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Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Participants Celebrates an Unforgettable Weekend The last week of September was a special one for the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program. Although classes were suspended for the past eight months, current participants remained eager to learn! Since the pandemic outbreak, the Program has organized various master classes, alumni ... Read More

Thompson Center Held “Teaching Cases Online Workshop” for AAPBS members Earlier this year, the Thompson Center for Business Case Studies held an online teaching workshop on “How to Teach Cases Online” for members of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS). More than 70 faculty members from 30 AAPBS member schools in the Asia-Pacific region ... Read More

Real-time Online Program on Strategic Thinking for Wheelock and Wharf The pandemic has disrupted our normal lifestyle, forcing online education to emerge as an alternative to face-to-face classes for executives. This summer, the Executive Education Office hosted a real-time online program on strategic thinking for 36 middle to senior executives from ... Read More

Despite the disruptions, the COVID-19 crisis has reaffirmed our commitment in providing new learning opportunities for our students and the wider community. We are thrilled to share our recent activities in a video that summarizes our new partnerships, engagement events with alumni and students as well as our faculty’s achievements. To watch: https://bm ... Read More

We are pleased to welcome a new class of more than 870 undergraduate students to the Business School this year! The new class is extremely diverse with a mix of students representing 20 countries and places around the world. We believe a diverse learning environment will benefit all students at HKUST. Despite with classes online, our new students in Hong ... Read More

COVID-19 will go down in history as one of the most influential pandemics. Yet, history also shows us our resilience when we face challenges. Our latest School Magazine dives into this topic, featuring a series of key insights offered by distinguished leaders and our faculty to support businesses to navigate through uncertainties in the “new normal”. To ... Read More

As the sole academic partner of Deloitte China’s “Best Managed Companies (BMC)” Program, the HKUST Business School is honored to join hands with Deloitte China to announce 14 first-time BMC award winners and another 19 second-time awardees. After five-month rigorous review, interviews and specialist research, the announcement was made on August 28, through a ... Read More

We are delighted to announce Professor Ralf VAN DER LANS from the Department of Marketing has been selected as one of the 35 Marketing Science Institute (MSI) scholars in 2020! The MSI scholar’s program recognizes prominent mid-career academics and provides an exclusive platform through a four-day retreat in January 2021 in South Carolina for them to share ... Read More

Professor Kohei KAWAGUCHI from the Department of Economics has successfully raised funds to conduct his fourth survey that examines small business managers and the impact of anti-pandemic measures in Japan. While many countries, including Japan, have taken drastic measures to combat the COVID-19 crisis, very few assessments are conducted on small ... Read More

In August, Assistant Professor Arkodipta SARKAR from the Department of Finance presented his paper at the virtual Summer Research Conference – an annual flagship event hosted by the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India. The paper won the best paper award at the conference. Entitled “Policy Uncertainty ... Read More