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Noriaki Yamaji

Developing Ethical Professionals

IBA requires students to take ethics courses to nurture individuals who are not only skilled in theory and practice but also act with high ethical standards that adhere to the university motto, ”Mastery for Service,”. The university is committed to developing students into highly skilled individuals who can serve society’s needs.

Education Based on Global Standards

The Business School provides an MBA education suited to an international environment, while the Accounting School offers educational content that conforms to International Education Standards (IES). The two schools foster businesspeople and accounting professionals who can be active on the international stage in the future.

Integration of Theory and Practice

IBA offers a diverse curriculum to meet the needs of society, enabling students to acquire the ability to think, analyse, and solve various business problems on their own from both theoretical and practical perspectives. In the doctoral program, we also promote both theoretical and practical applied research.

We hope you will enter our graduate programs and join the next generation of highly skilled professionals and researchers, offering your unique contributions to global society!

What IMC can provide you.

Osamu Suzuki

Osamu Suzuki
Assistant Dean
Institute of Business and Accounting

Light a torch to lead!

 In the midst of 2020, I wrote to applicants that “2020 was a time when we had to acknowledge how drastically our world can change. Unfortunately, we have to admit that we were still too naïve to anticipate such speed and magnitude of upheavals in our economic system and daily life. Nothing is stable and predictable, indeed.” Unfortunately again, what we’ve seen since then further reinforces what I wrote before. Not only the economic system and its underlying technologies, but also our society as a whole has undergone a drastic transformation.

 What do you, as a future leader, need to learn in this era of drastic transformation? Quite naturally, your members follow you because you clearly show them the right direction. In a darkness of uncertainty, they expect you to illuminate a path toward survival and prosperity. What enables you to be an effective leader, therefore, is creative intelligence as a torch. “Disciplined imagination,” a term coined by a leading authority of managerial thinking, shows that our act of novelty creation can be productive only when it is accompanied by a certain degree of cognitive discipline. One example of such disciplines for managers may include broad perspectives to discern structural mechanisms underlying seemingly chaotic phenomena. Fortunately, we have the wisdom to survive in this turmoil. Aren’t you interested in learning how you should discipline your imagination?