Category: Leadership

  • [Trinity Japan] Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal in discussion with Trinity in Japan

    [Trinity Japan] Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal in discussion with Trinity in Japan

    Lord Martin Rees in discussion with Trinity in Japan on 31 July 2020. Topics discussed include the recent Nobel Prize for Didier Queloz, existential risks to humanity, exoplanets and extraterrestrial life, the possibility and conditions on planet Mars and on other planets and exoplanets, and experimental programs to detect extraterrestrial life, and the current situation […]

  • 12th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2020

    12th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2020

    Energy. Entropy. Leadership. 12th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum, 20 February 2020 at the Embassy of Austria, Tokyo. Gerhard Fasol, Chair and Producer. Program Welcome by the Ambassador of Austria, Hubert Heiss. Gerhard Fasol, CEO and Founder, Eurotechnology Japan KK, Guest-Professor Kyushu University, former faculty Cambridge University and Tokyo University, Past-Fellow Trinity College Cambridge “Today’s agenda. Entropy, […]

  • 11th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2019

    11th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2019

    Energy. Entropy. Leadership. 11th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum, 20 February 2019 at the Embassy of Austria, Tokyo. Gerhard Fasol, Chair Program Welcome by the Ambassador of Austria, Hubert Heiss. Gerhard Fasol, CEO and Founder Eurotechnology Japan K, Guest-Professor Kyushu University, former faculty Cambridge University and Tokyo University, Past-Fellow Trinity College Cambridge “Today’s agenda. Entropy, information and […]

  • Corporate Governance Reforms in Japan, Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Geneva

    Corporate Governance Reforms: How the Way Japanese Corporations Take Decisions is Changing SJCC Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce Friday 12 October 2018, 18:30-19:45, JETRO Office Geneva Prime Minister Abe’s corporate governance reforms are arguably one of the biggest success stories of his reform program to promote Japan’s economic growth. Japan’s Government in coordination with the Tokyo […]

  • Corporate governance reforms: making Japanese corporations great again? Monday, May 28, 2018, 19:00-21:00 at CCIFJ

    Corporate governance reforms: making Japanese corporations great again? Monday, May 28, 2018, 19:00-21:00 at CCIFJ

    Corporate governance reforms: making Japanese corporations great again? Understanding how Japanese Boards of Directors function helps you close deals Monday, May 28, 2018, 19:00-21:00 at CCIFJ Stimulating Japanese companies’ growth is a key element of Prime Minister Abe’s economic growth policies. For companies to grow, management needs to be improved, Boards of Directors need to […]

  • Corporate Governance Reforms in Japan, Gerhard Fasol at the Foreign Correspondents Club FCCJ 12 March 2018

    Corporate Governance Reforms in Japan, Gerhard Fasol at the Foreign Correspondents Club FCCJ 12 March 2018

    Corporate Governance Reforms in Japan Monday, March 12, 2018, 12:00 – 13:30 at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Japan FCCJ While many Japanese corporations are still admired around the world, too many have for years suffered sluggish growth and low profitability. A string of corporate scandals and failures have shocked the pubic and corroded confidence […]

  • 10th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2018

    10th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2018

    Energy. Entropy. Leadership. 10th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum, 20 February 2018 at the Embassy of Austria in Tokyo Gerhard Fasol, Chair Program Welcome by the Ambassador of Austria, represented by Magister Konstantin Saupe (Embassy of Austria) Gerhard Fasol CEO Eurotechnology Japan KK, Board Director GMO Cloud KK, Guest-Professor Kyushu University, former faculty Cambridge University and Tokyo […]

  • Japanese Corporate Governance – The Inside Story: Gerhard Fasol and Sir Stephen Gomersall

    Japanese Corporate Governance – The Inside Story: Gerhard Fasol and Sir Stephen Gomersall

    Gerhard Fasol and Sir Stephen Gomersall Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, Tuesday 16 January 2018, 6:00pm Topic: Japanese Corporate Governance – The Inside Story Speakers: Gerhard Fasol and Sir Stephen Gomersall Program: Tuesday 16 January 2018, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Drinks reception from 7:00pm Location: 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent’s Park), London NW1 4QP, […]

  • Corporate governance reforms in Japan

    Corporate governance reforms in Japan

    Corporate governance reforms are one of the key components of Abenomics, to improve economic growth in Japan Corporate governance reforms in Japan: talk at the OAG House in Tokyo, Wednesday 20 September 2017, 18:30-20:00 Wednesday 20 September 2017, 18:30-20:00 Talk: Gerhard Fasol: „Corporate Governance Reformen in Japan: Erfahrungen als Aufsichtsratsdirektor einer japanischen Firmengruppe“ Free of […]

  • Future engineering education – a European view. Kyushu Society for Engineering Education.

    Future engineering education – a European view. Kyushu Society for Engineering Education.

    日本語版 / Japanese version: http://www.fasol.com/j/2017/07/23/future-engineering-education-europe-view/ Gerhard Fasol: A European view on the future of engineering education in Kyushu Future engineering education. 4th Symposium of the Kyushu Society for Engineering Education. 11 July 2017 13:00-16:30 Kyushu Institute of Technology Future engineering education meeting program. 13:00-15:00 Yuichi Harada, Professor, Kyushu University: “Practical education using global innovation” Shingo […]

  • Japan’s future. Bill Emmott and Gerhard Fasol, a discussion.

    Japan’s future. Bill Emmott and Gerhard Fasol, a discussion.

    Japan’s future: Bill Emmott and Gerhard Fasol Bill Emmott is an independent writer and consultant on international affairs, board director, and from 1993 until 2006 was editor of The Economist. http://www.billemmott.com Gerhard Fasol is physicist, board director, entrepreneur, M&A advisor in Tokyo. https://fasol.com/ Japan’s future: A conversation Bill Emmott: I came first to Japan in […]

  • 9th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2017

    9th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum Tokyo 2017

    Energy. Entropy. Leadership. 9th Ludwig Boltzmann Forum, 16 February 2017, at the Embassy of Austria in Tokyo Gerhard Fasol, Chair Program Welcome by the Ambassador of Austria Gerhard Fasol CEO, Eurotechnology Japan KK, Board Director, GMO Cloud KK. former faculty Cambridge University and past Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge“Entropy, information and Ludwig Boltzmann” Masato Wakayama Executive […]

  • Corporate governance reforms in Japan – talk given at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo on 6 October 2016

    Corporate governance reforms in Japan – talk given at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo on 6 October 2016

    Corporate governance reforms in Japan Changing the way Japanese corporations are managed: Can it make Japanese iconic corporations great again? A talk by Gerhard Fasol at the Embassy of Sweden organized by the Embassy of Sweden, The Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Japan (SCCJ), and the Stockholm School of Economics Abstract: Changing the way Japanese […]

  • Japan’s globalization paradox: is Japan global? or struggling to globalize?

    Japan’s globalization paradox: is Japan global? or struggling to globalize?

    Japan’s globalization puzzle: intriguing questions by one of my great European friends, a great European banking sector leader How do you explain Japan’s lack of internationalization with so many big Japanese holdings managing successfully businesses abroad (e.g. Toyota, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, etc.) Japan’s globalization paradox – a closer look Its not so simple: Japan is a […]

  • Ludwig Boltzmann Forum on Women’s development and leadership 2016

    Ludwig Boltzmann Forum on Women’s development and leadership 2016

    Women’s development and leadership Tokyo, Monday 16 May 2016, 9:00-11:00am Gerhard Fasol, Chair Program 9:00-9:20 Gerhard Fasol CEO, Eurotechnology Japan KK, Board Director, GMO Cloud KK. former faculty Cambridge University, and Trinity College, and Tokyo University Objectives of the Ludwig Boltzmann Forum on Women’s development and leadership 9:20-9:40 Dame Carol Black DBE FRCP FMedSci is […]

  • Corporate governance in Japan – views of an Independent Board Director of a listed Japanese Company

    Corporate governance in Japan – views of an Independent Board Director of a listed Japanese Company

    Prime Minister Abe urges reform of corporate governance Slow but steady change… Reuters reports that Japan’s Prime Minister Abe urges company boards to reform corporate governance to include independent directors. I added the following comment. Corporate governance in Japan: exercise of shareholder power and emergency situations The question of independent Board Directors is often framed […]

  • Japan’s electronics conglomerates: Whats the difference between Apple/IBM vs Sony/Panasonic/NEC?

    Japan’s electronics conglomerates: Whats the difference between Apple/IBM vs Sony/Panasonic/NEC?

    Why are Apple/IBM/Microsoft/Google so very different compared to SONY/Panasonic/NEC Need for corporate governance reforms in Japan My friend’s question: Why are Apple/IBM/Microsoft/Google so very different compared to SONY/Panasonic/NEC Gerhard Fasol’s answer: Profit and growth. Apple and IBM grow and are highly profitable. Sony, Panosonic and NEC have no growth and no profit for 15 years […]

  • Foreign companies in Japan’s high-tech markets: new opportunities versus old mistakes (Lecture at Stanford University)

    Foreign companies in Japan’s high-tech markets: new opportunities versus old mistakes (Lecture at Stanford University)

    Success stories vs failure. Why some foreign companies succeed in Japan’s high tech sector, and why others fail. Stanford University Japan Technology Center lecture by Gerhard Fasol, given in 1999 – most still applies today! New opportunities vs old mistakes – foreign companies in Japan’s high-tech markets Stanford University lecture, given on October 28th, 1999 […]

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