About ASB and MIT SLOAN

In September 2016, the Asia School of Business will launch its inaugural full-time, two-year MBA program in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management  

The ASB MBA program will deliver a curriculum deeply interconnected with management practices and integrated with the rigor and values embedded in the MIT Sloan School MBA program. The program will foster entrepreneurship, innovation, and hands-on-learning through an active interaction among industry, government, faculty and students. Students will have the chance to master state-of-the-art management tools and obtain deeper understanding of global business dynamics. At the same time, immense exposure to the fascinating reality and growing opportunities of Asia will be provided.

World Class Academic Facilities - Sasana Kijang

The word Sasana is derived from Sanskrit and describes a centre, a meeting place where communities meet.

Sasana Kijang is the realization of Bank Negara Malaysia's aspiration to establish a centre of excellence in knowledge and learning in central banking and finance. 

Designed to be a nexus for thought leadership and collaboration in central banking, Sasana Kijang hosts a learning centre with state-of-the-art training facilities for assisting structured programmes and high level seminars for local and foreign participants and provides opportunities for the exchange of views and experience towards promoting capacity building in central banking to be better positioned in meeting future challenges.

To learn more about Sasana Kijang, kindly download and read the brochure: Sasana Kijang - Towards Excellence in Central Banking [PDF, 3.5MB]

Living life - Lanai Kijang, residential campus

High class accommodation facilities for our students are available at Bank Negara Malaysia’s exclusive residential complex, Lanai Kijang, an easy 5-10 minutes’ walk away. It comes complete with dining facilities, amenities for sports and recreation (such as a modern gymnasium, swimming pool and places for retreat) and it is also Wi-Fi enabled. Located on 5.1 acres of land amidst a green and vibrant environment, Lanai Kijang was designed based on the concept of 'Rumahku, Kampungku' - roughly translated into the saying ' A Home Away From Home'.

For more information, please email us at info@my-asb.org

MIT Sloan students project with Thai Airways

Project Objective: Integrate with Thai Airways’ (“TG”) internal groups involving network planning, optimize this coming winter schedule, and find future opportunities for TG

Project outcomes: Relatively simple optimization can be done to TG’s Winter TPI via SABRE or any other network planning tool to yield significant results

Using Fleet Manager to refleet only 50 flight segments yielded a 3,307 MTHB profit gain for the Winter 2015-2016 season

Using Network Manager to retime TG and WE’s existing flights by only +/- 10 minutes yielded a 4,309 MTHB profit gain.

We are all about Action Learning

What is Action Learning?

Action learning is simply the process of learning by working on real business challenges in collaboration with host companies using tools and frameworks taught in the classroom with the support of mentors, faculty experts and industry leaders.

ASB Profiles

Once a week, we would like to profile one of our team members here at ASB. Before we start the process, here are some visual highlights from our last team Strategic Offsite...

MIT Sloan Alumnus documents trip to explore Islamic culture and faith

Ammar Asfour, LGO ’15, is spending the summer traveling to Muslim communities in six countries

One faith. Six countries. 21,000 miles. That’s the tagline for Ammar Asfour’s trip to photograph and document his personal exploration of Muslim faith and culture in China, Brazil, Bosnia, Senegal, Malaysia, and Japan. Asfour, who graduated from the Leaders for Global Operations program in June, titled his personal blog “The Eye in Islam,” and he answered a few questions from MIT Sloan while on his travels.

Malaysia is the best English-performer in Asia, says the Economist

Malaysia has the highest English proficiency index in Asia

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/04/english and the “EF English Proficiency Index”