Entrepreneurship *Not offered after FY2024
Day and Time
Early period, Thursday, 2nd and 3rd period
Instructor
Professor Jin-ichiro YAMADA、Senior Lecturer Junya YANAGI
Overview
This lecture is an introductory course on entrepreneurship and business development. The focus will be on the entrepreneur’s way of life, rather than on the business development process, business models, monetization, and ecosystems that are often covered in entrepreneurship-related courses. Beginning with a fundamental discussion of “what is entrepreneurship?” we will delve into how entrepreneurs nurture relationships with family, friends, and colleagues, and how these relationships shape their personal and professional lives. The purpose of this lecture is to provide insight into the nature of entrepreneurship as a dynamic and integral aspect of contemporary society.
Critical Issues in Entrepreneurship *Courses begin in FY2025!
Day and Time
Early period, Thursday, 2nd and 3rd period
Instructor
Professor Jin-Ichiro YAMADA,
Senior Lectuer Junya YANAGI,
Senior Lectuer Carst Alexandra Elena
Overview
This course focuses on critical issues related to entrepreneurship rendered by global interests and societal values. Rather than focusing on the themes of business development processes, business models, and monetization, which are often covered in entrepreneurship-related courses, this course focuses on topics that have attracted attention in recent years, such as the issues related to sustainability and minorities including gender and sexuality, and entrepreneurial fraud.
We go from the fundamental question of “what is entrepreneurship?” to delving into how that relates to shaping their personal and professional lives. The aim of this course is to gain insight into the nature of modern entrepreneurship as an essential yet ever-dynamic aspect of modern society.
Business Design *Courses will continue to be offered in FY2025!
- Day and Time
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latter period, Monday, 2nd and 3rd period
- Instructor
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Adjunct Associate Professor Mari YOSHIDA,
Senior Lecturer Junya YANAGI
- Overview
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This class is a practical business design workshop offered as a course related to the Reading Graduate School of Design. This course, “Business Design,” is a practical class in which students learn to conceptualize a business plan as a whole, including planning a new business, evaluating and improving an existing business, and planning a new innovative development of an existing business.
For this purpose, the central theme of this course is to learn about “effectuation,” i.e., the mindset and behavioral patterns of entrepreneurs.
Ethical Entrepreneurship *Not offered after FY2024
- Day and Time
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early period, intensive course
- Instructor
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Kanasai University Professor Keiko YOKOYAMA, Professor Jin-ichiro YAMADA、Senior Lecturer Junya YANAGI
- Overview
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As many social issues and social problems have emerged in recent years, there is a social need to think from an ethical perspective about how entrepreneurs can confront these issues. In this lecture, along with the discussion of how entrepreneurs can solve social issues, we will also look at the problems that cause entrepreneurs to expand and reproduce social issues. We will consider how organizations and systems, including corporations, become complicit in specific and concrete social challenges such as the reproduction of inequality, gender-based discrimination and stigma based on certain sexualities and ethnicities, and the use of non-sustainable natural environments, and how entrepreneurs can be change-oriented and socially and how entrepreneurs can be change-oriented and engaged with society in response to these issues.