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On December 6, the HKUST EMBA Alumni Association Award for Best Case was presented at the Business School Board Meeting. Launched in 2021 as the School’s inaugural business case-related award, it is specially designed to recognize the efforts of faculty in developing cases at HKUST as well as contributing their cases to the education of other global ... Read More

On November 27, the Hong Kong Judgment and Decision-Making Day (JDM Day) was successfully held in our Central campus. The event gathered 31 faculty and graduate students from six local universities and convened for a day of research talks to establish new connections between the institutions. The speakers examined why people’s predicted performance streaks ... Read More

For the second consecutive year, the HKUST Business School’s Master of Science in International Management (MIMT) program has received the Top 3 “CEMS School of the Year Award 2021”. The award has reinforced our program’s reputation as one of the leading global master’s program in management. The top three schools were chosen based on the results of overall ... Read More

On November 17, HKUST celebrated the opening of the Shaw Auditorium – a brand new hall with state-of-the-art facilities supported by a generous donation from the Shaw Foundation Hong Kong (SFHK). This new landmark is set to turn HKUST into an arts and culture hub that offers a new place of learning and gathering for the community and expand our humanistic ... Read More

The Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching is the highest accolade in teaching at HKUST. It is presented to only one faculty member each year. This year, Jeevan JAISINGH, Associate Professor of Business Education in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management (ISOM), receives the prestigious award. The ... Read More

Last month, HKUST announced a new partnership with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to pioneer a new Sustainable Financeelective course for our MBA students. The partnership marks HKEX’s first collaboration with an Asian university to offer an executive education program in the field. Launching in Spring 2022, the “ Sustainable Finance with Business ... Read More

As an international financial center, Hong Kong has been enhancing a robust anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CTF”) regime in accordance with the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – an inter-governmental body that sets international standards for combating ML/TF and oversees global compliance. On November ... Read More

A huge congratulations to Year 4 student Justin Pak-Hin CHAN, BBA (Accounting & Finance), for winning the Champion title in the Ernst & Young’s Young Tax Professional of the Year 2021 (Greater China Final). By bringing together students from all over the world, the competition aims to foster a next generation of tax leaders. “Tax is a lifelong learning topic ... Read More

Supported by InvestHK and Finnovasia, this year’s Hong Kong Fintech Week was successfully concluded through a hybrid format and brought more than 20,000 attendees together and over 4 million online views. Engaging with industry experts is one of the most effective ways for students to gain valuable and practical knowledge while improving their networking ... Read More

Earlier this month, the Fintechstic 2021 Case Competition was successfully held as a closing event for this year’s Fintechstic event series. Fintechstic 2021 was jointly organized by the HKUST Fintech Research Project and AQUMON and supported by InvestHK. Through a series of online and physical activities spanning 1.5 months from September to November, over ... Read More