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The School organized a Joint-University Alumni Summer Drinks on 13 June in Central, with a full house attendance of over 200 alumni and friends from partnered schools and academic alliance. They represented participants from the New York University, Northwestern University, University of Southern California, and CEMS, the Global Alliance in Management ... Read More

Professor Hui Kai Lung, Chair Professor in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management, is a frequent speaker in conferences and forums on subjects related to digital piracy, cybersecurity and privacy, Fintech, and technology policy. In July, he was invited to speak at a “Cyber Risk Conference” jointly organized ... Read More

Rated by Times Higher Education (THE), the Young University Rankings reveal the best universities under 50 years old. Thanks to faculty and staff, students and alumni, and other members of the HKUST family, HKUST has climbed one place to world #1 in the 2018 ranking. THE’s Young University Rankings uses the same methodology as THE’s World University ... Read More

Four Year 2 UG students put their business acumen and agility to test and took part in the HSBC/HKU Business Case Competition. They were tasked to solve a long business case of some 20 pages in three hours, and present their ideas with hand-drawn slides. They didn’t plunge into the contest without doing their homework. The three students from the World ... Read More

Over a hundred deans, directors and senior administrators from the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS) member schools and our global network gathered in Hong Kong for the three-day AAPBS 2018 Academic Conference, to discuss an important topic - “The Impact of Technology on the Future of Work” . The Conference was hosted by ... Read More

Many highly influential papers in top academic journals publish inductive research results using multiple case research methods. Case researchers in Asia find the multiple methods an excellent approach for theory development in this relatively less-explored research environment. With academia’s increasing popularity in the use of these methods, confusion can ... Read More

Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. Without collective action, the scale of the impact of climate change will become more difficulty and costly to manage in the future. To make a difference and bridge opinions from different experts, the Finance Department of the Business School and the Institute for the Environment ... Read More

Professor Tom Sargent, the Nobel Laureate of Economics in 2011, was invited to speak at the 2018 HKUST Workshop on Macroeconomics on 13 June. Professor Tom Sargent is one of the most influential macro-economists in the world. His research has revolutionized the study of macroeconomics. At the workshop, Professor Sargent gave a talk on “Risk ... Read More

The Executive Education Office has provided a program for a new corporate client – the China Merchants Group. A one-day program on “Leadership and Decision” was conducted for the Group’s senior executives in Shekou, China. This program was part of their one-week in-house training, where about 80 senior executives of China Merchants Group and its ... Read More

To help executives acquire cutting-edge insights and stay ahead, the Executive Education Office has introduced a number of different open programs on different management topics including some timely and new topics. In May, two new one-day open programs were offered. The “Cybersecurity & Risk Management” programs, taught by Professor Hui Kai Lung, helped ... Read More