.9.20 Savu Rovanto (Assistant Professor, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study) ”Sustaining circular economy entrepreneurship at small businesses in China, Japan and Finland” #006  2023.9.13 Ilir Haxhi (Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam) ”Conflicts between Firms and Communities: A Configurational” #005  2023.7.12 Kristina Kazuhara (Associate Professor, Copenhagen University / PhD Fellow, Copenhagen Business School) ”Metaphorical Translation…

●Brown bag lunch seminar 2022 #003  2023.3.22 Rudi Bekkers (Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology) ”From open warfare to strawman’s anonymity: Motives and strategies behind patent opposition at EPO” #002  2022.8.31 Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi (Assistant Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University) ”Industry experience and post-doctoral academic performance” #001  2022.4.6 Byeongwoo Kang (Associate Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University) ”Same knowledge input and same knowledge output: A mechanism of similar knowledge creation”

●Forum 2022 2022.12.14 Martin Hemmert (Professor, Korea University Business School) ”A Conservation of Resources Perspective on Analyzing Founders’ Emotional Support: Performance Implications for East Asian New Ventures” 2022.10.26 Alberto Galasso (Professor, University of Toronto) ”Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool” 2022.7.15 Alex Preda (Professor of Professions, Markets and Technology, King’s College London) ”Bonding Expertise: The Trading Zones of Software Development in FinTech Collaborations”

●Brown bag lunch seminar 2021 #003  2021.7.21 Marc Chataigner (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) ”Speculating good companies. A discourse analysis of the role of peer-to-peer hospitality micro-entrepreneurs” #002  2021.7.7 Kristina Kazuhara (Ph.D. Fellow, Copenhagen Business School / Teaching Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen) ”Metaphorical Translations – A Process Study of a Strategic Initiative at Novo Nordisk in Japan”

●Forum 2021 2021.9.1 Avimanyu (Avi) Datta (Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship and George R & Martha Means Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Illinois State University) ”Strategic Renewal of Hollywood Movies by TMT as Agents of Change: The Impact of Change in TMT and Narrative Transformation on Franchise Performance”

●Forum 2020 2021.1.20 Ai Hisano (Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) ”Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat”