Business Education Designed for Asia
Asia is fast becoming THE hub for trade and commerce, and as such there is a demand for regional-specific management knowledge and expertise. In line with this, Malaysia’s central bank – Bank Negara Malaysia – and the world-renowned MIT Sloan School of Management collaborated to set up the Asia School of Business (ASB) in 2015. Founding President and Dean, Prof Charles H. Fine, shares more with Voice of ASIA.
“ASB aims to fill the needs that come with the exponential growth and opportunities of Asia and the emerging world with highly qualified, industry-ready talents. Since our founding in 2015, our first MBA class graduated in 2018.
Through our partnership with MIT Sloan, as well as our recruitment of A-list faculty members from top global institutions, ASB is able to provide top-level business and management education right in Kuala Lumpur. We provide access to MIT Sloan’s curriculum and rigour fused with a deeper understanding and integration of local nuances and culture.
Fusing the Best of Both Worlds
We are also pleased to be able to provide a number of avenues for corporations to benefit from our programmes. For instance, our MBA for Working Professionals programme will help develop your next generation of leaders’ skillsets while they are on the job.
We do this through a unique blend of the MIT Sloan MBA syllabus delivered within a localised context, coupled with active and iterative learning that is applicable to their roles in your organisation. In addition, they will have one month of learning at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The effectiveness of our integrated educational program is seen in the first cohort of the MBA-WP program, as 60 percent of students were either promoted, had title changes, or saw a significant expansion of responsibilities during their first year of the program.
Forward thinking companies such as AirAsia, Sapura Energy, PNB, Sime Darby, Daiwa Steel (Japan), Phu Hung Securities (Vietnam) and many more have trusted us to develop and educate their next generation of successors.
We have also integrated with ICLIF to create the Iclif Executive Education Centre at ASB. The centre offers a wide range of individual courses as well as executive certificate programs covering General Management, Leadership, Finance and the Global Economy, and Corporate Governance.
Becoming a Trusted Partner
My vision is for ASB to be an executive talent magnet and multiplier for Malaysia and the region. We want to be the source of transformative and principled leaders who go on to create value and contribute to the development of the region and emerging world.
Ultimately, we want to be viewed as the “go-to” business and management school for Malaysian companies, and to be the knowledge and resource hub where corporations come to for the best business education, research and solutions.”
