CBR Seminar: 'Japan’s corporate governance and value creation via equity spread'

Venue: Ground Floor Meeting Room, 10 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QA

Speaker: Dr Ryohei Yanagi

Dr Ryohei Yanagi will give a presentation entitled "Japan’s corporate governance and value creation via equity spread". The focus of this presentation will be the urgent need for Japanese businesses to have greater awareness of cost of capital, which traditionally has been overlooked in favour of simple operational profitability. His view is that lack of understanding of this key principle is damaging the whole Japanese economy and hindering the revival that the Abe administration seeks.

Dr Yanagi is the CFO of Eisai, one of Japan’s leading pharmaceutical companies, which has established a reputation for its innovative corporate governance. While working as Eisai’s CFO, Dr. Yanagi holds posts at two Japanese universities as a visiting lecturer and has been campaigning for greater financial awareness among Japanese management for many years. His work as a member of various expert committees gives him a special insight into the debates underlying current efforts to refocus Japanese corporate governance practices.

Please let Rachel Wagstaff (r.wagstaff@cbr.cam.ac.uk) know if you wish to attend.