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Issues

Volume 13 Issue 1 | Published on 08 Apr 2026

The Impact Imperative

  • The Age of Impact [PDF | HTML]
    Across Asia—and increasingly around the world—we are entering what can only be described as an age of impact.
  • Building the Foundations for Impact [PDF | HTML]
    For organisations to drive real change, they must treat impact as a strategic commitment and reshape internal structures to support it. An interview with Michael Rich, President Emeritus of RAND Corporation.
  • The Impact Imperative [PDF | HTML]
    Why impact has become a test of institutional design, purpose and credibility.
  • Standing Firm on Sustainability [PDF | HTML]
    As priorities evolve, sustainability continues to shape key business decisions for organisations. An interview with Helge Muenkel, Chief Sustainability Officer at DBS.
  • Why Complex Risks Demand Multidisciplinary Action [PDF | HTML]
    The A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs offers a model for how organisations can move from ad-hoc crisis response to sustained, shared preparedness.
  • From Index to Impact [PDF | HTML]
    Why business leaders should watch Vietnam’s subnational reform experiment closely.
  • Bold and Humble in the Age of Impact [PDF | HTML]
    How collaboration—supercharged by AI—can turn purpose into performance, and performance into accountability.
  • The Cost of Silence [PDF | HTML]
    From wellness myths to financial hype, the real risk is not just misinformation—it’s misinformed decision-making. When confidence becomes a proxy for credibility, strategies and sensibility drift. Here’s how leaders can raise the evidence bar and institutionalise independent challenge.
  • The Role of Institutes of Higher Learning in Deepening Social Impact [PDF | HTML]
    Institutes of higher learning do more than generate knowledge. At their best, they connect partners, evidence, policy and capability to make social impact more credible, cumulative and durable.
  • The Impact Reporting Playbook [PDF | HTML]
    Ditch the proverbial laundry list and build impactful reports with evidence of change that leaders, partners and the public can trust and act on.
  • Bringing Back Dignity with Incontinence Care [PDF | HTML]
    After a decade-long career in consumer brand MNCs, Nivedita Venkateish began her own business to help seniors tackle urinary incontinence.
  • What Does It Take to Make Housing Affordable? [PDF | HTML]
    Professor Phang Sock Yong’s body of work has shaped conversations around housing affordability both in Singapore and abroad—helping policymakers manage land, supply, finance and market rules as one integrated system.
  • When Performance is Not Enough [PDF | HTML]
    As NGOs lack formal authority, their influence depends on legitimacy, which can be contested at scale online. Leaders must treat social media as a governance decision, with clear scope, speaking authority and response protocols.
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Volume 12 Issue 3 | Published on 13 Nov 2025

Smart City Development: Why does it matter for Southeast Asia?

  • Delivering Urban Transformation for the Individual [PDF | HTML]
    The call for urban transformation has never been more pressing.
  • Bridging the (U)rban and (I)ndividual to Transform Cities [PDF | HTML]
    Urban transformation efforts are often focused on infrastructure and technology issues, overlooking how the individual experiences the city. An interview with SMU President Professor Lily Kong.
  • Smart City Development [PDF | HTML]
    Why does it matter for Southeast Asia?
  • Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Future [PDF | HTML]
    Investors should bear in mind that climate risks eventually translate into financial risks. An interview with Eric Pedersen, Head of Responsible Investments at Nordea Asset Management
  • Digital Platforms, Mobility, and Cities [PDF | HTML]
    The rise of the digital platform economy and urban mobility requires the reshaping of urban policy.
  • Sustainability and Climate-Related Regulations and Due Diligence [PDF | HTML]
    Why does it matter?
  • Unlocking Private Equity Investing [PDF | HTML]
    Myths and market shifts to take note of.
  • From Hands-On to Tech-On [PDF | HTML]
    The digital future of warehouses.
  • Mind the Gap: Fixing India's Demand-Supply Mismatch [PDF | HTML]
    Adopting advanced technology and a big-picture approach can deliver operational and financial gains.
  • The REIT Man for the Job [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with John Lim, Co-Founder of ARA Asset Management.
  • Blue Bird: Building the Right Path [PDF | HTML]
    How Indonesia's leading mobility provider pursued twin transformations involving sustainable growth and digitalisation.
  • The Changing Face of Asian Cities [PDF | HTML]
    Whether Asia can redefine urbanisation on its own terms will determine if its megacities turn out to be sustainable ones or urban jungles.
  • Hard Lessons, Stronger Banks [PDF | HTML]
    The enduring wisdom of the Savings and Loan crisis veterans.
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Volume 12 Issue 2 | Published on 24 Jun 2025

Volume 12 Issue 2

  • Strategy and Stewardship in an Uncertain World [PDF | HTML]
    This issue, as we continue to celebrate Singapore Management University’s (SMU) 25th anniversary, we explore leadership in higher education, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), ethical stewardship, and other challenges, highlighting how they intersect in our increasingly complex, fast-changing world.
  • University Leadership [PDF | HTML]
    The future belongs to institutions that advance impact and prepare minds for lifelong learning.
  • Forging the Future [PDF | HTML]
    How AI is rewriting the rules of knowledge, expertise, and practice.
  • Bridging Worlds [PDF | HTML]
    How philosophy, culture, and ethics shape leadership and learning. An interview with Professor Alan K.L. Chan, Provost of Singapore Management University.
  • Building Urban Resilience [PDF | HTML]
    Cities can lead on services, resources, and partnerships.
  • Beyond the Binary: Rethinking Work-from-Home Policies [PDF | HTML]
    The right approach depends on your organisation’s readiness.
  • Local Insights into Global Value Chains [PDF | HTML]
    Leveraging firm-level data to inform anticipatory economic policy decisions.
  • Unlocking Private Equity Investing: A Primer [PDF | HTML]
    Private equity might provide higher returns, but investors should be aware of the associated risks.
  • Growing through Grit and Grace [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Roshni Mahtani Cheung on how she scaled up theAsianparent and The Parentinc with resilience and a ‘community-first’ approach.
  • Alibaba: Building Advanced Intellectual Property Governance for E-Commerce Marketplaces [PDF | HTML]
    How the global e-commerce powerhouse harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to balance innovation and intellectual property (IP) rights protection.
  • Steering the Future [PDF | HTML]
    Embracing the emergence of corporate stewardship.
  • Leading with Narrative [PDF | HTML]
    Storytelling as a catalyst for strategy execution.
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Volume 12 Issue 1 | Published on 28 Mar 2025

Reimagining Education: Keeping the human in the loop

  • Learning and Reskilling to Stay Ahead Amidst Disruption [PDF | HTML]
    Reforming adult and continuing education has become a key issue in an era defined by relentless change borne of constant technological advancements.
  • Learning: Human Versus Machine [PDF | HTML]
    Outdated education paradigms must be revamped to reclaim the all-important human quality: agency. An interview with Sanjay Sarma, CEO, President, and Dean of the Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Reimagining Education: Keeping the Human in the Loop [PDF | HTML]
    How educators can work with generative artificial intelligence models to improve learning.
  • Skills for the Future [PDF | HTML]
    How Singapore’s SkillsFuture Movement delivers skills and employment outcomes. An interview with Dr Gog Soon Joo, Chief Skills Officer at SkillsFuture Singapore.
  • Social Mobility What We Haven’t Talked About [PDF | HTML]
    More balanced understanding may curb unintended negative outcomes.
  • Greening Brown Sectors through Transition Finance [PDF | HTML]
    Financing not-so-green industries’ environmental transition could really move the climate needle.
  • How Can Foreign Commercial Vehicle Manufacturers Succeed in India? [PDF | HTML]
    Seven steps to achieve market entry based on lessons from recent market exits.
  • The Secret Ingredients Of Strategy Implementation [PDF | HTML]
    Knowing what to do and actually doing it are two very different things.
  • Mind the Green Skills Gap [PDF | HTML]
    The need to build tomorrow’s sustainable green economy today.
  • A Mother’s Work at Motherswork [PDF | HTML]
    Turning a desire for fashionable maternity wear into a journey with women into motherhood. An interview with Sharon Wong, founder of Motherswork.
  • Wingspan: Taking Digital Learning to New Heights [PDF | HTML]
    How an internal learning platform became a market success.
  • Building Skills Now for ASEAN’s Future [PDF | HTML]
    Upskilling of workers is critical for building a more resilient workforce and future-proofing economic growth.
  • The Ethics of AI Nudges: How AI Influences Decision-Making [PDF | HTML]
    And why decision-makers should care about it.
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Volume 11 Issue 3 | Published on 08 Nov 2024

Urban Sustainability: The Singapore Experience

  • The Path to Greening Our Future [PDF | HTML]
    More than half of humanity currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations predicts that figure will reach 70 percent by 2050.
  • Power Shift: Steering the Energy Sector towards a Net Zero Future [PDF | HTML]
    Balancing traditional operations with emerging sustainability demands.
  • Urban Sustainability: The Singapore Experience [PDF | HTML]
    The importance of green buildings, the circular economy, and zero waste.
  • Getting On Board With Incentivising ESG [PDF | HTML]
    What gets rewarded gets measured and done.
  • Why isn’t Formula 1 Going Electric? [PDF | HTML]
    Electric vehicles are not the only sustainable automotive option.
  • Our Roads Are Choking Us [PDF | HTML]
    Re-imagining transport systems to cut carbon emissions and drive climate change.
  • Urban H: Housing, Heat and Health [PDF | HTML]
    Future policy needs to triangulate the ‘triple-H’ to help marginalised urban populations.
  • Digital India [PDF | HTML]
    Promises, perils, and inspiration for the Global South.
  • Catching the Digital Wave [PDF | HTML]
    JUMBO Group shows how digital transformation and its seafood business can go together.
  • From Congestion to Connectivity [PDF | HTML]
    Southeast Asia is betting on new urban transit systems to solve its urban gridlock problems.
  • Pigs and the City [PDF | HTML]
    Urban greening requires a re-look at sharing space with animals and nature.
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Volume 11 Issue 2 | Published on 19 Jul 2024

Nurturing Entrepreneurship and Growing Entrepreneurs

  • Whether in the classroom or the marketplace, there’s no perfect formula for innovation and entrepreneurship [PDF | HTML]
    Successful innovation is never easy, and the fine line between creating the next tech unicorn and the next failed start-up often lies in the founders’ capacity to learn from both their successes and setbacks.
  • Innovating Today to Build a Sustainable Tomorrow [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Daryl Ng, Deputy Chairman of Hong Kong-based real estate property developer Sino Group.
  • Nurturing Entrepreneurship and Growing Entrepreneurs [PDF | HTML]
    How Southeast Asia’s universities can pave the way.
  • Cognitive Technologies [PDF | HTML]
    AI and the revolution of work.
  • Igniting Creativity in an Organisational Rainforest [PDF | HTML]
    Tata Group’s quest for Open Innovation.
  • Supplier-Complementor Alliances [PDF | HTML]
    Enhancing value creation for the ecosystem.
  • Entrepreneurial (Re)vision [PDF | HTML]
    Transforming DMK footwear for the next-gen market.
  • The Creativity Conundrum [PDF | HTML]
    Balancing remote work and face-to-face collaboration in Asia.
  • Setting Up the Right Guardrails [PDF | HTML]
    Using a stakeholder orientation view to steer infrastructural public-private partnership projects.
  • Driving Success with Data [PDF | HTML]
    Aaron Tan leveraged his computer science education with venture capital experience to build a unicorn.
  • The Growth of Southeast Asia’s MSMEs [PDF | HTML]
    Funding winter presents opportunities to reboot for the future.
  • Staging Singapore’s Cultural Economy [PDF | HTML]
    Growing and cultivating soft power is the name of the game.
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Volume 11 Issue 1 | Published on 28 Mar 2024

Hello, JARVIS

  • AI may be the future of work, but caveat emptor [PDF | HTML]
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) could well become the phrase du jour for 2024.
  • Developing Singapore as a Smart Nation [PDF | HTML]
    Creating trust in digital services is key to building a tech-enabled society.
  • Hello, JARVIS [PDF | HTML]
    How AI-enabled interactive agents will reshape our workforce of today and tomorrow.
  • Superminds at Work: The Promise of Human-AI Collaboration [PDF | HTML]
    Shaping a collaborative future.
  • Navigating Sustainable Futures [PDF | HTML]
    A leadership imperative.
  • Smart Heuristics for Smart Management [PDF | HTML]
    How leaders can make effective decisions in a VUCA world.
  • Service Transformation that will Boost Your Business [PDF | HTML]
    Focus on your customers to catapult your company to success. However, leaders must drive a culture change to make it happen.
  • EyRIS: From the Lab to the Market [PDF | HTML]
    Singapore’s trailblazer AI algorithm for detecting diabetes-related eye diseases.
  • Navigating Through Chaos [PDF | HTML]
    How AI and optimisation models can strengthen supply chain resilience.
  • The Chatbot Challenge: How SMEs can Leverage AI for Growth and Engagement [PDF | HTML]
    Enhancing SME workforce efficiency with chatbots for improved business communication.
  • Maximising the AI Revolution in Southeast Asia [PDF | HTML]
    For that, the region must narrow the digital divide.
  • From Emergency Rooms To Boardrooms [PDF | HTML]
    How doctors think can improve business decision-making.
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Volume 10 Issue 3 | Published on 30 Nov 2023

Does Elite Quality Matter?

  • Building Urban Sustainability with Quality Elites [PDF | HTML]
    Do elites contribute to a society more than they extract from it?
  • Leading by Example and Giving Back to Society [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder and former Chairman of Infosys.
  • Does Elite Quality Matter? [PDF | HTML]
    Yes, it can make or break a society.
  • Reimagining Sustainable Urban Communities in Hong Kong [PDF | HTML]
    Using environmental and social urban design principles to create future new towns.
  • Increasing the Acceptance of Cultivated Meat [PDF | HTML]
    Factors to consider when designing communication strategies for diverse nations.
  • Riding the Decarbonisation Wave: BHP and Its LNG Dual-Fuelled Vessels [PDF | HTML]
    What does it take to decarbonise charter-related shipping?
  • Novus ex Machina: Realise Your Organisation’s Creative Potential with AI [PDF | HTML]
    Innovation managers must learn how to harness AI’s transformative potential.
  • From Mindset to Action: Accountants as Stewards for Sustainability [PDF | HTML]
    They need to start preparing for this new role now.
  • Pursuing Profit and Sustainability in the Age of Climate Change [PDF | HTML]
    Building dual-agenda innovation capabilities is the way to go.
  • Building Success in the Philippine Retail Sector [PDF | HTML]
    Jimmy Thai tells us about how the Primer Group has expanded to become the retail giant it is now.
  • The Rise of Multi-Homing in Asia's Ride-Hailing Industry [PDF | HTML]
    Getting it right secures environmental and economic wins for the present and future.
  • Delivering Healthcare to the Underserved [PDF | HTML]
    Non-profits, governments, and businesses need to come together and use a data-driven approach to improve local basic healthcare access.
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Volume 10 Issue 2 | Published on 07 Jul 2023

Where the World is Heading in 2023 and Beyond

  • Editor's Note [PDF | HTML]
    Charting directions and steadying the ship amidst the storms, waves and currents
  • Pursue Sustainability, Stay Paranoid in a Post-COVID World [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Ho Kwon Ping, Founder and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings.
  • Where the World is Heading in 2023 and Beyond [PDF | HTML]
    The global economy is showing resilience, despite strong headwinds.
  • What Really Works Best in Vision Creation [PDF | HTML]
    The answer might surprise you.
  • Navigating Investor Expectations [PDF | HTML]
    Why start-ups need to speak the language of numbers.
  • China's MYbank: Creating Shared Value [PDF | HTML]
    Online banking has delivered financial inclusivity and profits, but has it also created shared value?
  • Making Manufacturing Strategic for the 21st Century [PDF | HTML]
    The role of the manufacturing executive must be upgraded too.
  • Beyond a Single Quadrant [PDF | HTML]
    Rethinking platform businesses in the digital era.
  • Care Labour Shortage Needs a Cure, Not More Band-Aids [PDF | HTML]
    Retaining care workers will become more difficult for Asia’s ageing economies.
  • Achieving Success in Silicon Valley [PDF | HTML]
    Desmond Lim tried, failed, and finally succeeded with Workstream, an app that helps businesses hire and manage hourly workers.
  • Rebuilding Supply Chains in APEC [PDF | HTML]
    This calls for greater collaboration.
  • Future-Proofing Healthcare Systems [PDF | HTML]
    This includes tackling climate change challenges too.
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Volume 10 Issue 1 | Published on 16 Mar 2023

Creating the Capacity for Digital Government

  • Digitalisation touches everything [PDF | HTML]
    “There is no alternative to digital transformation…[and] those that don’t adapt will fail.”
  • Steering Steadily in the Post-Pandemic World [PDF | HTML]
    Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President of Bangkok Bank, speaks with Tan Chin Tiong about the future of banking in Thailand and the region as the world slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Creating the Capacity for Digital Government [PDF | HTML]
    It's more than tech.
  • Social Media: Enabling Touchpoints Beyond Advertising [PDF | HTML]
    An effective customer service platform and a strategic communication channel.
  • How Boards can Up their Digital Game [PDF | HTML]
    Board leaders need to keep up with the accelerating rate of change.
  • Robowealth: Boosting Financial Inclusion in Thailand [PDF | HTML]
    Advanced fintech lowers barriers to investing.
  • Participatory Digital Futures [PDF | HTML]
    How digital transformation can be made good for all.
  • Harnessing the Power of Video Ads [PDF | HTML]
    In digital advertising, video ads as a top-of-funnel function have a longer-lasting effect than display and search ads on a consumer's consciousness.
  • Real Estate Assets: To Build or not to Build? [PDF | HTML]
    It’s about when, not whether.
  • Don't Try to be a Superman [PDF | HTML]
    N. Edwin Widjonarko, co-founder and Director of Technology of Xurya, speaks about his entrepreneurial journey in Indonesia’s solar power generation space.
  • Helping Asia’s Elderly to Become Digital Citizens [PDF | HTML]
    This needs an urgent ‘whole-of-society’ approach.
  • Don’t Fear the Reaper [PDF | HTML]
    Digital transformation in Singapore’s MICE industry.
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