NUS Business School, National University of Singapore

Jayanth, or simply Jay, got his PhD from the London Business School. Prior to his PhD from London Business School, Jayanth was an entrepreneur who founded India’s largest assessment company, Merittrac.

His research is in the area of negotiation and decision-making and he has published a number of papers on the topic. His work has been published in the top outlets in the field such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Academy of Management Review. He is also on the editorial board of a number of journals in the field.

Even though Jay is under 40 years old, he already is the program director of the Negotiation & Influence program and the Emerging Leaders Program at NUS. These programs have consistently received top ratings from participants attending the program. Jay has taught across the world to executives in a wide variety of industries ranging from a wide variety of people from industries such as telecom, law, financial services, consumer goods to name a few. He has also taught senior managers and leaders from a wide range of geographies across Asia and Europe. Jay has also won a number of teaching accolades and has been awarded the teaching excellence award at the National University of Singapore.

Besides influence practice with his research and teaching, Jay’s PhD students have gone to top academic institutions as faculty members. This is a rare achievement for a young scholar. Among them are recent graduates Kenneth Tai and Michelle Zheng of Singapore Management University and Rotterdam School of Management.
 

Department of Strategy and Policy, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore

Qiang has achieved various successes in both academic research and practice-oriented teaching. He maintains an active research agenda.

Qiang has become a reputable and influential speaker on various economic issues. His success in executive teaching and practice-oriented macro finance research is considered unusual given his age and relatively short career, his purely academic background, and his training in game theory. Despite the success, he clearly demonstrated his potential of accumulating further advance in this career and becoming an influential public opinion leader in economic affairs.

His work not only generates theoretical implications, but also provides guidelines for a wide array of practical issues, such as the administration of competitive procurement, R&D inducement incentive provision, performance evaluation mechanisms inside firms, and the design of electoral institutions.

Besides his success in academic research in applied game theory, Professor Fu has established himself as an accomplished instructor in classroom. At NUS Business School, he offers a range of courses to a wide spectrum of audience, ranging from undergraduate students to Ph.D students and senior executives. Professor Fu demonstrates impressive versatility in his teaching career. His teaching subjects range from advanced microeconomic theory (Ph.D level) to completely practice-oriented macro finance.
 

Amity Global Business School

Easwaramoorthy is the Principal / Director of the International Office of Amity Global Business School, Singapore.

With more than 16 years of experience, Easwaramoorthy has been a dedicated lecturer to students at undergraduate and master’s level respectively in business management subjects with consistent high teaching ratings from students over 48 different countries.

As the Management Representative of Amity Global Business School (AGBS), he led AGBS to the attainment of Enhanced Registration with Council for Private Education, Singapore (Among the first batch to be registered among 65 out of 1000 schools in Singapore). Further, he helped the school to attain 4 full years registration with Council for Private Education, Singapore and also the achievement of EduTrust.

He has taught various business courses with universities namely Anglia Ruskin University, University of London, London School of Economics, United Kingdom; Victoria University, Australia and Bharathiar University & Visveswaraiah Technological University, India.

He serves in the Academic Board of Amity Global Business School, Singapore and was also the Member of Panel for Question Paper Setting for Bharathiar University & Visveswaraiah Technological University, India.

He is currently the Member of the Board of Examiners of Bharathiar University, India for PhD Degree programmes.

Overall, he has achieved a high ranking for educational leadership, lecturing, teaching, curriculum design and research initiatives. He is more of a student centred teacher, who strives to move his students from surface to deep learning.

Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University

Stephen is internationally recognized as an expert on portfolio management by foundations, endowments, and other non-profit organizations. His research has been featured at top international conferences such as the American Economic Association, American Finance Association, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has twice received the Commonfund Best Paper award in 2008 and 2010.

He is an assistant professor in the Division of Banking and Finance at the Nanyang Business School. He received his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Professor Dimmock teaches courses on investment management and on fixed income securities in the Nanyang MBA program. He has consulted with several non-profit organizations, such as university endowments, on portfolio management.

His primary area of research is portfolio choice, particularly as it relates to foundations and other non-profit organizations. He has also published studies of household portfolio choice, and on using statistical techniques to uncover fraud by investment managers.  

Manchester Business School (MBS)

John is billed as having a unique blend of international exposure combined with academic excellence, in addition to a consistently high rating among students across the board. He has undertaken consultancy projects for commercial giants, among them Tesco Stores and P&O Shopping Centres, and is extensively published in various prominent academic journals, including The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Journal of Business Research and the Service Industries Journal.

With a PhD in marketing, John also holds a wealth of academic experience with various positions at global renowned institutions such as University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, University of Tasmania and, currently, as Manchester Business School’s Programme Director of the undergraduate Management degree run in collaboration with the Singapore Institute of Management.

He also lectures on marketing in the programme, and is part of the overseas recruitment and induction efforts. Concurrently, he teaches in the MBS Global MBA programme across its seven international locations (Singapore, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, Miami, and Manchester). Over the course of John’s impressive academic career, he has also developed a bank of expertise relating to transnational education while lecturing in programmes in China and Kuwait. He was also involved in the recruitment of international students to Australia.

NUS Business School, National University of Singapore

Meijun is an Assistant Professor of Finance at NUS Business School and an affiliated researcher at the Risk Management Institute and the Institute of Real Estate Studies at NUS. She has been a fellow of the Wharton Financial Institution Centre at the University of Pennsylvania since 2005. She completed her BS at the Peking University in 1998 and her PhD in Finance at Boston College in 2006.

She is probably the only professor under 40 whose academic research citation has exceeded 2150 in Google scholar and over 225 in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), which is the international authority indicator of academic impact.

Meijun’s research covers comparative financial systems, financial institutions, corporate governance, political economy, and regulations. Her research is published in top tier international academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Intermediation, as well as prestigious practitioners’ journals such as Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Research Monograph and Harvard China Review.

She also analyzes the value of female directors in Singapore. She shows that firms with new appointment of female director outperform firms with no new appointment of female director as well as firms with new appointment of male director.  

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, INSEAD

Jason’s research and teaching has received many accolades from the academic community, and has had a large impact on managerial practice. After winning the Academy of Management’s top dissertation award, Jason went on to win many best paper awards in the areas of Strategy, Organizations, Innovation, and Economic Sociology.

Recently, Jason was honored with the top award for emerging scholars in Technology Innovation Management from the Academy of Management. Jason’s ideas about how companies innovate collaboratively – including original ideas about best practices like rotating leadership, ecosystem synchrony, and the simple rules for flexible adaptation – have garnered the attention of many high-technology companies after being featured in popular press outlets like Technology Review, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, and Forbes. Jason has consulted, advised, or spoken about his research at multiple high-tech companies including Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Broadcom, ESI, and Tesla Motors.

Jason is currently engaged with many startup companies who are producing mobile applications for the Apple-iPhone and Google-Android platforms.
 

Department of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore

Yaozhong is described as an an amazing teacher and researcher who can engage the likes of senior executives, government officials, and young undergraduate in his decision making classes, whether in English or in Mandarin. His course evaluation scores are among the best in the Asia-pacific Executive MBA Program, Master in Public Administration and Management Program, and also the NUS BBA and MBA program.

Yaozhong is also a well-known scholar in the field of behavioural operations management. He has guest edited a special issue for International Journal of Production Economics, and written a well-received reference chapter on the same topic for the field. Though he is young, he has already been invited to become a senior editor for the journal Production and Operations Management, a premier journal in the profession. In short, he is an all rounded and complete scholar of his generation. 

Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University

Trevor is an international thought leader on the application of person-environment fit principles to understand talent recruitment and engagement. He pioneered a shift toward the management of human capital in Singapore through the use of scientific methods based on empirics.

He leads the NBS Human Resource Consulting program’s effort to build the HR education and profession in Singapore. Currently, Trevor is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior in the Division of Strategy, Management & Organization at the Nanyang Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), specializing in Organizational Behavior.

Trevor teaches courses involving the management of human capital including managerial decision-making, consulting research methodology, total rewards, and organizational behavior and design at the Nanyang Business School. He has consulted with several US and Singapore-based organizations on issues of organizational image and culture, career management, workplace climate, and work-team effectiveness.

His primary areas of research expertise include creating valuable organizational cultures through building employer brand equity, strategic recruitment, and developing person-environment fit. His work specifically focuses on the psychological and behavioral experiences of job seekers, recruiters, organizational newcomers, and supervisors.
 

Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University

Angie’s research has been published in internationally renowned journals and cited in various international magazines, such as The Economist and Forbes.

She is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and is currently the chair of the Banking and Finance division’s curriculum committee, which is responsible for the banking and finance undergraduate student population. She received her PhD from Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University in 2007.

She teaches the core finance course for first-year students in Nanyang Business School. Her current research interests include corporate governance, managerial compensation, corporate culture, and capital structure.
 

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD

Stefan’s research has been widely published in the best journals of his field, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Psychological Science. In 2011, Stefan’s research on status loss with Jennifer Marr from Georgia Tech University in Atlanta won the Best Paper Award in the Academy of Management’s Conflict Management Division. This research was widely covered in the Financial Times, Washington Post, NBC News, and Slate Magazine. Stefan is highly engaged in his field and currently serves on the editorial boards of four journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

His current research examines the role of group processes and accountability systems in unethical behaviors. At INSEAD, he teaches the Organizational Behavior class in INSEAD’s flagship MBA program and classes on Research Methodology in their PhD program.
 

Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD

Sameer is a faculty member of the Technology and Operations Management area at INSEAD. He earned his Ph.D. (Operations Management) and M.S. (Management Science) from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester and his Bachelor of Technology (Major: Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering; Minor: Industrial Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras.

At INSEAD, Sameer teaches the Process and Operations Management MBA and EMBA core courses and an elective course on service management. He also teaches modules on supply chain management, service management, and process innovation in various executive open enrollment/company specific programs.

The primary focus of Sameer’s research is on contracting issues in outsourcing of knowledge and/or information intensive service processes. Additionally, he is interested in service process design issues with applications in healthcare, and call-center operations. Sameer has also done research on socially relevant topics such as humanitarian logistics.

At INSEAD, Sameer closely works with Ph.D. students, mentoring them as they work towards developing themselves as independent researchers. He has been on the dissertation committee of a few recent Ph.D. graduates of INSEAD that have been placed at top universities across the globe such as, the University of Chicago, London Business School, IE Madrid, and the University of Indiana. He frequently supervises independent study projects at INSEAD, for both MBA and EMBA participants.