Purpose: It is one of the main objectives of our program to develop world-class teaching materials (case studies) in English. To build up momentum towards the realization of it, we visited famous business schools in the U.S. and made offers of university alliance.

Meeting with:	Terrance Odean	Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance
	Tech H. Ho	Director of Asia Business Center

Almost all of the graduate and undergraduate programs of the University of California, Berkeley ranked in the top ten in the U.S., including the Haas School of Business. We visited Professor Terrance Odean, who is famous for his work on behavioral finance, and Professor Tech H. Ho, who is the Director of Asia Business Center, and received an explanation on their open programs, advanced MBA course and EMBA course.

The Asia Business Center is not just a research institution conducting research on Asian business, but also acts as an intermediary between the University of California, Berkeley and Asian business. Companies in Asia, especially in China and India, send their employees to the programs, for which the Asia Business Center is the contact point. The EMBA course targets corporate executives, and the advanced MBA course targets managers with seven to eight year work experience. They are two-week intensive courses with fifty students per class. Kwansei Gakuin University Business School are considering the possibility to send our students to above courses.

Meeting with:	Mahendra Gupta	Dean of the Business School
	Joseph P. Fox	Associate Dean and Director of MBA Programs
	Gary Hochberg	Director of Specialized Master's Program
	Tami Holder	Director of International Alumni & Development

Washington University's undergraduate program was ranked twelfth in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report National Universities ranking. As for graduate schools, the university was ranked third in the medical schools, and fifth in the architecture schools in the U.S. Both the Olin Business School and the School of Law were ranked nineteenth. In addition, the average salary earned by alumni has been the highest among the U.S. graduate schools for seven straight years. Washington University is a prestigious university in the Midwest even though it is not well known in Japan. Tokyo University is the only Japanese university which has a comprehensive agreement with them at the moment.

Four faculty and staff members participated in the meeting from the Olin Business School side. They were Dean Mahendra Gupta, Associate Dean Joseph P. Fox, who is also the Director of MBA Programs, Director Gary Hochberg, and Director Tami Holder. After an introduction of our Business School, we exchanged views with them on the main themes of this meeting: the possibility of a business school alliance, joint development of case studies, joint research, and student exchange.

The comments from the Olin Business School were highly positive. The Dean, Professor Gupta, said that they would like to actively advance the cooperation. They encourage diversity, but have accepted only a few Japanese students in recent years. They seemed willing to strengthen the relationship with Japan taking this opportunity.

Regarding the joint research and joint development of case studies, they would introduce specialized professors to us depending on the contents. The Olin Business School and our school would also review each other's syllabi in order to explore the possibility of a student exchange.

Meeting with:	Maryam Alavi	Vice Dean of Faculty and Research
	Robert K. Kazanjian	Vice Dean of Programs
	Valerie Molyneaux	Associate Director of International Programs
	Harriet Ruskin	Director of MBA Program Office
	Annand Swaminathan	Goizueta Chair and Professor

Along with the rapid development of the Southeastern United States, Goizueta Business School at Emory University has also been growing in reputation for the past ten years, and ranked fifth in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report National Universities ranking. Emory University is one of the top universities in the U.S. Southeast, along with Duke University and the University of North Carolina. Kwansei Gakuin University has already formed an alliance with Emory University.

We discussed specifically on the joint research and student exchange between business schools in the meeting coordinated by Professor Swaminathan, who is one of the overseas advisors of our program.

Vice Dean Maryam Alavi gave us a detailed explanation on the joint research, based on the current situation of Emory University. Since relationships founded on a business school alliance could be superficial and unfulfilling, she suggested that we begin with a free faculty interaction approach. She also ensured us that we could freely contact the professors we are mostly interested in.

They also expressed their intention to initiate the student exchange program as soon as possible. We would consider the contents of it after receiving the syllabi of general and intensive courses from Emory University.