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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” held on 20 January 2006 in NUS Business School was attended by more than 50 participants from Singapore Press Holdings and other universities.

Participants spent a highly stimulating day hearing and discussing the challenges facing corporate governance, and exploring the latest trends to make research relevant to practice. The keynote presentation was conducted by Professor Edward Zajac from Kellogg School of Management, who spoke on “Challenges in Corporate Governance: Research and Practice”. Dr Zajac was invited as a Distinguished Visiting Professor by the Department of Business Policy under the Lim Kim San Professorship from 16 to 20 January 2006.

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Visitors from abroad

NUS Business School played host to visitors from Chulalongkorn University on 20 January 2006. The group, comprising 66 students and 7 lecturers, was led by Associate Professor Chuta Manusphaibool, Director of Master of Arts Programme in Labour Economics and Human Resource Management, Faculty of Economics.

As part of their study tour, the group attended two talks by Mr Alan Koh from the Department of Management and Organisation and Associate Professor Anthony Chin from the Department of Economics in NUS.

Chulalongkorn University is a leading university in Thailand founded in 1899.

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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.

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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.

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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





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