Companies walk the talk, plus lift spirits

SMU Associate Professor of Marketing (Education) Seshan Ramaswami said: "Employees, partners, suppliers, even clients and customers are all happier…

Motivation from rejection

SMU social sciences undergraduate and diver Myra Lee recalled her joy at being added in a text message group by team manager Damien Ler with the…

Banking on the Capricorn effect to kick in

Associate Dean (Specialised Masters Programmes) of the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Professor of Finance (Education) Benedict Koh said…

Executive master of business administration in the spotlight

Local universities – SMU, NUS and NTU – and international business schools such as Insead offer some of the 300 executive MBA programmes available in…

Health and Well-Being: Cases from Southeast Asia

SMU Assistant Professor of Sociology Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchanan is particularly interested in the intersection of family demography and…

Gokhan Ertug: The relationship expert

SMU Assistant Professor of Strategic Management Gokhan Ertug is studying the role of intangible assets such as status, reputation and trust in…

Housing finance systems that can weather storms

SMU Professor of Economics Phang Sock Yong said that resilient housing finance systems are crucial for global economic stability and to solve housing…

The intersection of education and trade

Both SMU Associate Professors of Economics Huang Fali and Chang Pao Li are fascinated with the interaction between education systems and…

Christmas

TickTok, a mobile phone application (app) designed by three SMU students, allows iPhone users to check how long queuing would take at a particular…

Level of trusting others doesn't affect giving

Director of the Behavioural Sciences Institute at SMU and Professor of Psychology David Chan, who was the consultant for a survey commissioned by the…