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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

A paper by ISOM’s Chair Prof James Thong, published in the Journal of Operations Management (2012), was presented the JOM Ambassador Award at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Atlanta on 6 August 2017. The award is given to a paper for inter-disciplinary research published in the last five years that has been widely cited in the subsequent ... Read More

Our alumni have been supporting the School on multiple fronts. They serve as our admission interviewers, program ambassadors, company anchors, speakers, mentors, sponsors and more. To recognize and show our appreciation to more than a hundred alumni contributors, an Alumni Appreciation Reception was held on 1 October 2017. The event was officiated by ... Read More

Zhongyuan Bank, the biggest lender based in the Henan provincial capital of Zhengzhou, collaborated with the Executive Education Office for a 5-day Management Development Program for their executives in August. This is the first time the bank has partnered with a business school in Hong Kong. Designed for 38 middle managers from 18 departments and branches ... Read More

The HKUST Business School has collaborated with Taobao China Holding Limited in offering a 2.5 day e-commerce training course for UG students in October. Targeted for beginners, the training is designed with some task-based activities to provide students with knowledge on B2B, e-payment, product listing and customer service. Instructors included trainers ... Read More

Awarded by: Financial Times The highly regarded program and academic excellence at the HKUST Business School have received recurrent recognitions in major international rankings. Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Ranks World’s No.1 for Eighth Time In the latest Financial Times (FT) Global EMBA Rankings, the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program is ranked No.1 in the world, topping ... Read More

Awarded by: Times Higher Education The Times Higher Education has announced its 2018 Subject Rankings. HKUST Business School has been ranked No.1 in Asia or the world’s No.14 in Business and Economics. It is a ranking of world-class universities’ overall broad provision in the fields of business and economics, covering academic prestige and research ... Read More

A record high number of over 200 alumni and friends participated at the Alumni Mixer in Central on 29 August 2017, offering a great opportunity for fellow HKUST Business School’s alumni to expand their professional network with friends from other leading business schools overseas, including the London Business School, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, USC ... Read More