Innovation Forum 2017.10.25 Evan W. Lauteria Topic: “The Cultural Foundations of Institutional Divergence: A Study of Nintendo and SEGA’s ‘Console Wars’” Speaker: Evan W. Lauteria (PhD Student, University of California Davis) Date: October 25th (Wednesday) 2017 from 12:40 ～ 14:10 Place: Director’s room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Innovation Forum 2017.12.6 Ravi Madhavan Topic:“The Evolution of Systems Integration Capability in China: Case Studies in Nuclear Power and Commercial Aircraft” Speaker:Ravi Madhavan（Professor, The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh) Date:December 6th (Wednesday) 2017from 12:40 ～ 14:10 Place: Director’s room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Innovation Forum 2017.6.8 Yu Jiang Topic:“China’s Information Infrastructure and Innovation Efforts under the Globalization” Speaker: Yu Jiang（Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Date:June 8th (Thursday) 2017from 14:10 ～ 14:50 Place: 601 room of the 6th floor of the Faculty Building 2 Organizer: Byeongwoo Kang
Innovation Forum 2017.5.31 Jean-Baptiste Marc Litrico Topic:“Industry Ethos and Corporate Response to Institutional Pressures: Naturalizing Sustainability in Aviation” Speaker:Jean-Baptiste Marc Litrico（Associate Professor, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University/Visiting Associate Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University) Date:May 31st (Wednesday) 2017from 12:40 ～ 14:30 Place: 601 room of the 6th floor of the Faculty Building 2 Organizer: Masaru Karube
Innovation Forum 2017.2.16 Charles J. McMillan Topic:“The Planning Strategy of Strategic Planning:Orientation, Time Constraints, Decisions, Action: Case Studies from Military, Business, and Political Theory” Speaker:Charles J. McMillan（Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University) Date:February 16th (Thursday) 2017from 13:30 ～ 15:00 Place: 709 room of the 7th floor of the Faculty Building 2 Abstract：Business journals, business school scholars, and strategic management societies focus on a range of themes, frameworks, and endogenous organizational factors that shape and influence firm strategies. From resource-based theories, dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial vision, the research literature is diverse, fractionated, and often devoid of realism of strategy in action, with clever tools of networks, deep learning, time management based on timing,…
Innovation Forum 2016.11.16 Pao-lien Chen Topic:“Learning-by-Hiring: International Employee Mobility and the Growth of Emerging Market Firms at Home” Speaker:Pao-lien Chen（Associate Professor National Tsing Hua University) Date:Nobember 16th (Wednesday) 2016from 12:15 ～ 13:15 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama
Innovation Forum 2016.10.18 Michael A. Cusumano Topic:“Strategy Rules” Speaker:Professor Michael A. Cusumano（VP & Dean/Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Tokyo University of Science/Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management) Date:Octorber 18th (Tuesday) 2016from 16:30 ～ 18:00 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Kentaro Nobeoka
International Research Seminar organized by Management Innovation Research Center, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University Topic:“Diffusing New Technology without Dissipating Rent:Some Historical Case Studies of Knowledge Sharing” Speaker:Alessandro Nuvolari(Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) Date:Octorber 5th (Wednesday) 2016from 12:15 ～ 13:45 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Innovation Forum 2016.6.8 Youngjin Yoo (IMPP co-organized) Topic:“From Publishing to Printing: Immateriality of Digital Innovation andNew Business Models in the Generative Economy” Abstract:Digital innovation is rapidly re-shaping the economy as we know it. From Apple’s iPod and iPhone fundamentally disrupting music record and mobile phone service industries to Uber and AirBnB disrupting taxi and hotel industries, digital technology is upending traditional industries. Many start-up companies from Silicon Valley wants to be the “Uber” of yet another industry. Digital innovation has become the one of the topstrategic issues that garner CEOs’ attention. There remain, however, significant conceptual confusions concerning the exact nature of digital innovation. Existing literature focuses on the role…
Innovation Forum 2016.4.20 Veikko Thiele Topic: “Fostering Entrepreneurship: Backing Founders or Investors?” Speaker: Veikko Thiele (Associate Professor, Queen’s University) Date: April 20th (Wednesday) 2016 from 14:00 ～ 15:00 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama
