12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Global Leadership Challenges for Japanese Companies
Sheena Iyengar
S.T. Lee Professor of Business
Columbia Business School
Moderated by
Hugh Patrick, R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus; Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
Video of this event is available here. Unfortunately, there was some trouble with the audio, but it is still understandable.
Many Japanese companies are increasingly pursuing growth strategies that emphasize markets outside of Japan. Professor Iyengar will discuss the leadership challenges faced by these companies as well as some strategies they are pursuing. She will also describe her own research and education initiative on global leadership which she is working to introduce in Japan. She will address and invite discussion on issues such as language skills, cultural intelligence, decision making styles, networking, and the seniority system.
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Professor Iyengar has taught courses in leadership and entrepreneurial creativity. Her research addresses the implications of offering people, whether they be employees or consumers, choices. She has examined choice in a multitude of contexts ranging from employee motivation and performance in a global organization, Citigroup, to chocolate displays at Godiva, to the magazine aisles of supermarkets,...
Hugh Patrick is director of CJEB, codirector of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, and R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1984 after some years as professor of economics and director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. He completed his B.A. at Yale University in 1951, earned M.A. degrees in Japanese Studies (1955) and Economics (1957) and a Ph.D. in...