Dear community members in Japan and nearby,

We hope it finds you well.

Tokyo Chapter is honored to be featured and celebrated as the 2021 Community Challenge Winner by HBS Professor Luis Viceira, senior associate dean for HBS Online and Executive Education at the opening remarks of HBS Online annual conference, Connext on Saturday, May 14 (ET) which was hosted its first-ever hybrid conference, where 132 countries represented at HBS campus and virtual conference:

https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/connext-2022-recap

Tokyo Chapter has been contributed this HBS Online Community Challenge global project since its launch in 2019 and is honored to be selected as the 2021 Community Challenge Winner, following Finalist in 2020.

(2021) https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/united-planet-community-challenge-recap

(2020) https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/sustainable-harvest-international-community-challenge-recap

At the Connext 2022 conference, Tokyo Chapter also had the community presentation with those rich experiences by hard works with passion to contribute to HBS.

Now 2022 Community Challenge project is open and Tokyo chapter is calling for volunteer participants of this advanced learning project.

This year we welcome more creative, fun, talent-developed approach to enjoy the community, if we can.

2022 Community Challenge project:

« Empowering Our Community to Help Global Communities

In collaboration with Empowered to Educate, Harvard Business School Online is announcing its fourth annual Community Challenge. »

*You can see more detail here:

https://online.hbs.edu/Documents/empowered-to-educate-community-challenge-details.pdf

Keywords: #education #gender_equity #leadership #global etc.

Now Tokyo Chapter, we are calling for volunteer contributors and volunteer project team leader:

1: 2022 Community Challenge volunteer participants/contributors

Tokyo chapter, we welcome active contributors partially and/or wholly to contribute to the better team performance to co-create the best plan for Empowered to Educate in line with expectations of HBS Online.

We also welcome participants outside Japan in Asia Pacific, for those who are interested in this project but you could not find your local HBS Online chapter nearby. Especially it is recommended for learners of Sustainable Business Strategy course and/or young consultants to continue developing your skills and learning through this project.

Volunteer participants/contributers are open to public, so you can invite your friends and colleagues if you like.

We also welcome past contributors of Community Challenge as well as new participants.

HBS Online Community Challenge has been carried out since 2019.

From our last experiences, you might find such characteristics from this project:

- Be able to meet good diverse talents with good purpose and mind

- Join the advanced, enrichment experience and to show your talents to the team and HBS Online through creating proposals.

- Not only for showing your professional, expertise experiences and skills but also having a chance to try to develop your new skills on the project. (Including design skills of proposals, if you like.)

We Tokyo Chapter welcome active contributors for team than passive learners on the Community Challenge and have the good behavior to respect other diverse team members to have the safe, creative, fun place for all of the members.　

2: 2022 Community Challenge volunteer project team leader(s)

Eligibility:

1) HBS Online certificate holder

2) Have good sense of inclusion diversity and servant leadership

3) Good at time management, from team building, have brainstorm and develop a solution that will help Empowered to Educate achieve its goals and to leading team to create a presentation that outlines how the solution could impact Empowered to Educate and our community. Due date by August 8, 2022.

Recommendation:

Experience on past community challenge(s) (2020 and/or 2021) with understanding the general process will make much easier to lead the team.

The way of the project process will be creative, flexible and depended on the new project leader for good team building. Organizers will also support you, such as creating website to announce and set the team meeting, if needed.

It’s a precious opportunity to lead the diverse talented team to contribute to the HBS Online key global project.

Join the virtual meeting of new team building on 2022 HBS Online Community Challenge, 

if you like to join 2022 HBS Online Community Challenge project on May 29, Sunday, 8:00-9:00pm (JST).

Agenda of meeting:

1: Orientation of the process of Community Challenge briefly.

2: Introduction of yourself, location, and expertises you will contribute to the project team.

Please kindly share your motivation to the project frankly in order that we will consider the best team building.

3: Decide 2022 project team leader(s) and consider the progress of future teamwork, etc.

Q&A

*Please take a look at the theme of Community Challenge 2022 in advance to attend the meeting.

https://online.hbs.edu/Documents/empowered-to-educate-community-challenge-details.pdf

https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/empowered-to-educate-community-challenge

To join the meeting, please kindly register in advance, RSVP, so that you can enter the HBS Online Community virtual meeting room, as usual.

We recommend you will use the Chrome to join the platform.

Please your camera and microphone ON. 

*Please kindly understand that you should join 1 chapter team for community challenge project, since it's chapter competition style. e.g. If you decide to join Global chapter team, please continue to focus on the Global chapter. .

For general events, you will be welcome to join us. Thank you in advance.

For those who likes to join the Tokyo Chapter project team, but could not attend the meeting on May 29,

please do not hesitate to contact organizers to join the team.

We look forward to seeing passionate members!

*Please kindly understand that you should join 1 chapter team for community challenge project.

Now Global chapter and Istanbul chapter are also working for Community Challenge project.

For general events, you will be welcome to join us. Thank you in advance.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*To join the event, please kindly register in advance

and please follow the guidelines everyone for keeping the safe community event:

HBS Online Community Guideline:

https://community.myhbx.org/get-involved/

Our policies on HBS Online’s Community Values:

https://online.hbs.edu/legal/community-values

* Event will be recorded. Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Harvard Business School Online Tokyo Chapter organizing team

https://community.myhbx.org/tokyo/

https://online.hbs.edu/more-info/community

*This event is not sponsored or endorsed by Harvard Business School.

All Chapter Organizers, Team Members, and participants are acting as volunteers and are not, in any form, employees of HBS.