Faculty Profiles

Throughout this course, I would like you all to gain more interest, excitement, and imagination toward business. Understanding accounting and tackling with financial analysis and strategy will surely help you to obtain perspectives from various players, including CEOs, lenders, equity investors and employees. At the end, you will have a wider basis of knowledge that will help you when making difficult decisions in the real world.

"If you wonder “Why do I need to study finance at a Japanese school?”, welcome to my class! In the Financial Reorganization course, we cover M&A, corporate restructuring and bankruptcy reorganization topics. You will learn financial practices of US investment banks and companies as compared to those in Japan/Asia. The recent world financial crisis may have revealed to us that the US-style finance theories and skills require an overhaul. I look forward to exchanging various views on capitalism, free-market mechanism, shareholder activism, and what to do with the “greed of Wall Street”!"

Dr. Wang currently serves as the Managing Partner of China Impact Ventures (CIV), an impact investment company focusing on supporting China-based early-stage startups in cleantech, mobility and smart agriculture. CIV also incubates enterprises that leverage China’s strong supply chain capabilities and innovative products to serve other developing markets (Africa, India, Southeast Asia, etc.).

Marketing is a very practical subject. For example, branding is the creation and delivery of a promise, and customer insight is the power to perceiving what the customer is unwilling to say or unconscious about, and these are the skills anybody can benefit a lot in their daily lives.

"In a world saturated with data and information, the ability to think critically is a key to success in both business and academic studies. Critical Thinking and the ability to communicate your thoughts clearly will be the foundation upon which all of your MBA studies will be built upon and is invaluable in understanding and learning from case studies. In the professional world, leaders who are skilled in critical thinking have the ability to make optimal decisions and guide their organizations."

Graduated from Tokyo University with a B.A. of Law, and Yale School of Management with an MBA, Arata Ikeda started his marketing career at P&G. He later became head of marketing at Japanese sports brand ASICS, leading its first global brand campaign and store opening in Tokyo. Afterward, he became managing director at the ASICS Australian subsidiary, and then head of Global Apparel Division. Mr. Ikeda has been Japan head of Cannondale, an American bicycle brand, since 2013. He is now a faculty member of GLOBIS, teaching marketing, strategy, and globalization of Asian companies.

People make the difference in times of technological changes and innovation. Join me on a discovery tour of different aspects of leadership. I hope that by working together on real world cases, you will be able to gain valuable individual insights for your own leadership journey.

"Critical Thinking is an essential life skill that can improve not only how you conduct your business but also how you communicate with people and how you direct your life. In this course, we will work together to develop tools to improve your own critical thinking so that you can be more persuasive, work more efficiently, and be more effective throughout your entire MBA experience. I look forward to seeing you in class!"

"Creativity, Critical Thinking and Marketing work hand-in-hand and new strategy planning and research methodologies are developed each day. Let’s explore together the fundamentals of marketing and strategy and see which approach fits you and your project best! See you in class!"

The purpose of an MBA is not only to acquire knowledge but also to cultivate friendship, leadership and entrepreneurship. To build up those "ships," you have to get on the same "ship" and spend time with your classmates. Welcome to the class, our ship of learning!

Communicating your ideas and persuading others is critical to your success as a leader and business professional, whether as an entrepreneur, an employee of a large firm, or member of the public or not-for-profit sectors. No one is born as a natural presenter, it comes with a lot of work, practice, learning from your mistakes, and learning about yourself. My goal is to help you build your confidence and ability to present effectively, clearly, and persuasively, to a global audience. Find the uniqueness which you bring to your presentations, strengthen that, and use it to persuade, inform, and inspire others!

Mr. Sigaty began his career in public accounting in the United States. Since earning his CPA in California, he has spent the last thirty years in banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance enterprises in Japan. He has had a variety of staff and management roles in accounting, credit and investment analysis, fixed income trading, risk control, and strategic planning. In recent years he has served as Asia/Pacific financial controller for a major investment bank, Japan CFO for a global asset management group, and CFO of a Japanese life insurance company.