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Admission 2025.06.17 Kyoto-Cornell Collaborative Program Admissions: Info Session in Tokyo July 18 – 19
Admission 2025.05.01 Admissions 2026 Intake: International MBA (i-MBA)
Admission 2025.04.21 Admissions 2026 Intake: Kyoto-Cornell Collaborative Degree

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2025.07.19 Event reports

43rd ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum(ABMF) Meeting and Other Events

2025.06.28 Event reports

Kickoff Meeting for 2025 Student Council Committee

2025.06.17 Admission

Kyoto-Cornell Collaborative Program Admissions: Info Session in Tokyo July 18 – 19

2025.05.01 Admission

Admissions 2026 Intake: International MBA (i-MBA)

2025.04.21 Admission

Admissions 2026 Intake: Kyoto-Cornell Collaborative Degree

2023.05.29 Certified

Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University Granted the International Accreditation EQUIS

Interview

In my previous job, I worked in Myanmar, a newly emerging economy in South East Asia, for about four years. My assignment was to work with team members to launch a new business in the region, a task which I found challenging and exciting. I appreciated the fact that I was given that opportunity in the company. There were, however, considerable difficulties in implementing a start-up project in a newly emerging economy. I failed to live up to the expectations which the company had of me, and failed to achieve the goal. Looking back, I now admit that I did not possess sufficient capabilities to manage the project. Given that background, I decided to enter a graduate school to study management. While there are many business schools in the world teaching management, I was attracted to GSM at Kyoto University. The reason was that the curriculum offered a course called the “Service Value Creation Programme”. In my past business experiences, I had come to realise that what was most difficult to achieve was the nurture and dissemination of the concept of “service hospitality”, embodying it as a commercial activity performed by a business. “Service hospitality” is an intangible asset. How can it generate economic and social value? I was planning to elucidate that question by applying the most up-to-date analytical methods taught at GSM, thus creating “service hospitality” values. I was keen on developing my communication skills as well. The curriculum provides the students with excellent opportunities to study these subjects systematically and logically. For these reasons I chose GSM.

I received my master’s degree in Agricultural Science from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University.

Before I entered GSM, I worked in the overseas sales department of an automobile manufacturer. I was in charge of several projects, like setting up new dealers and establishing the logistic network. While working, I’ve been wondering about the way how decisions were made for the projects and started to feel that I wanted to improve my project management skill more. That’s why I’ve decided to take MBA, which I’ve been interested in since before. There are mainly two reasons why I selected MBA at GSM. First, GSM has a course for project management, Project Operations Management Program, which fits with what I’m looking for MBA. Second, it guaranteed that I could take the lecture provided by top-notch teachers who represent Japan.

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