With all-alumni events in Singapore and Tokyo last week, the Dean is continuing a series of regional events aimed at connecting the alumni community and demonstrating how the School is addressing today’s challenges.
LinkedIn Japan’s first female country head argues that the nation needs to move toward a more skills-based labor market, and firms need to adapt to workers’ changing values if the country is going to improve its persistent gender inequality. “Japan is at a turning point,” Wakana Tanaka said in her…
“Japan is at a turning point,” Wakana Tanaka said in her first media interview this week since she took over the top job in late March. “Building your skills constantly is really important in this coming age.”
Firms also need to adapt to changing attitudes among workers who value family life and flexibility more than they did in the past, the company's first female country chief has said.