For Dr James Thompson, Chairman of Crown Worldwide Group and also a member of the HKUST Business School Advisory Council, diversity and inclusion policies are not impositions to be tolerated, but winning strategies to be embraced. “For a company like ours, diversity is everything, it’s our power,” he says. Born and raised in the United States, Dr Thompson ... Read More

Over the past 20 to 30 years, the local finance industry has played a major part in building Hong Kong’s reputation as Asia’s world city, says Dato’ Seri Cheah Cheng Hye, Chairman of asset management company Value Partners and a member of the HKUST Business School Advisory Council. Now that more employers are recognizing that it makes good business sense to ... Read More

The results speak for themselves. Fosun International, a multinational company, with its roots in China, has a strong track record of making overseas acquisitions, accelerating the growth of subsidiaries and generating significant returns. What the world does not usually see is its philosophy to manage its rapid-growing business portfolio across five ... Read More

HKUST Business School outstanding female alumni discuss equality in the workplace The HKUST Business School boasts a list of impressive female business leaders and entrepreneurs among its alumni. Four of them share their thoughts on gender diversity in leadership positions, the opportunities and challenges faced by talented women, and the approaches that ... Read More

Successful businesses in the Asia-Pacific region are employing increasingly diverse workforces, and putting diversity and inclusion policies in place to support such employees, according to surveys by Aon Hewitt, a global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm. According to Mary Yu, Head of Talent Solutions at Aon Hewitt and also HKUST MBA alumnus ... Read More

Making Hong Kong a fairer place takes time. It was only in 1996 that the city’s women won the right to the statutory paid holidays already enjoyed by men, with the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Ordinance. The government-funded Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) was established the same year. Since then, the commission has worked hard to promote ... Read More

Besides being the spice of life, variety, in the form of demographic diversity, is an important field of research. Pointing to a key finding, Professor Gong Yaping, Head of the Business School’s Department of Management, says: “Diversity provides teams and organizations with upside potential, but the realization of that potential is dependent on how it’s ... Read More

The HKUST Business School has provided a dynamic and supportive working environment for faculty to develop intellectually and professionally, contributing to the economic and social advancement of Asia. As a magnet for some of the brightest minds, the School has welcomed 14 young and aspiring scholars. They represent a highly diverse mix of faculty from ... Read More

By Melody Manchi Chao, Associate Professor, Department of Management, HKUST Business School With the increase in global connectivity, the ability to work and communicate effectively with people from diverse cultural backgrounds is seen as an important asset. What factors might help to build this asset? Imagine that you need to build a project team to work on ... Read More