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Mental health and wellbeing issues are on the rise, especially among university students. In view of this, a group of BSc in Quantitative Finance (QFIN) and Sustainable and Green Finance (SGFN) students formed teams to participate in the Weez Walk 2023 to raise funds and awareness on suicide prevention and youth mental health. Four teams comprising QFIN ... Read More

A PhD student ZHAO Yao and her supervisor, Assistant Professor LEE Dongwon, from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM), co-authored a research paper that shines. The paper (also with Professor Hillol BALA, Associate Professor of Information Systems from Kelley School of Business, Indiana University) ... Read More

Jointly organized by the Center for Investing and the Chartwell Capital Limited, the 6th Annual Value Investing Challenge 2022 was successfully concluded in December 2022. The Challenge is sponsored by the Melting Pot Foundation, with the support from the HKUST Green Finance Research Project and the BSc in Sustainable and Green Finance program. Speakers from ... Read More

Awarded by: GradConnection A huge congratulations to the following students who won the Top100 Future Leaders Competition, an award hosted by GradConnection to recognize top Hong Kong students. Andrew CHAN Gachun, Year 2 Information Systems & Big Data Technology Ugo LEE Chi To, Year 3 Dual Degree Program in Computer Engineering and Management Darren MOK ... Read More

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