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Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries, 2002
Sherman, Joel D. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002000261
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The returns to postgraduate education in Japan
Suga, Fumihiko - In: The Japanese economic review : the journal of the … 71 (2020) 4, pp. 571-596
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305036
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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume V, tape 1
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1988
During Peter Drucker's talk entitled "The Organization in Transition – Are the Traditional Functions Obsolete?" he discusses functions that remain centers of specialized knowledge and training, but cease to constitute the organizational base of the work itself. During his lecture, he talks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429635
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Management development in Toray ‐ now and in the future
Ishizaka, Susumu - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 8, pp. 38-46
In this example of in‐company development provision, Toray, the largest textile multinational in the world today, shows that it considers management development as a major strategic issue. While human resource development for Toray itself is managed on a traditional corporation‐wide system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014883240
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MBA education in Japan
Ishida, Hideo - In: Journal of Management Development 16 (1997) 3, pp. 185-196
Keio University has been in the vanguard of adult business education since 1956 when it introduced American management … heavily influenced by the style of business education at Harvard. It remained the only educational institution in Japan to … offer an accredited postgraduate business education qualification until the late 1980s. With a recent government reform in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014883262
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Japan Imports American Management Methods through an MBA Programme
Kimura, Yui; Yoshimori, Masaru - In: Journal of Management Development 8 (1989) 4, pp. 22-31
A description is given of the MBA programme which began in 1988 at the International University of Japan (IUJ) in conjunction with an American business school. A discussion of the traditional Japanese management development methods is given and differences from the Western approach are noted. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014883598
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Educating Japanese Leaders for a Global Age: The Role of the International Education Center
Ibe, Masanobu; Sato, Noriko - In: Journal of Management Development 8 (1989) 4, pp. 41-47
The historical background to the establishment of the International Education Center (IEC) is given and its philosophy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014883600
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Do borrowing constraints matter for intergenerational educational mobility? Evidence from Japan
Niimi, Yoko - 2018
This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment using data on Japan. By exploiting unique information on whether children have ever given up schooling for financial reasons and, if they have, which level of schooling they have forgone, it attempts to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944214
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Present issues and efforts to integrate sustainable development goals in a local senior high school in Japan: A case study
Okubo, Kazuaki; Yu, Jeongsoo; Osanai, Shiori; Serrona, … - In: Journal of Urban Management 10 (2021) 1, pp. 57-68
goals (SDGs) education into the curriculum of a Japanese senior high school. We observed the implementation of SDGs …-relevant courses for one year and conducted a questionnaire survey to grasp the teachers' attitudes toward SDGs education. Based on … these data, we identify the difficulties related to SDGs education, such as discrepancies of interest in SDGs between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285641
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Education and later-life mortality: Evidence from a school reform in Japan
Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2023
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform likely came from disadvantaged families who could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331163