NU, SMPrime host 1st NCR Students’ Business Summit

National University (NU), in partnership with SM Prime Holdings Inc. and Philippine Council of Deans and Educators in Business (PCDEB), successfully held the first-ever NCR Students’ Business Summit last March 6 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. With the theme, “Building Business Leaders through Virtual Enterprise and Mobility,” over 2,000 business, IT and Psychology students from different universities around the metro and nearby provinces attended the event which featured a job- fair in the morning with SM Group of Companies and a business forum in the afternoon. College of Business and Accounting Dean Ma. Teresa Gonzales stressed the timeliness of the event. “Business nowadays are not only relying on reports made by humans alone, but we give more reliability on reports that are generated with the use of technology. Since your generation is known as the technology driven-people, today’s theme is very timely, [because this will be] an opportunity for all of our students to assess and explore how they will become business leaders by establishing their virtual enterprise in the future.” Invited to speak in the business summit are PCDEB president Dr. Victor David, who tackled the dangers of illegal drugs, PACSB president Dr. Amado Magsino, who talked about the Passage to ASEAN (P2A) and its effect in the Philippines, and Prof. Allan Barcelona, president of Virtual Business Inc., who discussed the subject “Building Business Leaders.”