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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

Awarded by: Financial Times The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA (EMBA) program remains the world's No. 1 EMBA program, according to the Financial Times 2011 EMBA global rankings released today. This is the third year in a row that it has achieved top status. Jointly offered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's School of Business and Management ... Read More

Awarded by: Franklin Prize The Management department became the first two-time winner of The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, which honors outstanding work by faculty in the Business School. The Department Award was announced alongside awards that recognize high teaching quality among individual faculty members. The Undergraduate Award went to Prof ... Read More

Awarded by: Society for Consumer Psychology Professor Anirban Mukhopadhyay of the Marketing Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology School of Business and Management (HKUST Business School) has been honored with the Early Career Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP) for his outstanding research in marketing and ... Read More