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Awarded by: Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE) Congratulations to Assistant Professor Emilio BISETTI and PhD student ZHAO Xiao of the Department of Finance, who won the Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE) Best Paper Award with a cash prize of US$5,000. The winning research paper “Smokestacks and the Swamp” is co-authored with Finance Assistant Professor ... Read More

Warmest welcome to all new joiners of the HKUST Business School! On Aug 29, the Business School hosted the first-ever Welcome and Orientation at the Shaw Auditorium on campus, with over 400 undergraduate freshmen joining the event in person, and more than 200 students watching the live-streaming online. At the event, Dean of HKUST Business School Prof. TAM ... Read More

Every year, the Hong Kong Youth & Tertiary Students Association will award ten outstanding university students for their excellent academic achievements and great contributions to the society. One of the winners this year is our Year 4 undergraduate student CHEUNG Pok To Jason, who majors in Marketing and Management. At the award presentation ceremony, Jason ... Read More

PhD student QIU Yancheng from the Department of Finance has received the CES (Chinese Economists Society) Best Student Paper Award and the ACEM (Antai College of Economics and Management) Outstanding Paper Award for his job market paper titled “Foreign Debt, Exchange Rate Exposure, and Corporate Distress”. The paper examines how exchange rate shocks ... Read More

Congratulations to Year 2 Information Systems & Big Data Technology student Andrew CHAN Gachun for being one of the 25 winners of the Innovation and Technology Scholarship in Hong Kong. With the prize valued at HKD150,000, the scheme also includes an Overseas Attachment Program as well as Mentorship and Service Project Programs, all of which will become ... Read More

We are delighted to share the exciting news that our undergraduate teams shone and won multiple awards in various case competitions in the past few months: First Runner-up in the 18 th HKUST International Case Competition This year’s HKUST International Case Competition was held online attracting leading business schools from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan ... Read More

Congratulations to our Year 3 Marketing & Management student Jason CHEUNG Pok To, who won the overall Champion of the Pitch Perfect Programme. Being one of the seven winners from over 100 participants, Jason also clinched the overall championship title. In addition to the one-year HKGCC Student Membership and a total of HK$18,000 cash award, he will have the ... Read More

Congratulations to two teams from the School’s undergraduate programs for their outstanding performances at the Hong Kong Joint University Case Competition (HKJUCC). Comprising Year 2 Global Business students HUNG Yun-yeh, SO Chi Ching and WONG Hoi Tung and Year 1 Economics student POON Lok Sun, team Ace Advisory was named the First Runner-up. Team Daemon ... Read More

The Business School undergraduate (UG) program saw exciting developments come through regarding international learning experience. In early 2022, our UG students successfully participated in the first-ever Global Network (GN) Week at various top business schools globally including IE Business School in Spain and the University of New South Wales in Australia ... Read More

Congratulations to our undergraduates Simon Francis CALLAGHAN (BBA in World Business, Year 2), Matilda Lydia JARVIS (BBA in World Business, Year 2), Ismet OZER (BBA in Global Business & BSc in Computer Science, Year 2), and Amina SHAFEEK-HORTON (BBA in World Business, Year 2) for clinching the first runner-up title at the HSBC/HKU Business Case Competition ... Read More