Speaker: Mr Mark Hedderman, Head of Business Development and Customer Relations, Custom House Ms Celia Choh, Head of LaCrosse Global Fund Services - Asia Operations Mr Yow-Fee Lee, Managing Director, State Street Investor Services - South Asia

Speaker: Robert J. (Bob) Herbold, Managing Director, Herbold Group LLC, Adjunct Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Former Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker : Mr Fraser Howie, Co-author of Privatising China: The Rise and Fall of China's Stock Markets

Speaker : Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew

Speaker : Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

On 28 April, the School hosted Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Chairman and Founder of easyGroup, as part of the Leadership Dialogue Series. The session was fully-subscribed, with over 120 people, including corporate partners, alumni, faculty, staff and students, attending the session.Sir Stelios is a serial entrepreneur.  At the age of 28, he created easyJet, a low-cost airline that revolutionised European air travel. In addition, Sir Stelios also created Stelmar, a shipping company which was floated on the New York Stock Exchange. Other brands under the easyGroup include easyCar, easyMoney and easyHotel.

On 21 Jan, Seminar Room 5-4 at the new Mochtar Riady Building overflowed with participants who came to listen to a talk by Ms Euleen Goh. It was a highly engaging session for both the participants and Ms Goh. Titled “Setting your Compass to Success”, this talk is part of the School’s 45th Anniversary Business Thought Leadership Dialogue Series.

Ms Goh is currently the non-executive Chairman of the Singapore International Foundation (SIF). She previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore from 2001 till March 2006. Ms Goh was named Her World Woman of the Year 2005. She was awarded a Public Service Medal for her contributions to the Financial Services sector in the same year.

As part of the NUS Business School Leadership Dialogue series, students, alumni and staff from NUS had the opportunity to meet CEO of Singapore Exchange Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, where he gave his insights on the fundamentals of values and the roles of ethics in the business world. Mr Hsieh is also the Deputy Chairman of NUS Business School Management Advisory Board and a member of the NUS Board of Trustees.

According to Mr Hsieh, one must have trust, a sense of purpose and balance. Integrity, humility and respect for others are equally as important. Every good and dynamic company must have a strong and clear leadership with a value system in place.  For any organisation to succeed, employees must have the passion for the company’s values in order to have a sense of fulfilment and achievement.

The inaugural Leadership Dialogue session by Mr Hsieh Tsun-Yan on “Is Everyone a Leader?” was a resounding success. Over 200 participants attended the 30 September event, including BBA and MBA students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Mr Liew Mun Leong, President and CEO of CapitaLand Group, gave insightful business perspectives on China at the 4th Leadership Dialogue session. Over 100 participants attended, including participants from the inaugural cohort of the Master in Public Administration and Management programme

This session of NUSBA CEO Breakfast Talk touched on the issue of climate change in the current global economic crisis.

This third run of the Biannual Management Forum for Entrepreneurs series sheds light on whether there are opportunities awaiting businesses in light of the recent financial storm, and how enterprises should tide over these difficult times.

General Manager and Executive Director, Lenovo ASEAN/Korea, Mr Howie Lau, shares some of the secrets of his success at the 17th CEO Unplugged event.

Taiwan-based alumni held a celebration of NUS Business School's new up-and-running chapter in Taiwan.

To assess the impact of the recent financial crisis in Asia, the General Management Program Forum held a talk to make sense of the situation for the Asian audience.

Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer of Global Wealth Management, Pacific Rim, at Merrill Lynch, Mr Andrew Chan, gave a speech on how employers can attract, retain and talent - especially talents born in the eighties and nineties, or otherwise known as the "Generation Y".

This mandarin seminar, jointly organized by the NUS Business School Mandarin Alumni and the Office of APEX-MBA Chinese Program and the Office for Executive Education, was part of a dynamic and interactive Management Seminar Series for Entrepreneurs.

Chief Strategy Officer of the JWT Group Asia Pacific, Mr Andre Nair, discussed how traditional media like TV is losing its audience, and that there are more to consider when marketing on Web 2.0 Internet.

Apart from illustrating the difference between an invention and a business opportunity and challenging mindsets of entrepreneurs and investors in their view of disruptive technologies, Faculty Director of UCLA Anderson School of Management, Professor George J. Abe, also spoke at length about the culture and environment for successful entrepreneurship, drawing a comparison between California and Singapore.

The 15th installment of the CEO Unplugged series saw two advisory board members of the NUS Business School, Mr Jonathan Larsen, Country Business Manager and CEO of Citibank Singapore Limited and Dr Ron Sim, Founder and CEO of OSIM International Limited share their personal thoughts, experiences and insights on being an effective global citizen and management in Asia respectively.

Start-Up@Singapore 2008 is a national business plan competition that highlights Singapore's most innovative and promising business plans to date. Co-organised by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, the NUS Business School Alumni Association and the NUS Entrepreneurship Society, CEO Unplugged promised yet another enterprising event for all budding entrepreneurs.