Hitotsubashi University 3rd Seoul Academia Symposium “What New Global Enterprises Should Be ? From Shareholder Value to Shared Value” was held
The third Hitotsubashi University Seoul Academia “What New Global Enterprises Should Be ? From Shareholder Value to Shared Value” was held at Korea Press Center in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Hitotsubashi University founded the symposium “Hitotsubashi Seoul Academia” in 2012 for Japanese and Korean academics to discuss issues common to Japan and Korea and to share the results of their analysis.
“What New Global Enterprises Should Be ? From Shareholder Value to Shared Value” being the theme of the symposium this time, Mr. Nobuya Takasugi, senior advisor of Korea’s leading law firm Kim & Chang made a keynote speech and Professor Makoto Nakano of the Graduate School of Commerce and Management gave a lecture. Then with Professor Eiji Ogawa, Board Member and Executive Vice President as coordinator, a panel discussion was held where Mr. Takasugi, Mr. Naoki Kamiyama, Chief Japan Equity Strategist of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Professor Lee Hyungoh of the Business Administration Division of Sookmyung Women’s University and Professor Nakano discussed various aspects of new Japanese and Korean global enterprises comparatively and from a variety of angles, considering the differences in their social and cultural backgrounds.
Congratulatory addresses were delivered by His Excellency Koro Bessho, Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Korea and Professor Kim Chong-Suh, Vice-President of Seoul University, with which Hitotsubashi University has an exchange agreement.
The program began with opening remarks by President Yamauchi and then went on to the congratulatory addresses, an introduction to the university by Professor Yumiko Nakanishi of the Graduate School of Law, the keynote speech, the lecture, and then the panel discussion. Associate Professor Yongseok Kwon of the Graduate School of Law acted as moderator.
Some 220 people attended altogether, and it was a lively meeting with a lot of questions in the Q&A session.
