Feature Stories

Internships offered by two respected financial institutions allow students to apply skills to real-life workplaces An internship can provide the all-important building blocks for developing a future career. The process can include learning through practical experience, gaining insights into industry trends, and forming the first threads of a professional ... Read More

By Jaee Cho, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, HKUST Business School Increasing globalization has created opportunities to cross cultural boundaries when inventing products, engaging in business activities, and building teams. How do people perceive cultural trespassing, and judgments of the crossing of cultural borders as inappropriate ... Read More

By Zhu Jing, Associate Professor, Department of Management, HKUST Business School In many organizations , teams perform complex and knowledge-intensive decision-making and problem-solving tasks. Such tasks commonly require diverse expertise and knowledge, and work teams are often formed with an eye toward harnessing the diverse skills, experience, and ... Read More

By David P. Daniels, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, HKUST Business School On 5 August 2017, a memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” described by some observers as an “anti-diversity screed” went viral. The memo [1], written by a software engineer then working at Google, argued that “the distribution of preferences and abilities of ... Read More

By Christy Zhou Koval, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, HKUST Business School Despite a strong push for gender equality, women are still lagging behind men in many important aspects. How do we break gender stereotypes and what are their impacts on gender equality in our workplace? In Hong Kong, despite similar levels of educational attainment ... Read More

By Melody Manchi Chao, Associate Professor, Department of Management, HKUST Business School With the increase in global connectivity, the ability to work and communicate effectively with people from diverse cultural backgrounds is seen as an important asset. What factors might help to build this asset? Imagine that you need to build a project team to work on ... Read More

The HKUST Business School has provided a dynamic and supportive working environment for faculty to develop intellectually and professionally, contributing to the economic and social advancement of Asia. As a magnet for some of the brightest minds, the School has welcomed 14 young and aspiring scholars. They represent a highly diverse mix of faculty from ... Read More

Besides being the spice of life, variety, in the form of demographic diversity, is an important field of research. Pointing to a key finding, Professor Gong Yaping, Head of the Business School’s Department of Management, says: “Diversity provides teams and organizations with upside potential, but the realization of that potential is dependent on how it’s ... Read More

Making Hong Kong a fairer place takes time. It was only in 1996 that the city’s women won the right to the statutory paid holidays already enjoyed by men, with the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Ordinance. The government-funded Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) was established the same year. Since then, the commission has worked hard to promote ... Read More

Successful businesses in the Asia-Pacific region are employing increasingly diverse workforces, and putting diversity and inclusion policies in place to support such employees, according to surveys by Aon Hewitt, a global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm. According to Mary Yu, Head of Talent Solutions at Aon Hewitt and also HKUST MBA alumnus ... Read More