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Featured Writer of the Month: Shilpa Vaswani

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The Nanyang MBA 2012-2013

Issue #1: September 15, 2012

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I began to introduce myself as a citizen of India, who actually grew up in Cameroon, Africa and obtained my bachelor’s degree from Miami, Florida, with a multi-‐faceted experience in banking, retail and non-‐profit. I realized that I was simply a drop in the ocean of diversity that engulfed my batch of 2012-‐2013. My colleagues represented 22 countries in five different continents, with extensively rich profiles ranging from those of software engineers, pharmacists, a dentist (yes! But an entrepreneur too!), military and government officials, lawyer, infrastructural engineers, accountants, entrepreneurs, stock traders, mechanical and design engineers, financial analysts, marketing executives, consultants – you name it! My excitement levels just increased ten-‐fold. The informal networking was such a great start to our new world, a world that would comprise of meaningful and productive cross-‐disciplinary learning from amongst the classmates, which in essence, is crucial for successful business leaders.

By the end of the first day, most of us had familiarized ourselves to the extensively large (I was told it was 200 hectares!) and maze-‐like campus and thankfully the informal networking paved way for friends and acquaintances alike. The next few days of orientation entailed a series of activities and workshops. Day 2 was an offsite trip to Labrador Park’s City

Geared up for the first day as an MBA student in one of the most prestigious universities of Asia, I headed to the commencement of the orientation program or on-‐boarding as it is now called!

Getting on board the NANYANG MBA

The Nanyang MBA Student ExCo President of 2012-‐2013 gives his message (story on page 2)

Message from the President p.02

The newly elected leaders of the Nanyang MBA Cohort of 2012-‐2013 get together for the first time to discuss business (story on page 3)

The First ExCo – Co-‐Chair Meeting p.03

Story continued on page


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Dear Classmates, First of all, thanks everyone for making this a fantastic class. Our program wouldn’t be what it is without each and every one of you. Thanks to the previous year ExCo for setting an example for future years to come. Your work in writing a constitution for our committees, developing a Singaporean MBA network, and focusing on external initiatives are greatly appreciated. We look forward to moving our program forward with various goals. While keeping the successful Nanyang events intact as a part of our culture, we will also focus on creating signature professional Nanyang MBA events that we can call our own. Our major goals include initiating a Business Competition and developing the first Job/Career Fair where multiple companies and students from Singaporean MBA programs can gather together in one place at one time. This year, we are introducing more business and social clubs, including the Marketing & Entrepreneurship Association, Pharma & Healthcare Club, Sports Club, and Cultural Arts Club. To support these interests, we restructured the club framework to enhance participation. We are excited that there is strong motivation in expanding and broadening our horizons. We look forward to representing our class. We appreciate your support and assistance during our endeavors. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve our class. Andrew Kim President, ExCo

Message from the Student ExCo President ’12-‘13

What’s in the Newsletter?

Have you greeted them happy birthday yet? Check who’s celebrating their birthdays this month!

Birthdays for the Month of Sept p.03

Overwhelmed by the amount of activities flooding your inbox? Here’s an easier way to keep track!

Calendar of Activities: Sept and Oct p.06


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When Thursday dawned, it was to signify the first time the newly elected Co-‐Chairs would meet with the ExCo. By that time, September 13, the Co-‐Chairs had just been in office for 2 weeks, while the ExCo had just been in office for 3 weeks. The brevity of their term in office for the moment was no measure to the amount of discussion that took place. The MBA cohort is lucky to have such a diverse group of leaders, all of whom were very active in the discussion. Topics ranged from basic Administrative matters to goal-‐setting and planning. The cohort had better get ready for the planned activities ahead of them!

The First ExCo – Co-Chair Meeting

Gaurav Goel. Co-‐Chair Management Consultancy, and Arvind Arun, Co-‐Chair Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Jo Hong, VP Socials, and Jad Abou Ibrahim, Co-‐Chair Sports Club

From Right: Meeta Vaney and Rita Zhang, Co-‐Chairs Women in Business, Priya Kashyap , Co-‐Chair CSR Club, Charlotte Kong, MBA Office

We would like to greet the September birthday celebrants of our Nanyang MBA Cohort of 2012-‐2013!

Birthday Celebrants for September!

From Left to Right: Satria Krishnandi Peter Ho Jake Hason Sunny Arora Julia Rickert Florence Roncalez

If we missed your birthday, please just contact us! And make sure to fill out the Database Google Document so that we can make sure we don’t miss any others! Cheers!

Image Credit: Birthday Cake by Will Clayton on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/spool32/5045502202/


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Getting on board the NANYANG MBA (Continued from Page 1)

Then check out the video in Youtube, where we see batchmates Shilpa, Florence, Bodi, Daniel, Henry, and Jo interviewed on their experiences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb1NTvuvEO8

Did you miss the onboarding week?

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Beach Resort at Port Road, where a group of professionals arranged indoor and outdoor team-‐building games and activities-‐ that comprise the adventure part of the program. There were memory games, team races that entailed detecting hidden clues, adventurous blindfold games and a creative master chef challenge (remember those popular TV reality shows!) which infused globally infused gourmet creativity.

The following week started off with briefings into the academic program

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and the exciting opportunities we are offered including student exchange programs, business study missions, extracurricular student clubs and even internship and job search assistance. There was even a briefing by the existing student committee members who spoke of how their involvement in student clubs has enriched their experience and opened the gateway to a multitude of networking opportunities. Comprehensive workshops were conducted on several key areas including communication and presentation; learning style and personality analysis; organizational simulation of a manufacturing unit; case analysis and discussions; networking and adapting to business practices in different countries; and finally speed reading, which made an amazing difference from 300 to almost a 1000 words per minute. The last day of the orientation included cross-‐cultural presentations by our class of, depicting an insight into the cultural and business practices in our countries of origin. There were

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Getting on board the NANYANG MBA (Continued from Page 4)

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Greetings Everyone!

I hope you enjoyed the first newsletter of the Nanyang MBA cohort 2012-‐2013. The purpose of this newsletter is two-‐pronged:

1) INTERNAL: To keep everyone in the cohort updated with highlights of the month, as well as the Calendar of Activities.

2) EXTERNAL: To be used as a true newsletter, not just for the cohort, but for all those interested in

Message from the ExCo VP Comm

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learning more about the Nanyang MBA, as well as the cohort that makes it up.

In line with this, please feel free to contact me if there is something you wish to be improved, enhanced, or added. The newsletter is, after all, a reflection of our cohort. We have the ambitious goal of producing a newsletter a month.

If you wish to be part of this process,

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please sign up for the newly-‐established Writer’s Circle Club.

Thank you for reading. Cheers! Bodi

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cultural dances, skits, entertaining videos, informational facts, melodious songs and even regional food and liquor tasting that complemented the exercise. The last bit of the orientation was the icing on the cake with an off-‐site visit to the Singapore City Gallery, which shows how urban planning shaped Singapore, followed by a trip to the Gardens by the Bay, the newest tourist attraction comprised of manmade super structures of beautiful gardens, and Marine Gardens Drive. Singapore City Gallery was indeed mesmerizing. It consisted of a phenomenal scale model of the entire city including every nook and corner depicting the expertise involved in the infrastructural and contingency planning in Singapore. The Gardens by the Bay consisted of indigenous foliage and a flamboyant variety of flowers in addition to the artificial solar power trees. Some of the excursions we went to as part of our exploration of the city post -‐orientation program included visits to the Hawker Street – a mélange of

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cosmo-‐Asian influenced Singaporean cuisine; ice skating at Jurong Cube, a hip mall for the youth; Café Azzura at Sentosa Island; an Irish Café at Bras Basah; a sea-‐food dinner at the East Coast Park organized by the Singaporean students and the Business School; and Clarke Quay, the famous landmark known for food and entertainment-‐ an array of different types of restaurants and social sites lining up the Singapore river, a colorful and zealous atmosphere with globally infused stalls. My first week at the Nanyang Business School is only an introductory insight to the wonderful world of knowledge, networking and fun which will probably rank among the best experience of my life so far. Singapore feels like the perfect blend of the east and the west. The sunshine induces a warm and welcoming feeling into a world of perfection. Nanyang, with its admirable campus, multicultural student body, esteemed faculty, extracurricular involvement and brilliant staff that constantly aim to buttress the students’ development into successful individuals, –I am definitely looking forward to more as I start my MBA classes the following week.


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SEPTEMBER 4 (TUES) - 1300-1600 Networking Skills

Option B SEPTEMBER 6 (THURS)

- 1845-2145 Royal Bank of Scotland Recruitment Talk

SEPTEMBER 9 (SUN) - 0900-1200 FA Midterms - 12nn End of Midterm Celebration

SEPTEMBER 10 (MON) - 1430-1630 MONITOR Talk

SEPTEMBER 11 (TUES) - 1300-1700 Resume & Cover

Letter Workshop Option A SEPTEMBER 12 (WED)

- 1500-1630 “Past, Present, and Future of Mobile Wars”

- 2100-2200 J&J Global Leadership Development Info Session

SEPTEMBER 13 (THURS) - 0100-0200 J&J Global Leadership

Development Info Session - 2030-2230 J&J Global Leadership

Development Info Session SEPTEMBER 14 (FRI)

- 1130-1230 Linkedin Asia - 1230 TGI Friday (ISC)

SEPTEMBER 15 (SAT) - 1830 Celebrating the Nanyang

MBA SEPTEMBER 16 (SUN)

- Yellow Ribbon Prison Run - 1830-2130 Mexican Day

Celebration

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SEPTEMBER 17 (MON) - 1100-1230 Seminar on

“Successful Business in Asia” (Exec MBA)

- 1300-1700 Resume & Cover Letter Workshop Option B

SEPTEMBER 18 (TUES) - 0900-1200 Visit & Interactions

w/ Micheal Collins, CEO Prepzone (Exec MBA)

SEPTEMBER 19 (WED) - 1700-1830 Li & Fung Talk

SEPTEMBER 24 (MON) - 1815-2015 On the Kenyan Riders

– Social Entrepreneurship Talk SEPTEMBER 25 (TUES)

- 1400-1500 Seminar on Procurement and Supply Chain for an Integrated Resort by Mr. Peter Woon

SEPTEMBER 26 (WED) - 1800-2015 Barclay’s Women in

Investment Banking OCTOBER 6 (SAT)

- 1900-2300 Business Case Boot Camp (Beer, Wine, and Liqueur Appreciation Club)

OCTOBER 11 (THURS) - 1800-2200 Networking with

Alumni (MBA Alumni Association) OCTOBER 27 (SAT)

- 1900-2200 Celebration of End of T1

OCTOBER 28 to NOVEMBER 4 - Recess

Do you want the calendar at your disposal?

Follow the QR Code or this link to get to the Google Calendar https://www.google.com/calendar/render?tab=mc&gsessionid=3UMj-‐JLtSzLgNEGbeuuDaQ

CALENDAR of ACTIVITIES (for SEPT and OCT)


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How to Contact YOUR Student Executive Council (ExCo)

Andy Kim PRESIDENT 86208520

Mike Caravaggio EVP 94594556

Edwina Regina VP Finance 97273641

Yash Khandelwal VP Business Clubs 86043278

Josephine Hong VP Socials 91993582

John Rae Cortes VP Cultural 91268500

Bodi Yuhico VP Communications 97124603

Aakash Bajoria VP Part-Time 98572003


How to Contact YOUR Club Co-Chairs

Banking and Finance Alex Ong - 81869618 Karan Bose - 82041944

Management Consultancy Henry Tseng - 98561845 Gaurav Goel - 83553551

Technology Consultancy Manish Saini - 83932140 Sapan Sharma - 92254665

CSR Meena O’Mahony -96586470 Priya Kashyap - 90140361

Women in Business Meeta Vaney - 83932463 Rita Zhang - 98101697

Pharma and Healthcare Mimi Yeh – 98561548 Harini - 82041863

Marketing and Entrep Han Tang Wang- 98217656 Arvind Arun - 83758413

Beer, Wine, & Liqueur Julia Rickert - 81468560 Jake Hason - 94731482

REMINDER As of the time of writing this newsletter, 3 more clubs have been formed with approval from the MBA Office: Sports Club, Cultural Arts Club, and Writer’s Circle. As non-‐business clubs, these clubs will not have any additional fees, so please remember to register when the clubs registration reopens on Monday, September 17, 2012.

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