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A total of seven faculty members were named the awardees of the Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence this year – a testament to the remarkable performance of our faculty on teaching during the last academic year. The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence was established in 2000 with donations from the Larry and Mei Kwong Franklin Endowment Fund to ... Read More

Discover how companies engage in corporate social responsibility activities and how to better manage weather risk from the last BizTalks of the season, featuring Assistant Professor WANG Danqing of the Department of Management and Associate Professor CHEN Zhanhui of the Department of Finance. Are Politically Endorsed Firms More Socially Responsible ... Read More

The WSJ Future Leaders webinar entitled “ Asia’s Economic Outlook: Still Resilient? — A Conversation with HKUST Business School ” brought together Prof. Albert PARK (center), Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and Chair Professor of Economics, Social Science, and Public Policy at HKUST, and Mr. Jason DOUGLAS (left), a reporter of The Wall Street ... Read More

The HKUST Business School PhD Program held its first-ever student conference in early May. Inviting all members of the university to join as the audience, the conference featured 15 presentations by our business students from all departments. To stimulate cross-disciplinary interactions, a student from a different department was assigned to lead the ... Read More

Recent alumni get-togethers in different cities have strengthened the ties between graduates and the School. Overseas Alumni Gatherings in Toronto, Shanghai and London It was lovely seeing the smiley faces of our fellow alumni in Toronto, Shanghai and London! There was nothing better than reconnecting with our alumni across the globe and professors on a ... Read More

The School is proud to announce that 61 students and alumni from HKUST EMBA, Kellogg-HKUST EMBA and MBA programs successfully finished the grueling Xuanzang Road Business School Gobi Challenge at Dunhuang, China. This year, it was the first time for the Business School to have a mix of alumni and students from different postgraduate programs as ... Read More

The 20th induction ceremony for the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) HKUST Chapter welcomed more than 340 new members to the international honor society, along with this year’s Chapter Honoree Mr. David GRIMME, Chief Operating Officer of HSBC Asia Pacific. With admission by invitation only, BGS recognizes business students for their pursuit of excellence, and ... Read More

In April, a group of family business owners, their next generations, and professionals working for family businesses and family offices engaged in an insightful discussion on the challenges and opportunities for family businesses and family offices. The seminar was hosted by the HKUST Business School and its Roger King Center for Asian Family Business and ... Read More

To promote the quality and sustainable development of the self-financing post-secondary sector, the Self-financing Post-secondary Scholarship Scheme (SPSS) is established under the Self-financing Post-secondary Education Fund (SPEF) to offer scholarships and awards to post-secondary students. In the academic year 2022/23, a total of 11 students from the ... Read More

The Global Impact Valuation Sprint 2023 (the Sprint), hosted by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and supported by the HKUST Business School and the Value Balancing Alliance, kicked off in mid-April 2023. This one-month sprint is a first-of-its-kind research across universities and organizations in ... Read More