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Awarded by: Young Entrepreneurs Development Council The team "PiCode" formed by two HKUST students Timothy Ng Sze Wai and Wenjian Huang (from the School of Business & Management and School of Engineering respectively) together with two CUHK students has won the HKSTPC Technopreneur Gold Award at the YDC E-Challenge Competition 2014. This award sponsored by ... Read More

Awarded by: Research Grants Council (RGC) We are pleased to report that the proposals submitted by Assistant Professors Koh Tat Koon and Wang Jing of the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM), and Sam Garg of the Department of Management have received the Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2014/15 funding approval ... Read More

Awarded by: Emerald Group Publishing A paper co-authored by Professor Vidhan Goyal of the Finance Department was chosen as a winner in the prestigious “2013 Citations of Excellence Awards” by Emerald Group Publishing. Each year a list of the top 50 papers is selected from the top 300 management journals in the world by an independent accreditation board of ... Read More

Awarded by: CEIBS A team of HKUST MBA students took the championship at the CEIBS-Vanke INNOVATEChina 2014 Entrepreneurship Challenge in Shanghai. The topic this year was Disruptive Innovation – Mobile Internet and New Lifestyles. From almost 40 entries submitted by top business schools around the world, HKUST and five other teams - the Yale School of ... Read More

Awarded by: CIMA HKUST undergraduates have achieved the best results ever in the CIMA Global Business Challenge in Hong Kong. One team took the championship title and the other was the second runner-up, and a student was named the “Best Future Business Leader”. [img]/files/Content/Uploads/Champion - The Cruisers-70ac32b5-8903-4a31-a2d7-117154c3a77d.jpg[ ... Read More

Awarded by: Elsevier Professor Xu Yan, Associate Dean (HKUST EMBA Program, Executive Programs and China Strategy) and Associate Professor of ISOM, has been awarded by Elsevier, the publisher of the journal Telecommunications Policy, with a Certificate of Reviewing Excellence in recognition of his contributions as a peer reviewer. The editors of the journal ... Read More

Awarded by: HKUST Prof Ron McEachern, Adjunct Professor of Marketing Department, has been named Honorary Fellow by HKUST. Other distinguished leaders who were awarded the 2014 Honorary Fellowships included Dr Winnie Ko Pui-shuen, The Hon Abraham Shek Lai-him and Dr David Sin Wai-kin. Prof McEachern is the former President of PepsiCo Asia and joined the ... Read More

Awarded by: Tel Aviv University & CUHK MBA students from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) took home the championships of the Sofaer International Case Competition in Israel and the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Case Competition in Hong Kong. This extends their winning streak to four competitions this Spring semester. ... Read More

Awarded by: Dean's Faculty Service Award Professor Peter MacKay, Associate Head of Finance, was named the first winner of the Dean's Faculty Service Award. The award, newly launched this year by the Business School, aims to recognize faculty members for their exemplary service contributions to HKUST, profession or the community at large. Professor MacKay ... Read More

Awarded by: the Franklin Prize The Franklin Prize in recognition of teaching staff for their excellence performance was presented to faculty members at a ceremony during the School Board meeting on 14 May. Professor Franklin Laurence, the prize donor, was on hand to present the plagues to all awardees and nominees, praising their outstanding performance and ... Read More