Established in 2015 in collaboration with MIT Sloan Management, our vision is to be a global knowledge hub, with regional insights from Asia and the emerging world.
ASB’s research centers conduct impactful research in emerging markets, business strategies, technology, and sustainability. Together, they foster innovation in the business landscape.
The ASB curriculum seamlessly integrates MIT Sloan’s rigor with the strategic insights of Asia. With MIT Sloan Immersion and Industry Treks, it immerses future leaders in a diverse range of industries.
ASB has launched Agile Continuous Education (ACE), a granular set of hybrid courses that are designed to keep professionals at the forefront of their fields.
ASB provides executive education programs covering corporate governance, general management, and finance, including the mandatory Financial Institutions Directors’ Education (FIDE) programs.
ASB excels through dynamic collaborations, addressing business challenges with innovation, built on robust partnerships.
Italy has been in the spotlight in recent weeks for having one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the world. As the country is still fighting the pandemic, many have started worrying about its economic and financial implications. The large size of Italy’s public debt stock – the third largest in the world – is […]
Venezuelan-born, American-raised Klara Markus had always wanted to work in the public sector, and got her start in business working for education tech startup Quad Learning in Washington, DC after graduating from Yale University. “The idea was to work with students that would benefit from focused attention, and help them transfer to universities,” Klara explains. […]
A lot of people are asking, How long will Covid-19 last?, Is the shutdown worth the cost? and Will we have shutdown, after shutdown? Nobody can answer the How long? question, at this stage. In this note, we ask what bounds we can put around that number, depending on the approaches we take. The simplest answer to How long? is until we get […]
The term helicopter money, once a metaphor for how monetary policy might be conducted, has become commonplace in the current environment where governments are introducing stimulus measures to counter the devastating effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on economic activity and wellbeing more generally. The term was invented as a thought experiment by the Nobel Laureate […]
In a move that surprised energy markets, Saudi Arabia decided to pump more oil and bring prices down, radically breaking negotiations within OPEC members and Russia over production quotas. The impact was immediately felt, with crude oil prices declining by up to 34% and leading several stock exchanges to a halt. As an energy policy […]
What do you get when you put a group of young professionals with a diverse set of mentors in a speed-dating format? We were equally curious, so we decided to test this on Valentine’s Day this year, during our annual Ladies’ Lunch Event, a platform where we invite a group of young female professionals who […]
“The job is easy, the people are not!”, is a title of a class taught by Prof Loredana Padurean, the Associate Dean at the Asia School of Business (ASB) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She stresses that for most businesses, the actual job is not as difficult as managing the people doing the job. Loredana and […]
2020 is looking to be a monumental year for Asia, as the continent’s total gross domestic product (GDP) is set to overtake the combined GDP of the rest of the world. Asia’s extraordinary market growth bodes well for MBA jobs and graduates in the region. But launching a career in Asia is by no means […]
“There is nothing so practical as a good theory”– Kurt Lewin Asia School of Business and Action Learning have become synonymous, thanks to ASB’s snazzy marketing. But what is it supposed to mean? I believe the proposition of learning through action is a strong one. I’m from ASB’s inaugural Working Professionals class, which means I’m […]
We are four MBA Students coming from different countries namely, Philippines, Bosnia Herzegovina, India, and Kenya, studying at Asia School of Business (ASB) in collaboration with MIT Sloan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Action Learning (AL) is part of our MBA program where we get to work with different companies and provide concrete solutions to business […]