The Waseda University Institute for Business and Finance (Director: Hiroshi Kanno, Professor, Graduate School of Business and Finance, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University) will launch the second cohort of The Global Leader Accelerator Programme (GLAP), an executive development program jointly developed with the University of Oxford\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School.<\/p>\n
For a second time, the program has been selected for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) initiative to build an industry-academia reskilling ecosystem for industrial growth, following its selection last year.<\/p>\n
In the previous GLAP cohort, 41 leaders from 27 leading Japanese companies participated.<\/p>\n
Building on the outcomes of the previous cohort and feedback from participating companies, this year\u2019s program has been further enhanced to develop the next generation of business leaders for Japanese companies.<\/p>\n
Companies are operating in an increasingly complex environment shaped by demographic decline, digital transformation, geopolitical risk and other major changes. Against this backdrop, developing leaders who can take a global view of society and industry and envision the future of their companies in response to change has become a critical factor in corporate competitiveness.<\/p>\n
GLAP is an executive development program jointly delivered by faculty members from the Waseda University Institute for Business and Finance and the University of Oxford\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School.<\/p>\n
The program combines preliminary online sessions with an intensive five-day residential program in Tokyo. Through lectures and action learning, participants will develop strategic plans addressing real management challenges within their own companies. Japanese\u2013English simultaneous interpretation will be provided, allowing participants to take part in the program regardless of their language proficiency.<\/p>\n
For the second cohort, the program has been further developed to reflect feedback from last year\u2019s participants and the companies that sponsored their participation.<\/p>\n
The program is designed not only to support individual learning, but also to contribute to leadership development within participating companies.<\/p>\n
Program: The Global Leader Accelerator Programme (GLAP) The Waseda University Institute for Business and Finance promotes both fundamental and applied research in the fields of business and finance and serves as a core research institution in these areas. It also seeks to contribute broadly to society by sharing research outcomes and developing professionals with advanced expertise.<\/p>\n The Institute was established on September 1, 2017, building on the former Waseda University Institute for Research in Business Administration and the Waseda Business School Research Center. While continuing the activities of these two predecessor centers, it undertakes a wide range of initiatives, including non-degree executive education, joint and commissioned research with companies, organizations and external research institutions, as well as publications, lectures and symposiums.<\/p>\n Institute for Business and Finance, Waseda University The Waseda University Institute for Business and Finance (Director: Hiroshi Kanno, Professor, Graduate School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[166,364],"class_list":["post-89301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-business-en","tag-collaboration-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89310,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89301\/revisions\/89310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nProgram period: December 2026\u2013February 2027 (scheduled)
\nFormat:
\nOnline pre-sessions
\nFive-day intensive residential program in Tokyo
\nLanguage: Japanese and English (Japanese interpretation provided for English presentations)
\nKey topics:
\nGlobal business environment
\nPurpose and corporate strategy
\nOrganizational transformation
\nLeadership
\nAnalysis of management challenges and strategy development through action learning
\nApplications:
\nDetails will be posted on the following website\u00a0(Japanese only). https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/education\/executive\/glap<\/a><\/p>\n\u25c6 About the Waseda University Institute for Business and Finance<\/h3>\n
\nFor Corporate Inquiries<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nE-mail: \u00a0wibf@list.waseda.jp\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"