Feature Stories

Eight MBA students formed a team called “mUST Santa” and competed with peers from other local business schools in a charity activity called the MBA Challenge for Operation Santa Claus. In its third year, the the MBA Challenge for Operation Santa Claus aims to raise funds and awareness for the charity drive. Team mUST Santa put together the most “action ... Read More

The HKUST MBA Program has been ranked first in Asia Pacific and no.14 globally by the Financial Times. This marks the sixth time in the last seven years that the HKUST MBA Program has been ranked as the best in Asia Pacific. In the 2016 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking, the HKUST MBA Program has performed well across multiple dimensions. Our graduates ... Read More

A well-remunerated career in the financial services industry, especially at an investment bank, is always much sought after by young graduates. It is viewed as a synonym for high social status, but inevitably, means excess overtime. At a forum entitled “Careers in Financial Services,” jointly held by the HKUST Business School and the Financial Services ... Read More

The Citi - HKUST International Case Competition is Asia’s first and leading case competition that brings about 100 undergraduate business students to Hong Kong annually. It provides an exceptional opportunity for students to solve real-life business issues in a multi-cultural environment. In its 13th consecutive year, the HKUST Business School has once again ... Read More

Dr Raghuram G Rajan, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), shared his insights on two occasions at HKUST in November with audiences that included senior leaders of business, academia and government and recent graduates. As part of the HKUST 25th Anniversary Distinguished Speakers Series, Dr Rajan spoke to an elite audience of more than 50 leaders ... Read More

Eldpathy, is a 30-person social enterprise co-founded by Herman Chan, a BBA graduate from 2012. With an aim of raising awareness about elderly issues, Eldpathy won a subsidy of HK$200,000 from the DBS Social Enterprise Advancement Grant 2015 - Social Innovation Program, supported by the DBS Foundation. This good news comes at a time when Eldpathy is about to ... Read More

How can a brand attract the visual attention of consumers on websites or in supermarkets? Ralf van der Lans, Associate Professor of the Department of Marketing at HKUST, conducted eye-movement tracking experiments in Hong Kong and the Netherlands to find out how factors like package design and colors, shelf layout and position, as well as advertisements ... Read More

HKUST EMBA graduate Cindy Chen is a cofounder and CEO of a telecom company that started a decade ago. In 2010, after her company had already established four research facilities and ten branches in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan and the US, she was keen to learn more about what it would take to make her company more international. She was also keen to improve ... Read More

CEMS is a Global Alliance in Management Education organization composed of academic and corporate institutions which are dedicated to educating future generations of global business leaders. The aim is to help these leaders enter into the multilingual, multicultural and interconnected business world through its Master’s in International Management (MIMT) ... Read More

More than 140 EMBA alumni and students as well as guests joined a seminar organized by the HKUST EMBA Program Office on 15 July, where they had a lively discussion about how enterprises can innovate and transform in the new Internet era. The seminar started with a talk by Professor Michael Zhang from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics ... Read More