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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).
Despite stiff competition from Harvard, Kellogg,
Wharton and the top 25 Indian b-schools, the team from NUS
won first place in the Philips Sound of Music contest and
the McKinsey Consulting Knights contest.
Intaglio is a series of competitions and seminars organised
by IIM-C. It consists of four premier case competitions sponsored
by McKinsey Consulting and Phillips Electronics, and eight
MBA course-related quizzes. Intaglio 2005-06 was held from
21 to 25 December 2005 in Kolkata, India.
Click here
to read about the NUS team’s experience in India.
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BBA wins Business Times essay competition
 Armed
with a strong passion for writing, Melissa Loh (BBA, Year
1) took part in the Ray Heath Memorial Essay Competition last
October. Penning her thoughts on the hotly-debated casino
topic, her carefully thought-out article “Integrated
Resorts With Casinos: A Necessary ‘Evil’”
emerged as the winning piece and was reproduced in The Business
Times on 31 January 2006. Melissa walked away with a cash
prize of $1,000 and a paid internship with The Business Times.
The Ray Heath Memorial Essay Competition is
organised by The Business Times in memory of Ray Heath, a
former associate who passed away in 2004.
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SMEs, MNCs at Academic Week 2006 reveal hiring preference
 Whether
it’s SMEs (medium-sized enterprises) or MNCs (multinational
corporations), students attending the Academic Week organised
by the NUS Students’ Business Club Academic Committee
had a taste of what employers of big and small firms are looking
for.
Representatives from four SMEs, Elite International
Logistics, Byun & Co, Nicholas Goh & Associates and
Urbanlink Consultancy spoke on what they look out for during
recruitment. Hiring decisions were based more on one's attitude,
one's conduct and one's passion rather than the academic results
or the discipline one graduate in.
 Staff
from MNCs Bloomberg, Singapore Airlines, HSBC and UMC who
were at the session on 8 February spoke on their companies’
hiring practices, which apparently do not differ much from
what the SMEs were looking for.
Held from 6 to 8 February 2006, the sessions
attracted more than a hundred students each. This year’s
Academic Week was held in conjunction with the highly successful
CEO Unplugged session on 7 February.
Click here
to read about the CEO Unplugged session.
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Young and senior business students interact over drinks
 Nearly
60 BBAs (honors) and APEX-MBA participants (14th intake) got
together on 20 January for a night of fun and wine appreciation
at the NUSSU-run Munchie Monkey café. This is the second
instalment of a series initiated by the Undergraduate Programme
office.
The session provided an opportunity for
our undergraduates to meet and learn from the APEX-MBA senior
executives in a casual environment. The APEX-MBA participants
on their part took the chance to meet up-and-coming young
talents.
Says BBA Leonard Ng, “It was certainly good fun interacting
with the APEX-MBA participants. Really appreciate such events
being planned for the students and am looking forward to the
next one!"
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