Native name | 株式会社グロービス |
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Romanized name | kabushiki gaisha Gurōbisu |
Company type | Private |
Industry | Educational services E-learning Publishing Venture capital |
Founded | 1 August 1992 |
Founder | Yoshito Hori |
Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | GLOBIS Unlimited e-learning platform, GLOPLA learning management system, GMAP assessment test, business management publications |
Services | |
Number of employees | Globis Group: 927 (2024) |
Subsidiaries | |
Website | globis |
Footnotes / references [2] |
Globis Corporation (Japanese: 株式会社グロービス, Hepburn: kabushiki gaisha Gurōbisu, English: /ɡloʊbɪs/), commonly referred to as Globis and stylized as GLOBIS, is a Japanese private business education company headquartered in Banchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1992 by Japanese entrepreneur Yoshito Hori.[3] The Globis group includes the Graduate School of Management, Globis University, which is the largest graduate business school in Japan with a total enrollment of 2,525 students and an annual intake of 1,000 students in 2024.[4][5] Another group addition is Globis Capital Partners,[6][7] a hands-on VC firm with a cumulative fund size of over ¥160 billion JPY (approximately $1.2 billion) invested in over 190 Japanese companies in 2022.[8]
Globis is a large corporate training provider in Japan,[6][7]. Over 473,000 professionals and 3,300 clients utilize its corporate education solutions annually.[9] It has published 143 business management books which sold a combined 3.77 million copies.[9][10] Globis has overseas subsidiaries in Bangkok, Thailand, Brussels, Belgium, Manila, Philippines San Francisco, United States, Shanghai, China, and Singapore.[2]