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| Subject descriptions |
| On entering QBS,
all students are given a detailed syllabus of their subjects.
The descriptions here attempt to capture the essence for of
subject program in the order to enable you to better understand
the QBS lineup. While there will be no major changes in subject
content, there may be some modifications due to social and economic
conditions. Each subject is worth 2 credits except for the "Project
Analysis". Graduation requires a minimum of 36 credits.
The "Project Analysis" (required) is a one-year subject
that straddles the second semester of the first year and the
first semester of the second year. It is worth 4 credits. Classes
last 90 minutes. They are divided into two semesters with 13
sessions each. |
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| MBA Basic |
| Subjects |
Description |
| Organizational
Management |
This
subject uses case studies to examine the principles
of organization formation, the substitution relationship
between organizations and markets, relations between
organizations, networking, strategic alliances,
corporate governance and other types of formal analysis.
It also studies the field of internal process analysis
in areas like organizational decision-making, power
politics, information processing characteristics
and knowledge creation. Both companies and public
institutions are covered. Students learn about leadership
as top and strategic middle managers |
| Marketing
Strategy |
This
subject teaches the basic theory of marketing through
case studies of actual corporate marketing activities
and analysis of modern corporate marketing strategies.
It also examines the meaning and significance of
commercial activities and consumerism and studies
techniques for analysis of product functionality
and value.. |
| Accounting |
This
subject aims to promote a basic understanding of
the significance of accounting and the challenges
that it faces. It focuses on the challenges confronting
today's companies due to the "Big Bang",
accounting policy, and makes heavy use of case analyses. |
| Corporate
Finance |
This
subject examines the basic theory of corporate finance,
including project evaluation, risk return relationships
and capital structure optimization. Concepts are
mastered through computational problems and discussion
of major issues. Particular focus is placed on the
issues encountered in applying theory to Japanese
companies and potential solutions. |
| Business
Communication in English |
Taught
in English. This subject provides mastery of practical
business English by learning common business phrases,
business letter-writing, how to express intent during
negotiations, and debating techniques. A large number
of case studies and simulations are used, including
videos of real-life business scenes. |
| Corporate
Ethics |
This
subject studies current international trends in
corporate ethics and social responsibility and their
background. Among the specific areas investigated
are corporate governance, the changing social climate
for corporations, risk management, internal governance
concepts and the development of corporate ethical
positions. |
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| Business Strategy Area |
| Subjects |
Description |
| Strategic
Human Resources Managementt |
This
subject analyzes recent trends of human resources management
at corporations, focusing on personnel and labor management,
training, personnel appraisal, wages and employment. Students
learn about motivation strategies, ways to build careers
within organizations and leadership within organizations
and groups. |
| Corporate
Strategy |
This
subject aims to provide a greater understanding of both
the theoretical and practical aspects of modern corporate
strategy, focusing on the strategic behavior of companies
in response to developments such as globalization, technological
innovation and intensifying competition. The subject features
a large number of case studies and videos. Active discussion
is encouraged. |
| Financial
Accounting |
This
subject provides practical, advanced expertise in financial
accounting, a skill required of all business people. It
begins by introducing the basic concepts of financial
accounting before examining the impact of international
accounting standards on Japan, the accounting "Big
Bang", accounting policy that is taking place in
Japan (the move to consolidated accounting, tax effect
accounting, mark-to-market accounting and financial product
accounting etc.), and looks at questions of "official
accounting" as related to the Commercial Code, Securities
and Exchange Law, Tax Code and other important laws and
ordinances. |
| Management
Accounting |
This
subject teaches the basics of management accounting and
their application. It begins by providing a basic framework
from which to examine questions of numerical management
within companies, and then uses that framework to build
a historical understanding of "costing methodologies,"
starting from partial (direct) costing and going on to
standard costing (expected costing), strategic full costing,
and finally, results calculation. |
| Management
Control |
This
subject looks at the series of management processes involved
in formulating a business plan, deciding on and implementing
the plan and controlling the results. It uses practical
case studies, which consider how best to manage a company
based on corporate information and how to develop a more
effective management. |
| Corporate
Governance and Auditing |
This
subject considers corporate governance in terms of coordinating
the rights of all interested parties. Lectures cover specific
corporate governance issues such as the lifting of the
ban on shareholder suits and holding companies and the
questions posed by executive director systems, as well
as corporate auditing methods. Lectures focus on concrete
examples, and discussion is encouraged. |
| Financial
Risk |
This
subject provides a broad theoretical and practical survey
of financial risk in fund-raising, fund deployment and
other financing activities for businesses and projects. |
| Business
Risk Management |
Corporate
growth requires risk-taking and appropriate risk management.
This subject studies the basic theories of "risk
forecasting and assessment," "risk management
system" and "risk control." It examines
case studies highlighting the domestic and foreign risks
to which companies are exposed and considers their impact
on results, competitiveness and various general management
issues. |
| Tax
Management |
This
subject works from a foundation in financial accounting
and tax accounting to analyze corporate income measurement
and tax treatment using detailed computational examples.
It also looks at case studies in international earnings
management and international taxation. |
| Business
in China |
Having
joined the WTO, China is set to become the economic powerhouse
of Asia in the twenty first century. However, it is not
necessarily easy to do business under China's unique system
of market socialism. This subject examines the realities
of Chinese business and China strategies using a variety
of case studies. |
| International
Management |
This
subject focuses on the activities of globalizing companies,
including resource development, overseas operations and
their management, international management styles and
global strategies. The emphasis is on theoretical analysis,
with particular focus given to in-depth case study analyses
of the international strategies of Japanese companies. |
| Corporate
Value Creation and M&A |
This
subject looks at consolidated financial management, based
on corporate valuation, and examines the application of
corporate financial theory to the areas like business
asset sales, mergers, stock swaps, spin-offs, MBOs and
other M&A activities. Other areas studied include
the implications of capital policy (tracking stocks, IPOs,
debt equity swap etc.), and the valuation of financial
institutions and governments. Both problem areas and possible
solutions are identified. |
| International
Marketing |
International
marketing, especially marketing in Asia, faces a wide
range of problems, including standardization, optimization
and market strategies for foreign subsidiaries. This subject
brings a marketing perspective to international business
activities.. |
| Intercultural
Communication |
This
subject builds the foreign language communication skills
that are essential for international business by providing
opportunities to practice different techniques of actively
expressing intent and debating. Taught in English. |
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| Industry and Technology Management
Area |
| Subjects |
Description |
| Regional
Industrial Policy |
This
subject offers a dynamic perspective on the spatial arrangement
of the industrial structure that formed as a result of
Japanese industrial policy, and analyzes the policy issues
for local industries and societies. It also analyzes development
strategies for leading industrial sectors. The subject
will provide an opportunity to refine macroeconomic concepts
and build insights into industry from a policy perspective.. |
| Industry and
Technology |
This
subject analyzes the structural changes being seen in
industry as a result of information and other advanced
technologies. It surveys the industrial technology development
process, current trends, the outlook for corporate systems
development in the IT age and the potential shape of new
industries. |
| Production
Management |
This
subject focuses on the theoretical aspects of Japanese-style
production systems like "just in time" and small
group activities, examining case studies from real-life
production settings to identify practical techniques for
quality management and productivity gains. Group work
is used to provide hands-on experience with QC activities. |
| Venture Companies |
This
subject builds an understanding of the theory of innovation
as it applies to corporate products and production, examining
company-wide technology development management techniques
and analyzing the innovation strategies of companies.
It also considers policy approaches towards innovations. |
| Innovation
Management |
Information
technology is evolving from information processing to
information creation, and the information this produces
is an important source of strategic knowledge for management.
This subject provides an analytical understanding of the
world of strategic knowledge that drives large corporations,
including many practical demonstrations of the theories
learned. |
| Knowledge Management |
This
subject looks at the series of management processes involved
in formulating a business plan, deciding on and implementing
the plan and controlling the results. It uses practical
case studies which consider how best to manage a company
based on corporate information and management information
and how to develop influence processes to become amore
effective manager. |
| Industry-Academic
Collaboration Management |
This
subject studies the process of commercializing the new
technology ideas developed by universities and research
institutions and how this process is managed. Students
learn the practical knowledge required to identify promising
technologies and coordinate industry-academia collaborations. |
| Intellectual
Property Management |
This
subject examines the technology patents, business model
patents, trademarks, registered designs and other intellectual
property of companies, while learning the realities of
patent management and identifying strategic uses for intellectual
property rights. It includes comparative studies of patent
laws and corporate patent strategies in Japan and United
States and case studies of patent litigation. |
| Technology
Development and Risk Management |
This
subject studies the methods and theories for converting
basic technology to applied technology and developing
technology into business. It focuses on real-life examples
from medicine and industrial technology to learn the often
overlooked risks that are inherent in technology and development. |
| Asian Industry
and Companies |
Each
Asian country is distinctive, with its own trajectory
for economic development. The industries and companies
that develop in this environment are themselves distinctive
as well. This subject considers ways to deal with Asian
diversity by studying specific countries. industries and
companies. |
| International
Corporate Analysis |
Students
analyze international companies quantitatively and qualitatively,
mainly using disclosure information and other publicly
available documents. Reviewing overall strategy of companies,
students investigate pros and cons of the companies, forecast
company performance, and evaluate corporate values. |
| International
Logistics |
With
reference to a development of means of transportation
and telcommunication together with recently evolving SCM
(Supply Chain Management), students scrutinize spatial
transfer of goods and products which are indispensable
for economic activities such as production and services
of companies. In the classroom, students also study progress
and expansion of logistics activities in Asia. |
| Multinational
Companies in Asia |
Quantitative
analysis of the activities of multinational companies
in Asia. This class is provided under the collaborative
agreement with The International Centre for the Study
of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu (ICSEAD). |
| International
Business Law |
International
commerce and international patents and are becoming more
important as business goes global. This course studies
specific cases and litigation as a means of learning about
legal systems and procedures. |
| Advanced Technology
Analysis |
This
subject looks at case studies on advanced technology at
research institutions and companies to identify trends
in electronics, biotechnology, nanotechnology and other
areas. Lectures discuss recent technology trends from
global perspectives. |
| Industries
and Companies |
This
subject considers the tasks facing industries and companies
from the perspective of strategies to harmonize with the
environment and society as well as pursuing economic rationality.
Lectures focus on what is really happening with economies
and companies around the globe, and debate and discussion
are encouraged. |
| Asian Business
Strategies |
This
subject looks at Asia to develop an analytical understanding
of how Japanese and Kyushu companies can develop their
Asian businesses. It analyzes business management and
strategies in China and overseas Chinese networks, and
identifies the management challenges for Japanese companies
in Asia. |
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| Project Analysis and Internship |
| Subjects |
Description |
| Project
Analysis |
This is a self-directed subject in which
students examine current issues facing industries and
companies, for example, competition strategy, corporate
strategy reform, technology and innovation, venture
company creation, international patent strategy, and
TLO and licensing. Students are expected to demonstrate
their analytical grasp, theoretical insights and problem-solving
abilities through their work. The analysis takes one
year. The results are brought together in a project
report, then to be published to the community in an
open student seminar.
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| Internship |
Internships
provide students with the opportunity to experience corporate
business first-hand for a period of at least two weeks.
During their time at the company they will learn how the
practical knowledge that they have gained in the classroom
is applied in real life business situations, what business
skills are needed in order for business knowledge to be
effectively utilized, and how business knowledge is transformed
and created in real life. Students who already have sufficient
business experience are not required to do internships. |
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