Mediacast | Singapore Management University

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Goh Chok Tong

ESM Goh Chok Tong tells DNA how he overcame his reluctance and became the second Prime Minister of Singapore. He believes in consultative, participative decision-making approach, which differs from his political mentor, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. He dealt with leaders of regional countries in his adaptive and pragmatic style.

5 | 32:17

Goenawan Mohamad

Goenawan Mohamad is the founder of Indonesia's Tempo magazine and a leading voice of democracy in the country. As founding editor, Mr Goenawan had to make the tough call of whether to continue Tempo's critical reporting of the government and face a ban, or toe the line to ensure survival. DNA talks to him about how he came to his decision and stuck to his principles, as well as his take on the many Indonesian leaders he has observed.

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George Yeo

George Yeo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs who became a business leader, speaks to DNA about his philosophical Taoist worldview, the impact of the rise of China, and the challenges facing ASEAN at its 50th year. He talks on how the soft power of ASEAN's policy of non-interference has yield some successes.

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Corporate Fraud & Regulation

The financial crisis of 2007/2008 triggered a wave of financial fraud cases, particularly amongst Chinese private enterprise firms listed in Hong Kong and Singapore. These firms are characterised not only by having founding shareholders or families retaining significant control but also their assets, businesses and their senior management are located in China (that is, outside the jurisdiction of listing). Do the fraudulent companies have board characteristics that are different from the…

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Corporate Disclosure

How important is the readability of corporate financial reports? What kind of impact does it have on a firm's stock price crash risk? Professor of Accounting Liandong Zhang, explains how his findings are consistent with the argument that when managers can successfully hide adverse information by writing complex financial reports, this can lead to stock price crashes when the hidden bad news accumulates and reaches a tipping point.…

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Family Firms & Internal Control

What are the implications of family control and ownership on a firm's voluntary disclosure practices? Are there any warning signs that investors should look out for? A family firm is one where members of the founding family continue to hold positions in top management, are on the board, or are blockholders (owners of large blocks of shares) of the company. Family firms are characterised by the founding family’s concentrated ownership and the founding family members’ active…

3 | 07:40

Evolutionary Mismatch - Implications for the Modern World

Associate Professor of Psychology Norman Li from SMU’s School of Social Sciences holds a PhD and Masters in Arts in Social Psychology from Arizona State University. He also has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors degree in Economics from Northwestern University.His research interests include mate preferences and mate value, evolutionary social psychology, economic psychology and the mismatch of modern conditions and adaptive…

2 | 08:16

Making Sound Decisions Through Data Analytics

In the last couple of decades, we saw an ‘information revolution’. Lately, it has been changing the way we think of data. We already see the early ramifications of this evolution in the data landscape, in the form of highly personalised web portals and micro-targeted advertising. What does this mean for students? What kind of skill-sets will they be expected to have? One of the first things taught in introductory analytics courses is "clustering" – an algorithm…