The Harvard Business School (HBS) Japan Research Office, which began operating at a temporary location in December 2001, will have its official opening when it moves into the Marunouchi Building next fall. HBS seeks to create and disseminate international intellectual capital as part of its efforts to ensure that it is the preeminent source of new, high-impact insights into management issues of importance to business leaders throughout the world. To pursue this mission, the School established the Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong in 1999, the Latin American Research Center in Buenos Aires in 2000, and the European Research Center in Paris in February 2002.

The mission of The European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) is to serve as a major center for research on the economics and societies of Japan and East Asia, with particular emphasis on issues which impact on Europe. Established in Stockholm in September 1992 through endowment of funds from Swedish and Japanese business and the Swedish government, EIJS operates independently of economic and political interest groups as an autonomous research center within the Stockholm School of Economics. In order to facilitate the vital East- West dialogue, EIJS opened a liaison office in Tokyo in October 1997. Now EIJS Tokyo office moves to “Marunouchi”- business center to strengthen the Euro-Japan relationship.

The EIJS Academy in Tokyo aims to support European industry by providing young people working in European-owned companies in Japan with an orientation into different aspects of Japanese business, economics, culture and social life. The Academy was established in 1998 in collaboration with Young Chamber of Network of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan. The EIJS Academy Programme consists of a ten-lecture seminar series in English, with a seminar offered once a month on a topic of general interest for the business community. Our lectures are highly qualified experts from academia, business or government. Each seminar will consist of a lecture by an appropriate expert and ample time for question and answer sessions and discussion. EIJS plans to collaborate with other research offices in Marunouchi Building to offer education programmes to promote international and executive human resources. As for the future activities, in addition to the present activities, EIJS will pursue the joint projects with other research offices in “Marunouchi Business Research Center” for development of human resources working for the various industries.

It is strongly expected that Japanese universities should promote industry and academic collaboration in order to realize the rebirth of Japanese economics, and it is also expected to create new-style universities that have vitality and global competitiveness in the field of business researches.
In such circumstance, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo is going to have a satellite office in Marunouchi in front of Tokyo Station for the purpose of producing the places for usual communication with global leading business schools, and furthermore the places for research between industry and academy.

GBRC was established by mainly the professors of Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo in order to operate and administrate the satellite office in Marunouchi flexibly and exhibit liaison function with industry.
GBRC aims

GBRC is going to be operated open to professors, researchers and postgraduate students, workers. GBRC holds symposiums and lectures, develops and supports business model, promotes joint researches and acceptance researches, publishes online journal both in English (quarterly) and in Japanese (monthly) and Newsletter (weekly) and so on in order to disseminate information from the latter of April 2002. The URL of GBRC, that begins main activities from the latter of April 2002, is http://www.gbrc.jp