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WELCOME Welcome to Nagoya and our ninth Annual Asia Pacific Deans and Directors Conference! This is the first Conference AMBA has ever held in Japan during our 49 years of existence and we are both grateful and honoured to be hosted by The NUCB Graduate School – not only one of Japan’s finest Business Schools, but also a school which has recently invested so impressively in its upgraded facilities. We are meeting together at a fascinating time, in terms of the evolution of MBA and Masters Programmes, operating in complex market conditions of both opportunity and uncertainty, which characterise many of the world’s major Business School economies. I am delighted to welcome delegates and speakers from ten different countries – Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom – and four different Continents. AMBA Conferences always aim to strike the best balance between local relevance and broader global perspectives and we certainly have an outstanding, rich and varied mix of experience, with delegates from six of the world’s largest seven economies here with us in Nagoya. Some of the key issues we will be debating over the next three days include: • How will the Business School evolve over the next ten years? • How can career development planning be better incorporated within MBA programmes? • How can entrepreneurship and innovation be more effectively incorporated in curricula? • How can digital content be better leveraged in MBA curricula? • What are the latest trends in MBA recruitment? • What is the optimum mix of research output as the publishing landscape changes? • What are the latest innovation trends in leading Japanese organisations? We have included a tour of the Toyota factory in our Conference programme, since we increasingly want to champion best business practices in technology and innovation. The Toyota factory is not only regarded as one of the world’s most impressive car manufacturing plants, but one of the world’s most impressive factories in any industry. I would like to thank you all for your outstanding support for AMBA, during what has been another year of exciting growth. We now accredit 245 Schools in over 70 countries and student and graduate membership has quadrupled in just 2 years to over 20,000. These achievements put AMBA in its strongest ever position, on the eve of our 50th Anniversary year in 2017. We have designated 2017 ‘The Year of the MBA’ – and we look forward to sharing with you some of our exciting ideas and events planned for 2017 over the next 3 days.

Andrew Main Wilson, Chief Executive, AMBA

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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A CHANGING ECONOMY SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 08.00 – 19.00

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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE 14.00 – 14.45

SESSION 7 Recruiting Students from Asia, What You Need to Know

14.45 – 15.45

SESSION 8 MBA Recruitment

15.45 – 16.15

Networking and Refreshment Break

16.15 – 17.00

SESSION 9 Balancing Research Productivity and Quality as the Publishing Landscape Changes

17.00 – 17.30

SESSION 10 AMBA: Responsive Accreditation in a Changing World

19.00 – 22.00

Dinner, Hosted by The NUCB Graduate School at the Westin Nagoya Castle Hotel

Away day in Kyoto – How can local management be linked with global business

MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER 15.30 – 16.00

Registration and Networking Sponsored by Cabell's International

16.00 – 16.15

Conference Overview and Welcome

16.15 – 16.45

SESSION 1 Evolution of the Business School

16.45 – 17.00

Video interview with Kai Peters, Chief Executive and Chief Academic Officer of Ashridge about his new book ‘How to Run a Business School’

WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 17.00 – 17.45

17.45 – 22.00

SESSION 2 Career Development on an MBA Programme Cocktails in the Sky Lounge Hosted and Sponsored by The NUCB Graduate School followed by Dinner at the Nagoya Kanko Hotel, Sponsored by The Wall Street Journal and Hosted by Len Jones, Chairman, International Management Board, AMBA

TUESDAY 15 NOVEMBER

09.30 – 10.30

SESSION 3 Entrepreneurship Education and Innovation Ecosystem

10.30 – 11.00

SESSION 4 AMBA Activity Update and Strategy, Global and Regional Market Trends

11.00 – 11.30

Networking and Refreshment Break

11.30 – 12.15

SESSION 5 Leveraging Digital Content for Student Success in your Department

12.15 – 13.00

SESSION 6 Beyond the Limit

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch

08.45 – 12.45

Tour of the Toyota Factory

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.00

SESSION 11 Management in an Ever Changing Environment

15.00 – 15.30

Chinese Deans Discussion

15.30 – 15.40

Summing up and Farewell

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SESSION 5

Evolution of the Business School

Leveraging Digital Content for Student Success in your Department

In this session one of AMBA's most senior international advisors will look at the origins of the Business School, how it developed into the range of institutions that we see around the world today, and what the future may hold.

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The implementation of a digital textbook programme can be a daunting process for colleges and universities. This is sometimes aggravated by the fact that certain departments on campus are ready for the digital transformation, whilst others are not. During this session, we will discuss how smaller groups within an institution can successfully transition to digital content for both oncampus and distance learners in an environment where traditional texts have been dominant.

Emeritus Professor Andrew Lock, Chairman of the International Accreditation Advisory Board and Trustee Director, International Management Board, AMBA

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SESSION 2 Career Development on an MBA Programme This session will look at how Business Schools are offering their students career development in both a practical and theoretical way. Are today’s graduates being taught the necessary skills to succeed in today’s corporate world.

Speaker Craig Saphin, Executive Director, Craig Saphin Consulting

SESSION 3 Entrepreneurship Education and Innovation Ecosystem Since the incorporation of national universities took place in 2004, the Japanese universities have been evolving to be more innovation driven. Since the start of the 21st century, Chinese universities have also moved into a more innovation-driven stage of development, especially over the last five years. Only a few universities have created entrepreneurship education programmes as part of an “innovation ecosystem” based on academic entrepreneurship. Professor Kagami will talk about what the University of Tokyo has been trying to do during the last decade about its innovation ecosystem, especially for entrepreneurship education. Additionally, Professor Wang will explore entrepreneurship education in the Chinese market, looking at innovative teaching models, venture practice modules and innovation ecosystem development for MBA and business programmes focusing on entrepreneurship competence development.

Speakers Dr Shigeo Kagami, Professor, General Manager – Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Division of University Corporate Relations, The University of Tokyo Professor Zhongming Wang, International Advisor for China, AMBA, Zhejiang University

SESSION 4 AMBA Activity Update and Strategy, Global and Regional Market Trends AMBA, as the world’s only MBA-specific membership and accreditation organisation, is perfectly placed to offer a unique view on global MBA markets, key current and future MBA and business education trends.

Speaker Andrew Main Wilson, Chief Executive, AMBA

Kevin Hoyle, Senior Account Executive, VitalSource

SESSION 6 Beyond the Limit Leadership is about pursuing what you believe right, what you believe better, and what you believe best. Under your management, you are expected to make correct judgements and implement decisions in the best manner. The question is what makes your decision correct, does confidence play a large part in this decision? Do you believe in your career, management style, decision, or leadership? Using research, Fujiyo will address why people tend to put limitations on themselves, for example; why are women less likely to apply for a role they are equipped to do vs men who are happy to apply even if they do not meet job requirements. In this session we hope to understand how we can encourage and develop people with the skills needed to be great leaders.

Speaker Fujiyo Ishiguro, President and CEO, Netyear Group Corporation

SESSION 7 Recruiting Students from Asia, What You Need to Know Learn all about GRE test takers from Asia including their undergraduate fields of study, demographics, GRE test performance, graduate study interests and preferences. Gain more knowledge about this vibrant applicant pipeline, that you can then leverage in your recruiting strategies and marketing plans to attract more applicants from Asia who may be a good fit for your programme(s). You will also learn about GRE Programme services that institutions can use to obtain this data on their own and develop customised strategies and plans.

Speaker Jay Kang, Academic Relations Manager, Asia, Educational Testing Service (ETS)

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MBA Recruitment

Management in an Ever Changing Environment

Are companies hiring Global MBA candidates, executive MBA’s, part-time MBA’s, or are they more inclined towards an industry specific MBA? How can MBA programmes create effective partnerships with companies to give students an understanding of what’s changing in the economy and the market? In this session leading corporates will give their views on what the world of work needs from MBA graduates and give insight into how Business Schools can make their students more employable.

This session will look at how to teach MBA students to be effective leaders in the changing economic environment. How can, and should, Business Schools be preparing their students for a world which is more and more volatile? Professor Martyn Jones, will also link his military experience with how leadership can be taught.

Speakers Len Jones, Chairman, International Management Board, AMBA Shigeki Yamashita, Head of Talent Development and Organisational Capability, Japan, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

SESSION 9 Balancing Research Productivity and Quality as the Publishing Landscape Changes With the growing predatory journal market, the proliferation of confusing metrics, and the shifts in accreditation requirements, navigating the academic publishing landscape and the road to accreditation has become an overwhelming venture for most. In this session we will explore: • What are predatory publishing practices? • How to distinguish between low quality journals and predatory journals? • Establishing thresholds and standards for what is acceptable.

Speakers Lacey Earle, Vice President of Business Development, Cabell's International Lucas Toutloff, Project Manager, Cabell's International

SESSION 10 AMBA: Responsive Accreditation in a Changing World This session will present an overview of the feedback loops that drive the introduction of changes to the AMBA accreditation criteria and processes. The focus will be on the 2016 amendments in the AMBA accreditation criteria, including online MBA accreditation, carousel model of delivery, credit transfer caps, as well as AMBA’s new advanced accreditation process.

Speaker George Iliev, Director of Development Markets, AMBA

Speakers Professor Takehiko Ito, Associate Dean, The NUCB Graduate School Professor Martyn Jones, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University

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CONFERENCE ORGANISER

ANDREW MAIN WILSON – CONFERENCE CHAIR Chief Executive, AMBA

LEAH CARTER Global Head of Events, AMBA

Andrew joined AMBA as Chief Executive during the Summer of 2013, with a brief to build brand awareness and reputation, significantly expand membership worldwide and grow the global AMBA portfolio of accredited Business Schools. Membership has since increased 200% and the Schools portfolio 20%. Andrew also accepted the role as Chairman of United Nations PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) in January 2016, reflecting his belief that the world’s leading Business Schools and MBAs can play a pioneering role in solving the world’s escalating Sustainability challenges.

Leah is Global Head of Events at AMBA, a globally-renowned impartial authority on postgraduate management education currently accrediting programmes at over 200 business schools in 72 countries. Leah is responsible for a large portfolio of over 30 international and regional events including conferences, gala dinners, awards ceremonies, fairs and webinars. Leah has a strong financial services background, having worked for international firms Pricewaterhouse Coopers and J.P Morgan Chase, as Project Manager and Productions Assistant respectively. Leah holds a degree in Psychology, a Masters in Health Psychology and she is also both Project Management Course AGILE and Prince2 practitioner.

Prior to joining AMBA, Andrew was Chief Operating Officer of the Institute of Directors (IoD), one of the world’s most respected membership and management education Organisations for Business Leaders. Andrew was formerly the Marketing Director and Commercial Director of Thomas Cook, and Sales and Marketing Director of Citibank Diners Club. He is an experienced Non-Executive Director, having served as an NXD on AIM-listed and Entrepreneurial start-up boards, in the Commercial Real Estate and Luxury Brands sectors. Andrew also has a strong interest in Global Leadership excellence. As an interviewer and presenter, he has interviewed many of the world’s most influential Leaders, including Bill Gates, Lady Thatcher, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jack Welch and Sir Richard Branson. He has visited 169 of the world’s 200 countries so far, on a journey to become the first person to visit every country and tell the story, in images and words, of the 1000 greatest travel experiences on Earth. Andrew was educated at Dulwich College and the University of Birmingham in England and the Harvard Business School in the USA.

LEN JONES Chairman, International Management Board, AMBA Len is a Chartered Accountant and currently works as a Group Finance Director in the SME sector (transport). He qualified with Deloitte Haskins and Sells, before moving to a smaller accountancy practice where he was a Partner for eight years. After obtaining his FCA he transferred his skills into commerce to become financial director of a listed PLC and guided the company through the Alternative Investment Market up to a main Stock Exchange listing, and helped it through two rights issues and significant capital expenditure. His first degree is in Accounting and Financial Administration and he holds Post Graduate Diplomas in Personnel Management (UWE) and Charity Accounting (Cass). Len's MBA was obtained from Cranfield University. In addition to his full time role, he also sits on the ICAEW Finance and Management Faculty Committee and on the SME Audit Sub-Committee of the Auditing Practice Board (part of the Financial Reporting Council). Len recently completed his MSc in Charity Accounting and Financial Management at Cass.

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SPEAKER PROFILES

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SPEAKER PROFILES

LACEY EARLE Vice President of Business Development, Cabell’s International

PROFESSOR TAKEHIKO ITO Associate Dean, The NUCB Graduate School

Lacey Earle is Vice President of Business Development for Cabell’s International and leads corporate relations and business partnerships. She is well-versed in the many facets of academic publishing with over 12 years of experience in the industry. In her tenure at Cabell's, Lacey has successfully shepherded the company through the development and implementation of its proprietary journal evaluation systems and led the company's expansion from journal data collection and processing to journal ranking and evaluation.

After graduating from the School of Commerce at Waseda University (1992), Associate Dean Takehiko Ito joined Fuji Research Institute, launched and managed a venture Company as Vice President and was Principal and Head of Mercer Japan Nagoya, one of the largest human resource consultancies in the world. He was also Director and Practice Head of Right Management.

KEVIN HOYLE Senior Account Executive, VitalSource Kevin Hoyle currently serves as a Senior Account Executive for VitalSource. Kevin currently focuses on developing markets in Latin America, Australia, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Prior to joining VitalSource in 2012, Kevin served as Vice President at Grupo Editorial Nacional and was in sales at John Wiley and Sons Publishers.

GEORGE ILIEV Director of Development Markets, AMBA George is Director of Development Markets at AMBA. He is in charge of China, Japan, Russia, Spain, Latin America and London. He has managed over 100 MBA business school accreditations worldwide. George completed his MBA degree at Emory University in Atlanta, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He holds an MSc degree on China from the London School of Economics and a BA in Chinese Studies from Sofia University. George has also pursued specialisations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at Anhui University in Mainland China. George’s professional background before AMBA includes consulting work in media (CNN-Atlanta), public health (Bolivia) and energy (Bulgaria); macroeconomic and EU policy research for the Economic Policy Institute; and a stint of four years as managing editor of China, Japan and Russia business news digests published by Dow Jones Factiva. He was a lecturer in Business and Economy of China at Sofia University until 2007. George speaks Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Spanish and his native Bulgarian. In his spare time he writes a blog exploring the parallels between nature and business.

FUJIYO ISHIGURO President and CEO, Netyear Group Corporation After working at Brother Industries and Swarovski Japan, Ms. Ishiguro founded a high-tech specialty consulting firm in Silicon Valley and advised clients such as Yahoo!, Netscape, Panasonic, and Sony on U.S.Japan alliances and technology transfers. She is a founding member and current CEO of Netyear Group in Japan, devising comprehensive digital marketing solutions for corporate clients that resolve fundamental business issues. The company was listed on the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2008. Ms. Ishiguro graduated from the School of Economics at Nagoya University and received an MBA from Stanford University. She had been a member of government committees for the past several years, such as the Cabinet Office’s “The Future to Choose” Committee, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), the “IoT” (Internet of Things) Committee, and more.

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He started his teaching career at NUCB in 2005 and became a full-time professor in 2010. He also completed the MBA programme at Durham University Business School in the UK (2000).

PROFESSOR MARTYN JONES Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University Professor Martyn Jones is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) of Kingston University, London. He joined the University in 2007 and during his time there he has had responsibility for academic services, students and a university wide change programme. He currently has oversight of the university's international activities. Academic appointments have been as the Head of the Business School at the University of Kent and the MBA Director at Cranfield School of Management. Prior to this he was a Colonel in the army and served in the USA, Brunei, Hong Kong and Germany. He is also the Deputy Chancellor of BPP University having previously served as the Independent Chair of its Academic Council.

DR SHIGEO KAGAMI Professor, General Manager, Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Division of University Corporate Relations (DUCR), The University of Tokyo Dr Kagami is a graduate of Hitotsubashi University (BA in Commerce, 1982), gained his MBA from IMD (Lausanne Switzerland, 1989), and completed his doctoral work in corporate governance at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University (2000). Before he joined The University of Tokyo in 2002, Dr Kagami was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group (1982-1986), a founding partner of Corporate Directions Inc. (CDI, 1986-1997), and Partner of Heidrick & Struggles International (2000-2002).

JAY KANG Academic Relations Manager, Asia, Educational Testing Services (ETS) Jay Kang joined ETS in 2012 as the Academic Relations Manager, Asia for the services of the GRE® Programme. His main responsibility is to serve Asian higher education institutions for the GRE programme. He has visited over 100 top universities and Business Schools in Asia to provide GRE updates. Prior to joining ETS, he served two higher education institutions in Korea and spent ten years in international higher education. Jay participates in conferences such as AACSB, AMBA and AAPBS. He has led a number of sessions and presented at EAIE, QS-APPLE, APAIE, AMBA and KAIE conferences.

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SPEAKER PROFILES EMERITUS PROFESSOR ANDREW LOCK Chairman of the International Accreditation Advisory Board Trustee Director, International Management Board, AMBA Andrew Lock is Chair of the Association of MBAs’ International Accreditation Advisory Board and is also an auditor for the EQUIS European business school accreditation scheme and has taken part in MBA and business school reviews for various bodies and governments around the world. He was Dean of the Business School at the University of Leeds until his retirement and is a past chairman of the Association of Business Schools which represents business schools in the UK. He was a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing Senate and previously was vice-chair of the CIM Professional Body Board. He organised the Public Chairs Forum and the Chairmen’s Business Forum in London and is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and the Association of Business Schools, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Institute of Direct Marketing, and the Royal Society of Arts, a Chartered IT Practitioner and a Freeman of the City of London. He is a visiting professor at Zhejiang University in China and was a member of the Steering Group of the Leeds Financial Services Initiative which promotes Leeds as a financial centre. His work has been published, inter alia, in the 'Journal of Marketing Management', the 'European Journal of Marketing', the 'Journal of Advertising Research', the 'Journal of the OR Society' and 'Management Learning'.

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SPEAKER PROFILES CRAIG SAPHIN Executive Director, Craig Saphin Consulting Craig Saphin, formed Craig Saphin Consulting in 2016 after 25 years of experience leading and developing businesses in Japan, Australia and the Asia Pacific region. In 2007 he joined Wall Street Associates, a Japanese recruiting company, and restructured the business through the global financial crisis. Wall Street was acquired by en Japan Inc. and Craig assumed the role of CEO for the new entity, en world Group, which expanded into seven Asian countries within five years. The regional expansion included four acquisitions and three start-ups. As part of this Craig served four years as an Executive Director for the publicly listed en Japan Inc. From July 2000, Craig was the country manager in Japan and Head of Asia Pacific operations for the NASDAQ listed EFI Inc. He has also held roles as Marketing Manager in Fuji Xerox, Technical and Sales Training in IBM, and a high school classroom teacher. Craig is an Executive MBA who also holds a Graduate Diploma in Computing from University Western Sydney and a BSc in Agriculture from the University of New England, NSW. He is a certified executive coach. In the community, Craig has been the Chair of Tokyo English Life Line (TELL) in Japan, and Executive Committee Member for the ANZCCJ, Committee Founder and Chair of the ACCJ and held various Committee and Chair positions in the Tokyo American Club.

KAI PETERS Chief Academic Officer, Ashridge and Hult International Business School

LUCAS TOUTLOFF Project Manager, Cabell's International

Kai Peters was Dean and Director of Ashridge, the Business School located in Berkhamsted, near London, in the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2014. Following the 2014 strategic alliance of Ashridge with Hult International Business School, Peters was appointed Chief Academic Officer of the combined institution. In the 2016-2017 academic year, Peters is on sabbatical. Prior to joining Ashridge, Peters was Dean, and previously Director of MBA programmes, of the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) of Erasmus University in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2003.

Lucas Toutloff is a Senior Project Manager at Cabell’s International, working to improve the ways in which researchers can get published and highlight their academic achievements. Lucas has been working in academic publishing since 2011. He now focuses on developing new solutions for researchers’ growing needs, coordinating new projects across each stage of the development process.

Peters serves on supervisory and advisory boards for a number of organisations in the technology and health care sectors. He is a board member of Centrepoint, a London-based charity for homeless youth. He also serves in various capacities for educational associations including AACSB, EFMD, EFMD, GMAC and ABS. He is owner and was Managing Director, 1989 to 1993 of a company in the German publishing sector and has worked for both IBM and Volkswagen in organisational development. Peters has written over 10 books and chapters and over 50 academic and practitioner articles on strategy, leadership and management education. He has been twice selected in the UK for HR magazine’s top 100 HR professionals. He holds degrees from York University, Toronto and University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (Canada) and Erasmus University (Netherlands).

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SHIGEKI YAMASHITA Head of Talent Development and Organisational Capability, Japan Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Shigeki Yamashita currently works for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., an R&D based Japanese global pharmaceutical company. He focuses on talent management to develop leaders and managers and diversity and inclusion initiatives for Japan. After 15 years of sales and marketing (management) experiences, he shifted his career to the human resources arena at global companies such as GE healthcare, Eli Lilly, Siemens and Merck / MSD for over 16 years. He holds a bachelor degree in industrial relations at Rikkyo University, Japan and an MBA at University of Southern California, US.

PROFESSOR ZHONGMING WANG Zhejiang University & International Advisor, AMBA Professor Zhongming Wang has the Senior Professorship of Social Science at Zhejiang University, China. He received his MA degree in Applied Psychology and Social Science at Gothenburg University, Sweden and a PhD degree in Industrial Psychology at Hangzhou University, a joint programme with Gothenburg University. He is both director of Global Entrepreneurship Research Centre and director of Centre for Human Resources and Strategic Development at Zhejiang University. He is a member of the Chinese National Accreditation Board for High-Quality MBA Programs. Other titles he holds are president of Global Entrepreneurship Alliances, President of Professional Managers’ Development & Research Association in Hangzhou, co-director of the National Centre for HR Technology & Standardisation. Professor Wang won the 2007 First Award of the Fudan Preeminent Contribution Prize of Management 2007 in China and is a member of AMBA's International Advisory Board. Professor Wang represents AMBA in China.

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NAGOYA UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE & BUSINESS (NUCB)

The Wall Street Journal is a global news organisation that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. Published by Dow Jones which has nearly 2,000 journalists in more than 75 bureaus around the world, The Wall Street Journal engages readers across print, digital, mobile, social, and video. Building on its heritage as the preeminent source of global business and financial news, the Journal includes coverage of US and world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and health. It holds 36 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism. www.wsj.com

Nagoya University of Commerce & Business (NUCB) Business School is a private university located in the heart of the fourth most cosmopolitan area in Japan. It was established in 1953 and is accredited by AACSB International and AMBA. NUCB is also a member of EFMD and received "four palmes" in the Eduniversal Official Selection 2015. In the "MBA ranking 2015" issued by The Nikkei Career Magazine, NUCB is ranked 1st among all domestic business schools. NUCB offers student exchanges, professorial exchanges, joint academic research, and joint degree programs depending on the prospective partners' programs.

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CABELL’S INTERNATIONAL Cabell’s is an independent and comprehensive platform designed to connect researchers, publishers, librarians, academics, and administrators to the journal titles they need. More than just a journal whitelist, Cabell’s provides multiple quality metrics, submission experience data and peer review indicators for over 10,000 verified scholarly journals across 18 academic disciplines. In addition to the journals database, contextual metrics such as the Cabell’s Classification Index©, the Difficulty of Acceptance©, and the Institutional Publishing Activity© are powerful tools designed to help researchers search, filter and compare journals when making decisions about publication and to assist administrators in evaluating publication records. www.cabells.com

VITALSOURCE VitalSource is Ingram's fastest-growing business and the most widely used digital content delivery system in education. VitalSource has delivered digital content to more than 8 million students in 200 countries and territories worldwide and has more than 500,000 titles available in distribution from more than 750 education publishers. VitalSource® Bookshelf® platform offers a comprehensive suite of applications that allow students to download and read their digital textbooks and course materials online or offline, search content, create highlight sections and make and share notes. VitalSource powers the best mobile digital textbook experience as well, featuring full native applications for Mac®, Windows®, iOS, and Android™, and a best-of-breed browser-based application. For more information about VitalSource Technologies, visit www.VitalSource.com

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