NUS Business Leads - March 2006

School Notes
Building bridges in corporate governance
Visitors from abroad

Student Highlights
MBAs win Best International Team award at Intaglio
2005-06
BBA wins Business Times essay competition
SMEs, MNCs at Academic Week 2006 reveal hiring preference
Young and senior business students interact over drinks

Staff News
Does service excellence mean higher cost? Not so, say dons
Mak Yuen Teen appointed board of New NKF
Catherine Tay re-appointed member of NHG
New Staff

Alumni Updates
CEO Unplugged continues to inform and impress
Mandarin Alumni welcome the Year of the Dog

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Published by Corporate Development and Communications,
NUS Business School.
Managing Editor:
Kevin Chang
Editor:
Aw Beng Teck
Writers:
Jeanine Chen
Chew Kok Ann
Mary Lee
Ng Suan
Noorhayati Binte Supari
Contributing Writers:
An Li Shin
K K Lalanika Vasanthi
Rebecca Kang
Kwok Feng Gui
Masano Kazuhiko
Ryan Mbagaya

NUS MBA again ranked among world's best

NUS Business School's full-time MBA programme has been ranked among the Top 100 in the world, according to the Financial Times MBA 2006 ranking which is topped by University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School, followed by Harvard, Stanford and Columbia Business Schools.

To apply for NUS MBA and IMBA Programs for the upcoming academic year, please visit http://www.mba.nus.edu.sg/ and http://www.imba.nus.edu.sg/ for more information.

Building bridges in corporate governance

Jointly hosted by the Department of Business Policy and the Corporate Governance & Financial Reporting Centre, the "Building Bridges: A Corporate Governance Workshop and Research Round Table" was attended by more than 50 participants from Singapore Press Holdings and other universities.

MBAs win Best International Team award at Intaglio 2005-06

The "Best of Singapore" team represented by NUS MBAs An Li Shin, Ryan Mbagaya and Masano Kazhuhiko won the Best International Team award at Intaglio 2005-06, an ISO 9001:2000 certified B School festival organised by the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C).

Does service excellence mean higher cost? Not so, say dons

Over a hundred alumni, students and members of the public turned up to listen to our professors' analysis of Singapore Airlines' success story. The enthusiastic crowd packed the Hon Sui Sen Auditorium to catch first-hand the secrets to "Cost Effective Service Excellence".

CEO Unplugged continues to inform and impress

The 11th instalment of the CEO Unplugged series was held in conjunction with the Academic Week at NUS Business School on 7 February 2006. This flagship event of the NUS Business School Alumni Association (NUSBSA) was sponsored by NUSBSA and Startup@Singapore.

Perspective

Team member An Li Shin (MBA, Year 2) shares on his team’s winning formula at the Intaglio Business challenge organised by the Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta.

Special Feature

In the Times NewsLink Bestsellers list for the period 30 January to 5 February 2006, “Flying High in a Competitive Industry”, the latest book by Associate Professors Jochen Wirtz and Nitin Pangarkar, occupied Top 3 spot in the Business category.

Published by McGraw-Hill, the book hit the marketplace in early January. NUS Business Leads catches up with all three authors, including co-author Dr Loizos Heracleous of Oxford University, to learn more about the subject of the book: the “secrets” of Singapore Airlines’ success.

Coming Events

CGFRC-ICPAS forum on "Auditors and Audit Committees - Partners in Corporate Governance"
22 March 2005, Sheraton Towers Singapore

Islamic Capital Market –
The Way Forward Seminar
23 March 2005, Grand Hyatt Hotel

938 Live on Campus
24 March 2006, Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, NUS Business School

Cerebration – NUS-IE Singapore Global Business Challenge
27 March 2006, Raffles City Convention Centre

For a comprehensive list of events, kindly refer to:
Calendar of Events