Events

On 23 June 2019, The University of Manchester Alumni Association of Singapore (UOMAAS) celebrated Manchester Day with a CSR event where they lent a helping hand at the Chinese Development Assistance Council’s (CDAC) annual sports day. The mission of CDAC is to help the underprivileged in the community to maximize their potential and strive for […]

The Singapore Centre warmly welcomed 4 participants from the Manchester Global Graduates Programme on 17 June 2019. The Global Graduates Programme is designed exclusively for The University of Manchester students, giving them the opportunity to spend one week abroad in one of the University’s host cities around the world to meet with UOM alumni and

On 21 June 2019, Dr Frank Siegfried, Teaching Fellow at Alliance Manchester Business School conducted a masterclass on Innovation and Commercialisation at Hilton, Kuala Lumpur.  A group of nearly 40 participants, comprising multinational corporate executives and our alumni/students, attended. During the session, he shared his views on how the capabilities and willingness of leaders and

In conjunction with The University of Manchester’s Manchester Day of Action initiative, the Manchester Business School Alumni Association of Singapore (MBSAAS) organized a lunch session at Cafe For All, a social enterprise cafe set up by the Association for People with Special Needs (APSN), in support of their inspiring mission too enable persons with special

Have you ever found yourself secretly checking UrbanDictionary.com or Google to decipher an acronym your boss used? Or been surprised by a colleague’s knowledge of the movie Cruel Intentions—only to discover they went to the “20th anniversary” showing of a movie you saw the day it originally came out? The workplace has fundamentally changed over the

Thanks to the illuminating work of psychologists such as William Kahn and Amy Edmondson, as well as researchers within Google, many of us are now aware that the highest performing teams often have one thing in common: psychological safety. Psychological safety is a shared belief that the workplace is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. In psychologically safe teams, members

Manchester Business School Alumni Association of Singapore celebrated its 15th year anniversary on 9 May 2019 at SO Sofitel Singapore, just across the street from the Singapore Centre’s brand new, state-of-the-art premise situated within the heart of Singapore’s CBD. The event saw close to 90 students and alumni come together to celebrate this momentous occasion,

The University of Manchester SE Asia held its annual graduation ceremony on 11 May 2019 at The Fullerton Hotel. The ceremony was presided by Professor Fiona Devine, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School. Heartiest congratulations once again to all graduates!

Being busy doesn’t mean you can’t invest in yourself. Professional MBAs allow you to develop your management skills alongside your work—and that’s just the beginning. Kyle Winchester is a current Kelley-Manchester Global MBA balancing work and MBA study. Flexibility is the word of the day in the MBA market. And the kinds of programs on

On 10 Apr 2019, Dr Stephen Brookes, Senior Fellow at Alliance Manchester Business School conducted an MBA masterclass on International Negotiations Within The Southeast Asian Context to a group of 60 participants. During the seminar, he shared the tools and techniques to assist one in improving their skills as a negotiator, particularly within a cross-cultural