Professor Chris Hsee on “The Art and Science of Happiness”

Once again, Chicago Booth will be hosting its Global Leadership Series event.

On Thursday, July 9, Professor Chris Hsee, the Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing will be featured. Professor Hsee, who received his PhD from Yale and joined the Chicago Faculty in 1993, will speak on “The Art and Science of Happiness”.

In this talk, Professor Chris Hsee will share with you insights from a new science which we call “hedonomics.” While economics studies how to maximize wealth with limited resources, hedonomics studies how to maximize happiness with limited wealth. Building on empirical research in this field, Hsee will introduce 10 practical strategies that you can use to make yourself, your friends, your employees and your clients happier without having to spend more money. These strategies tap on topics ranging from how to make decisions, through how to pay others, to how to give gifts.

Join us for a sensible study at ways to optimize happiness in your workplace and beyond! We welcome colleagues and members of the Singapore business community to this lively event.

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” Dale Carnegie

Date:         9 July (Thursday)
Time:         7:00PM – Registration
                 7:30PM – Presentation and Q&A
                 8:30PM – Networking Reception
                 9:30PM – Event concludes
Venue:       Chicago Booth, Asia Campus
                 101 Penang Road (at Clemenceau)
                 Singapore 238466
Cost:         $20 includes wine and appetizers
Topic:        “The Art and Science of Happiness"

Please see the event website for more information, and the registration site to register.

This year’s book prize winner, Yap E-Lynn, reflects on her trip in this essay.

Click on the link below to read the full article.

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Take a break and chill out with your fellow Stanford alumni at a unique event!

Join us at Brewerkz for an evening of beer tasting and socializing with members and friends of the Stanford Club. Yes, that’s right – not your usual wine tasting evening, but a beer tasting evening instead. Brewerkz will allow us to taste 5 of their special handcrafted micro-brews for 2 hours. We look forward to seeing you there.

Brewerkz will provide:

• 5 Draft Selection Beers served in beer towers
• Fingerfood Platters (Calamari, Grilled Wings, Chips & Salsa, Potato Skins)

Please send your reservation to Cheef Wan or by fax at 6828-2101 by 23 Jun 09 to reserve a place at the event. Fees for the event cover finger food & beer.

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DUAL evening talk and networking

“Who Moved My Rice Bowl”? The Third Session: Is the Bowl Half Full?
Financial Health and the Family

We live in an unprecedented environment of global pressures which have impacted all of us personally. Reaching out to those who have been retrenched is an initiative by DUAL as we continue to be relevant to our alumni members. DUAL is organizing a series of 5 sessions called “WHO MOVED MY RICE BOWL?”

• Session 3 – Tuesday, 30th June, 2009 : Is the Bowl half full ? Financial Health and the Family
• Session 4 – end July : Sharing your Rice Bowl – Network
• Session 5 – end Aug : Eat and Live Healthily

Date: Tuesday, 30th June, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Venue: The American Club
10 Claymore Hill
Cost: $35, payment at door

Though payment is at door, no show will still be charged.

This is a closed door session targeted at only alumni members and ideally, only the retrenched. RSVP By Fri 26th June, 2009 to Ms. Ng Hau Yee.

An Evening Talk with Dr. Bernard Lee on “Demystifying the Alternative Investments Industry”

The MBA Wing of the Imperial College Alumni Association of Singapore (ICAAS) invites you to “Demystifying the Alternative Investments Industry” by Dr. Bernard Lee (Visiting Practice Associate Professor of Economics & Deputy Director, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, Singapore Management University)

Date: Wednesday, 29th July 2009
Time: 7:15pm
Venue: The Pod, Level 16, NLB Building
100 Victoria Street
Cost: Free

Registration is required before 12 noon on 28th July 2009 via the NLB website (under “Business”).