NUS Business School appointed its new Management Advisory Board for a term of two years from July 2009. Mr S Dhanabalan, Chairman of Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd, will be Chairman of the Management Advisory Board and Mr Hsieh Fu Hua will take on the Deputy Chair position.

Besides Mr Dhanabalan and Mr Hsieh, the Board comprises prominent business leaders, corporate chiefs and alumni: Ms Euleen Goh, an independent director of several listed companies in Singapore and the United Kingdom as well as Chairman of the Singapore International Foundation; Mr Hsieh Tsun-yan, a special advisor to McKinsey & Co, founder of McKinsey Centre for Asian Leadership, and independent Director of Sony Corp; Mr Liew Mun Leong, President and Chief Executive Officer of CapitaLand Group and Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore; and Mr Tan Soo Jin, partner and Director of Amrop Hever Group/Gattie-Tan Soo Jin Management Consultants Pte Ltd.

The Management Advisory Board will provide strategic advice and guidance to the Dean and leadership of the NUS Business School.

Led by Prof Joe Cherian, who joined NUS Business School this past March after a 17-year career in finance at U.S. academic institutions and Wall Street, CAMRI aims to better prepare our finance students for the industry and to cement a closer relationship between our school and the financial industry.

Recently, two student teams (one MBA and one BBA team) were involved in asset management-related Student Consulting Practicum projects, analysing a real-world investment management problem for a large sovereign wealth fund. As a result of our students' stellar performance in the written and oral presentations, there are many other new and follow-up projects in the pipeline. An Investment Management & Trading Lab will be set up at the new Mochtar Riady building by mid-2010, which will involve the design of a new trading floor with the relevant financial services data, software and hardware.  

Various activities such as public talks by NUS faculty and well-recognized global scholars have already been lined up. In November, there will be a half-day forum on investment management theory and practice. The inaugural Annual Asian MBA Stock Pitch Competition (SPC) will be held from March 3 - 5, 2010 here at the Business School, and is fully-funded by several leading private institutions in the financial sector. For more information, please visit the SPC website.

http://bschool.nus.edu.sg/Finance/NUSAsianMBAStockPitchCompetition/Overview.aspx

Corporate Governance & Financial Reporting Centre Develops Inaugural Index in Malaysia

The Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre, together with Nottingham University Business School, has signed the memoranda of understanding with Minority Shareholder Watchdog Group (MSWG) for the Annual Malaysian Corporate Governance Index Projects. The Centre will help to develop the Governance and Transparency Index (GTI) methodology in Malaysia's context to be used in their Malaysian Corporate Governance Index 2009. The inaugural index is designed to track and identify companies that not only comply with the disclosure standards and requirements, and are fair and transparent to their stakeholders, but also demonstrate strong financial performance.

Assoc Prof Hum Sin Hoon has been appointed as the new Vice-Dean of Undergraduate Studies, taking over the helm from Assoc Prof Quek Ser Aik. Currently, he is Chairman of our 45 th anniversary celebrations steering and working committees, and was formerly Dean of NUS Business School.

Dr Yeo Wee Yong will take on the role of Assistant Dean from Assoc Prof Lan Luh Luh. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Educator Awards, both at the Faculty and Department levels.

Assoc Prof Chong Juin Kuan will assume the role of Academic Director, Asia-Pacific Executive (Chinese) MBA Programme from Assoc Prof Chen Renbao. He has been with us since 1991 and is a widely respected scholar and important contributor to the APEX-C programme.

We would like to thank Assoc Prof Quek, Assoc Prof Lan and Assoc Prof Chen for their strong commitments to and devotion in serving the school and students, bringing our academic programmes to greater heights.

Faculty Receives ‘Best Theoretical Paper' Award

Every year, the Graduate Studies Office conducts a poll among the graduating class of NUS MBA students to select faculty members and staff for the “Best NUS MBA Lecturer” and “Best Service” awards respectively. The MBA Class of 2009 has voted and we would like to congratulate and thank the following faculty and administrative staff who have provided a positive and enriching experience for our NUS MBA students during their time with us.

NUS Business Camp was held from 22 – 25 June with the theme The Time Chronicles, where freshmen transcended different eras during each day of the camp. They were given the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the campus, running around under the hot sun and playing water games in Sentosa. During the finale night, cameras were flashing non-stop at the creative costumes as everyone turned up dressed as pirates or sailors. It was great fun for the freshmen and a good opportunity for them to network and mingle with their seniors, even before the term starts.

The MBA Programs Office hosted another batch of 29 Norwegian students from the Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship (NSE) during the special term. During their stay here, they were able to mingle with our NUS MBA students during study of a module on Technopreneurship. With the assistance of Innovation Norway/Royal Norwegian Embassy, the NSE students also secured an internship each during their short stay in NUS.