The Global MBA at Doshisha Business School offers an exciting and creative addition to the international market in professional education. The curriculum combines a well-proven core of business management disciplines with an imaginative choice of electives. These are designed to take the participant into a world of future global opportunities. This mix of subjects and the unique modes of self-learning offer the technical, social and ethical grounding for a future generation of trans-national business professionals. There are only a few places in the world that can deliver such a programme at the level achieved by Doshisha faculty. My congratulations and best wishes for a continuously innovative future!

'Global' is the catchphrase of the new Doshisha MBA programme, and for very good reasons. No enterprise, system or institution nowadays can survive without seriously addressing the international dimension of its activities. This applies equally to the current and future generation of managers and officers. Doshisha University's new programme therefore is a welcome and timely initiative and offers internationally minded managers from Japan and abroad an excellent choice of solid business management courses combined with highly relevant topics like economic sustainability, technology and innovation. We can be confident that the programme, which handsomely matches the philosophy and content of the major European international business courses, will benefit all participants.

Doshisha's Global MBA programme will raise the benchmark for business education in Japan. Intellectually, practically, linguistically and culturally, the programme will be of the highest quality, equipping future business leaders with insight and experience vital to success in the global market. As a leading private university, Doshisha's faculty has an enviable academic reputation, but equally importantly, the practical skills so important in business will have an equal weight in this programme. It is an exciting development.

The Global MBA at Doshisha addresses a diversity and range of courses that are both timely and topical. The programme advances students' understanding of the role of Japan in relation to its major trading partners: the U.S., Europe and China. Furthermore, the use of English as the medium of instruction is both sound and pragmatic, as English has become the lingua franca of international business. Through a world-class faculty and international student body, it will equip participants with the global mindset needed to succeed in international business in the 21^st century.

I fully endorse Doshisha's decision to launch an English-language MBA programme. Capturing the opportunities created by the globalisation of business requires a new generation of business leaders. This new programme has all the right pieces in place for producing such a new generation: an international student body, leading faculty from premier institutions both in Japan and outside, and a cutting-edge curriculum focused on international business, technology management and green business. As one of Japan's premier private universities, with a strong international tradition, Doshisha University is an ideal institutional home for this important initiative.

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