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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

In the second BizTalks session, the audience was amazed by how analytics and AI can be applied for the consumption of entertainment. With the potential to improve personalization for users and capture engaging moments, the two speakers – Assistant Professor Carlos FERNANDEZ-LORIA of the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations ... Read More

To make a greater impact, our faculty aspire to share their knowledge and research findings with the wider community. They make such contributions through commentaries and contributed articles to the media . A few articles from the Hong Kong Economic Times looking into business strategies and team collaboration are selected here: A cost-effective marketing ... Read More

The HKUST MBA Alumni Association Guangdong Chapter (MBAAAGD) and the HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute (SHCIRI) jointly held the HKUST Alumni Spring Reunion in SHCIRI Alumni House in Shenzhen. The event welcomed nearly 150 guests, including faculty of HKUST Business School, representatives of major alumni associations and ... Read More

The Executive Education Program is pleased to work with two new clients – Huatai International Financial Holdings Company Limited and Swiss Re Asia Pte. Ltd. – for their talent development programs. Addressing the market trends and demonstrating the flexibility of the School’s offerings, the two classes were conducted successfully in different delivery modes ... Read More

With the removal of all COVID-19 restrictions, the annual Risk Management and Business Intelligence (RMBI) Symposium resumed its in-person mode, continuing to serve as a platform for academics, professionals, subject experts and our fellow students to meet and exchange their views. Similar to COVID-19, climate change is one of the causes giving rise to ... Read More

The 2nd cohort of HKGFA-HKUST Certificate in Sustainable Finance program commenced on March 18 for three consecutive Saturdays until April 1 at our downtown center in Central and received overwhelming response. After expanding the program capacity, the 2nd cohort consisted of 56 participants. The majority were banking or finance professionals, while the ... Read More

The BizTalks series is back for this Spring Term and starts with insightful presentations by two assistant professors from the Department of Management. Using Loss Aversion to Encourage Exploration Prof. David HAGMANN’s research suggests that the subjective experience of losses can influence the willingness to explore. He concludes that exploration is driven ... Read More