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Metro Radio’s Program Education Plus ( 世界大學堂 ) interviewed students of Global Business (GBUS) and Quantitative Finance (QFIN) from the HKUST Business School. The students talked about their enriching learning activities and positive experiences, among others. Edited into first , second and third episode , the interview is presented on Metro Facebook platform ... Read More

With the sponsorship of The Dr Karen Lee Memorial Fund, a lunch gathering was organized on 20 July for the mentors and mentees of the UG Career Mentorship Program. Thanks to mentors Mr Jonathan Cheung, Ms Cynthia Chu, Mr Joseph Koc, Mr Ernest Ng, Mr Kenny Sham, Ms Erica Yuen and Mr Daniel Zhou for joining and sharing their valuable experience with our ... Read More

To help executives and companies build long term customer relationships and improve customer satisfaction, the Executive Education Office offered a new 2-day open program on “Driving Business Performance through CRM” in early July. Taught by Professor Joseph Salvacruz, this new program aims to help executives improve business relationships with customers ... Read More

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