Biz Alumni
16 September 2019
From student to specialty coffee shop owner
The Coffee Roaster’s co-founder and Managing Director Ang Swee Heng (BBA 2017) made waves when he was featured in The Straits Times. Together with his mother, the duo learned to make coffee from the Internet, started The Coffee Roaster at a small shop in Tanjong Pagar in 2014, and moved to NUS Block AS8 where […]
Biz Alumni
04 September 2019
Alumnus siblings who give back together
Many of Business School’s donors tend to be alumni who are keen to give back to their old faculty. However, Business School donor Wilson Ang is a Bachelor of Science (Real Estate Management) graduate from 1990. Influenced by his elder sister, Grace Ang (BAC 1984), who initiated the setting up of a bursary in memory […]
Biz Alumni
15 August 2019
Measuring Samsui’s social impact
A team of recent graduates clinched the annual Outstanding Undergraduate Research Prize for their final year project Samsui: Social Return on Investment. Samsui is a social enterprise subsidiary of Soup Restaurant which provides meals to nursing homes. The management team was looking for better ways to measure their social impact. Consisting of our young alumni […]
Biz Alumni
30 July 2019
From Marketing 101 to digital marketing consultant
NUS BBA alumnus Benedict Yeo (Class of 2014) currently runs his own digital agency Addpetizer. Celebrating the company’s third anniversary this year, Benedict looks back at his journey since graduating from NUS Business School, with Outside-in. I discovered my passion for entrepreneurship and marketing during my NUS days. There were the late nights spent working […]
Biz Alumni
30 April 2019
Farewell to The Terrace
The Terrace canteen, located between School of Computing and NUS Business School, has been operating for more than 35 years, serving throngs of Bizaders, Computing students, previously Law School, Kent Ridge Hall and Sheares Hall, and even Faculty of Arts and Social Science. The older NUS alumni fondly remember The Terrace as The School of […]
Biz Alumni
22 April 2019
Q&A with a Singapore Chartered Accountant Qualification (SCAQ) exam top scorer
Recognised worldwide, the title Chartered Accountant (CA) is a professional designation that gives individuals access to a wide range of senior roles within business and accounting fields. It would equip them for directorships, as well as CXO roles. Apart from senior management roles, CAs can also explore careers in auditing, financial accounting and risk management. […]
Biz Alumni
16 April 2019
Alumni networking events in March 2019
Organised frequently with our various alumni chapters around the world, our current students from various programmes always have the opportunity to network and learn from their seniors. In March, three such events happened in Delhi, Singapore and London. NUS Executive MBA Forum and Networking Dinner in Delhi Our NUS EMBA intake 27 students recently had […]
Biz Alumni
26 March 2019
NUS MBA Mentorship Programme 2019
The NUS MBA Mentorship Programme is a professional development programme that brings together current NUS MBA students and alumni in an exchange of knowledge, information, insights and experience. Launched in 2007, the programme is designed to meet the needs of our MBA students and alumni depending on their own schedule and timetable. The first introduction […]
Biz Alumni
01 April 2019
An unconventional career path- Bean to bar!
If you have heard of unique chocolate flavours such as Sake Kasu, Lychee Rose, Salted Egg Cereal, and Shrimp & Bonito, then you are probably familiar with Fossa Chocolate. The company is co-managed by NUS BBA alumna Yilina Leong (Class of 2014), a marketing major who started her career in media and advertising before moving […]
Biz Alumni
25 April 2019