President's Office & Entrepreneurship

About department

GLOBIS President's Office & Entrepreneurship, a department reporting directly to the CEO, proactively promotes "social contribution activities" that do not fall under any business division, as well as activities that serve as the seeds for new business ventures.

Examples of social contribution activities and activities that can serve as the seeds for new business ventures include the following:
・Administrative office of "G1", a platform where leaders from various fields gather to learn and take action to "improve Japan"
・Overseeing group companies related to Mito and Ibaraki that are creating a pioneering model for regional revitalization
・Management of the "KIBOW" social investment fund, which makes impact investments to solve social issues
・Support for venture companies such as the accelerator program "G-STARTUP" that aims to produce Japanese unicorns

Medium- to long-term vision

The currently established activities each have the following mid- to long-term goals:
・Create a "pioneer model for regional revitalization" through the revitalization of Mito and Ibaraki
・"LuckyFes," organized by Ibaraki Broadcasting System, a group company, aims to be the best festival in the world.
・The accelerator program "G-STARTUP" aims to produce 100 unicorn companies

Furthermore, even if an opportunity does not exist at present, if future socio-economic conditions create an opportunity that GLOBIS needs to address, we will form a team within President's Office & Entrepreneurship and take on the challenge.

Division characteristics

In addition to Yoshihito Hori's personal resources, by leveraging the resources of each business division in a cross-sectional manner, it is possible to carry out activities with a great impact even thouh the number of staff in the President's Office is small,

In addition, in the course of our activities, we are building relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders that are different from the direct customer base of each department, such as business schools and corporate businesses.
For example, major media and publishers for public relations, top leaders in politics, government, and academia and people in culture and sports for G1, motivated entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs for venture development and social investment for Mito and Ibaraki. Related businesses include sports business and broadcasting/entertainment business.
These networks lead to increased value for the entire GLOBIS Group.

Interdepartmental collaboration/
synergy

The G1 Institute  plans and manages The G1 Summit, G1 Management Conference, G1 Venture, and six other large-scale events.
Each event, which attracts 150 to 500 participants, is managed on the day of the event by a team of 20 to 50 employees who voluntarily applied from all over GLOBIS. Each time, the entire management staff gives their best, and through the dedication, hospitality, and flexible response of each individual, the joy and excitement of creating something together with everyone involved, both inside and outside the company, is born.
This system of recruiting volunteers from the entire group to manage the day's events was also applied to the first "LuckyFes" and contributed to the success of the festival, which was launched from scratch.

In addition, venture company support has been provided on a regular basis by investing in companies started by current and former students of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, and by having venture capitalists from GLOBIS Capital Partners participate as lecturers and mentors in the accelerator program.

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