There are only a handful of MBA students who are Japanese at Haas School of Business. Japan was the 2nd largest economy until recently. Doing what you are told will not drive economic growth, it will make competition even worse and profitability goes to zero, according to Microeconomics Theory on Longterm Equilibium of Pricing (Increase in the number of suppliers drives sales price down).
What we need is someone who can make changes, drive economic growth and create wealth for the company and the society. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley will teach you how to think differently and drive innovation. I think this is one of the best value propositions I have ever seen from anyone.

利用者の利便性を実現するOverhaulの必要性について

世界がGlobal化し　欧州全域で大学の単位の互換性や編入のシステムが確立されていることや　様々なNeedsに答えるべく教育改革が各国にて行われていることを考えると　日本の現状に於いて　国立大、公立大、私立大等の縦割り経営が　優れた教材の共有、留学制度や編入制度の拡充、　社会人による大学のアクセスの容易性を防ぎ、割高な教育コストを招いて居る為、　大幅な教育システムのOverhaulが早急に必要である。　今回の政権交代で奨学金の拡充等が期待されるが　地元で自宅から通いながら学部の２年間の教養課程を受講する等、より多くの大学をシステム上、連携させる制度の新設により　生活費を含めた教育コストを下げる、　学科の選択枝を増やすなどの方策の導入も不可欠である。

Japan has many issues in healthcasre system: Medical insurance system, IT implementation, running healthcare provider efficiently as a whole and other measures are needed immediately.
a) Medical insurance system from both private sector and public sector must be merged just as Taiwan has done it in 1995.
b) Health care providers will need to work as if they are a single entity. Implementation of nationwide IT system to support various activities is essential.
c) In this globalized world, personal health care records and other system need to be compatible to those used outside Japan.

Software as a Service (SaaS) or cloud computing must be deployed to build unified web based work flow system to combat social issues, poverty, political conflicts and making public policy making process more effective. Without unified system, which ensures data to flow from and to all participants, driving innovation will not be possible.
Barack Obama campaign proved that building a platform so all participants can coordinate efforts and divide up tasks using web 2.0 and SNS technologies works. I hope the next President of the United States of America and the citizens globally will be able to participate in the efforts to make the world a better place.
For peer to peer training on history and current trend of CSR, please see:
http://knol.google.com/k/eiji-aj-hagiwara/crash-course-on-csr/2cg2xof6ancr8/2#

http://www.betterworldpilot.blogspot.com/

Innovation not only means different thing to everyone but it is also something very difficult to deliver as not many of us have in depth knowledge of the key success factors and the management process. The management and the employees a like may be lacking the training and the experience necessary for successful outcome.
Through reading assignment, lectures, individual research and materials from other MOT classes, number of insights which can be useful for future reference has been collected. This paper is written with the purpose to not only guide future innovation attempts but also to provide basis for the management and employees to interact with each other based on common set of knowledge on innovation management.
SSME, Open Innovation, Innovation Value Chain, CITRIS http://ucberkeley.citris-uc.org/publications; new research center and new papers to support your innovation attempts continue come out from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT and so on.

80 % of GDP is in the service sector in USA. Yet, most of us have no clue on how to design effective services. SSME is the attempt by universities, businesses and the governments to provide systematic way to train the knowledge workers to design successful service systems. US and UK governments are placing SSME as one of most important policy agenda as economic growth and well being of our work force, society depends on the quality and the success of the service being offerred. SSME leaders such as IBM, UC Berkeley and others have made presentation and papers on SSME publicly available on the Internet. Innovation happens when the knowledge on SSME theories and cases become widely known within our society. It is my hope that we all become proficient in designing effective services so our society will be a better place for everyone.

CSR covers many different areas and through history have evolved from compliance, then to sustainability and so on. Due to complexity of the subject, it is rather difficult to understand how each company or individual can effectively participate in making the world better place without studying business ethics and CSR extensively.

This handbook and separate independent study paper covers topics in macroeconomics, organizational behavior, shaping public policies and other subjects in order to facilitate better understanding of topics affecting CSR efforts.

This paper was written in attempt to provide overview of CSR and also latest theories on CSR, so anyone starting to be involved can benefit from this handbook.

We all need to participate in the effort to make the world a better place.
http://betterworldpilot.blogspot.com/

Public Policy Making process may not be working properly in this increasingly complex society. Citizens, rather than corporations, must take part in public consensus building and influence what goes on to political agenda. The reality is that corporations use interest groups to influence what goes on the agenda and the President and politicians have to take care of industry which helped them elected.
By checking out websites of commitees of US Senate and the House of Representatives for opinions submitted by industry associations, corporations in Automobile, Utilities, Oil & Gas, etc, and by checking out reader’s comments on New York Times Energy Bill 2007 related reports, I was able to grasp how Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (The Energy Bill 2007) ended up what it is. (Not so great, not so effective in solving issues)
This paper was written as a term paper for 2 unit course at UC Berkeley MBA program. Prof. David Vogel
http://www.uwgb.edu/polsci/s…