NUS Business School Winners of Regional P&G CEO Challenge Share Their Learnings

By Isabelle Goh (BBA Year 3) On 13 February, Winnie Tan (Year 4, NUS BBA Marketing Major), Teo Xin Yee (Year 4, NUS BBA Marketing Major) and Wong Hong Qiang (Year 4, NTU Bachelor of Accountancy) emerged champions of the prestigious P&G CEO Challenge APAC. The team has a guaranteed…

NUS MBA students impress in Spain

Team Lumos Berator (MBA students Aditi Srivastava, Kanika Rastogi, Napat Ratanakul, and Alvin Salim) recently clinched first runners-up at the 24th IESE Roland Berger MBA Case Competition in Barcelona, Spain. From 14 to 16 February, the students pitted their wits against ten of the world’s leading business schools, including London…

Celebrating successful women leaders of NUS Biz

International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March every year where the spotlight is shone on women’s achievements, raising awareness against bias and taking action for equality. This year, the campaign theme is #BalanceforBetter.   We take the opportunity to showcase success stories and the journeys of our Biz Sch…

Inspiring the next generation of Bizaders to do well and paying it forward

In 2013, an acquaintance, who hoped to capitalise on Ow Tai Zhi’s (BBA 2011) fund management experience, gave him S$200,000 to invest without blinking an eye. This spurred an idea in Tai Zhi, who began to think about how he can use his knowledge and skills help people around him…

An opportunity of a lifetime

Having traversed the globe to broaden their understanding about global business, the last thing NUS MBA students Marcus Donovan and Matthew Peter Bassett expected was an opportunity to meet their Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, in Singapore. Hailing from Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia respectively, Canadians Marcus…

Creating knowledge for social entrepreneurs

China-based Leping Social Entrepreneur Foundation and US-based Enlight Foundation recently donated US$150,000 to support research at NUS Business School’s Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy (ACSEP). Outside-In recently spoke to Jaff Shen, CEO of Leping Social Entrepreneur Foundation to find out more about the social entrepreneurship landscape in China…

A guide for organisations to measure their social impact

The ACSEP Training Programme: Social Impact Measurement is a series of workshops for practitioners who are interested to learn new methods of measuring their social impact. The first session was held on 25 September at the NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House, where ACSEP Research Fellow Dr Frank Hubers demonstrated the…

Executive Programme by Prof Paul Brest: Measuring & improving the impact of social enterprises

Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy (ACSEP) was privileged to have Prof Paul Brest from Stanford Law School and former president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation conduct an executive programme from 25 – 27 August 2015. The event kicked off with an introductory lecture on strategic philanthropy…

Johnson & Johnson and NUS BAC ink collaboration agreement

Recently, the NUS Business Analytics Centre (BAC) signed a three-year MoU with pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to provide guidance and industry experience to Master of Science Business Analytics (MSBA) students for their Capstone projects. Besides internships, organising competitions like hackathons and hosting students for their projects, this is…