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Opportunities And Challenges For The Asset Management Industry, Singapore Management University
Opportunities And Challenges For The Asset Management Industry, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
With the secular rise of Asia and a deluge of capital inflows, amid a backdrop of battered global financial markets, bankers, asset managers, academics and investors gathered to hear and discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the asset management industry in Asia. Organised by the Centre for Asset Securitisation and Management in Asia(CASA), under SMU's Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, the inaugural asset management conference hosted a panel of experts.
Read Leadership Books. Become A Leader., Singapore Management University
Read Leadership Books. Become A Leader., Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died in October, there was a tremendous outpouring of grief from millions of people around the world. It was all the more remarkable that they were celebrating and paying tribute to the life of someone who was neither a humanitarian nor a revered statesman.
Beneath And Beyond The Chinese Miracle, Singapore Management University
Beneath And Beyond The Chinese Miracle, Singapore Management University
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China’s rapid economic progress from an impoverished communist state to the world’s second largest economy within just three decades has enthralled many economists. That the country shifted from the classical centrally-planned command economy to one espousing free market practices while maintaining communist rule, has all given rise to this question: What exactly is the China model? Is it the hybrid of innovative state ownership and tight political control? Or is the rapid growth the result of liberal economic and political reforms?
Social Renaissance: When Governments, Businesses And Society Collaborate, Singapore Management University
Social Renaissance: When Governments, Businesses And Society Collaborate, Singapore Management University
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The world has been great at inventing high-tech “stuff” but it hasn’t been so good “at things to do with humanity and people” said Geoff Mulgan, chief executive of NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. He was speaking at Social iCon 2011, a conference jointly organised by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation, the Young Foundationand Ashoka. Held at Singapore Management University (SMU), the conference saw a gathering of veteran social innovators eager to share their experiences with participants.
Singapore: Building A Future Without Cheap Oil, Singapore Management University
Singapore: Building A Future Without Cheap Oil, Singapore Management University
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Singapore’s investment and long history of involvement in the oil industry has been a major factor in the development of its economy. In the 272-page book 'Singapore, The Energy Economy: From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960 to 2010' by Ng Weng Hoong, he traced the evolution of Singapore’s economy over a 50-year period beginning from 1960, showing how energy has been a powerful but little noticed thread in the country’s rise from a struggling Third World country to an affluent city-state it is today.
Measuring Social Networks For Real-Time Competitive Advantage, Singapore Management University
Measuring Social Networks For Real-Time Competitive Advantage, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Social networks offer up a goldmine of information just waiting to be exploited. For the first time, human relationships, comments and activities are documented quite publicly on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Save for privacy concerns, never before has it been easier to know what people think, what they like, and to whom they are connected.
When It Comes To Poverty Reduction, Less May Be More, Singapore Management University
When It Comes To Poverty Reduction, Less May Be More, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
It is a widely accepted belief that people should be better off as the economy expands: The greater the growth, the greater the likelihood that poverty numbers will decline. While there are many good and valid reasons to hold this to be true, exceptions exist, where the lives of the poor have improved rapidly despite slow growth, or where poverty actually increases along with strong economic growth.
Watching The Clock: Challenges For The World's Fastest Growing Economies, Singapore Management University
Watching The Clock: Challenges For The World's Fastest Growing Economies, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Double-digit economic growths that are set to propel it to the second biggest economy in the world, overtaking Japan, has made people see China’s rise as remarkable. So confident are the pundits that they have dubbed this to be an “Asian century” and many more are urging for the world to learn Chinese in anticipation of a new world order. But, to renowned historian Wang Gungwu, this fast-paced growth associated with China is not something that is peculiar to the Asian giant only.
Growing In Asia: P&G Turns To Market Research, Singapore Management University
Growing In Asia: P&G Turns To Market Research, Singapore Management University
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“Create excitement in the market with new products; entice the competitors to play, and together, we can grow the market,” said Medhee Jarumaneeroj, the 'influencer marketing & external relations leader' for Procter & Gamble (P&G) Asia's male grooming outfit. Speaking at the Marketing Excellence Speaker Series, a monthly talk organised by SMU's Centre of Marketing Excellence, Jarumaneeroj expressed excitement about Asia as a huge growth market for the American multinational.
Ingredients For Creating And Sustaining Growth For The Long Term, Singapore Management University
Ingredients For Creating And Sustaining Growth For The Long Term, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
It is easy to explain why organisations need and want to grow. This applies not only to bottom line-oriented companies, but also non-profit entities. Just like the same way business management skills can and should be applied to public sector and not-for-profit set-ups, these organisations do seek growth too. However, while it is easy to engineer short spurts of growth one way or another, what differentiates a successful organisation from one less so, is whether this organisation can sustain growth over the long-term and achieve continuous success.
Leadership In A Multinational Corporation: Going Beyond Stereotypes And Expectations, Singapore Management University
Leadership In A Multinational Corporation: Going Beyond Stereotypes And Expectations, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
"There are plenty of good managers but finding a real leader is not that easy." Fabio Landazabal, vice president and regional director for Asia Pacific at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said this at a CEO talkorganised by Singapore Management University's Wee Kim Wee Centre. With some 3,800 (and growing) employees in the region alone, the world's number three pharmaceutical player (by revenue) is paying greater attention than ever in building up its leadership capabilities for its future.
Predictions For Protection: A System To Measure And Detect Asset Bubbles, Singapore Management University
Predictions For Protection: A System To Measure And Detect Asset Bubbles, Singapore Management University
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The damage wrecked by the bursting of asset bubbles can have a devastating impact on investors' fortunes. In the Internet bubble, some US$8 trillion of shareholder wealth was destroyed. What is even more pertinent, however, is how the popping of a bubble can create a financial crisis, impacting nations and their economies. As a result, understanding how to identify bubbles is an important first step in combating these speculative bubbles, with interested parties ranging from the academic and investment community to central bankers and policy makers.
How The Mindless Growth Mantra Of Modern Economics Is Failing Us, Singapore Management University
How The Mindless Growth Mantra Of Modern Economics Is Failing Us, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Just three years after the 2008 global financial crisis, the world wonders, yet again, if another global downturn might be looming.
Inspiring Change: The Roles Of Women And Their Communities, Singapore Management University
Inspiring Change: The Roles Of Women And Their Communities, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
'Change' is a word often employed (and frequently abused) by politicians, industrialists, artists and leaders of various domains as a rallying call. Its effects can be profound on those discontented with the status quo and perhaps uninviting for those already contented with the way things are.
Growing Singapore's Funny Bone: Laughing In The Face Of Dangers, Pitfalls And Politicians, Singapore Management University
Growing Singapore's Funny Bone: Laughing In The Face Of Dangers, Pitfalls And Politicians, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
There was once a time in Singapore when the mocking of authority figures would be regarded as a no-go zone. Leaders and politicians were rarely subjects of comedy for such jokes would be considered too distasteful and disrespectful for mass consumption. Acceptable local comedy, as such, was limited to the physical and sometimes lowbrow variety.
To Succeed In Life And Business, Adapt And Fail Productively, Singapore Management University
To Succeed In Life And Business, Adapt And Fail Productively, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Most people don't make very much of their bread toasters. These small but hardy metal boxes often come at low prices (from $7) and are not terribly difficult to operate. All in all, this is not the best example of a sophisticated, complicated or inventive home appliance.
Of Ice And Men: Chilling Leadership Tales Of Four Great Explorers, Singapore Management University
Of Ice And Men: Chilling Leadership Tales Of Four Great Explorers, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Following a brief pause after the Age of Exploration, the desire of human beings to reach every corner of their earth, however remote, was revived when expeditions to the two Polar Regions began in the 19th century. Participants of such harsh expeditions might have been carrying on the mantle of adventure or seeking fame, but they also provide fine examples for some very important lessons, said author Ragnar Kvam.