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Generative AI (GenAI) is a powerful technology that can boost productivity and creativity in various domains. A research team at the HKUST Business School has developed InvestLM, which became Hong Kong’s first open-source Large Language Model (LLM) for GenAI applications. It is capable of generating investment-related, human-like responses comparable to ... Read More

The last BizTalk session in the Fall Term featured insightful presentations on the theme of ‘Serving Individuals by Type’ by Professor Utpal BHATTACHARYA from the Department of Finance, and Professor LIN Song from the Department of Marketing. Do Women Receive Worse Financial Advice? Prof. Bhattacharya’s research suggests that at financial planning firms, but ... Read More

With “Using Data to Identify Good and Bad Actors” as its theme, our second BizTalks session this season featured Assistant Professor LYU Guodong from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management, and Associate Professor WANG Shiheng from the Department of Accounting. From Targeting to Transfer: Design of Allocation ... Read More

Professor SHIN Dongwook (second left) from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management received the Best Cluster Paper Award (Service Science Section) at the INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Phoenix, the US. The award committee has bestowed first place on Prof. Shin’s paper. Co-authored with Professor Bharadwaj ... Read More

Finance Faculty Appointed as Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research Congratulations to Professor Abhiroop MUKHERJEE of the Department of Finance, also MPhil and PhD Programs Coordinator (Finance), who has been appointed as a Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER)! Founded by academics worldwide, ABFER is an ... Read More

The BizTalks series of the Fall Term has started, featuring scholars first from the Departments of Finance and Marketing on how policies and other people will influence an individual's behavior. Going the Extra Mile: What Taxi Rides Tell Us about Long-hour Culture in Finance In the US, banks have a protected weekend policy that restricts junior bankers from ... Read More

New faculty members bring fresh perspectives and ideas to our School and six academic departments, enhancing the overall quality of our research and education. The School is delighted to welcome the following new faculty members in this new academic year! Accounting (top row from left) Assistant Professor Tony CHO Assistant Professor DONG Qingkai ... Read More

Congratulations to Liwei Huang Associate Professor of Business and Associate Professor JI Yan of the Department of Finance for receiving funding of RMB 2 million for his research project “Macro Finance” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Excellent Young Scientist (EYS) Scheme (Hong Kong and Macau). The proposed research will study ... Read More

Lee Quo Wei Professor of Business, also Chair Professor JT LI (center), together with Management PhD graduate CHEN Ziyi (left), and Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, Professor KWON Ohchan (right), co-authored a paper “ Selling on Digital Platforms Abroad: Modes of Control and Dual Liabilities ”, which ... Read More

A delegation of 25 faculty members from the School visited the premises of SenseTime and iCarbonX in Shenzhen on August 17, to engage in a comprehensive exploration of the current state of technology advancements. The delegation first visited SenseTime, a distinguished artificial intelligence enterprise widely recognized for its innovative video ... Read More