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In its second time, the Department of Economics at the HKUST Business School collaborated with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) to offer a certificate course on “International Capital Markets”. The training was held on 6 May 2017 on campus, where some 90 students and alumni joined. It is designed for students and practitioners who are ... Read More

Fintech is shaping the landscape of the global economy in an unprecedented way. It affects every stage of the value chain of financial services, challenging existing business models while at the same time creating new opportunities untapped in the past. To help executives understand the disruptive nature of FinTech, HKUST Business School Executive Education ... Read More

Awarded by: Saudi Arabia MBA Program To commemorate the completion of the second cohort of MBA Program in Saudi Arabia, the Program Office hosted a celebration dinner with the Class of 2017 on 26 May. Honorable guests from Aramco Asia, our faculty, 41 students and their family members were invited to the celebration. Professor Steven J. DeKrey, Associate ... Read More

Awarded by: Dean's Service Award cum Public Service Internship Scholarship The presentation ceremony of Dean's Service Award cum Public Service Internship Scholarship 2016-17 was held on 9 May. The ceremony saw 18 outstanding students being honored for the good deeds they have done and their excellent contributions to extend their care to the broader ... Read More

Awarded by: Multiple Case Competitions In this season, some 17 MBA teams have participated in a number of case competitions held by well-known universities around the world. The teams flew to countries including the US, Canada, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Israel and Thailand to put their enhanced skills to test. Four teams that participated in the USC ... Read More

Awarded by: ISACA Case Competition Two teams of UG students have snapped up the champion and second runners-up titles in the ISACA Case Competition 2017. In its second year, ISACA Student Group Annual Case Competition is a joint-university case competition organized by the HKUST and CityU ISACA Student Groups, with supporting teams from the Hong Kong ... Read More

Our School played host to the 1st International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2017) between 15-17 June. Co-organized by the HKUST Business School, the Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics ( CMStatistics ) and the network of Computational and Financial Econometrics ( CFENetwork ), the conference welcomed over 650 ... Read More

The Financial Times featured the HKUST-NYU Stern MS in Global Finance program. An alumnus Charmaine Cheuk, a real estate investment executive, talked about the valuable lessons she took after joining the course in 2007. Co-Academic Director at NYU Stern, Professor Menachem Brenner, pointed out that the variety of study locations and the opportunity to travel ... Read More

Awarded by: Harvard Business Review The work of the Professors Stephen Nason, Joseph Salvacruz and the Thompson Center for Business Case Studies wins attention of the esteemed management publication. HKUST Business School is pleased to announce that Harvard Business Review has selected the work of two faculty members and one MBA student for publication in ... Read More

Awarded by: Association for Information Systems (AIS) [img]/files/Content/Award and Achievement/P32 People (1).jpg[/img] Professor James Thong is a recipient of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Fellow Award for 2016, and the only recipient from Asia. The Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the ... Read More