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Padrón-Hernández, Ivar  Assistant Professor International business, strategic management and organization theoryBorn: 1984E-mail: padron☆iir.hit-u.ac.jp (to use this email address, please replace the ☆ with an @ mark)Phone: +81-42-580-8425Fax: +81-42-580-8410Web: https://sites.google.com/view/ivar-padronhernandez【Career】2010        B.Sc. International Business, Gothenburg University2012        M.Sc. International Business and Trade, Gothenburg University2017-       Affiliated Researcher, European Institute of Japanese Studies,         Stockholm School of Economics2018-2019 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Keio University2019        Ph.D. Business Administration, Department of Marketing and Strategy,         Stockholm School of Economics2020-       Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University【Awards】-The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2020Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS), August 2020Achievements:When International Strategy Meets Local Institutions: Subsidiary Influence in the Context of Headquarter Initiatives【Recent Research Themes】Multinational corporationsHeadquarter-subsidiary relationsGlobal strategyNews reactions to economic partnership agreements 
Vili LEHDONVIRTA   Visiting Associate Professor Visiting Associate Professor,Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (2020.4.1-2020.9.30)Associate Professor University of Oxfordhttps://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vili-lehdonvirta/【Recent Research Themes】Platform economy
EUM Wonsub  Specially Appointed Research Associate Economic Complexity, Technological Diversification, Co-evolution of Production and InnovationBorn: 1990E-mail: eum☆iir.hit-u.ac.jp (to use this email address, please replace the ☆ with an @ mark)Phone: +81-42-580-8434Fax: +81-42-580-8410【Career】2008-2011   B.A., Economics (with honors), UC Berkeley2012-2020   Ph.D., Engineering (Technology Management), Seoul National University2020-present     Specially Appointed Research Associate, Institute of Innovation  Research,           Hitotsubashi University【Recent Research Themes】Knowledge specialization and diversification Trade flow and knowledge transferIndustrial structure and economic growth
Koizumi, Hideto  Adjunct Assistant ProfessorPublic Economics and Microeconomic TheoryBorn: 1988E-mail: koizumi☆iir.hit-u.ac.jp (to use this email address, please replace the ☆ with an @ mark)Phone: +81-42-580-8436Fax: +81-42-580-8410Web: https://hidetokoizumi.github.io【Career】2011     BA in Liberal Arts at Soka University of America2012     MA in International and Development Economics at Yale University2012-2013 Research Associate at Innovation for Poverty Action2013-2014 World Bank, STC2020     PhD in Applied Economics at the Wharton School of UPenn2020     Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University2020-present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University【Awards】-Encouragement Award 2020 from the Japan Institute of Public FinanceJapan Institute of Public Finance, November 2020Achievements:Optimal Uniform Capital Taxation in A Partially Automated Society【Recent Research Themes】Optimal Taxation with Automation
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
Vol.67 No.3 WIN. 2019 (In Japanese) A leading management journal in Japanese,which builds a bridge between theory and practice.EDITED BYHitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation ResearchPUBLISHED BYToyo Keizai Inc.Innovation of Safety and ANSHINMasao Mukaidono“Creating Safety and ANSHIN Concepts of New Era: Safety 2.0 and Collaborative Safety“Masao Nagai“Present Status of Vehicle Safety and Advancement in Automated Driving“Akira Izumi / Kengo Maeno / Yuya Hikita“Safety of Consumer Products: New Innovation by Using Big Data and IoT“Taotao Bi“The Development of U.S. Organic Agriculture: How Back-to-the-Landers and Hippies Revolutionized the American Food Industry“Tsuneo Komatsuzaki“Development of Security Services Utilizing ICT“Yoshiki Hiruma“Applying Financial Expertise to Design for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience: Case of DBJ BCM Linked Loan Program“Marisa Tsukiyama / Kyosuke Yukawa / Hirofumi Watase“Trust in the Arrival of a Data-driven Society“Takeshi Yamasaki“The Smart Risk Communication Concerning Food Safety and Security“Masaki Matsunaga“A Comparison of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs through Latent Profile Analysis“ ●Brand Management by All Stakeholders (4)  Satoko Suzuki●International Standardization from JAPAN (8)  Manabu Eto ●Entrepreneurs Who Change
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 17:30Place:Lecture Room 4 (Room#608),  6th Floor, National Center of Science, Chiyoda Campus, Hitotsubashi UniversityOrganizer:Takahiro EndoThis 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 observation that different types of psychological bonds between stakeholders and projects emerge when the entrepreneurial narrative draws on temporal emotions that emphasize positive and negative aspects of the past or the future. We identify and elaborate four temporal emotions that drive stakeholder enrollment – nostalgia, postalgia,
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
2019.11.01 Professor Michael Cusumano joined us as a visiting professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Welcome! Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (2019.11.1-2020.1.31) https://www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp/en/2019/11/01/michael-cusumano/
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 18:00Place:IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR buildingOrganizer:Yaichi AoshimaAbstract: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 first trillion-dollar businesses. The talk will focus on how digital platforms differ from conventional product or service businesses, and why some markets produce spectacular winner-take-all-or-most outcomes while others result in spectacular financial losses. A key point is the division of all platforms into two basic