HKUST Business School Magazine

7 Events Alumination 2013 — HKUST Business School’s annual alumni event — brought together hundreds of alumni, students, staff and guests in Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. With the theme “Connecting. Enlightening”, HKUST alumni shared their business experiences in panel discussions. These began March 16 in Singapore on “The Emergence of Luxury Business in the Asia Hundreds Connect at Alumination Celebrations Pacific Region”. On March 31 in Shanghai, panelists discussed “Leading Business Success in Diversified Cultural Environment in China”. Then on April 21 in Beijing, alumni exchanged views on “The Secrets of Success for Entrepreneurship in China”. Supported by the MBAAA (Guangdong Chapter) Unlimited Sailing Club and the EMBA Walker’s Club, Shenzhen Alumination event was held on June 22 at Shenzhen Marina Club with over 90 alumni and guests enjoying a unique reunion party through sailing and hiking. Participants of the 8th Gobi Desert Challenge also shared the unforgettable experiences of their 112-km trekking in four-days across the desert. There was another reason to celebrate because in early June, Alumination won the Silver Award for “Marketing and Branding” of Alumni Relations Program in the Circle of Excellence Awards, organized by the international Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). A homecoming event has also been planned for the end of the year at the new Lee Shau Kee Business Buidling in Hong Kong and it will cap Alumination 2013. At the annual HKUST MBA Alumni Association dinner, nearly 100 MBA alumni and students toasted their program’s No 8 ranking in the world by the Financial Times — the fourth consecutive year the program has been in the top 10. Souvenirs were presented to the full-time Class of 2009 to recognize their contribution to the successful ranking. Dinner highlights included a speech by the newly elected alumni president Fritz Chen (MBA 2009), a lucky draw and a live performance by an MBA alumni band. HKUST Business School and its partners in the World Bachelor in Business (WBB) program organized an informative seminar on its approach to globalized education this spring. The WBB is offered by HKUST, University of Southern California (USC) and Bocconi University and classes will start this fall. This is the first undergraduate program to allow students to live, study and earn degrees at three universities in three continents. At the April 22 seminar in Hong Kong, the WBB Program Directors — USC Professor Ty Callahan, HKUST Professor Angela Ng and Bocconi University Professor Carlo Altomonte — discussed the challenges for higher education in today’s globalized world. After Professor Ng’s introduction of the WBB program, an active Q&A session ensued as students, parents and teachers wanted to learn more about the innovative program. More than 30 Shenzhen MBA students got a first-hand look at the operations of Shenzhen Yantian Port Group Co Ltd at the world’s fourth largest port. On May 9, the students were given a boat tour around Yantian Port, where 40 major shipping lines handle export and import container traffic with about 100 sailings each week to the world’s major ports. The students were impressed by the port’s technologically advanced and efficient operations area. Yantian Port management spoke to the students about port operations. Speakers included Mr Deyun Chen, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of Yantian, and Mr Alexander Zhong, General Manager of the Secretariat of the Yantai Port Group’s Board of Directors and an alumnus of the Shenzhen MBA Program. MBA Alumni Celebrate Top 10 Ranking Designing Education for a Globalized World Shenzhen MBA Students Visit Yantian Port Dean Leonard Cheng, Interim Associate Dean (Master’s Programs) & MBA Academic Director Professor Albert Ha, and Alumni Development Head Ms Kitty Chong attended. Alumni also organized mini ranking celebrations in Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo.