Entrepreneurial Leadership

For part-time students, we strongly recommend taking this course in the second year of studies, in order to gain a deeper understanding of its contents.

Course Objectives

This course uses case studies of an entrepreneur, a businessperson, a politician, and an adventurer to achieve its primary objective of having students develop a “feel” for how s/he should think and act when s/he begins to pursue a path of creation and innovation. Students will think deeply about their personal qualities, ambitions, philosophy, vision, and mission as business people and aim to ultimately identify their own missions.

Course Details

Programs: Full-time MBA, Part-time & Online MBA
Discipline: Management Philosophy
Course Level: Applied Course
Required/Elective Course: Required Course
Number of Credits: 1.5
Report: Day 6*
Hours Per Class: 3 hours
Class Capacity: 35

*To complete this course, participants are required to give a presentation entitled “My Personal Mission Statement” on Day 6.

Recommended Preliminary Courses

-Critical Thinking
-Leadership Development, Ethics and Values

Theme/Reading Materials

Textbooks/DVD (Please purchase the following textbooks and DVD before the course starts.)

Representative Men of Japan (bilingual version)
Kanzo Uchimura (Kodansha International)

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins (HarperBusiness)

Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life
Stengel, R., 2010 (Virgin Books)

Bushido
Nitobe I., 1998 (Kodansha International Ltd)

Matsushita Leadership
Kotter J., 1997 (Free Press)

Invictus (DVD)
Warner Bros. 2010 (Warner home video）

Reference

KOKOROZASHI: THE Pursuit of Meaning in Business (English Edition) 

"GLOBIS University, Tomoya Nakamura, Gil Chavez, Kenya Yoshino., 2018. KOKOROZASHI: THE Pursuit of Meaning in Business (English Edition) . ASIN: B07H7CY45N"