Asian Management Conclave 2016: Initiative of MBAUniverse.com kickstarts at Singapore; Who's who addressing august house

Updated on March 7, 2016

2nd Asian Management Conclave- the Pan-Asia management education conference organized by MBAUniverse.com and hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU) has kick started today at SMU Singapore campus

Asian Management Conclave (AMC) 2016 will see who's who from Asian Management education addressing the august house comprising top deans, management gurus and delegates from the B schools across Asia

2nd Asian Management Conclave – the Pan-Asia management education conference organized by MBAUniverse.com and hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU) has begun today at SMU Singapore campus on the theme ‘Enhancing Competitiveness of Asian B-schools’. During the next 2 days on March 7 & 8, 2016, Asian Management Conclave (AMC) 2016 will see who’s who from Asian Management education addressing the august house comprising top deans, management gurus and delegates from the B-schools across Asia.

The core purpose of AMC is to help Top 500 Asian B-schools to excel locally and compete globally. In addition to host SMU Singapore, leading Asian B-schools like CUHK Business School, Hong Kong and SASIN are Knowledge Partners of AMC. CUHK Hong Kong was ranked No #30 in the World by FT Global MBA Ranking 2015. Economist Full Time MBA Ranking 2015 also ranked it amongst Top 100 B-schools in the World. In 2015, only six B-schools feature in both these coveted rankings from Asia. Set up in 1982, Sasin is the first business school in Thailand to have earned both AACSB and EQUIS accreditations. Global knowledge organizations GMAC, Harvard Business Publishing and Bloomberg are AMC partners.

Key topics at AMC 2016
Asian Century offers unprecedented opportunity for B-schools – to grow rapidly by serving their local & regional markets, and to also make a global impact. Key topics are:

-- Building a World Class Business School in Asia
-- Internationalization strategies for Asian Business Schools
-- Differentiation Models for Asian Markets
-- Leveraging Education Technology
-- Moving beyond conventional MBA: New programs, challenges & opportunities
-- Promoting Partnerships & Alliances within Asian B-schools: Challenges & Opportunity

Top speakers at AMC 2016
Who’s who from Asian Management education are addressing AMC 2016 on March 7-8 in Singapore. In addition, appreciating the AMC platform as a leading thought-leadership platform in Asian MBA education, thought-leaders from Harvard Business School and other global institutions are also addressing the conference.

Keynote Addresses
Dr Hellmut Schutte, Dean Emeritus, CEIBS, China & Emeritus Professor of International Management, INSEAD is delivering the 1st keynote address at AMC 2016. CEIBS was established in 1994 in Shanghai as a not-for-profit joint venture established under an agreement between the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation of Chinese Government and the European Commission. Despite its young age of just 21 years, the CEIBS MBA Programme has ranked within the Top 25 by the Financial Times' annual global business school survey for 10 consecutive years (2005-2015). The Global EMBA Programme is ranked #11 in recently released FT Global MBA Ranking 2015.
Innovation Guru Scott D. Anthony, Managing Partner, Innosight will deliver the 2nd Keynote Address. Mr Anthony, much respected thought-leader, is the author of many seminal books including ‘The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market’ (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014) and Co-author of ‘Seeing What’s Next’ (with Harvard Professor and Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen). He is also the Member of Board of Directors of MediaCorp, Singapore.
Deans from Leading Asian B-schools addressing AMC 2016
Deans and decision-makers from leading B-schools who are going to address AMC 2016 include:

-- Dr Kalok Chan, Dean, CUHK Business School, Hong Kong

-- Dr Charles H Fine, President & Dean, Asia School of Business, Malaysia; Professor, MIT Sloan School, USA

-- Dr Gerard George, Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU, Singapore

-- Dr Sin Hoon Hum, Deputy Dean, NUS Business School, Singapore

-- Dr Dipak Jain, Dean, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Thailand

-- Dr Arfah Salleh, President & CEO, Putra Business School, Malaysia

-- Dr Pasu Decharin, Dean, Chulalongkorn Business School, Thailand

-- Dr Rajan Banerjee, Dean, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), India

-- Dr Sudarso Kaderi Wiryono, Dean, Institut Teknologi - Bandung School Of Business and Management, Indonesia

-- Dr BM. Purwanto, Vice Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

-- Dr Mohammed Abu Ali, Dean, School of Business Administration, American University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE

-- Dr Tomoya Nakamura, Dean, Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, Japan

-- Dr Zaher Zain, Dean, UKM Graduate School of Business, Malaysia

-- Dr Michael J Ferguson, Associate Dean & Director, MBA Programs, CUHK Business School

Other AMC speakers, representing global knowledge organizations, are Mr Vinay Hebbar, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Harvard Business Publishing and Mr Roland Siegers, Executive Director, CEMS, France.

Participating countries and institutions
More than 75 Deans, Directors and Decision-makers from China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam & Middle-East are attending AMC 2016.

Deans & Decision Makers, Program Heads & International-Affairs Heads from top 500 Asian B-schools are invited to register and participate. Registration can be done on Conclave website www.AsianManagementConclave.com.

Welcoming the speakers, participants and partners, Mr Amit Agnihotri AMC Convener said, "As Asia rises on the world stage,this massive shift is creating unprecedented opportunities for Asian B-schools. By bringing 100+ leading Asian B-Schools together at AMC 2015, we have started a unstoppable movement for reshaping Asian management education landscape."

Purpose of Asian Management Conclave
The unprecedented economic activity in Asia is translating into great opportunity for Asian academic and businesses institutions, as Asia needs skilled workforce, managers and leaders at all levels. Indeed, this Asian Century offers unprecedented opportunity for B-schools – to grow rapidly by serving their local & regional markets, and to also make a global impact.

As they grow to become well established national institutions, B-schools in Asia have an opportunity to have a global reach and impact. It’s not just the Harvards and INSEADs but hundreds of US and European B-schools that have international reach and visibility. A few top Chinese B-schools like CEIBS are already operating campuses and offices in US and Europe. In the next decade, one can see more progress from Asia on this front. After all, Asian B-schools are closest to the booming Asian markets where tremendous innovation is currently underway. In many cases, given the unique Asian context, domestic companies and MNCs are innovating their business models and creating new models and practices that serve the local markets effectively. In addition, many of these ‘Reverse Innovations’ can have global applicability as companies like GEs and UBERs are finding out. B-schools in Asia can research and document these ‘next-practices’ and share with the world, thus creating a global impact.

Question is, are Top 500 Asian B-schools ready to seize their moment? Time has come for Asian B-schools to come together and inject new energy in global management education by researching and delivering new management ideas from Asia, and also by developing new models in management education.

To galvanize efforts in this direction, Asian Management Conclave (AMC), a Singapore-based annual Pan-Asia conference, is conceptualized by MBAUniverse.com, a think-tank & community on management education in Asia. The core purpose of AMC is to help Top 500 Asian B-schools to excel locally and compete globally.

1st AMC 2015: Spotlight
The inaugural AMC was held on March 12-13, 2015 and was a great success with participation by 100+ Deans/Directors & International Relations Heads from 50+ leading B-schools & Universities from 15+ Asian economies. Global Management thinkers & senior Deans from Asia who spoke at AMC 2015 include Dr Jitendra V Singh, Dean, School of Business and Management, HKUST, Hong Kong; Dr Sunil Kumar, Dean, Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; Dr Lin Zhou, Dean, Antai College of Economics and Management, SJTU, China; Dr Steven J DeKrey, Former President, AIM Manila, Philippines; Dr Gerard George, Dean, LKCSB, SMU, Singapore and more. AMC 2015 key highlights on this link.