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The first-ever HKUST MBA Fosun Technopreneur Competition took place on 4 December 2017 at the HKUST Business Central facility. The event featured five innovative business plan ideas and showcased the intellect and creativity of HKUST students in solving problems related to health and happiness. With the generous support from the Fosun Foundation, the HKUST ... Read More

The HKUST Business School is one of the supporting organizations of the inaugural Asian E-tailing Summit. The Summit aimed at exploring the implications of e-tailing disruption will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre by HKTDC. HKUST Business School’s alumni and business contacts can enjoy the discount price at HK$234. Event ... Read More

Awarded by: International management journals A bibliometric study (of prolific, productive, and most cited authors and institutions) has reviewed articles published from 2000-2012 on expatriate management. The Department of Management has achieved remarkable results: Regarding the most productive authors and institutions based on journal quality, the ... Read More

Awarded by: Information Systems Research (ISR) Prof Xu Hong has won the Information Systems Research (ISR) reviewer of the year award for 2016. ISR is one of the top two Information Systems journals used in the Financial Times ranking. Meanwhile, an Information Systems PhD graduate, Zike Cao, has recently won the second runner-up prize in the INFORMS ISS ... Read More

The rise of online social networks, such as Facebook, Sina Weibo, Twitter, and WeChat has been one of the most significant developments on the web in the last decade. It has transformed how consumers interact with each other and affected the way companies communicate with their customers. One way to leverage social connections is to develop a viral ... Read More

Awarded by: The Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology HKUST held its fourth inauguration ceremony of named professorships on 27 October to honor outstanding faculty members and their donors. Of the 15 appointed professors, three are from the Business School: Prof Hung Mingyi , the Department of Accounting Prof Jaideep Sengupta , the ... Read More

The Hong Kong FinTech Week was staged at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in October, and saw HKUST faculty engaging in lively discussions with the industry on the digital future of the financial services industry. The HKUST Panel began with Prof Mike So from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations ... Read More

FinTech is booming, attracting global investments and opening up new opportunities. The Business School organized a series of activities between 30 October and 5 November, including a career fair and company talks, together with other action-packed events on FinTech. To begin with, an alumni sharing session on FinTech, featured three alumni entrepreneurs ... Read More

The first ever UNLEASH Innovation Lab was held in Denmark In August 2017, where 1,000 selected students and other participants gathered to co-create feasible solutions to reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals before 2030. As one of the academic partners, HKUST nominated two MBA students, Julian Wong and Yasir Naveed, to the program. “This event ... Read More

Co-edited by Prof Berend Wierenga of the Rotterdam School of Management, and Associate Prof of Marketing Ralf van der Lans of HKUST, this handbook is a complete update of the first edition from 2008, with new chapters on online marketing, social networks, models for customer lifetime value, and behavioral targeting. This 18 chapter edition covers many of ... Read More