Student Directed Fund Created for Community Investment

It is more blessed to give than to receive. With the support of the Yeh Family Philanthropy (YFP), HKUST Business School has pioneered a course “Social Entrepreneurship & Venture Philanthropy” and a dedicated Student Directed Venture Philanthropy Fund. The fund provides students with an opportunity to help social enterprises tackle their business challenges ... Read More

Pioneering Course at HKUST Teaches Socially Useful Investment

Students in a pioneering credit-bearing elective course at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School learn how investment in social enterprises can help society. By bringing students, social entrepreneurs and philanthropists together, the new teaching model enables students to contribute their ideas and skills to real ... Read More

Learn to Invest in a Responsible Manner

“No investment yields as great a return as the knowledge and experience we gained in the class,” said two students who had completed the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) course this summer. Max Ho and Doris Yip, studying BBA in Finance & Economics and BSc in Quantitative Finance respectively, said the course was not simply about speculating and trading ... Read More
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GOYAL, Vidhan K WANG, Wei
Reading the Signals of Debt Maturity Choices
The terms under which firms borrow can be revealing about what they think of their future prospects, according to investigations by Vidhan Goyal and Wei Wang, who looked at instances when firms chose short- or long-term debt maturity and the likelihood that this was guided by their privately-held information. “Firms with favorable private information ... Read More
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