Date：October 27（Monday), 2025from 14:30 to 16:00 Topic:“Shaping Sustainable Futures: Innovation in Reporting and Zero-Emission Pathways for the Shipping and Energy Sectors” Speaker:Mauricio Latapí(Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University, Canada) Venue:onsiteIIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer:Karube, Masaru This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline:9:00, October 27, 2025 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Date： October 15（Wednesday), 2025 from 16:00 to 17:30 Topic: “Business Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation” Speaker: Cornelia Storz (Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt) Abstract: Why do business scholars-directors, rather than STEM scholar-directors, drive firm innovation? This paper addresses this unexpected pattern through an abductive research design combining panel data, interviews, and publication analysis. Drawing on a hand-collected dataset of Chinese listed firms (2008–2018), we show that business scholars on corporate boards enhance innovation by contributing strategic knowledge – higher-order, portable insights rooted in frameworks, heuristics, and theories that help firms navigate the uncertainty inherent in innovation across market dynamics, organizational design, and competitive positioning. We theorize strategic knowledge as a distinct asset, whose impact…

Date： June 30（Monday), 2025 from 16:30 to 17:30 Topic: “Rare Diseases, Real Options: Unlocking Strategic Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation” Speaker: SHORT, Cole Evan (Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University／Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer: Padrón-Hernández, Ivar This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline: 9:00, June 30, 2025 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Date：April 9（Wednesday), 2025from 17:30 to 19:00 Topic:“Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery” Speaker:David 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) Abstract:Studies of industry emergence have often generated insights from empirical contexts with a one-to-one correspondence between a technology and its application. In parallel, studies of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) have documented the economic impact and versatility of technologies with broad downstream applications, although these studies often abstract away from the endogenous and gradual process through which a single technology underpins multiple downstream markets, in practice assuming that “generality” is an…

Date: February 6 (Thursday), 2025 from 12:40 to 14:00 Topic: “Japan-EU relations in times of changing geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics” Abstract: The economic partnership agreement (EPA) together with the subsequent strategic partnership agreement (SPA) has laid the foundation for both width and depth in the EU-Japan relationship. Collaboration around the rules-based world order is important for both parties in parallel with facilitating frameworks for digitalization and a transition towards a green economy. In the shadow of the complex and difficult US-China relationship, the foundation for a stronger relationship between the economic and political partners of EU-Japan would be possible for the future. This paper aims to discuss these dynamics and…

Date： December 18（Wednesday), 2024 from 16:30 to 18:00 Topic: “The impact of platform business models on the valuations of unicorn companies” Speaker: Michael Cusumano (Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management / Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Abstract: Despite the importance of digital platforms in the global economy, there has been little systematic or quantitative analysis of how investors value platforms and the scope of their business models in private or public markets. This paper seeks to fill this gap in part by analyzing how unicorn valuations are affected by “platformness” (the degree to which a firm incorporates at least some elements…

Topic: “Imprinted Language Policy in Post-Colonialism: Unraveling the Tapestry of Language Policies in MNEs and Their Efficiency Paradigms” Speaker: Hang Yuan (Ph.D. candidate in Management Studies, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University) Date： October 23（Wednesday), 2024 from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline: 9:00, October 23, 2024 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Topic:“Strategic Redeployment of Intrafirm Patent Ownership” Speaker:Dr. Jung H. Kwon(Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Daniels College of Business) Date：October 15（Tuesday), 2024from 10:00 to 11:30 Venue:Online(Zoom) Organizer:Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline:16:00, October 11, 2024 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Date:October 22 (Tuesday), 2024from 12:40 to 14:00 Topic:“Anxiety that Drives Kaizen: A Strategic Blueprint for Kaizen Implementation Across Borders” Speaker:Kodo Yokozawa, Ph.D(Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences,Yokohama National University) Venue:onsiteIIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) Organizer:Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline:9:00, October 22, 2024 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar” below IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Date:September 10 (Tuesday), 2024from 12:40 to 14:00 Topic:“After the Collapse: Spontaneous Institutionalization and the Emergence of Market Institutions” Abstract:We explore how, and under which conditions, market institutions can spontaneously arise after an institutional collapse. Drawing on emergence theory, we develop a multi-level model of institutional emergence after an extreme collapse, where only the individuals’ memories remain from pre-collapse institutions. We start with individuals seeking to transact, looking to decrease cost and increase trust in their transactions. At the micro-level, the multiplication of transactions can trigger processes of amplification-convergence and cancelation, through an activity- and a cultural-cognitive-based driver of institutionalization. At the meso-level, these processes result in the spontaneous emergence of…