Hideo "Joe" Morita, is the eldest son of the late Sony Founder Akio Morita, who the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business is named after. Mr. Morita is the President of Morita Trustee and serves as the 16th head of the family business founded by his ancestors in 1665. Morita Foods is a traditional Japanese food and beverage manufacturer, including some of the highest-profile brand names for sake and "Nenohi" brand sake and "Morita" brand sauces. In addition...
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On March 15th, 2011 the Anaheim University Board of Trustees announced the establishment of scholarships named in honor of two of the founding faculty of the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education. The Anaheim University Ruth Wajnryb TESOL Scholarship in the amount of US$15,000 will be awarded annually to one student enrolling in the Online MA TESOL program, and the Anaheim University Rod Ellis TESOL Scholarship will be awarded in the amount of US$15,000 to one student enrolling in the Online Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in TESOL program, which is currently in development. These scholarships will be awarded annually on a need and merit basis, and will be available from 2012. The two globally acclaimed linguists have committed over a decade of service to Anaheim University.
"I think Anaheim University students at this point in time are pioneers. This is a transitional age - everything is changing towards the 21st century, and using the experience they gain from Anaheim University, they must make use of alumni, fellow students, professors and the University to help bring about change as they move on to their professional fields. Their aim should be to both better themselves and contribute to society. That is their challenge."
Kisho Kurokawa
September 1999
The above is an excerpt from the September 1999 edition of the Anaheim University Ambassador Newsletter
November 11th, 2005
Management Guru Peter Drucker, 95, Dies
By ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Peter F. Drucker, revered as the father of modern management for his numerous books and articles stressing innovation, entrepreneurship and strategies for dealing with a changing world, died Friday, a spokesman for Claremont Graduate University said. He was 95. Drucker died of natural causes at his home in Claremont, east of Los Angeles, said spokesman Bryan Schneider.
"He is purely and simply the most important developer of effective management and of effective public policy in the 20th century," former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday. "In the more than 30 years that I've studied him, talked with him and learned from him, he has been invaluable and irreplaceable." Drucker was considered a management visionary for his recognition that dedicated employees are key to the success of any corporation, and marketing and innovation should come before worries about finances. His motivational techniques have been used by executives at some of the biggest companies in corporate America, including Intel Corp. and Sears, Roebuck & Co.
In 2002, President Bush honored Drucker with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Business Week magazine hailed him as "the most enduring management thinker of our time," and Forbes magazine featured him on a 1997 cover under the headline: "Still the Youngest Mind." He has been called "the world's foremost pioneer of management theory" and a champion of concepts such as management by objective and decentralization. In the early 1940s, General Motors invited Drucker to study its inner workings. That experience led to his 1946 management book "Concept of the Corporation." He went on to write more than 30 books.
He's very much an intellectual leader, and that's not common," said D. Quinn Mills, a professor at Harvard Business School who shared the podium at several conferences with Drucker. Quinn described Drucker's insights as rare.
After the big stock market decline of October 1987, Drucker said he had expected it, "and not for economic reasons, but for aesthetic and moral reasons." "The last two years were just too disgusting a spectacle," Drucker said. "Pigs gorging themselves at the trough are always a disgusting spectacle, and you know it won't last long." Drucker termed Wall Street brokers "a totally non-productive crowd which is out for a lot of easy money." "When you reach the point where the traders make more money than investors, you know it's not going to last," he said. "The average duration of a soap bubble is known. It's about 26 seconds," Drucker said. "Then the surface tension becomes too great and it begins to burst. "For speculative crazes, it's about 18 months."
Drucker was born in Vienna, and educated there and in England. He received a doctorate in international law while working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt, Germany. He remained in Germany until 1933, when one of his essays was banned by the Nazi regime. For a time, he worked as an economist for a bank in London, then moved to the United States in 1937. He taught politics and philosophy at Bennington College in Vermont and for more than 20 years was a professor of management at New York University's graduate business school.
Beginning in 1971, he taught a course for midcareer executives at Claremont Graduate School in California, which named its business school after him. Drucker's management books included: "The Effective Executive," 1966; "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices," 1974; and "Managing in a Time of Great Change," 1995. In 2004, he put out "The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done." He also wrote scores of articles for the academic and popular press, and two novels and a 1979 autobiography, "Adventures of a Bystander."
While much of his career was spent studying employees in the workplace, Drucker also dedicated time to the service sector, founding the New York-based Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, known since 2003 as the Leader to Leader Institute. Jack Beatty, a senior editor at Atlantic Monthly magazine who wrote the book "The World According to Peter Drucker," described the management guru as "uproariously funny (with) a great rapport. You ask him a question and it can go on for some time."
Drucker is survived by his wife, Doris, and four children.
Story courtesy of AP News
About Dr. Kisho Kurokawa
Dr. Kisho Kurokawa, one of Japan's leading architects and the founding member of Anaheim University's Executive Advisory Board who served as Chair from 2002 to 2004, passed away on Friday, October 12th, 2007 at the age of 73. A spokeswoman at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, where he was hospitalized on October 9th with an intestinal ailment said he died of heart failure. Over 550 newspapers and publications around the globe reported Kisho Kurokawa's death.
The Japanese architect who led the "Metabolism Movement" and based his designs on themes including ecology and recycling, made his world debut in 1960. At age 26, he led a style known as the Metabolism Movement, advocating a shift from "machine principle" to "life principle" in his literary work and architectural designs based on themes including ecology, recycling and intermediate space. His theory of "Symbiosis" became globally known. Read more at Wikipedia or visit Kisho.co.jp
His major works can be found throughout the world including the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, the National Art Center in Tokyo's posh Roppongi district, the new wing of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and Toyota Stadium for the 2002 World Cup. In addition to his work in architecture, Dr. Kurokawa sat on numerous governmental advisory boards in Japan, China and Kazakhstan, and ran in the 2007 election for Tokyo Governor.
Dr. Kisho Kurokawa
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda stated, "(Kurokawa) demonstrated his genius to open a new passage to architecture". According to Anaheim University President Dr. David Nunan, "Dr. Kurokawa has been a spiritual leader for all of us as a founding Executive Advisory Board member, Chair of the Executive Advisory Board, and as a stakeholder in our institution. It was an honor for us to provide our facilities in California to serve as his U.S. Office. We like to think of him as a builder of dreams, and his diverse efforts went far beyond architecture, touching on politics, business, science, art, culture and philosophy. He was one of our strongest supporters and he will be sadly missed by all of us at Anaheim University".
Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1934, Kurokawa graduated from Kyoto University's architecture department before earning a doctoral degree from Tokyo University under Kenzo Tange, who was hailed as the architect of some of the most beautiful structures of the 20th century.
Kurokawa's design of the Kuala Lumpur airport won the 2003/2004 grand prix by Italy's Dedalo-Minosse International Prize, and was also certified as a sustainable airport by the United Nations' Green Globe 21 in 2003. Dr. Kurokawa's numerous awards include the Gold Medal from France's Academy of Architecture in 1986, the 48th Japan Art Academy Award in 1992 (the highest award for artists and architects in Japan), the AIA Los Angeles Pacific Rim Award in 1997, and most recently the Chicago Athenaeum Museum International Architecture Award in 2006. His travelling exhibtion "Kisho Kurokawa" has been viewed by over 800,000 people, and he was the first Japanese architect to become an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Union of Architects in Bulgaria.