A paper on microfinance that was co-authored by Associate Professor of Finance Hao Liang of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business has been listed as being among the top 10 research papers dealing with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The paper, “Globalization and the affordability of microfinance,” was cited in the Financial Times’ Special Report — FT Business Education Research Insights that was published on November 8.
A paper co-written by two faculty members from Operations Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business about how to improve last-mile delivery was cited in a patent application by e-commerce giant eBay.
CKGSB-SMU DBA alumni, Sun Xiushun. Together with his thesis Chair, Associate Professor Tan Hwee Hoon, the research will be presented at the 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024, hosted by the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
📚 Thesis Title: "Trust building across and within cultures: A study of Guinea, West Africa and China" 🔍 Sub-theme: Trust and Crises in a New Era of Turbulence
We are thrilled to announce a significant achievement within our academic community. Our DBA alumni, Andrew Heng's article, titled “Stuck at Home: Does the Virtual Office Stifle Creativity?”, co-authored with Professor Roy Chua, has been officially published by the California Management Review. This article is based on Andrew's DBA dissertation.
A paper co-authored by Yangfang (Helen) Zhou, an Associate Professor of Operations Management at LKCSB, has won a Best Publication Award given out by INFORMS, a professional association for operations research and management science.
Meat grown in a lab offers the promise of ethical consumption of animal protein but also suffers from consumer hesitation because of its extreme novelty. What would get consumers to eat lab-grown meat? A name with positive connotations would certainly help.
Researchers led by Professor Mark Chong of LKCSB have found that the consumers preferred the term “cultivated meat” over phrases like “lab-grown meat” and “cell-based meat”.
Two papers by an assistant professor of Finance at LKCSB were given an award by PriceWaterhouseCoopers China in September 2023.
Asst Prof Weikai Li won the 2023 PwC 3535 Best Paper Award for “Inside Brokers”, which was published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2021, and “Exchange-Traded Funds and Real Investment”, which was published in 2023 in the Review of Financial Studies.
