Feature Stories

Nurturing High School Students to be Entrepreneurs While we teach, we learn. Sinty Chan and Eli Chuah, year two students of the HKUST Business School Global Business (GBUS) program, find the best way to understand this ancient wisdom of this proverb when they participated in a service project that put them in the role of teaching others. They were two of 70 ... Read More

Family Office: The Glue that Keeps Chinese Families Together In many entrepreneurial families, the business itself is a means to keep the entire family together. As the business leadership is passed down from one generation to the next or as the family exits from the business, the family may lose its purpose for working and staying together. The question is ... Read More

Expanding the Scope of Mentoring Mentoring is an effective way to help students progress, find their own potential, and become the person they want to be. The HKUST Business School realizes the value of mentoring and always looks for ways and resources to strengthen its mentoring activities. With a generous donation from the Karen Lee Family, the School is ... Read More

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of HKUST, Biz@HKUST was honored to talk to the first three Deans of the HKUST Business School. Their visions for the future have laid a firm foundation for the School, allowing it to rapidly ascend to international prominence. Their legacies remain all around us. Professor Yuk Shee Chan was one of the first four senior ... Read More

HKUST Business School hosted the BizInsight@HKUST Seminar today. The Seminar featured Prof Sir Christopher Pissarides, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Economics and IAS Helmut & Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large of HKUST, to provide insights into the Brexit impact on global economies. His keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion with Ms Jo Hawley ... Read More

As part of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 25th anniversary global alum event in Beijing, School of Business and Management hosted the “New Role of China in the World Economy” Conference in Beijing on 24 September. The Conference featured distinguished speakers: Prof Sir Christopher Pissarides, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Economics ... Read More

On a fine Saturday afternoon on 16 July, 55 executives of the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA (KH EMBA) KH18 Class celebrated the completion of their program with families and friends on the HKUST campus. The ceremony was presided by Professor Tony Chan, President of HKUST, Professor Chris Doran, Academic Director of KH EMBA, and Mr Greg Hanifee, Associate Dean ... Read More

In honor of Professor John Wei’s retirement after a distinguished career at HKUST for over 24 years, the Department of Finance held a one-day conference on 10 June 2016. The conference started with a welcome reception hosted by the Department Head and Chair Professor Vidhan Goyal, with an opening remarks made by Professor Kar Yan Tam, Dean of the HKUST ... Read More

The Tanoto Center for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies recently addressed issues related to managing family wealth in the face of increased volatility and uncertainty in the global markets. A luncheon talk on the topic was held in March and was attended by almost 50 family business owners and family office professionals from household names ... Read More

“Political risks have not been seriously looked at when analyzing the financial markets,” Mr Daniel Franklin, the Executive Editor of The Economist told the audience in a seminar organized by the MSc in Global Finance (MSGF) Program Office. Mr Franklin, the Editor of The Economist’s “The World in ..” a leading annual publication in offering forecasts, was ... Read More