Associate Professor Aki Tonami published the following academic paper in collaboration with Professor Hidehiro Yamamoto.
[Title]
Women, Social Media and Political Engagement in Japan: A Survey Study
[Journal]
International Quarterly for Asian Studies
[DOI]
https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2024.3.26277
"Leadership and Learning are indispensable to each other ~ John F. Kennedy"
Welcome to Tsukuba MBA-IB's Speaker Series for AY2024.
We have selected speakers from diverse areas who will share with us their experiences and the current issues and trends faced in their respective areas.
Associate Partner. A consulting firm
President, Yamabiko Village
OG, MBA-IB
Chairperson of FP&A Program Committee
Profesor, MBA-IB
President & CEO, Solasto Corporation
Calling all graduates of the MBA-IB program at the University of Tsukuba!
Join us for a special Homecoming Party / 20th Anniversary designed to connect alumni across all graduation years and foster meaningful interactions among generations.
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Dinner to follow)
Location: Room 134, Tokyo Campus
Let's celebrate our shared journey, exchange stories, and build new connections!
We're working to keep the participation fee as low as possible to encourage everyone to join.
Detailed program to follow soon—stay tuned for updates!
We can't wait to see you there!
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A cohort of first and second-year MBA-IB students participated in visits to various organizations and institutions across Italy from 16 to 20 September 2024, exploring a wide range of challenges affecting different industries. During these visits, our students not only gained valuable insights but also presented their own research findings, demonstrating how they applied the knowledge acquired in their MBA-IB courses.
This time, the students researched and presented several key topics: the impact of sustainability on P&L along with a sustainability proposal for Safilo, an evaluation of customer experience across different touchpoints for Save the Duck Japan with suggestions to enhance satisfaction and loyalty, and a strategic analysis of Treedom's indirect competitors in the B2B space, along with scaling best practices. Additionally, MUFG Milano delivered an insightful session, sharing their success stories and challenges in the field of ESG in Italy.
We express our heartfelt gratitude to Safilo, Treedom, Save the Duck, and MUFG Milan for providing our students with these exceptional opportunities.
The Advisory Board meeting for the MBA-IB program was successfully held on October 19, 2024.
We are deeply grateful to our esteemed Advisory Board members for their valuable feedback and insights, which play a crucial role in shaping the direction of our program.
The purpose of the Advisory Board is to provide strategic guidance, ensure curriculum relevance, and strengthen the connection between academia and industry. During the meeting, we presented our achievements from the past year and engaged in meaningful discussions to identify areas for further improvement. Their advice will undoubtedly help us continue to deliver an exceptional learning experience for our students and maintain the program's excellence.
Dr. Junjian Gu served as Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Empirical Research on Non-financial Disclosure Practices" in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1991-8074), a Scopus-indexed journal with a CiteScore of 4.5 for 2023, ranked Q1 in Business, Management, and Accounting (miscellaneous).
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jrfm/special_issues/C0270VHG71
MBA-IB Research Seminar will be held as follows.
Date: July 10, 2024
Time: 18:30 – 20:00
Place: University of Tsukuba, Tokyo campus, Room 122
Eligible participants: Faculty members, graduate students, and individuals with equivalent knowledge
Host faculty: Junjian Gu
Environmental Litigation Risk and Corporate Misconduct
Environmental regulations are important constraints to corporate environmental decision-making. In this paper, we examine how environmental and social (ES) litigation risk affects related corporate misconduct. We measure ES-related litigation risk by using the political ideology of circuit judges and find that higher ex-ante ES litigation risk is associated with more corporate ES misconducts. Such effect is stronger when the institutional investor holdings are higher. We then examine investor reactions and firm responses to heightened ES litigation risk. We find that investors react negatively to liberal judge appointments, and such effect is present among firms with lower ESG profiles. These firms also reduce capital investments and conduct fewer acquisitions. Overall, we explore a novel and important determinant on corporate environmental performance.
Dr. Wu joined the Fudan University in 2019. He received his B.A. in international economics from Shanghai Jiaotong University and his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pittsburgh. He has published research in the several leading journals include The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Banking & Finance, among others.
With Daniel Aobdia, Qin Li, Ke Na, The Influence of Labor Market Power in the Audit Profession, The Accounting Review.
With Eli Bartov and Agnes Cheng, Overbidding in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Accounting Perspective, The Accounting Review, 96(2), 55-79.
With Po-Hsuan Hsu, Yiqing Lu and Yuhai Xuan, Director Job Security and Corporate Innovation, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 59(2), 652-689.
With Po-Hsuan Hsu, Kai Li and Xing Liu, Consolidating Product Lines via Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from the USPTO Trademark Data, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysiss, 57(8), 2968-2992.
We would like to express our gratitude for joining us at the MBA-IB Open Campus on Saturday, June 29, 2024. This was the first open campus event held in Japanese.
We hope you enjoyed exploring our program and found answers to all your questions.
We invite you to start preparing your application and follow the submission instructions available here.
If you have any inquiries, please send an email directly to the address below.
inquiry23(at mark)mbaib.gsbs.tsukuba.ac.jp
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We would like to thank you for having attended the MBA-IB Open Campus held on Thursday, June 6 on Zoom.
We hope you could find out all you wanted to know about our program.
⇒Documents for your reference
We invite you to start preparing your application and follow the submission instructions available here.
If you have any inquiries, please send an email directly to the address below.
inquiry23(at mark)mbaib.gsbs.tsukuba.ac.jp
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Application Information for the Credited Auditors in the academic year of 2024 is available on the University's official website.
Those who would like to attend the courses as a Credited Auditor, please follow the Guidelines for Graduate Programs and make sure that you submit complete documentation within the designated period.
MBA-IB course list open to the Credited Auditors is available below.