Research topics will be determined jointly by the Kennedy School and the executives.
The "executive sessions" that the partnership will organize will likely have three to four faculty members going to Osaka to discuss various economic issues, Davis said. The sessions will probably start in 2001.
The program will raise awareness of Japanese business issues at KSG, organizers said.
"The generous gift from the Doyukai will sustain programs that will provide for the exchange of ideas between the [CBG] faculty and Doyukai members," Porter said in a press release.
The partnership will help further the CBG's goals of "helping meet the challenges of making democratic political institutions and market oriented economic arrangements work well," as outlined on their Web site.