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Nearly 900 new undergraduate students celebrated the start of the new academic year with over 100 peer mentors and senior students from the Business Cohort Community (BCC) on 30 August 2017. The “Welcome and Orientation” was kicked off by Dean Prof Tam Kar Yan, as well as Prof Anirban Mukhopadhyay (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies) and Prof Emily ... Read More

To meet the increasing demand for business analytics professionals, a brand new Master of Science program in Business Analytics (MSBA) has been launched. We are delighted to have our first batch of students joining HKUST in Fall 2017. A Welcome Reception and Networking Night was held to extend our warmest welcome to our new students. We were pleased to ... Read More

The HKUST Business School Advisory Council Annual Meeting was held on 15 September 2017, where members gave detailed recommendations on the School’s future development to build on its excellence. Dean of the School, Prof Tam Kar Yan, took the opportunity to thank Dr William Fung for serving as the Council Chairman over the past six years and also Dr ... Read More

Value Partners, one of Asia’s largest fund and asset management firms, has partnered with the HKUST Business School to offer an exclusive internship program for business students. The Value Partners Young Fellowship Program, which bundles an “internship with scholarship,” will offer a full-time paid internship opportunity at Value Partners from January to ... Read More

The Executive Education Office and the Tanoto Center for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies will join hands to organize a bilingual open program on Family Business on 1-3 November 2017. The 3-day program offers an in-depth understanding of ethnic Chinese family businesses and analyzes factors contributing to their longevity. It also ... Read More

Metro Radio 《人生馬拉松》 interviewed Adjunct Professor KC Chan, Department of Finance. He talked about his career path both in the US and Hong Kong, and experience in academia, the government and public services. He also recapped his role as a former dean of the Business School, years of service in the government administration, and return to HKUST where he ... Read More

A number of local dailies featured the first class of the World Bachelor in Business Program (WBB). Two of the first cohort graduates, Sophia Lim and Joseph Samucha, told the press about their enriching and eye-opening learning experience in three different universities, and the internship and employment opportunities opened up for them on three continents ... Read More

The Ernst and Young Family Business Center of Excellence partnered with the HKUST Business School to deliver the NextGen Academy Excellence Program, targeting next generation members of wealthy families worldwide. Participants came from China and Singapore, and as far away as Peru, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Finland, Kuwait, and Sri Lanka ... Read More

Co-founder of Ethereum Shenzhen and HKUST MBA alumnus - Samson Lee (left), and inventor and co-founder of Ethereum - Vitalik Buterin Blockchain is a term that has gained significant momentum worldwide since the technology was first commercially implemented in 2009, through a well-known digital currency - Bitcoin. Today, blockchain remains a very hot ... Read More

Three ISOM faculty have been given major editorial roles contributing to top research journals in information systems, operations management and economics Professor Hui Kai Lung, Deputy Head and Chair Professor of Information Systems, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), a top information ... Read More