Category: Forum

Topic: “Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat” Speaker: Ai Hisano (Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) Date： January 20th (Wednesday) 2021 from 13:00 to 14:30 Venue: Zoom online Organizer: Masaru Karube Deadline: 9:00, January 20, 2021 Innovation Forum

Brown bag lunch seminar 2020.9.16 Kentaro Nakajima Topic: “The role of online communication on innovation” Speaker: Kentaro Nakajima (Associate Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University) Date: September 16th (Wednesday) 2020 from 12:40 to 14:00 Venue: Zoom online Organizer: Masaru Karube Deadline: 9:00, September 16 , 2020 IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Brown bag lunch seminar 2020.6.3 Takumi Tagashira Topic:“How Does Warehouse Automation Contribute to Multichannel Retailers’ Sales?” Speaker:Takumi Tagashira(Assistant Professor of Marketing, School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University Business School) Date:June 3rd (Wednesday) 2020from 13:00 to 14:30 Venue:Zoom online Organizer:Masaru Karube Deadline:9:00, June 3 , 2020 email : karube☆iir.hit-u.ac.jp (to use this email address, please replace the ☆ with an @ mark)

Brown bag lunch seminar 2020.2.19 Yaichi Aoshima and Akira Yamaguchi Topic: “Influences of adopting IFRS on the R&D investment: evidence from Japanese listed companies” Speaker: Yaichi Aoshima (Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University) Akira Yamaguchi (Ph.D Program, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University) Date: February 19th (Wednesday) 2020 from 12:40 to 13:30 Place: IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Masaru Karube Deadline: 9:00, February 19 , 2020 IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Innovation Forum 2019.12.16 Roy Suddaby Topic:“Temporal Emotions and Stakeholder Enrollment: How Rhetorical History Enables Resource Acquisition” Speaker:Roy Suddaby(Professor, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada) Date：December 16th (Monday) 2019from 16:00 to 17:30 Place:Lecture Room 4 (Room#608),  6th Floor, National Center of Science, Chiyoda Campus, Hitotsubashi University Organizer:Takahiro Endo This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center),  Hitotsubashi University. Abstract:Stakeholder enrollment is a critical variable in explaining entrepreneurial success. Prior research has pointed to the importance of the narrative capabilities of entrepreneurs in successfully creating a psychological bond between potential stakeholders and an entrepreneurial project. Psychological bonds are most effective when they create an emotional connection between a stakeholder and a project. We extend this research with the…

Brown bag lunch seminar 2019.11.20 Satoko Suzuki Topic: “Liabilities of authenticity” Speaker: Satoko Suzuki (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Department of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University) Date: November 20th (Wednesday) 2019 from 12:40 to 13:30 Place: IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Masaru Karube Deadline: 9:00, November 20 , 2019 IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Innovation Forum 2019.12.4 Michael Cusumano Topic:“The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power” Speaker:Michael Cusumano(Visiting Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University / Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management) Date：December 4th (Wednesday) 2019from 16:30 to 18:00 Place:IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer:Yaichi Aoshima Abstract:This lecture summarizes some key findings from a new book by Michael Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David Yoffie of the same title as the lecture. We will examine myths and realities associated with digital platforms – businesses that connect two or more market sides, and have supply or demand sides driven by network effects. Platform companies are now the most valuable companies in the world and the…

Innovation Forum 2019.11.18 Mariko Sakakibara Topic: “Do Pre-Announcement Face-to-Face Interactions Increase the Returns to Acquisitions? Evidence from Smartphone Geolocational Data” Speaker: Mariko Sakakibara (UCLA, Anderson School of Management) Date： November 18th (Monday) 2019 from 12:40 to 14:10 Place: IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Her target audience is management scholars Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama

Notice of Seminar CANCELLATION We are sorry to announce that the IIR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar on January 29th (Takuma KOCHIYAMA) is cancelled. Topic: “Unnatural Selection of Outside Directors: Consequences of Japanese Corporate Governance Reforms” Speaker: Takuma Kochiyama (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) Date: January 29th (Wednesday) 2020 from 12:40 to 13:30 Place: IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Masaru Karube Deadline: 9:00, January 29 , 2020