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| Celebrating 10 years of Double Degree MBA Partnership with Peking University |
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The symposium in progress |
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The National University of Singapore Business School and Guanghua School of Management, Peking University has sealed 10 years of partnership with a third Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony in Beijing, China on 26 September.
With this third MOU, the two schools will continue to offer the NUS-PKU Double Degree MBA program. It is a full-time program which provides a unique platform for studying business and management with a focus in the two top universities of both China and Singapore.
The occasion also saw another MOU being inked between the two schools. This MOU is a strategic alliance between the two schools to foster international understanding, development and friendship by stimulating and supporting educational, professional and cross-cultural activities and projects in the field of management research and education among the students, faculty, staff and business communities of the two institutions.
To celebrate this special occasion, a symposium entitled “Towards an Asian Renaissance: The Rise of China” was organised to discuss the growing economic prowess of China.
Two leading business titans were speakers at the event – Mr Liew Mun Leong, President & CEO of CapitaLand Group and Captain Wei Jiafu, Executive President & CEO of COSCO. This was then followed by an interactive panel discussion, moderated by Prof Bernard Yeung, Dean of NUS Business School and Prof Zhang Weiying, Dean of Guanghua School of Management. The panelist touched on China’s measures to navigate through the international financial crisis and how it contributed to global recovery.
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| CEMS Master's in Management programme is ranked top by The Financial Times |
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The Financial Times has rated the CEMS MIM the number one Master's in Management programme in the world for the first time, with the MIM also emerging as the top programme for combined |
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NUS Business School has been ratified as a full academic member of the esteemed CEMS (previously known as Community of European Management Schools and International Companies) in December 2008. The School is the first in Asia to be awarded this certification.
CEMS is a strategic alliance of leading business schools and multinational companies. Academic institutions included in the CEMS network are widely reputed to provide the highest standards of teaching and research |
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| Mr & Mrs Wu Jieh Yee Memorial Scholarship to Fund Four Scholarships Annually |
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In honour and remembrance of her parents, the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Wu Jieh Yee made a gift of $319,420 to support the Mr & Mrs Wu Jieh Yee Memorial Scholarship at NUS Business School. The gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Singapore government and will support up to four annual undergraduate scholarships to cover the students' tuition fee throughout their course of studies at the School. |
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| Bringing Recruiters and Students together |
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| BIZ Career Services ran its anchor networking events, Connexions and Relazione, in September for their MBA and BBA students to interact with recruiters. |
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NUS MBA Connexions
The Connexions event held on 11 September brought together some 40 recruiters and 90 MBA students at the Raffles City Convention Centre. |
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Representatives from multinational companies including Bloomberg, Caterpillar Asia and Schlumberger Consulting shared that this event gave them direct access to a diverse pool of top management talent for their domestic and international operations. NUS MBA students optimised the opportunity to interact and network directly with senior corporate representatives to learn about internship and full time job opportunities that matched their short and long term career aspirations.
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| Ms Evelyn Hooi, Senior HR Director of HAVI Global Solutions, addressing queries from the MBAs. |
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NUS BBA Relazione
On 2 September, the BBA students were also given a similar platform to meet corporate recruiters. At the Relazione, 132 BBA students had the opportunity to meet 80 recruiters from 42 companies which offers a diverse range of industries including consulting, energy, finance, FMCG, infocommunications technology and logistics.
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"Relazione exceeded my expectations. There were many recruiters representing all the big names in different industries at the event and we were able to network with them, in one evening. One of the recruiters I met at Relazione even called me up for an interview shortly after the networking event,” said Rachel Yap, a final year BBA student graduating in Dec 2009. |
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BBAs with Mr Akhter Mateen, Vice President (Finance) from Unilever Asia |
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Several members of our faculty have received recognition for their research and here are some of the achievements.
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| Best Academic Paper in Marketing |
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Congratulations to Dr Chu Junhong from the Department of Marketing, whose article was awarded Best Academic Article in Marketing published in 2008 by the Spanish Marketing Association. The Association is a non-profit organisation that offers a network for the exchange of knowledge at both the national and international level.
Dr Chu's article is titled "A comparison of Within Household Price Sensitivity across Online and Offline Channels" and is co-authored with Prof Pradeep Chintagunta (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business) and Prof Javier Cebollada (Public University of Navarre). |
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| Best Paper Award |
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The paper by Dr Zhang Weina, from the Department of Finance, was chosen among 350 papers, for the second prize of the Best Paper Award at the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC) Annual Conference held in Beijing. Weina's paper is titled "Effective Corporate Governance in Chinese Listed Real Estate Firms". It is co-authored with Assoc Prof Fan Gang-Zhi, a NUS alumnus and graduate student Yi Wan. Both are at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China.
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| William H.Newman Award |
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The School would like to congratulate Dr Cynthia Wang from the Department of Management & Organisation, who was nominated for Academy-wide William H. Newman Award from the Conflict Management Division. This prestigious award is given to the best paper based on a recent dissertation. One of the criteria for nomination is that the research must yield information that is relevant and important both theoretically and in practice.
Her paper is titled 'When Bad Equals Good: Cross-Cultural Reactions to Honesty and Deception'. |
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Gerardine DeSanctis Best Dissertation Award |
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Our PhD alumni, Asst Prof Shirish C. Srivastava (now at HEC School of Management, Paris) received the Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation paper in Organisational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS).
He was also the OCIS division nominee for the academy-wide William H. Newman Award this year. |
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| Inaugural NUS – DBS Case Competition |
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The inaugural NUS – DBS International Case Competition was held as part of the School’s 45th Anniversary celebration and had recently concluded. To make the competition more challenging, the format of the competition was not made known to the teams beforehand and was only announced during the briefing session when all teams have arrived in Singapore. Hyflux Ltd was the case sponsor.
The competition pitted 12 teams from some of the strongest and most illustrious business schools from the Asia Pacific, North American and European regions. The teams were assessed by judges from NUS Business School, Boston Consulting Group, Hyflux, PwC Advisory and Fullerton Fund Management. After an intensive round of presentations and flurry of questions from the judges, Queen’s University from Canada came in first, followed by the NUS team. |
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Photo: (From L to R) Mr Hong Dongsheng, Mr Toh Yongrui, Mr Tobias Chen Zhaonan, Miss Caroline Ng Shi Yun and Mr Sam Ong, Chief Financial Officer, Hyflux Ltd at the Competition |
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| UCLA – NUS Executive MBA Celebrate Their Graduation |
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The UCLA – NUS Executive MBA fifth intake had a heartwarming graduation ceremony with family and close friends recently at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles. Dean Judy D. Olian graced the opening of the ceremony.
At the ceremony, the brand-new alumni of the two schools presented the Teaching Excellence Awards to both Professors Chris Tang from UCLA and Ho Yew Kee from NUS.
For a period of 15 months, a rigorous and intensive 2-week classroom programme was conducted in four powerhouse cities – Los Angeles, Singapore, Shanghai, and Bangalore. Six sessions were run by some 70 senior executives, comprising graduating Class of 2009 and current Class of 2010 from all over the world
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| Graduates of the UCLA – NUS Executive MBA fifth intake |
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| Bonding Through a Competitive Game Of Badminton |
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The NUS MBA Badminton tournament was organised on 6 September as a way of introducing the sporting side of life@NUS to the freshmen. The tournament had a great response, with over 40 students turning up despite the heavy rain. There was adequate representation from both batches and some part-timers were even present. Participants competed in singles, doubles and mixed doubles events with the greatest number of participants in the men's singles.
Overall, the tournament had met its objectives of bringing both MBA cohorts together to indulge in a friendly competition. |
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| Participants of the NUS MBA Badminton tournament
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Rethinking Prejudices with the Inaugural X-Stigma Competition |
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On 18 September, the public who were at the Plaza of the National Library witnessed the successful conclusion of the inaugural X-Stigma Competition. This competition, with a tagline “Rethinking Prejudices about Mental Health Issues”, was jointly organised by students from the NUS Business School, the NUS Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (CSEP), Dignity Links Limited as well as the Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP). Eight other organisations also shared their efforts in fighting the stigma against people with mental health issues.
The competition was graced by Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Minister of State, Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports. This event raised much awareness for the issue not just among the public, but more so for the participants and their fellow schoolmates. The team from NUS emerged,runners up in the competition. Some of the participants who are from Vietnam are even considering to extend the awareness program back in their home country, and perhaps even to extend the programme to cover other disabilities.
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Organisers and the participants of the X-Stigma Competition |
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| NUS Business School Mandarin Management Forum |
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There are mixed signals in the recovery of the global economy, despite tending towards the positive. The call is for organisations to prepare themselves for the upturn by upgrading their capabilities. While such a call is useful in egging firms to sharpen their competitiveness, the mechanics of fleshing out the call Is still sorely lacking.
With the NUS Business School Mandarin Alumni Business Forum held on 18 September, SMEs had the opportunity to take away critical lessons on how to transform themselves in such an environment. Assoc Prof Brian Hwarng from the Department of Decision Sciences and Mr Liak Teng Lit, CEO of Alexandra Hospital were speakers at the forum while Assoc Prof Chung Chi-Nien from Department of Management & Organisation moderated the session. The forum examined some leading companies including cases studies of Toyota and Alexandra Hospital.
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(From L to R) Dr William Chung, President of NUS Business School Mandarin Alumni, Assoc Prof Brian Hwarng, NUS Business School, Mr Liak Teng Lit CEO of Alexandra Hospital, Assoc Prof Chung Chi-Nien, NUS Business School and Mr Aw Beng Teck, Director of Global Alumni Network Office at the Forum |
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Celebration Dinner in Beijing |
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NUS Business School alumni and distinguished guests, including representatives from the government agencies, descended on The Lake View Hotel in Beijing for a celebratory dinner on 26 September. The dinner celebrated several milestones including the 10 years of partnership between NUS Business School and Guanghua School of Management, NUS Business School’s 45th Anniversary as well as the installation of the Executive Committee of NUS Business School Northern China Alumni Network. |
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The Executive Committee of the NUS Business School Northern China Alumni Network |
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| NUS Business School China Alumni Network National Council Inaugural Meeting Held in Beijing
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On 27 September, the inaugural NUS Business School China Alumni Network National Council Meeting was held in Beijing. Organised by NUS Business School and NUS Business School Northern China Alumni Network, this meeting aims to discuss the School’s strategy in China, facilitating the exchange and communication between the School’s executive alumni in China, as well as improving the collaboration and networking between regional alumni Networks.
It is the first annual nationwide board meeting attended by all Chinese alumni Networks, which facilitated the communication between the School and the alumni across China as well as giving the various Networks a chance to network with one another. |
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