Signature courses
Set in among the core MBA courses, these signature courses challenge the students to test their business skills in hand-on learning, to explore alternative business models and frameworks, to understand the integrative purpose of business in society, and to develop their own personal leadership philosophy.
| 01 | Get leading: Leadership Development Journey |
This course offered in line with the ICS MBA educational philosophy of MBA as a leadership development journey, offers an in-depth exploration of each student’s personal leadership growth throughout the first year of the Hitotsubashi ICS MBA program. This course is part of our commitment to fostering leadership development, and what makes it truly special at ICS is the personalized one-on-one coaching each student receives. This unique feature is possible because of ICS bespoke approach, allowing us to provide individualized attention and support. |
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| 02 | Get connected: The Seminar System |
Every student joins a small (3-4 person) Seminar offered by a faculty member. Throughout the program and after graduation, Seminars remain a growing group of uniquely connected alumni: membership is for life! |
| 03 | Get innovated: Knowledge Creation |
The theory of knowledge creation teaches how making tacit knowledge explicit drives innovation. In the 21st century, this is crucial for the success of firms, NPO/NGOs, and governments. Hitotsubashi ICS is a global focal point for research and dissemination in knowledge creation, pioneered by Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University. Nonaka also introduced practical wisdom as a complementary source of knowledge and emphasized its importance for leadership. |
| 04 | Get in context: Japanese Business and Economy |
To begin the MBA journey, JBE takes student on a riveting tour of Japan’s past, present, and future. The story of Japan’s postwar recovery, its meteoric rise to wealth unprecedented in the region, its dedicated path to modernization - and today, its position as a global innovative force and thought leader - is one that Hitotsubashi ICS tells like no other. After experiencing JBE, student will forever be in context in Japan. |
| 05 | Get region-savvy: Doing Business in Asia |
Each year brings a new theme for this course surveying business practice in China, Korea and Japan, offered with our partners in the BEST Alliance - Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo. About ten students from each partner school (Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University and Hitotsubashi ICS) work and visit companies together for 16 days. Offered at the end of the first year of study, DBiA gives different test fields and contexts for the analytical skills that student build during the year. |
| 06 | Get holistic: Wise Leadership |
Learn why Wise Leadership matters and how to lead with truth, goodness, and
beauty. Based on Professor Ikujiro Nonaka’s theories, this course builds on your Leadership Development Journey. You’ll explore six core practices of wise companies and re_ect on your own leadership style. Fieldwork and guest dialogues help you grasp the essence of people and situations. Through knowing, doing, and being, you’ll develop as a wise and authentic leader.Gain tools to create organizations where knowledge and humanity thrive.Ideal for those aiming to lead with depth, clarity, and purpose. |
| 07 | Get networked: Global Virtual Teams & Global Network Week |
Through the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), GVT course brings students from GNAM schools together to work in global and virtual teams. Assumptions regarding information, perspectives, frames of reference, and preferences abound in more serious ways in global virtual teams. The exercise provides students with real-time practice that will be important to their effectiveness. GNAM schools students also have access to these highly popular 1-week intensive GNW courses offered in locations all over the world - Bangalore, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Madrid, New Haven and many more. |
| 08 | Get integrated: Capstone Project |
Capstone Project provides students with opportunities to integrate what students have learned from all the courses completed in the MBA curriculum, and apply their learning to analyze the situations, identify the key issues, and develop action plans for the real-world. |