 The MBA program in the Graduate School of International Management offers the five courses below as a capstone curriculum for knowledge previously gained.
Each course was developed via linkage with overseas business schools and the industrial arena.
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Within these courses, the Management Game and FAST (Financial Analysis and Securities Trading) are conducted as international collaborative classes with the business school of the Carnegie Mellon University business school in the USA.
 The goal of this course is for students to grasp the entirety of a company's management, marketing, finance, accounting, and operation functions. By giving students first-hand experience in problems facing managers (creation of management plans, presentation and authorization at board meetings, risk management, motivation within teams, information disclosure to shareholders, etc.), students improve their problem solving skills.
In this course, students engage in the management of virtual consumer goods companies in groups of four to five people each, and experience global competition with students from schools such as Carnegie Mellon University of the USA, Northeastern University of China, and M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University of Russia. Students create management plans and perform management functions while receiving report authorization at board meetings. The board of directors is made up of Aoyama Business School faculty, graduates, and individuals with executive corporate experience. By strengthening skills in realistic board meetings, the students are guaranteed an experience which will teach them, in a game setting, strategy formulation and execution processes, skills which are impossible to learn in a classroom alone.
 Each group experiences fund management using a virtual financial market constructed via LAN. An evolving investment environment is provided, and investment strategies for the changing conditions are prepared and executed. In this process, students have a chance to actually apply the logic and knowledge of finance previously learned through study.
FAST l is training with the theme of testing basic theories. The theme for FAST ll is derivative investments. In addition to training in a virtual financial market, remote lectures in English are conducted from Carnegie Mellon University using our Global Classroom.
For the cultivation of skills and decision making abilities required to execute Internet business, the class is divided into four stages and project learning is conducted. First, in order to gain proficiency in IT solution proposal, which is an essential element of business strategy, problems related to that element are handled. Next, in stage two, specific project learning related to the Sell Side Web is conducted.
This course also provides experience in experimental tasks difficult to find anywhere else, and sparks a firm understanding of concepts. In step three, students create and evaluate actual structures for a variety of problems revolving around information system links between corporations. Step four covers new technology and creativity.
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Based on the asset management procedures of actual asset management companies, this simulation is a tactical exercise for the asset management process consisting of the establishment of management policy for active management funds targeting domestic shares, stock selection, mid-period reclassification, performance measurement, presentations to review committees, and management policy revision.
Portfolio management is conducted by student teams. Each team reports their investment policy and their monthly management achievements to a review committee made up of asset management specialists. Comments from committee members allow the students to absorb asset management knowledge and techniques.
| The purpose of the global seminars is to allow students to experience first hand international differences such as differences in the business climate and progress and differences in culture through interaction with students from overseas business schools. Global seminars include the "Shanghai Seminar," which teaches about Chinese economics and society in Shanghai, the "Tokyo Seminar," wherein students from business schools in various countries gather at Tokyo, and the "Master of Applied Finance Program," which is conducted by Macquarie University at the Aoyama Gakuin University campus. |
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 Tokyo Seminar
The Tokyo Seminar has become a July tradition. At this seminar, students from overseas university business schools such as M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University of Russia, Korea University of Korea, and Fudan University of China visit Aoyama Gakuin University for one week and study together with students of the Graduate School of International Management. Through activities such as factory field trips, management games, lectures, and presentation contests on pre-decided themes, the students are exposed to differences in values and methods of thought for different cultures, and everyone involved gains a deeper appreciation of each other.
Shanghai Seminar
In the Shanghai Seminar, students visit Fudan University in Shanghai for one week every August. In addition to attending lectures on the culture, political system, economic reform, and economic environment in China, students visit the factories of local companies and Japanese companies, enabling students to understand the current economic situation in China.
Macquarie Lecture
Students of the Graduate School of International Management can attend the "Master of Applied Finance Program" put on at the Aoyama Gakuin University campus by the Applied Science Center of the Macquarie University in Australia. This program is a finance application course mainly targeting foreign employees of financial institutions in Japan and foreign corporate treasurers in Japan. Classes are conducted in English.
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