In collaboration with the Tax Academy of Singapore, and with the support of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, the Singapore Management University launched the SMU-TA Centre for Excellence in Taxation (SMU-TA CET) on August 5, 2014.
Singapore, 23 July 2014 - Corporate fraud in Singapore is on the rise. Released today, the new KPMG-SMU Singapore Fraud Survey 2014 report suggests that 29 percent of the survey respondents experienced fraud incident within their organisation over the past two years, up from 22 percent in the 2011 survey. For the first time, the survey was carried out in conjunction with Singapore Management University.
[Singapore, 23 July 2014 (Wednesday)] – The Institute of Service Excellence at the Singapore Management University (ISES) has organised the 4th ISES Global Conference on Service Excellence to foster a deeper understanding of the trends and influences shaping the growth and development of service.
[Singapore, 21 July 2014] – Expectations of inflation over one and five year horizons dipped at a moderate pace, according to the research findings of the latest survey for Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations (SInDEx) by Singapore Management University (SMU). The continued but moderate decline in inflation expectations can be attributed to a confluence of global and local factors.
[SINGAPORE, 4 July 2014] – The Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Programme for Young Adults (‘Programme’) organised the inaugural symposium today as part of its efforts to foster greater awareness of the importance of being financially literate. The Programme, a collaboration between Citi, Citi Foundation and SMU’s Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, was launched in 2012 and was the first structured financial literacy programme targeted at young adults in Singapore.
[SINGAPORE, 27 June 2014] – Singapore Management University (SMU) and the University of Oregon (UO) USA, have entered into a five-year agreement for an international student exchange programme that will enable students from both universities to learn from the academic and sporting cultures of the two countries.
The agreement was signed today by SMU President Professor Arnoud De Meyer and University of Oregon Vice President for University Advancement Michael Andreasen.
[Singapore, 26 June 2014 (Thursday)] – The Institute of Service Excellence at the Singapore Management University (ISES) (卓越服务研究院) today released the 2014 first quarter (Q1) Customer Satisfaction Index of Singapore (CSISG) results for the Retail and Info-communications sectors.
[Singapore, 18 June 2014 (Wednesday)] - The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Singapore Management University (SMU) will establish a Centre for Technology and Social-Behavioural Insights (CTSBI) to tap on high performance computing technology, big data analytics and behavioural sciences to study people-centric issues and human behaviour including how people think, feel and act in different settings.
[Singapore, 20 September 2013 (Friday)] – Embracing the Singapore Management University’s (SMU) culture of ‘Want Something, Do Something’ and its philosophy of being “A Different U”, the inaugural TEDxSingaporeManagementUniversity Conference will be launched today to share and celebrate ideas and experiences that are unconventional and worth spreading.
[Singapore, 8 November 2013 (Friday)] – Singapore Management University’s (SMU) Business Family Institute (BFI) has partnered with Deloitte Southeast Asia in a pioneering research on the ‘Asian Business Families Succession – Going the Distance with the Next Generation’. The comparative research survey conducted by BFI@SMU between August and October 2013, covered various countries in Asia, namely Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam. The inaugural research survey, made possible by a research gift from Deloitte Southeast Asia, provides thou