{"id":7677,"date":"2021-07-14T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T08:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2021-11-10T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:22:48","slug":"alec-zissoninternational-mba-programfrom-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/news\/7677","title":{"rendered":"Alec Zisson<br>International MBA Program<br>from United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>\u00a0International MBA Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>What\u2019s Special about Getting My MBA in Japan<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/news\/7677\/attachment\/p-15alec-zisson\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7678 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/p.15Alec-Zisson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After learning about Japanese quality management programs such as Lean Six Sigma from having worked in the energy industry, I became interested in learning more about business from the Japanese perspective, which eventually led me to Waseda. While I have not been able to come to Japan yet due to the pandemic, I have had ample virtual interaction with students and professors from not only Japan, but also all over the world. At Waseda, we are grouped into zemi\u2019s or small seminar cohorts. My zemi with Professor Iriyama has been a highlight of my experience. Here, we have learned about various Japanese business trends from the tendency of Japanese companies to have high cash holdings to the emerging V-tubing industry &#8211; thank you Waseda!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u203bThis information is as of June 2021<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/en\/applicants\/why\/imba\">\u00a0International MBA Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/en\/about\/student\">Back<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/about\/students\">\u5b66\u751f\u7d39\u4ecb\u4e00\u89a7\u306b\u623b\u308b<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0International MBA Program What\u2019s Special about Getting My MBA in Japan After learning about Japanese quality  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}