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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.
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To the class of 2019: I know today is a super super exciting day for you: Today I am going to give you a speech. Why ASB? This question was asked many times before I came here. It was asked many times while I was here and I’m sure it will continue to be asked […]
Professor Rajesh Nair (center) is a man on a mission “to reach one million students and create 100,000 entrepreneurs in 10 years”. In conjunction with Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre’s (MaGIC’s) Innovation Week, he delivered a talk entitled “Creating 10x Entrepreneurs in the Future”. Rajesh is a professor of practice and senior lecturer of innovation and […]
“What are the skills of the future? Whatever that future is?” This is a question in everyone’s mind: career professionals, employers, students and graduates, academic and practitioners. What “soft” skills should we work on and what “hard” skills should we invest in? But what if the skills of the future are not “soft and hard” […]
As soon as you meet Calvin Woo, it’s easy to tell where his interests lie. As part of ASB’s MBA Class of 2019, Calvin’s unconventional background centers around entrepreneurship and social impact, two of his long-term passions. He formed his entrepreneurial mindset at age 11, when he asked his parents to buy him a gift […]
Trust plays an instrumental role in Asian business. Business relationships cannot be built instantly; they require effort and commitment. The Chinese even have a word for it — guanxi — a personal trust on which relationships are built, often based on a sense of moral obligation. “Asia is relationship-driven”, muses Benjamin Archangeli. “If people are going […]
Sitting in a leather armchair in the St. Regis hotel, Raghav Narayan had just come back from a visit to a factory in a far-off Malaysian town. He had heaved a sigh when he arrived, explaining that these days his entire life was a whirlwind. This week was the rule, far from the exception. Hailing […]
When it comes to running an airline, it doesn’t get much more impressive than AirAsia. Originating in Malaysia, AirAsia was voted the world’s best low-cost airline for the 10th consecutive year in 2018. This may have to do with the fact that it has the world’s lowest available seat cost per kilometer at $0.023—a universally […]
When it comes to running an airline, it doesn’t get much more impressive than AirAsia. Originating in Malaysia, AirAsia was voted the world’s best low-cost airline for the 10th consecutive year in 2018. This may have to do with the fact that it has the world’s lowest available seat cost per kilometer at $0.023—a universally […]
“I wanted to earn the leading role in my family’s business where I worked through high school,” Azra Becirovic recalls, “so I decided to open my laptop and start searching for an MBA program.” After working in commercial banking in Germany and Italy for a year, Azra came home to Bosnia and Herzegovina to pursue […]
When I woke up in the middle of a rainforest one month into the MBA program, I knew this wasn’t going to be the typical business school experience. For my first Action Learning project at Asia School of Business, three of my classmates and I worked closely with the Orang Asli, Malaysia’s original inhabitants, in […]