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Awarded by: Forbes Asia A final-year student (Global Business & Finance) Bradley Chiang has been named by Forbes Asia as one of the “30 Under 30” in the Consumer Tech Sector. The magazine presents the awards to the brightest young entrepreneurs in 20 different sectors in the region. Born in Taiwan, Bradley co-founded Snapask in 2014 – a mobile app designed ... Read More

Awarded by: QS According to 2016 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the HKUST Business School has been ranked among the world’s top universities in several fields. They include Computer Science & Information Systems* (No.14), Business & Management Studies (No.18), Accounting & Finance (No.19), Statistics & Operational Research* (No.24) and Economics & ... Read More

Awarded by: 18th Cohort of the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program Professor Vidhan Goyal, Head of the Department of Finance, has been selected the “Professor of the Year” by the 18th Cohort of the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program. This honour recognises Professor Goyal’s consistent and successful efforts to bring new teaching techniques and ideas to the ... Read More

Awarded by: HKUST and the Academy of International Business Professor Jiatao Li, Senior Associate Dean, recently received both local and international recognition for his academic excellence. In March he was named Lee Quo Wei Professor of Business at the third inauguration of HKUST's named professorships. Such appointments are made possible by the ... Read More

Awarded by: HKUST HKUST recognised the commitment and dedication of seven faculty and staff from the Business School at the annual Long Services Awards presentation ceremony to honour those who have served the University for 20 years. The School's recipients are: Professor Kevin Chen, Professor David Cook, Ms Anita Lau, Professor Leung Siu Fai, Professor ... Read More

Awarded by: Department of Finance and Chartwell Capital Limited The Value Investing Challenge, organized by the Department of Finance and sponsored by Chartwell Capital Limited, was successfully concluded with prizes presented to winners on 18 February 2016. The competition aims to promote value investing approach and encourage students to perform ... Read More

Awarded by: AngelHack An HKUST-HKU team has notched up three awards at the Hackathon Global Demo Day held in San Francisco on 29 October. The team – a startup called “Plain Exchange” had four members from HKUST and two from HKU. Their creative idea of developing peer to peer currency exchange platform was showcased in the highly regarded competition that ... Read More

Awarded by: ISACA Exam results are a fact of life for students everywhere, sparking happiness or despair, but seldom making headlines. Until Benjamin Huber’s results, that is. Huber scored the world’s highest mark on the internationally recognized Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam, a credential often required of professionals in IT security ... Read More

Awarded by: International Supply Chain Education Alliance An HKUST team has beaten out four other Hong Kong university teams to win the Hong Kong qualifier round of the Ptak Prize Global Case Competition. They will compete in the final to be held online in December. The annual competition is organized by the International Supply Chain Education Alliance ... Read More

Awarded by: Department of Management The Department of Management awarded its annual Outstanding Management Student Scholarship for 2015-16 to six students. They were: Clarissa Adisaputra, Christina Michelle Chan, Yetta Chan, Cheung Kin-lok, Ng Pui-yin and Wong Chiu-yee. Set up in 2009, the award honors the top academic achievers identified by the department ... Read More