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Last month, the School held an inaugural Alumni New Year Virtual Networking event online for the alumni community to celebrate the new year of 2021. Hosted by Professor TAM Kar Yan, Dean of HKUST Business School, 150 alumni, faculty members, and executive committee members from student clubs enjoyed a wonderful two-hour networking and ... Read More

Every year, the Executive Education Office offers several open programs on various management topics to help executives acquire cutting-edge insights and address specific needs. This year, the program offerings include both in-person and real-time online learning opportunities ranging from one-day to eight-day courses on popular and in-demand topics. These ... Read More

At HKUST, our alumni network forms the backbone of our community, enriching the university’s mission in providing the best higher education and academic research. Over the years, our alumni have also supported us by referring potential candidates to our MBA programs. We are now inviting alumni members to join the Community Succession Scheme and refer ... Read More

Happy hour and combating food waste now go hand in hand thanks to a group of HKUST students, who founded Breer, a food upcycling start-up that brews craft beer from leftover bread! The team includes two students from the Business School, tackling Hong Kong’s food waste challenge by putting wasted bread to good use. In October 2020, Breer sold its initial ... Read More

On November 26 2020, Prof Edwin L. C. LAI presented the Fudan Financial Online Public Lecture #54 “ One Currency, Two Markets: China’s Attempt to Internationalize the Renminbi” （ 复旦金融公开课 #54 ：一币两市，人民币国际化之路） . The English-language lecture was based on his book of the same title, scheduled for publishing by the Cambridge University Press this May. In this ... Read More

Last year, Prof Kohei KAWAGUCHI from the Department of Economics attended a conference call at the Cabinet Office of Japan to advise Mr Yasutoshi NISHIMURA, the Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy. Mr Nishimura oversees Japan's response to the pandemic and the business environment in light of the COVID-19 shocks in Japan. During the ... Read More

The online course Information Systems Auditing, Controls and Assurance has received the Best Online Courses of the Year (2021 Edition) award by Class Central! Led by Prof Garvin P DIAS from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management (ISOM), the course explores the risks of information systems (IS) and how risks can be ... Read More

We are delighted to announce that Prof James THONG from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management (ISOM) has received the AIS Technology Challenge Award during the 2020 International Conference of the Association for Information Systems. The award recognizes individual scholars who have made outstanding contributions ... Read More

Prof Dongwon LEE and post-doctorate fellow Hyungsoo LIM and their co-authored paper “Are More Choices Better? Examining the Impact of Choice Capacity in Online Dating Platform” won the Best Track Paper Award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in 2020. The conference is the most prestigious event in the industry for scholars and ... Read More

Last month, the 4th Annual Value Investing Challenge 2020 concluded successfully. Co-organized by the Department of Finance and Chartwell Capital, the challenge was exclusively designed for finance students at HKUST to gain experience in practical value investing to complement their studies. Aiming to promote value investing, the challenge also encouraged ... Read More