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.

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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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Digital Green Economy

What is the Digital Green Economy and how does it offer new ways to address sustainability problems? Simon Schillebeeckx, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, shares about what businesses can do to avoid becoming obsolete as their core competences of the past become core rigidities in the future, and successfully reap the benefits offered by digital transformation. https://www.smu.edu.sg/faculty/profile/144811/Simon-SCHILLEBEECKX Research InterestsStrategic Responses to Natural…

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Driver Guidance System (DGS)

Traditional taxi fleet operators around the world have been facing intense competition. The emergence of services such as Grab in the ride-hailing market has greatly impacted the taxi industry: the average daily taxi ridership for the past two years has been falling continuously, by close to 20% in total. In this video, A/Prof Cheng Shih-Fen shares how adopting efficient real-time data analytics and large-scale multi-agent optimisation technology could potentially help taxi drivers compete…

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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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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…

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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…