May 13th, 2013

Visiting Fellows learn about Aruba Networks

On May 10, Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows had the opportunity to visit Aruba Networks, a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Read more »

April 30th, 2013

Broadening the perspectives of international professionals

For more than thirty years, Shorenstein APARC's Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows Program has offered a unique opportunity for affiliate organizations to nominate personnel to spend an academic year at Stanford. Read more »

March 4th, 2013

International banking standards in the US, Japan, and the EU

Based on research conducted at Stanford, a working paper by Minoru Aosaki explores economic impacts and policy challenges related to Basel III, the new international standard of banking regulation, in the United States, Japan, and the European Union.

• » Implementation of Basel III: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges in the United States, Japan, and the European Union

January 28th, 2013

Forming lasting bonds through Corporate Affiliates

Norihiko Ishiguro, who spoke September 2012 at an alumni reception in Tokyo, shares memories from his experience as a member of one of the earliest groups of Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows, and offers wisdom for future fellows. Read more »

January 15th, 2013

Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows reflect on first quarter at Stanford

From the moment Corporate Affiliates Program Visiting Fellows step onto the Stanford campus, they enter a different world. Many consider it to be the experience of a lifetime. Shorenstein APARC recently caught up with three 2012-13 Visiting Fellows to talk about their first quarter at Stanford. Read more »

October 1st, 2012

Shorenstein APARC alumni and friends gather in Tokyo

On September 10, Shorenstein APARC hosted a memorable gathering of 100 alumni and friends in Tokyo. It afforded recent Shorenstein APARC visitors the opportunity to converse and exchange stories with alumni who first visited Stanford 20 to 30 years ago. Read more »

September 18th, 2012

Boosting language skills through Stanford programs

Visiting Fellow Masashi Suzuki took advantage of Stanford's summertime English for Foreign Students program to jumpstart his English-language skills before immersing himself in campus life and activities this academic year.

• » Stanford Report article

July 17th, 2012

A day in the life of a Corporate Affiliates visiting fellow

Since 2005, Denise Masumoto has managed Shorenstein APARC's Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows Program. In an interview, she describes the incredible number of resources available to program participants, and the valuable role visiting fellows play in the activities of the Center. Read more »

April 17th, 2012

Sumitomo's Yasunori Kakemizu discusses his Stanford experience

What do running a business and flying an airplane have in common? Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellow Yasunori Kakemizu shares his perspective, and discusses the past year at Stanford. Read more »

February 15th, 2012

Racing into the future with KleenSpeed Technologies

On Feb. 14, KleenSpeed Technologies welcomed members of the Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows Program to see firsthand the electric vehicle technologies being developed at its Mountain View, CA headquarters. Read more »

January 30th, 2012

Katsunori Hirano envisions a sustainable future

South of Mount Fuji, along Japan’s central eastern coast, sits Shizuoka Prefecture. Home to green tea plantations, hot springs resorts, and Yamaha pianos and motorcycles, Shizuoka Prefecture is a vibrant agricultural, tourist, and manufacturing region. It is also home to Katsunori Hirano, a current Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Read more »

January 18th, 2012

Corporate Affiliates alumnus' research in China's energy sector

China possesses vast coal reserves, and coal accounts for 70 percent of the country's total energy consumption -- 3 billion tons per year. But China also consumes oil, natural gas, and an increasing amount of renewable energy. Xuteng Hu, a Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellow Program alumnus (2007-08), discusses the energy and materials development projects he manages at PetroChina’s Petrochemical Research Institute in Beijing. Read more »

November 16th, 2011

A Facebook approach to work

Stepping into Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, a first-time visitor might wonder how the company's employees ever accomplish anything. Wide-open work, meeting, and lounge spaces replace the traditional cubicle-office environment. Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows recently toured the Facebook facility -- a former Hewlett Packard building -- and learned about the company's open and creative work culture. Read more »

October 19th, 2011

Corporate Affiliates Program welcomes 2011-12 fellows to Stanford

As the new academic year gets underway, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center's Corporate Affiliates Program is excited to welcome its new class of fellows to Stanford University. Read more »

May 4th, 2011

Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellow Takeshi Kondo reflects on the past year

Takeshi Kondo was undergoing training as a new Mitsubishi Electric systems engineer in Kobe, Japan when the massive 7.2-magnitude Great Hanshin earthquake struck in 1995. When Japan was hit by the double disaster of an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami in March 2011, Kondo was at Stanford University participating in the Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellows Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. The March tragedy called to mind the 1995 Kobe earthquake and underscored for him the strength of the U.S.-Japan relationship in the face of adversity. Read more »

March 8th, 2011

Pradnya Palande discusses Reliance Life Sciences and Stanford cancer research

Pradnya Palande's passion for improving human health through scientific research began during her graduate studies, and has continued to the present day through her work with Reliance Life Sciences (RLS) of India. In a recent interview, Palande, a 2010-2011 Corporate Affiliates Fellow, discussed her work as a team leader with the biopharmaceuticals division of RLS and the groundbreaking cancer research that she is conducting at Stanford. Read more »

November 15th, 2010

An interview with Yuichi Moronaga

Understanding the emotional connection that people have to products inspires the innovative research and work of current Corporate Affiliates Program Fellow Yuichi Moronaga, who worked for Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry for nearly a decade and most recently served as a deputy manager for the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Secretariat. At the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Moronaga is now engaging in research about essential value, which he describes as the “background story” behind companies and their products. Read more »

October 28th, 2010

Embrace this opportunity, says Daisuke Maeda, 2008-2009 Corporate Affiliates alumnus

Daisuke Maeda, 2008-2009 Corporate Affiliates fellow, embraced the opportunity of being at Stanford University in order to actively engage with students, scholars, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Connecting in person in an environment of innovation and entrepreneurship informed Maeda's thinking about his work with the Sumitomo Corporation, both retrospectively and for the future. Maeda urges current fellows to seize the opportunity of being at Stanford, saying, "Don't hesitate. Time is limited." Read more »

October 1st, 2010

Recession recovery discussed at U.S.-Japan Business Forum

Hirofumi Takinami, Corporate Affiliates Visiting Fellow from the Ministry of Finance in Japan, participated as a panelist for the event "Recovering from Recession" organized by the Keizai Society's U.S.-Japan Business Forum on September 28, 2010. The other panelists for this event were Daniel Okimoto, director-emeritus, Shorenstein APARC, and Keitaro Matsuda, senior vice president, Director of Economic Research for Union Bank. The event covered key issues that lie ahead for the business community trying to recover from this recession. Takinami gave a comparison of government response to the financial crisis in Japan in 1997 and in the United States in 2008, and what implications can be drawn from these experiences. Providing his perspective as a practitioner, he discussed the bailout of the financial institutions to address the financial crises.

• » Keizai Society September Forum (Ustream)

September 22nd, 2010

Defining success though positive development

When Makoto Takeuchi came to the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) as a Corporate Affiliates Program fellow during the 2004-2005 academic year, he was working as a senior manager with the Business Development Group of Kansai Electric Power Company, located in Osaka, Japan. Through his experience at Shorenstein APARC, Takeuchi defined his idea success and will soon be assuming the new role of senior energy specialist with the World Bank's East Asia Sustainable Development Department, where he says his goal is to "provide clean energy through a sophisticated power system with renewable energy and to contribute to what people in the region really want." Read more »

August 23rd, 2010

Earn-Key Joo of Samsung Electronics broadening his global perspective at Shorenstein APARC

Earn-Key Joo, a vice president with the Human Resources Development Center of Samsung Electronics, is a current fellow with the Corporate Affiliates Program of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) at Stanford University. He spoke recently about his work with Samsung Electronics, his research project, and his Corporate Affiliates experience. Read more »

August 17th, 2010

Corporate Affiliates Program welcomes 2010-2011 fellows to Stanford

As the new academic year is about to get underway, the Corporate Affiliates Program of Shorenstein APARC welcomes its new class of fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year. The Corporate Affiliates website will feature interviews with of each of the fellows throughout the coming year. Read more »

April 8th, 2010

April 2010 Dispatch - Breaking the News to North Koreans

North Korea is usually described as the "most isolated country on earth," its people effectively cut off from the outside world. Peter Beck's research tells a different story--that perhaps one million North Koreans are secretly listening to foreign radio broadcasts. Read more »

March 12th, 2010

March 2010 Dispatch - The Politics of Pornography: Islamic Governance in Democratic Indonesia

Despite the recent Islamic revival that has dramatically increased public expressions of piety, Islamic political parties have failed to gain any significant electoral traction in Indonesia. Yet during those same five years, the Islamic political parties that failed to win at the ballot box mobilized enough political and popular support to pass one of Indonesia's most divisive pieces of legislation--the Anti-Pornography Law. James Hoesterey examines these seemingly contradictory elements of Indonesian politics provide starkly different impressions of Islam's political role. Read more »

February 16th, 2010

February 2010 Dispatch - Strict Liability for Medical Injuries? The Impact of Increasing Malpractice Liability on Obstetrician Behavior in Taiwan

We are pleased to bring you this month's dispatch in our series of Shorenstein APARC Dispatches. This month's piece, "Strict Liability for Medical Injuries? The Impact of Increasing Malpractice Liability on Obstetrician Behavior in Taiwan" comes from Brian K. Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Health Policy, Asia Health Policy Program, Shorenstein APARC. Read more »