Our Executive Education Office offered programs to managers and multi-generational family businesses programs that enhanced their decision-making and succession planning.
Managerial Decision Making and Leadership Open Program
Successful corporations excel in the marketplace through the quality of their products and services. Internally, leaders and managers distinguish themselves by the quality of their decisions. Led by Prof. Caroline WANG, an open program on “Managerial Decision Making and Leadership” helps participants make responsible, high-quality decisions that will determine their professional success and the sustained success of their organizations. This two-day program has received overwhelming response.
The program covers an overview of managerial decision-making, highlighting common psychological traps that hinder quality decisions. It explores specific traps faced by managers and outlines the essential elements of quality decision content.
Sixty participants from diverse backgrounds joined the program, representing 20 companies around the world. Their average work experience is 19 years. Participants found the program engaging and gained valuable knowledge and insights from both peers and faculty on how to lead their teams to make quality decisions.
From Family Business to Family Office
The Roger King Center for Asian Family Business and Family Office successfully conducted the new module of its signature program, “HKUST Global Family Leader Succession Program: From Family Business to Family Office”.
The exclusive program brought together multi-generational family members from Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan. The Center’s Senior Advisor, Prof. Roger KING, and Director, Prof. Winnie PENG, presented their original research and case studies addressing practical issues and engaged participants in in-depth discussions.
The Center also invited family members from renowned families for closed-door experience exchanges, along with top scholars and experts from Europe and the US to contribute a global perspective. Over the three days, families from different regions sparked ideas through interaction and distilled wisdom through case discussions. The program received excellent ratings with some feedback shared by participants:
A second-generation member of a Taiwanese family emphasized: “The program content is deeply insightful and opened another dimension of thinking about the family office.”
The founder of a Chinese Mainland family business said, “The sharing from Asian families with diverse backgrounds in the program allowed me to see the complete evolution from family business to business family, and then to family office.“
