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A team of four of our undergraduate business students came second in the Hong Kong Local Final of CFA Institute Research Challenge 2021-22! Congratulations to CHUNG Tsai-hsi (BBA in Global Business and Finance, Year 4), HUNG Yun-yeh (BBA in Global Business, Year 2), LIN Chun-yen (BBA in Global Business and Finance, Year 3), and Neil Edwin Santiago SY (BBA in ... Read More

Between October 2021 and February 2022, the Fintech Mentorship Program was held to broaden students’ exposure to the real business world. Organized by the Fintech Research Project of HKUST Business School and J.P. Morgan, the program allowed students to solve actual business problems while working with industry experts. Thirty-five students from business ... Read More

Sustainable and green finance (SGFN) has gained significance in recent years. In Hong Kong, SGFN talents will continue to be in great demand. Therefore, raising awareness and interest among high school students is imperative to sustain the future talent pool for SGFN industries in the city. Despite these upcoming opportunities, presently, 99% of post ... Read More

Mr. CAI Yongjun, alumnus of HKUST EMBA program (Class of 2011), attended the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic as a team leader of the Chinese National freeski and snowboard cross-team. This is the first time a Chinese team has participated in ski and snowboard cross events. Mr. Cai founded Sunyu Co. Ltd in 1996 – a leading IP and globalization services provider ... Read More

The Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program strives to offer participants the best EMBA learning experience. Despite various pandemic-related challenges and travel restrictions, our participants from different cohorts gathered in Lisbon for their global elective class. Professor Sergio REBELO, Professor Alexander CHERNEV from the Kellogg School of Management, and ... Read More

Since our last collaboration in 2013, our Executive Education Office has resumed working with the Bank of China Group Investment Ltd (BOCGI) on a tailor-made three-module executive education program for their senior management in 2021-22. Spanning across three days between December 2021 and January 2022, the program was exclusively designed to cater to the ... Read More

The MSGF Global Insight Series is a global learning platform that gathers the diverse expertise of Master of Science in Global Finance (MSGF) fellows to exchange insights on trending topics. The latest episode in the series featured Mr. Matthew CHAN (Class of 2020) who currently works as a Corporate Development Manager at Binance. During the episode, he ... Read More

Professor XU Yan of the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistic, and Operations Management has recently published a joint research report entitled “Innovation for Hong Kong’s Upward Social Mobility” with co-author Calvin YU. The project is sponsored by the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong and managed by the Beijing ... Read More

The Fintech Research Project of HKUST Business School has published a definitive Chinese-language book about Hong Kong’s fintech journey. Entitled《迎接金融新時代—香港金融科技實踐與前瞻》, the book is specially curated to promote fintech to the wider population of Hong Kong. Featuring articles contributed by 34 influential local fintech players and faculty members from HKUST ... Read More

Last November, HKUST EMBA alumnus Dr. CAO Lubao (Class of 2012) was elected as a member of the standing committee of the 14th Jiangsu provincial committee of the Communist Party of China. He was then appointed as the Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee. Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou has had a long and productive history steeped in rich Chinese ... Read More