MBA 2445 Asian Business Trends Programme: Emerging Windows of Opportunity
MBA 2445 Asian Business Trends Programme: Emerging Windows of Opportunity
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken almost everything and caused disruptions to all aspects of our lives. Studies revealed that Asia has emerged stronger, and economic growth and opportunities are opening. Life beyond the pandemic in Asia is an important topic for businesses and leaders. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast in July 2021, Asia is expected to grow at 7.5 per cent in 2021 and 6.4 per cent in 2022, compared with 6.0 per cent and 4.9 per cent for the world. In a series of interviews with Asian executives by McKinsey, it was reported that economic disruption associated with the pandemic appears to have accelerated the shift toward Asia-for-Asia supply chains. How did Asia achieve this? What can you learn from the shift toward Asia-for-Asia business practices and trends? Why did Asia emerge stronger?
This module entitled ‘Emerging windows of opportunity for Asian Business Trends’ aims to provide course participants with a glimpse of the windows of opportunity from Asian perspectives.
By the end of this module at NBS-NTU (Singapore), participants should be able to:
- Understand the Asian cultural impacts on the economy, innovations, and entrepreneurship.
- Understand and appraise business planning, practices, and management in Asia.
- Identify and appreciate the key success factors, opportunities, and challenges in Asia
- Recognize and evaluate differences and similarities in leadership styles, corporate sustainability, entrepreneurship, and innovation spirit in Asia.
- Create insights on emerging windows of opportunity for post-COVID Asia
- Be able to critically evaluate and apply the theories and frameworks in Asia business contexts.
- Be able to reflect and create new insights on emerging trends and developments in post-COVID Asia.
- Be able to make persuasive communication to influence in oral form.
- Be able to gain insights on leadership qualities for both collective and crisis leadership.
- Participants understand the emerging trends and developments in post-COVID Asia.
- Participants can critically evaluate the development in Asia in terms of the five key areas.
- Participants can reflect and gain insight into the unique challenges and opportunities in Asia.
This course aims to expose students to emerging windows of opportunity in Asia. The lessons are taught by faculty members from Nanyang Business School (NBS), our partner university in Singapore. The visit to NBS and Singapore allows the students to have a glimpse of the Lion City (Singapore) with various significant achievements internationally from being the leading financial center in the Asia-Pacific, the World’s most awarded airline (Singapore airline), a leading country of choice for business internationally, to be the business hub that opens up many windows of business opportunities in Asia.
To achieve the learning outcomes, the proposed lessons (but are not limited to) and field visits are customized with insights from an Asia perspective and value-add to the comprehensive EMBA program.
- Corporate Sustainability – Lessons learned from Singapore and APAC
- Innovation and Growing New Ventures in Asia
- Corporate Entrepreneurship in Asia
- Industry Visits: The Lion city with many windows
- Leadership in Asia: From Heroic to Collective to Crisis Leadership
1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours.
The course is conducted through a total of 40 hours of lectures, 8 hours of industry visits, and approximately 70 hours of self-study and preparations for team assignment.
Attendance to all sessions in the course is compulsory. If you have to miss part(s) of the course you must ask in advance for a leave of absence. More than 25% absence in a course will require retaking the entire course. It's the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ It's learning or other course materials.
Candidates may be called in for an oral hearing as verification/control of written assignments.
The course is a part of a full MBA programme and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain a certificate.
At the end of this module, participants are expected to submit a team reflective assignment with reference to one (1) of the six lessons and learning activities (see Additional information).
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Software tools
Participants are expected to use Wooclap for class activities.
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| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Weight: 100 Grouping: Individual Duration: 4 Week(s) Comment: Individual written assignment (3000-word essay), counts 100% of the final grade Exam code: MBA 24451 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Teaching | 40 Hour(s) | 5 Lessons |
Company visit and/or Study trip | 8 Hour(s) | Industry Field Visit |
Prepare for teaching | 20 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 50 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 4 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 110 hours.