Feature Stories

Having graduated from the Business School last year, Scott Lam had been looking for opportunities to achieve something he would feel proud of. Triggered by a friend who passed away young, Scott became more determined to step out of his “comfort zone” and look for an “unforgettable experience”. With support and encouragement from his family, friends and the ... Read More

It is more blessed to give than to receive. With the support of the Yeh Family Philanthropy (YFP), HKUST Business School has pioneered a course “Social Entrepreneurship & Venture Philanthropy” and a dedicated Student Directed Venture Philanthropy Fund. The fund provides students with an opportunity to help social enterprises tackle their business challenges ... Read More

“No investment yields as great a return as the knowledge and experience we gained in the class,” said two students who had completed the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) course this summer. Max Ho and Doris Yip, studying BBA in Finance & Economics and BSc in Quantitative Finance respectively, said the course was not simply about speculating and trading ... Read More

Dr Charles Evans, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, visited Hong Kong in late March. The bank is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., form the country’s central banking system. Dr Evans set aside time in the midst of his busy schedule to meet students at the Business School and ... Read More

The workshop titled “Frontiers in Information Systems Practices: A Dialogue with Business Leaders” was jointly held by the Department of ISOM (Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management) and the ISACA (Information Systems Audit & Control Association) Student Group. The half-day event drew to a successful conclusion with an overwhelming ... Read More

This spring, Professor Melody Chao, an Assistant Professor of the Department of Management at the HKUST Business School, is busy with not only research, teaching and services, but also preparing for swimming competitions which will be held in June. “Depending on your judgment standards, someone will always be faster; someone will always be better. Taking ... Read More

Alibaba Group was established only 14 years ago, and its online shopping platform broke a sales record on last year’s “Singles’ Day” with promotions which added up to more than 35 billion yuan, surpassing that of any Thanksgiving Day promotions in the US. Ms Maggie Wu, CFO of Alibaba Group, was invited to HKUST Business School to share the group’s milestone ... Read More

An HKUST MBA team outperformed their peers from the world’s top business schools, including the Yale School of Management and the Chicago Booth School of Business, and won the Grand Prize at the Marshall Global Consulting Challenge in late February. This annual competition organized by the University of Southern California is designed to challenge the minds ... Read More

Engineering was a conventional popular choice of university major and a great start to a promising career at a time when Hong Kong’s construction industry was thriving in the 1980s. Trained as a civil engineer and now a leading economics scholar at HKUST Business School, Prof Edwin Lai candidly admitted that he got bored after five years working as an ... Read More

What would it look like if we just started over? It was a question that Josh Tetrick threw to more than 200 HKUST students, faculty and guests at a talk called “The Future of Food” held at the Lee Shau Kee Business Building on February 19. Josh is the CEO and Founder of Hampton Creek, a food technology company selected by Bill Gates as one of the three ... Read More