Japan: Just my presence makes a difference, she explains, as these company presidents are forced to answer my questions, and I have a voice to ask: ‘What effect will this decision make on your shareholders How does this affect other stakeholders ’ Ahmadjian welcomes recent moves to open up corporate governance in Japan, buoyed by support from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe government, which has introduced a range of measures to shake up the membership of Japan Inc. notoriously insular company boards, according to The Japan Times. Ahmadjian has been pushing for more transparent governance since 2000, when she came to Japan for research. Often the lone foreigner and only woman in the room, Ahmadjian relishes playing gadfly and applying her research to real-life situations. It a cause she brought with her to her last job as trailblazing dean of Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy and her current post as professor at Hitotsubashi Graduate School of Commerce and Management. Every second has been a real challenge, she says. It an upstream battle, and some days Ahmadjian admits she feels like she just treading water.
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