Hitotsubashi University Business School - School of International Corporate Strategy (Hitotsubashi ICS)

The School of International Corporate Strategy (Hitotsubashi ICS) is one of Hitotsubashi University’s graduate business schools. The other is the School of Business Administration (SBA). Both are located in Tokyo, Japan. Hitotsubashi ICS offers MBA, EMBA, DBA, and ExEd programs, all of which are conducted in English.

Hitotsubashi ICS was founded in 1998, by Hitotsubashi University. This project was led by Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, the school’s first dean, and Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University. Professor Nonaka and Professor Takeuchi are known for developing the concept of “Scrum Agile” and “The Agile Innovation Framework, which both first appeared in the HBR article, "The New New Product Development Game,” published in January 1986. 

Hitotsubashi ICS has the distinction of being  Japan’s first "professional graduate school." (It was formerly called a "specialized graduate school.") Hitotsubashi ICS welcomed its first class of business students in 2000.

Unlike the graduate school’s parent institution, Hitotsubashi University, which maintains a large campus in Kunitachi, a western suburb of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi ICS’s Chiyoda Campus is located in the heart of central Tokyo, the foremost business hub of Japan.