I’m pleased to say that our new flagship building – the Mochtar Riady Building – is well on track for completion in April 2009.  We’re already in the advanced stage of consultation with COX-DEG architects on Design and Development, including enhancing the form of the building into a “segmented-curve façade”, improving the stacking layout of the office units and classrooms, as well as fine tuning the “pod design” space outside the classrooms to provide spacious open areas for students to study and interact. During this process, focus group sessions comprising students, staff and faculty were conducted to solicit feedback and suggestions. We’re also scheduling for a groundbreaking ceremony and this might take place as early as November this year.
 
August 25 marked the celebration of our 25th year of the Stanford-NUS Executive Program in International Management. Our partnership with Stanford GSB is a significant one and the fact that it started 25 years ago makes it even more remarkable. It is a reminder to us of the farsightedness NUS and Stanford had, especially in the light of today’s increasing collaborations and tie-ups between business schools across continents. Also, 25 years certainly is a long time and if you look around, there really aren’t many of such kind of partnerships that lasted a quarter of a century.
 
The celebration consisted of a series of breakfast and lunch talks at Shangri-La Hotel that culminated in a Gala Dinner featuring keynote speaker Prof Jerry Porras, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, and Emeritus at Stanford GSB. Jerry is the co-author of bestseller “Build to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies” as well as “Success Built to Last”, his latest book that has also hit the bestseller lists of Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In his keynote address entitled “Beyond the Charismatic Visionary Leader”, Jerry shared about creating a life that matters and about how remarkable men and women found success and meaning in their lives. It was a very well attended event and a nice evening for faculty and staff to catch up with our alumni, friends, corporate partners, participants and guests.
 
Held annually in Singapore, the Stanford-NUS Program is taught by faculty from both NUS Business School and Stanford GSB and this once again underscores our unique strength of providing the best of east and west in business education. Some 50 senior executives representing 15 countries attended the two-week long program this year.
 
This is an outstanding program and I look forward to continuing our longstanding partnership with Stanford GSB, so here’s to the next 25 years – and more!
 
Prof Christopher Earley
Dean, NUS Business School

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Stanford – NUS Executive Program celebrates 25 years of academic excellence

Prof Jerry Porras gives an insightful keynote speech

In celebration of Stanford-NUS Executive Program in International Management’s 25th Anniversary, the Office of Executive Education organized a breakfast seminar and hosted a gala dinner on August 25 at the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore.

At the breakfast seminar, Prof Jerry Porras of Organisational Behaviour and Change, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, delivered a topic on "Built to Last: Building a High Performing Company" to over 200 senior executives from over 15 countries.

Prof Porras, a former faculty for the Stanford-NUS Program, is also the co-author of business bestsellers, "Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies" and “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters”.

The celebration was well attended by faculty, staff, alumni, friends, corporate partners and participants

In the evening, a gala dinner hosted by Stanford GSB and NUS Business School saw an attendance by Stanford and NUS faculty, corporate partners, business leaders, prominent alumni, as well as current and former participants - some of whom attended the Stanford – NUS Program as far back as 1985. During the dinner, Dr Porras enthralled the audience with his insightful keynote speech on “Beyond the Charismatic Visionary Leader: Creating a Life that Matters”.

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Congratulations to Intake 3 of the UCLA - NUS EMBA on their Graduation!

Graduates from the 3rd intake of NUS-UCLA Executive MBA partakes in the commencement ceremony at UCLA

The 3rd intake of the UCLA–NUS Executive MBA program graduated in a warm and intimate ceremony on August 25 at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, USA. At the ceremony, the brand-new alumni of the two schools presented Teaching Excellence Awards to both Prof Carla Hayn from UCLA and Prof Kulwant Singh from NUS.

Says Mr Patrick Hong, whom the class chose to provide the commencement speech: “The UCLA - NUS EMBA was a journey that involved higher-learning, and also a profound experience that included self-reflection, personal growth, and formation of friendships that will last a lifetime. With my experience in this program, not only do I feel more prepared for the future, I also feel that I have gained an extended family who I can count on wherever I am in the world”. The class also gave a special mention to their fellow participant, Mr Charlie Tay, who had passed away early this year.   

The senior executives who came from both sides of the Pacific as well as from Europe devoted six two-week classroom sessions over four powerhouse cities – Los Angeles, Singapore, Shanghai, and Bangalore. Participants put in a lot of hard work in between the sessions in this academically rigorous and intensive program over a period of 15 months.

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Prof Jerry Greenberg wins Academy of Management Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management award

Prof Jerry Greenberg joins the ranks of other management gurus

Prof Jerry Greenberg has been selected as the 2007 recipient of the Academy of Management's Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award. This is one of the highest honors the Academy of Management bestows on its members. Prof Greenburg was presented with the award at the Presidential Luncheon on August 7 at this year's annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Philadelphia.

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A/P Thompson Teo and Mr Srivastava's paper wins Honorable Mention award

Assoc Prof Thompson Teo and Mr Shirish Srivastava’s paper, co-authored with Mr James Loo, CIO YCH Group and Asst Prof C Ranganathan from University of Illinois at Chicago, titled “Fostering IT-enabled business innovation at YCH Group, Singapore” won the Honorable Mention award at the 2007 Society for Information Management (SIM) paper competition. There are three awards for this competition - a first place winner and two honorable mentions. The awards will be announced at the SIMposium 2007 in Memphis from October 7 to10.

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Visiting Professors

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Faculty and Staff receive Long Service medals at National Day Awards ceremony

NUS Business School extends its warmest congratulations to our faculty and staff who have been awarded the Long Service medal at the NUS National Day Awards ceremony held at University Hall on August 15:

Assoc Prof Hum Sin Hoon
Dept of Decision Sciences

Mdm Teng Siew Geok
Management Support Officer
Dept of Decision Sciences

Mdm Fang Tso Ie
Management Support Officer
Dept of Finance & Accounting, School of Business

Mr Abdul Rashid Bin Ghazali
Technical Support Officer
Dean's Office, School of Business

Mdm Ang-Ng Bee Eng
Management Support Officer
Dean's Office, School of Business

Mr Karupaiya s/o P Letchimanan
Operations Support Officer
Dean's Office, School of Business

Mdm Renuka Peter
Management Support Officer
Dean's Office, School of Business

Mdm Rohaiyah Bte Sarmin
Operations Support Officer
Dean's Office, School of Business

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NUS-Tsinghua University joint study trip 2007

Students from Tsinghua University visits Singapore in the second leg of the joint study trip

From August 11 to 16, NUS Business School hosted 20 students from the Finance Association of Tsinghua University as part of the second leg of NUS-THU Joint Study Trip 2007. This study trip was co-organized by NUS Students’ Business Club’s Academic Committee, and Finance Association of Tsinghua University.

During the six-day trip, the students visited five financial institutions, namely Citigroup Regional Service Centre, Franklin Templeton Investment, OCBC, UOB, Bloomberg and Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI). The visits comprised presentations by the companies’ where they shared about Singapore’s finance industry and its human resource policies. The visits were also opportunities for the students to build network and rapport for future collaborations.

Apart from academic exchange, cultural immersion was an important aspect of this trip as well. The students from Tsinghua went on a city tour where they visited Sentosa, a Hindu Temple, a Muslim Mosque and ended the day with a shopping trip to Orchard Road and Bugis Street.

Says one Tsinghua delegate: “It was an amazing trip for me as I have come to understand Singapore better as an economic entity. I definitely hope that there would be more of such study trips being facilitated in the future to enrich our students’ undergraduate life!”

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Bizad Club claims victory again at annual Rag & Flag

Hard work paid off - The victorious Bizad Club

Over 5,000 freshmen and seniors from six Halls of Residence and 11 Faculty Clubs attended the annual NUS Rag and Flag held at the Padang on August 11. Themed Discover our passion, Witness our spirit, this is the first time that the event, which is part of the month-long National Day Festival, was held at a venue outside of campus.The Rag Day, often labeled as the NUS version of Chingay, is a traditional event organized by students to show appreciation to the public for their generous donations during Flag Day, which was held on August 7.

Gracing the occasion were President of Singapore and NUS Chancellor Mr S R Nathan, Minister for Health Mr Khaw Boon Wan, as well as Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Dr Vivian Balakrishnan.

This year, the Bizad club returned victorious as the Overall Champion and also won the Best Flag Total Collection - NUS President’s Shield and Best Flag Per Capita Collection Shield. This is the 17th year the club has held on to the Flag Shield.  

Putting on the final touch ups

Enjoying every moment of the preparation

Click here for more photos of the event.

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Back to school... 26 years later

BBA Class of 1981 renews 26 years of friendship, along with faculty and staff

Loud chatters filled the usually quiet NUS museum as 14 BBA alumni from the graduating class of 1981 gathered for a mini reunion on September 23. Hosted by fellow classmate Prof Kulwant Singh, the gathering was organized by the School’s Global Alumni Network Office.

Apart from seeing their old friends, the highlight of the night was a nostalgic walk down memory lane as old photos of the class taken in 1981 were shown in a slide presentation, drawing peels of laughter from the group.

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Alumna publishes latest book

NUS Business School alumna, Dr Irene Ng who graduated with a PhD (Mgt) in Marketing, has published her latest book “The Pricing & Revenue Management of Services: A Strategic Approach: (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies).

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