November 18, 2002

Organization

Board of Directors

Auditor: Megumi TAMAGAWA (CPA)

President:
Hotaka KATAHIRA, University of Tokyo
Director:

Head Office
Managing Director:
Takahiro FUJIMOTO, University of Tokyo
General Manager:
Hirofumi TATSUMOTO, GBRC
Administrative Assistant:Keiko HIGURASHI, GBRC

Takahiro FUJIMOTO, University of Tokyo
Tomonori UEGAKI, Mitsubishi EstateNobuo TAKAHASHI, University of Tokyo
Junjiro SHINTAKU, University of Tokyo

Online Journal Editorial Board

Advisory Board

Chief Editor:

Harvard Business School
Stockholm School of Economics

Junjiro SHINTAKU, University of Tokyo
Editor:Makoto ABE, University of Tokyo
Makoto KASUYA, University of Tokyo

Liaison Council
Regular Workshop

Hotaka KATAHIRA, University of Tokyo
Nobuo TAKAHASHI, University of Tokyo
Takahiro FUJIMOTO, University of Tokyo
Technical Editor:

Computer Industry Workshop
Director in Charge: Junjiro SHINTAKU

Maki NISHIDA, GBRC

Asian Automobile Industry Workshop

GBRC Social Network Institute

Director in Charge: Takahiro FUJIMOTO

Chief:

Online Software Workshop
Director in Charge: Nobuo TAKAHASHI

Yuki YASUDA, GBRC
(To be established in January 2003)

Social Network Workshop

Business Model Development OfficeDirector in Charge: Nobuo TAKAHASHI

Head:
Nobuo TAKAHASHI, University of Tokyo
Chief Researcher:Power Brand Workshop

Setsu MORI, GBRC
Researcher:
Tomofumi TAKAMATSU, GBRC
Masaya MIYAZAKI, GBRC

Chief Researcher: Setsu MORI

Content Business Workshop
Director in Charge: Junjiro SHINTAKU

Marketing Science Workshop
Director in Charge: Hotaka KATAHIRA

2Major Projects(a) Funded Research and Consulting, 2002.
Mitsubishi ResearchInstitute, Inc.

Test production of Joint-Space Model

New Energy and Industrial
Technology Development
Organization (NEDO)

Business plan construction on alcohol manufacturing as corebusiness

The Sasakawa Peace
Foundation

Linux model as collaboration between market and voluntary(b) Online Journal Publishing
Quarterly, Annals of Business Administrative Science (ABAS)
English journal. Free subscription. Online ISSN 1347-4456, Print ISSN 1347-4464
Introducing works of Japanese business administrative science to the world.
Monthly, Akámon Management Review (AMR)
Pay subscription. Online ISSN 1347-4448
No length restriction, A4-size, full color.
For researchers and those who possess intellectual curiosity.
1) Review Article: Ambitious review on literature in specific field
2) Commentary Article: Commentary and introduction to important works in Japan and abroad3) Case Study: Description and outline of latest case in firms and industries

Academic and research institutes are allowed site license for free subscription.
Weekly, GBRC Newsletter
Free subscription.

(c) Seminars
Marunouchi Global Campus
Collaborated with Nikkei BP/ Sponsored by IBM Japan.

Alliance with Research Institutes
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Coalition with "Knowledge management professional training unit ": GBRC will provide
management education environment and accept intern on “Knowledge management
professional training program” (Intellectual property management professional trainingprogram).

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Ties with Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, has an in effect-grade-skipping
program. “Advanced Management Program,” since April 2001, allows promisingundergraduate students to attend graduate school course in their fourth year ofundergraduate study and fulfill master course in first year of graduate school. The aim is tobring up 21st century breed FBPs: Field-Based Professionals. Students are required anOJT-like research experience in firms to cultivate field-based “problem detecting skill.”
Moreover, this program aims to make direct contribution to society and economy bycreating intellectual property and supporting industry-university collaboration for research.
Funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for 20002001 fiscal years, “Business Model Development Office” has been launched in March 2001.
Other industry-university collaboration efforts have been achieved in forms of businessmethod patent application, licensing agreement, and consulting contract. Alongside with thedecision to open “Marunouchi Satellite Office” at the Marunouchi Academic Suites (MAS),
voluntary faculty staff established NPO Global Business Research Center (GBRC) onMarch 22, 2002, in order to carry out flexible activities otherwise difficult to conduct within
the university, and to fulfill the function as core in MAS. Administration of the Marunouchi
Satellite Office was entrusted to GBRC on August 2, 2002, by an agreement signed
between Graduate School of Economics and GBRC. The office opened in September 2002
as the first satellite office of national university operated by NPO, with the grand opening ofMarunouchi Building.
Educational research program in Graduate School of Economics is becoming flexible andcolorful by utilizing GBRC’s liaison function. For instance, international collaborative
research with MAS based world’s top business schools, which GBRC exchange information
on daily base; continuing education on management; commissioned research fromindustrial firms; multi-client type joint research project; internship program utilizing academic
intellectual asset.

Information

Phone

2-4-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6309
Marunouchi Building, 9F
81-3-5208-4272
Facsimile

81-3-5208-4273

URL

http://www.gbrc.org

info@gbrc.jp

Established

Registration of establishment, March 22, 2002

Address

Purpose ofEstablishment(Excerpt)

E-mail address

GBRC provides the platform of daily communication with world’s best businessschools and collaborative research with industrial firms. Its aims are1) to establish educational research network of world-class business knowledge,2) to provide researchers, particularly younger researchers, an educational
research environment of world’s best business knowledge,3) to bring up researchers of international standard through global internship,4) extension and education of business knowledge by feedback to society4