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The China market is barely 40 years old. Yet, its beauty market is estimated to reach USD65 billion in sales by 2024. As niche and younger brands begin to expand, international players like Shiseido are also pivoting their strategies to stay competitive and ahead of the trends. On May 27, MBA alumna Carol ZHOU, SVP of China Business Innovation and ... Read More

As part of the world’s largest and most immersive global EMBA network, the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program welcomed participants from six other partnering schools to join their Alumni Business Card series. A celebratory event was held online on May 4 and featured alumnus Martin HOLME (Class of 2012), Vice President and Global Head of Lead Logistics of A.P. Moller ... Read More

On April 24, the MSc in Finance (MFin) program held an online talk featuring Mr Billy TEA, CEO of Serum of Truth, to talk about the alarming, growing, and costly phenomenon of fake news. Billy described some of the psychological factors that prompt people to fall prey to fake news as well as the rapidly changing social and technological environments that ... Read More

On April 21, MBA alumna Ms Cindy CHOW, Executive Director of the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, was featured in the online Economics Industry Talk on “Transforming Hong Kong through Entrepreneurship”. Cindy provided valuable insights on the entrepreneurial landscape of Hong Kong and explained its importance to help the city’s economy thrive. She also ... Read More

The Fintech Research Project has organized two industry talks in April to explore top trending skills in the current fintech job market. On April 21, Miss Florence LAM from Financial Career Insights shared the latest market trends and highlighted the importance of data analytics and python programming skills for fintech jobs. She also discussed the ... Read More

A team of 36 students and alumni from the HKUST EMBA program succeeded and surpassed themselves in the 16 th Xuan Zang Road Business School Gobi Trek Challenge held between May 2 and 5. The team was awarded the "Shackleton Cup" for great team spirit throughout the four-day challenge. For the first time, the team also won the “Best Creativity Award” by ... Read More

Mr Alvis TANG Tsz Yeung, a student from the Economics and Finance (ECOF) program, was named a finalist for the 2021 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award. Supervised by Professor Sujata VISARIA from the Department of Economics, Alvis’s project explored the “Social Networks and Financial Choices of Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong ... Read More

Organized by the Executive Education Office, the four-day Leadership Development Program (LDP) is specially designed to address the needs of HKSAR Government officers and help participants develop management and leadership skills. Due to the pandemic, the 8 th cohort completed the program through a mixture of online and offline classes between November ... Read More

In the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong (UGC), HKUST Business School takes on the No.1 overall standing in Business & Economics Panel, as “World Leading” and “Internationally Excellent” among all HK universities. Thanks to world-class research by our faculty, the impressive results in this round of ... Read More

Recruitment of Named Professors To bolster its academic leadership, HKUST Business School strives to attract top talent from around the world. In conjunction with HKUST’s 30 th anniversary, the School aims to recruit 10 Named Professors in the fields of accounting, economics, finance, information systems, operations management, management and marketing. We ... Read More