The NANYANG MBA

Calling all The NANYANG MBA students!

We welcome you to take part in the Asian leg of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), held at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad in January 2010.

Unlike common business plan competitions in which students pitch their own ideas to investors, at VCIC, the students are the investors, and real entrepreneurs pitch to them. In this creative turn of tables, a very powerful learning experience is presented to both parties. At the end of the day, students learn (and win cash prizes), entrepreneurs connect with investors and venture capitalists get an early peek at some viable deals.

The winner of the Asian round will have to compete with 8 other winners from top MBA programs across the world, in the Global VCIC competition to be held in April 2010 at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, USA.

Students are to form at least one team of 5 participants.

The world’s leading telecommunications giant, Nokia, teams up with Singapore’s #1 MBA, The NANYANG MBA to form the Nanyang-Nokia Challenge 2009.

Students are to use benchmark, qualitative and quantitative market research methods to derive ideas to enhance consumer mobile music service purchase experience and its usage.

Titled “Consumer Experience Management: Consumer Service Purchase and Usage Experience”, the scope of the project includes:
-Defining the consumer’s needs when purchasing mobile music services and their usage
-Mapping the consumer’s journey
-Defining the optimized consumer offering
-Defining the right channel for the consumer offerings

Recognised as the largest competition of its kind, it aims to bridge the gap between corporate and academic worlds, which ultimately enriches both students and executives alike.

More than two hundred senior business executives serve as judges, using their unique backgrounds, experience and perspectives to critically assess the participants' presentations. Teams are judged on creativity, insight, substance and plausibility of implementation.

Students were encouraged to form groups made up of varied nationalities and functions as this would allow for a wider range of perspectives and analyses during the competition.  

August 2009

The 2009 batch recently cast their votes for their representatives to the student body committee. Aspiring candidates gave their 1 minute pitch to the student population to woo votes and then the students cast their votes.

30 April 2009

Some 50 MBA students and school officials from the  Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade Católica Portuguesa from Portugal  visited the Nanyang Business School last 30 April. Current MBA participants Mayra Hurtado(Mexico), David Thomas (Australian) and a couple of exchange students played host to the visitors over a sumptuous meal of local and western food. Exchange of experiences as well as introducing Singapore to the first time visitors dominated the discussions among the MBA participants. The Portuguese students were impressed by the lush green surroundings and over-all environment at the Nanyang Business School. The cosmopolitan feel, the diversity of people, and the cleanliness of Singapore left a lasting experience despite the short stay of the visitors.

9 April 2009

For the first time, this social event drew  some 500 MBA participants/students gathered in a at Mimolette restaurant last April , co-organised by The NANYANG MBA Student EXCO. Participants came from  MBA participants from various MBAprograms in Singapore including The NANYANG MBA. NUS, ESSEC, SP Jain.

28 January 2009

Nanyang Business School's  MBA programme, The NANYANG MBA has jumped more than 20 places to be ranked 24th among the top MBA programmes worldwide in the Financial Times 2009 Global MBA Rankings – the only Singapore MBA to make it to the top 25, in the league of the elite MBA programmes  worldwide. It is also the highest ranking achieved by a Singapore business school  so far.

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6 September 2009

Decked out in The NANYANG MBA red tops, the team of 20 ran the 5.8km route...

29 July 2009

35 MBA students took time out from their academic life to enjoy a special tour in one of Singapore’s most popular entertainment centre, St James Power Station.

21 to 24 July 2009

The NANYANG MBA office warmly welcomed all participants of the 2010/2011 batch of students with a 4-day Induction and Orientation programme specially put together to make them understand the programme better, and to build rapport amongst each other.

Date: May 3, 2009
Time: 9.30am - 7.00pm
Venue: Red Dynasty Paintball @ Bottle Tree Park

Date: April 9, 2009
Time: 9pm - Midnight
Venue: Mimolette bar/restaurant

Date: March 22, 2009
Time: 2pm - 5pm
Venue: Lawn opposite Graduate Hall