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Catalyst’s MBAs & Executive’s Networking Event

Thursday, February, 21st, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm
  • Meet top executive’s of organizations that value the MBA
  • Hear from keynote speaker, former president & chairman of Accenture
  • Network with MBAs from all over the world.

Event Schedule
6:30pm Doors open
7:00 - 7:30 Keynote Speaker - Masakatsu Mori, former President & Chairman of Accenture, Japan 
7:30 - 7:45 Networking activity
7:45 - 8:45 Open networking
8:45 - 9:00 Prizes and conclusion of our event
9:00 - ... All are welcome to stay and network throughout the night!

Location - Dining and Lounge Opera (7 meters walk from Roppongi-Itchome station, exit 2)

This is an extremely good value event as you will have the ability to meet Executives from global organizations that are are targeting YOU the MBA, You can network with MBAs fom B-schools from all over the world that are also practicing professionals. This is a great opportunity to grow powerful connections and have a good time while doing it.

Presentation Title and Content
Can MBAs drive growth in the global marketplace?
Hear the insights of a 42 year veteran, recently the former President and Chairman of Accenture, from his tacit knowledge of working with Japan’s business leaders.
Japan has a huge accumulation of capital and technology.  However, Japan does not have sufficient business leaders to drive business in the global marketplace.  Japanese corporations acquired US$80 billion dollars of overseas business in 2012 to grow their business in the overseas markets.  How to manage these businesses is the critical challenge for many corporations.  Linking business strategy to human resource strategy is an urgent agenda item to drive growth strategy for many Japanese corporations

2 drinks, hear from our keynote speaker and an all MBA networking activity for only 3,000yen pre-paid or 3,500 at the door.
 
Prizes
  • Will be giving a way a 153,300yen scholorship for the Dale Carnegie Skills for Success course.  "This is training that is extremely useful for MBAs as I learned from taking just one of their courses"
    Damon Mackey, CEO of Catalyst K.K.

Register now at http://catalyst4mbas.peatix.com


All those registered on our database below and the event above will be eligible to win prizes.

 

To register to our Database and be eligible for positions where global orgs are targeting YOU, the MBA, click on the GREEN BUTTON

Past Events

Take a look at all of the unique events and opportunities from our previous events

The Catalyst MBA Career Forum

A career forum for experienced talent
September 29, 2012    (Click here for MAP)


Japan’s largest MBA Career Forum was held only 2 minutes from Shinjuku station and attended by global organizations targeting the MBA.

  • Networkingwith MBAs from around the world ネットワーキングイベントの参加により国内外から集結するMBAホルダーとのネットワークを広げる

  • Meet our speakers; President of Dale Carnegie Japan, Head of Linkedin and President of Levi’s デール・カーネギー・ジャパン代表取締役社長、リンクトイン・ジャパン株式会社日本代表代理、リーバイス ジャパン株式会社代表取締役社長による講演会

  • Meet HR Executives from leading organizations MBAの採用に熱心な一流企業の人事担当者に直接会って話す絶好のチャンス 

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  Attending organizations: General Electric, Nissan, Gibraltar,DeNA, Oak Lawn Marketing, Frost & Sullivan Consulting, DFS Galleria, Global Leadership Partners Asia,  Spectrum Consulting,Fusion Systems Japan, Philips Healthcare, i-kifu, MBA Career Design Research Institute and more.


President of Dale Carnegie Japan, Greg Story will be be giving his speech called, "Are You "People Smart" Enough?" Leveraging the combined power of the people in your team requires People Smarts. 

These "soft skills" make the difference between getting to the top or not.  Companies want to promote people who can persuade and bring other people with them.   
How do you do that?   
Dale Carnegie worked it out 100 years ago, and these proven secrets of people success will be revealed by Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale Carnegie Training Japan. 

See pictures of last years event 

"MBAs & Executives’ Networking Event"   Shanghai

July 20th, 2012

This event pooled together MBAs from China’s top MBA programs 

Speaking on "Doing Business in China: Never Dull and Never Easy" 
Chairman of APCO and 2012 Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce will be speaking from his 26+ years of experience with US/China affairs and deep knowledge of Chinese culture. 

At M1NT, the ’go-to’ venue for many of China’s MBAs had the chance to build their MBA network across multiple MBA programs while making executive level industry connections

MBAs & Executives’ Networking Event
  

Executive Speakers Week

 March 23rd, 2012

Gold Medal Coach and Networking Event

Richard Parslow, Co-founder and Sales & Marketing Director of Goalscape software, 3 time Sailing World Champion that has coached 2 teams to Gold medals and is currently coaching the Belgian 49er Team for the 2012 London Olympics will be speaking on:

"Achieving Best results and making ideas happen" - This olympic coach and entrepreneur in coaching software will be sharing his key insights for you to achieve your best performance and make ideas happen and how tools like Goalscape works to achieve both.

This is a really amazing chance to meet him in person while networking with other MBAs and executives at a beautiful and convenient location.

Where: Join us at The Strings by Intercontinental In Shinagawa Tokyo  Map 

Executive Online Speakers

March 20th, 2012

Create a Meetup group near you at  Meetup.com  

  • Starbuck’s Consumer Packaged Goods, Representative Director, Paul Kraft  "Starbucks successful cultural customization of products and services"

  • Cisco Headquarters HR Partner, Dave Mackey’s speech on Engaging Snr Technical Talent and how Cisco’s white paper influenced leaders involvement of talented engineers

View these shows and more at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mba-career-forum-live#events 

MBAs & Executive’s Networking Event

February 9th, 2012

Over 200 attended to hear Linkedins Head of Operations, Catherine Porter speak on 
"Optimizing your Network to Maximize Opportunities".  MBAs had the chance to network with graduates from top programs in Japan, from abroad and with C-level and HR Executives from:
Amazon Japan, Linkedin Japan, Citigroup Services Japan Ltd, Johnson & Johnson K.K., Nissan Motor Co., ENDEAVOR SBC Co.Ltd., Adobe Systems - Japan, Walmart Japan / Seiyu GK, Ascend and Spectrum Consulting.

   
Prizes awarded on the night included: Kobo e-book reader donated by Rakuten,  Starbucks gift basket including one of each of their products now available in grocery and convenience stores, 40+ Laser pointer/ 4GB USB pens and more.

Catalyst K.K. and  Linkedin Group, "MBAs in Japan" worked together to bring you this event. 
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Japan’s Largest MBA Career Forum

October 16th, 2011

Career Placement, Internships and Global Networking Event



Gold sponsor: Delta
Silver sponsor: Unilever

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MBAs had the chance to: 
Network with MBAs from around the world,
Including 25 of Japan’s top MBA programs (more)
Reach Top Global Orgs, targeting YOU, the MBA
Connecting you with organizations that value the MBA
Meet CEOs of leading organizations
Past speakers were CEO of GE, Yoshiaka Fujimori…(More) 

Speakers:
JPMorgan’s Managing Director of Japan Research, Jesper Koll spoke on
"Global Powerhouse Japan - Whythe pessimists are wrong"

Former Amazon Asia Operations CFO, Hiroshi Miyamasu on 
"My Mistakes You Should Not Follow"
At our last event , students came from the following overseas programs:
University of Texas, McCombs Business School, Wharton, University College Dublin, Ireland, Babson, Carnegie Mellon University, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Durham Business School, Schiller International University, Open University Business School MBA, Bond University, London Business School, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Lancaster University Management School and University of Birmingham.

MBAs from the following institutions were in attendance:

International MBA programs

ANAHEIM UNIVERSITY (AKIO MORITA)
ENPC MBA TOKYO
HULT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
JAPAN-AMERICA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (JAIMS)
MCGILL UNIVERSITY MBA PROGRAM
RITSUMEIKAN ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
TSUKUBA MBA-IB UNIVERSITY

Japanese MBA programs

AOYAMA UNIVERSITY
HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY (IBS)
HOSEI UNIVERSITY
KEIO UNIVERSITY
KYOTO UNIVERSITY
MEIJI UNIVERSITY (MBS)
NAGOYA UNIVERSITY (ECOLE DE PONTS)
NIHON UNIVERSITY
RIKKYO UNIVERSITY
YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
 

Japan’s Largest MBA Networking Event

"GROW - MBAs & Executive’s Networking Event"

Yoshiaki Fujimori, CEO of GE, Japan spoke on challenging growth.
300 attended. MBAs came to mix with CEOs and HR executives of Tokyo top tier organizations, plus meet MBAs from 30 MBA programs around the world.

We collaborated with Tycooon LLC to bring you our combined MBA and executive connections.
At 2,000yen, including 2 drink tickets, a take away bag full of goodies you couldn’t go wrong.

Guests received brochures and gifts from Hays, Robert Walters, Wall Street Associates, Ernst and Young and even a free nights stay from Space Design Inc.


Take a look at the organizations that registered to send their CEOs and HR Executives:
Google, Adobe, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, General Electric Japan, Ernst & Young, Bandai Namco Holdings, Oracle, IBM, Novartis, Phillip Morris,  Nissan, Italian Chamber of Commerce, Piku, Dell computers, Robert Walters, Rolls Royce, SAP, Spectrum Consulting, SJSK K.K., Tora Trading, Pimco, Japan Health Care Network, Change Management Japan, Foreya Partners, Goodpeople, Japan Inc., Wall Street, Trip Adviser, Langley Esquire, Endeavor SBC Co., Ltd, Tokyo Chamber of Commerce/ 東京商工会議所, Ukraine Chamber of Commerce, The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan/ 産業革新機構, Webnet IT, Space Design, Hays and TopTech Informatics, Inc.

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Catalyst MBA Career Forum

October 29th and 30th, 2010

Thank you for attending Japan’s largest MBA Career Forum

Career Placement, Internships and Global Networking Event

This event emerged to facilitate and expedite the successful matching of top MBAs with the organizations that wish to leverage the intellectual talent of top MBA candidates. 

Organizations that attended:

Adobe- 11 years on "Fortune" magazines 100 best companies to work for.
Google- The internet’s most visited website
DFS Group- The world’s leading luxury retailer.
Michael Page International- leading professional recruitment consultancy for the world’s top employers with 136 offices in 28 countries.
Fusion Systems- recognized leader in IT Solutions Consulting across the Asia Pacific region
Ingenium- a leading Asia Pacific executive search firm specializing in attracting bilingual Asian executives.
Robert Walters- one of the world’s leading specialist professional recruitment consultancies with 41 offices spanning 20 countries.
Accounting Asia- Global Professional serves organization experience rapid growth.
SAP The world’s leading supplier of business software  
AMT Group- offers a holistic approach to global management training
BIOs- IT solutions provider
Foreya Partners- Private equity, venture capital and transaction support.
Hays- Experts in recruiting qualified, professional experts into a wide range of specialized industries
Cosmo Public Relations- Japan’s foremost strategic communications consultancy
 

Speakers 

10/29 at 5pm Michael Alfant- Founder and CEO of Fusion Systems Co., Ltd - Entrpeneurship
10/30 at 1pm Glenn Mazur- Japan Consultants President Quality  Functional Deployment 
10/30 at 2pm AMT Group - "Creating Global leaders" Workshop on EQ
10/30 at 3pm Glen S. Fukushima - Chairman & Director of Airbus Japan- 6 elements of globalization
(For more information click on speakers name)

Limited space is available.

FOR ORGANIZATIONS TO  REGISTER FOR A BOOTH AT THIS UNIQUE EVENT,
CONTACT OUR TEAM AT:
info@catalystmaster.com


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