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Introduction
Michelle Tay, Executive Director of the Singapore Kindness Movement, embodies the principles of kindness, civic-mindedness, and social consciousness. A distinguished alumna of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University (SMU), Michelle’s journey reflects how education, coupled with mentorship, can shape personal growth and professional success.
From Classroom to Newsroom: Tian Tian Chua’s Journey Through SMU
Introduction
In the competitive world of media and communications, making your mark requires not just strong academic credentials but also a keen ability to adapt and innovate. Tian Tian Chua, a graduate of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) at Singapore Management University (SMU), exemplifies how a nurturing and flexible academic environment can launch a graduate into a thriving career.
A startup cofounded by LKCSB graduate Abel Tan wants to rely on 4D-printing to improve the cast used to help broken bones heal.
Castomize has developed a new type of cast that can be reshaped and remolded over time.
Complicated financial products such as derivatives, and the people who created and sold these products, have been demonised for their role in financial crises.
One such event was the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 and 2008, which had arisen from derivatives that enabled subprime mortgages to create a significant financial bubble.
After the bubble collapsed, heavy and widespread losses led to bankruptcies and a recession that entailed a great human cost.
Kenneth Tai has always had a habit of observing how people behave.
“I like to people-watch and to understand why people react in a certain way. What are some of the events in their life that triggered that reaction?”
It was this habit that led him to study psychology and which has led him to his current position as Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business.
Coincidences happen in our lives every day, whether we notice them or not.
For Simon Schillebeeckx, an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB), it was one such twist of fate that led him to Singapore and SMU.
Back in 2014, while in the third year of his PhD programme at Imperial College in London, he learned that his academic supervisor at the time, Professor Gerry George, was moving to Singapore.
Even if you are not a medical doctor, you can still contribute to research and improvements in the medical domain.
This is the approach Sarah Gao Yini, an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, is taking as she redirects her expertise in optimization modelling, which she has used to study supply-chain management issues, and pivots her research focus towards the medical and public health field.
As a teenager in Germany, Jochen Reb found himself interested in Eastern philosophy. Later, while pursuing his diploma, he spent a year as a graduate exchange student in Japan.
This fuelled a growing personal interest in meditation and he would go on to study mindfulness, then a rather new-fangled concept, and note the similarities between Zen meditation and mindfulness meditation for stress reduction.
Not too long ago, academics in finance would have said sustainability was not a suitable research topic.
Liang Hao discovered this firsthand as he sought an academic career six years ago, after he had obtained his PhD in Finance at Tilburg University.
“I was often asked why I was looking for a job in Finance departments [of research universities], because they didn’t do this type of research”, said the 35-year-old.
Long ago, when people imagined what the future would look like, some prognosticators thought that robots might one day be in charge.
While this has not come to pass, what is apparent is that computers have become an extension of human beings, and that much more can be done to smoothen the interaction between technology and humans.
This is a view that Tamas Makany, Associate Professor of Communication Management (Practice) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, has held for much of the past two decades.
