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On November 21, our China Office launched a new season of the much-anticipated online talk series. The 19 th edition explored how businesses could succeed by applying the latest technology trends. Close to 150 alumni and local audiences attended the event in person with nearly 430,000 viewers following live streams on ten primary online platforms. The ... Read More

A panel featuring “ The Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN” was jointly conducted by the HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS) and United Overseas Bank (UOB) earlier this month. Prof Albert PARK, Head of the Department of Economics, joined hands with other experts to discuss and present the findings of a two-year study covering six countries in ... Read More

The Fintech Research Project at HKUST Business School has partnered with Forms Syntron Information (HK) (“FORMS”) to offer exceptional learning opportunities for HKUST students in a four-week fintech mentorship program. Under the guidance of industry experts from FORMS, 15 students from different disciplines, including business and management, engineering ... Read More

Since October, the Executive Education Office resumed face-to-face classes. In November, the office also launched two multi-modular general management programs specially designed for government departments and other related organizations. This year, 120 participants from 14 government departments and other organizations enrolled in the programs. The 34th and ... Read More

We are delighted to announce that Michelle YIP, EMBA alumnae from the class of 2005, and her architecture firm FEI Architects and Arts, has won two prestigious international design awards – the Housing Project of the Year Award organized by Dezeen and a gold award at the WAN Awards 2020. Cultural landmarks in Guangzhou designed by FEI Architects Michelle is ... Read More

In November, the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program hosted two alumni sharing sessions. We were delighted to have Manab CHAKRABORTY, CEO of Partners in Prosperity, and Thomas LIU, Partner of Actis from the class of 2004. The two gentlemen spoke with us on the up-and-coming topic of “Responsible Investment and Impact Investment.” Thomas shared with us how ... Read More

On October 21, HKUST alumni and tech entrepreneurs – Hans PAUL, Co-Founder & Director of Aigens Technology , and Mark MAK, Co-Founder of Roborn Technology , discussed their experience in the webinar “ Disruptive Innovation: "Capturing the Virus, the Technologies, or the Opportunity? ”. The webinar was moderated by Prof Sai-Kit YEUNG , Associate Professor in ... Read More

In 2014, the Executive Education Office launched the High Potentials Leadership Consortium Program executives, running its 7 th class this year between October and November. Held over a five-day period, the program includes three one to two day modules – “Managerial Decision Making”, “Effective Team Communications” and “Leading Teams to Performance.” This ... Read More

HKUST has partnered with the STEM Internship Scheme organized by the Hong Kong government to empower students to pursue careers in IT upon graduation. Offered by the Innovation and Technology Commission, the scheme placed over 300 students in internship roles – the highest number of internship placements among all participating universities. Majoring in ... Read More

On October 26, the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA (KH EMBA) program ranked #1 on the Financial Times Global EMBA Ranking Chart for the 10th time! Although 2020 has been a challenging year, the joint program makes consistent outstanding performance in various fields, including graduate career progress, and an increase of student diversity, faculty and advisory ... Read More