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Awarded by: Junior Chamber International Hong Kong Mr Warren Lee, an alumnus of MBA program, has been selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2012 by Junior Chamber International Hong Kong (JCI), in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the performing arts and exemplary contribution to the community. Mr Lee, a musician, serves as the ... Read More

Awarded by: South China Morning Post & Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong A team of first-year students has won the University Student Category of the SCMP/IFPHK Financial Planner Awards 2012, earning internships and a $10,000 cash award. The team had to devise a financial plan for a young couple with one child that would help them meet their life ... Read More

Awarded by: Academy of Management Prof J T Li has been honored for co-authoring the best research paper in international management at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management this year. Prof Li, who is Associate Dean and Head of Management, won the IM Division Fundação Dom Cabral Best Paper in Strategy / IB Theory from Academy of Management award for ... Read More

Awarded by: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Frank M Bass Dissertation Paper Award honors the best PhD thesis of the year in marketing science and management science and this year it has been awarded to Prof Jun Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing. Prof Kim studied how consumers browse and buy products ... Read More

Awarded by: The University of Hong Kong Asia Case Research Centre A team of HKUST Business School's undergraduate students won the 2012 HSBC/McKinsey Business Case Competition held from 6-7 June in Hong Kong. This year's competition was very intense with participation from 16 universities from the region. Each team was given two and a half hours to analyze a ... Read More

Awarded by: Henkel A team of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology undergraduate students have won first prize in an international competition focused on innovation, ahead of competitors from 23 countries in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. This was the first time a team from Asia won the competition. Two Year 2 students, Sun Yi, BBA in ... Read More

Awarded by: Information Systems Research, Operations Research Appointments to the editorial boards of top academic journals are a great honor in recognition of the high research quality of the faculty. Recently, several ISOM faculty were honored with such appointments and one was named among the best in his field. Prof James Thong, an Associate Editor for ... Read More

Awarded by: World Economic Forum Environmental Advocate Lo Sze Ping Commended for Promoting Green Movement in China Mr Lo Sze Ping, a student of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's School of Business and Management (HKUST Business School), has been named a Young Global Leader for 2012 by the World Economic Forum (WEF), in recognition of his ... Read More

Awarded by: Academy of Management (HR division) Professor Jing Zhu in Management has won a prestigious international award in her field for a study that looked at how unemployed individuals went about their job search on a daily basis and how perceived progress, emotions and belief in finding a job on a given day affected their search efforts on the next day ... Read More

Awarded by: Financial Times The HKUST MBA program is ranked in the world's top 10 again by the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2012 despite changes in the ranking criteria. This brings the three-year average rank of the program to the 8th in the world. The HKUST Business School is the only Asian business school to crack Financial Times' global MBA top 10 ... Read More