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The entry into force of the Paris Agreement, the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the rapid spread of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) investment are at a new stage of environmental business. Consider the role that business plays in transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon society, in light of changes in environmental business and its trends in the world. In addition, you will learn the methods necessary to build an environmental business on the basis of extensive case studies, and actually experience the presentation of business ideas.
This class aims to search a concrete method for the family businesses to solve the conflict between tradition and innovation and achieve their contribution to the region.
Nowadays in the US and Europe, there has been a growing interest in the family business. In spite of several problems, it becomes clear that the family business has higher profitability and capital efficiency, and invites more innovation than other businesses. They are based on the region and conduct the management in the long-term perspective. On the other hand, although Japan is a treasury of family businesses, hardly any study and education about family business has been done and the outcome is expected around the world.
From 2009, Keio University has made an effort to create leading base for family business study and created original case materials. In this class, we will use these case materials to study family business governance, management philosophy, strategy and organization, innovation, long-life structure and the contribution to the region, and discuss how to realize the coexistence of private interest and social welfare. We will invite family business managers to deepen our knowledge about the management on site.
The essay about family business management will be expected as a final assignment.
The purpose of this lecture is to understand the process and impact of Social innovation through theoretical , case study and workshop .
This course aims to analyze the point of contact between social change and business encountered by the frontier of social business from the viewpoint of product / service development and promotion, to cultivate the students' ideas for solving social problems .
In modern society, the preservation and the formation of natural and social environment to improve our well being are urgent challenges. The improvement of productivity and the revitalization of local community in the society are important challenges as well. In such a situation, the current approach that private profits (profit of person or a particular organization) and public profits are opposed will be a bottleneck. A separate approach to pursue private profits only in business and another separate approach to pursue public profits in administration are insufficient. The total design of private and public profits is required for both social entrepreneur and market mechanism to work with to promote the public profits. In this course, you will learn how to plan a new way of living and to execute through establishing a social business for private profits and sustaining to actualize the public profits. Through the case studies in the various fields, you will discuss how to introduce the incentive system to promote private profits, and how to share the value to achieve the public profits. This course includes lecture, discussion and group work.
Artificial intelligence may have a great impact on society in the future. In order to understand capabilities and limits of artificial intelligence, it is necessary to understand computers as its foundation.
In the first half of this course, we learn fundamental knowledge of practical usage of computers and networks in SFC. In the second half, we learn programming skills which are necessary to take advantage of computers.
After this course, you will be able to learn advanced programming skills in /Fundamentals of Information Technology 2/.