HKUST Business School Magazine

8 People Administrative Appointment Kristiaan Helsen , Associate Professor of Marketing, is appointed Acting Head of Department. New Appointments Assistant Professors Finance Kai Li , PhD, Duke University. Research interests: Asset pricing, macro finance, financial economics. George Panayotov , PhD, University of Maryland. Research interests: Investments, risk management, asset pricing, derivatives, hedge funds. ISOM Jing Wang , PhD, New York University. Research interests: Crowdsourcing, web-based behavioral experiments, user-generated content, social networks, data mining. Marketing Young Eun Huh , PhD, Carnegie Mellon University. Research interests: Consumer judgment and decision making, motivation, consumption. Adjunct Professor ISOM Joseph Phi , MBA, University of the Philippines. Mr Phi has wide experience in global logistics and supply chain management. He currently is President of LF Logistics, one of Li & Fung’s three global business networks. Adjunct Assistant Professor Marketing Yi Xiang , PhD, INSEAD. Research interests: Media strategy, marketing strategy, market evolution, business- to-business marketing, marketing channels, information economics. The Management Department has won the Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence for the 2012-2013 academic year, marking the department’s fourth win in the six years the prize has been awarded to an entire Business School department for outstanding teaching. Individual professors to win the Franklin Prize this year at the undergraduate level are Professor Darwin Choi in Finance, Professor Jiewen Hong in Marketing, and Mr Charles Lam in Accounting. Two professors in the Management department have been appointed associate editors of two top-tier journals in their field – important positions that reflect their global recognition. Professor Riki Takeuchi has been appointed as a new Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) and Professor JT Li as Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). The appointments will involve a significant amount of work and time commitment. “Developing the Leader in You” taught by Management Adjunct Associate Professor Karen Lee and Instructional Assistant Ms Agnes Lai has won an Honorable Mention in the inaugural Common Core Course Excellence Award. Professor Melody Chao of the Department of Management has received the Early Career Award from the International Academy for Intercultural Research. It is an international award that recognizes individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of intercultural relations early in their careers. Growing up in a culturally diverse environment, Professor Chao has always been curious to learn about the dynamics of psychological processes in intercultural contexts. Her research thus focuses on how individuals actively participate in cultural processes and how they negotiate between conflicting cultural values and norms. She was delighted to receive Professor Takeuchi said the appointment was highly significant, given that AMJ is the flagship journal in the field, and he is one of only two East Asians in a pool of 18 Associate Editors. Professor Li, who is currently on his 2nd 3-year term as SMJ Associate Editor, said his position carried great responsibility because it could influence the careers of promising faculty members. He said he took seriously the role of helping authors to develop their papers. The leadership course aims to raise self-awareness to help students achieve personal growth and manage their career. The Excellence Award was newly established by the University to recognize courses that demonstrate HKUST’s work to offer a holistic education in line with the four-year undergraduate reform. Selection is based on the exemplariness of the Common Core course, the design of its syllabus and assessment plan, and the course delivery, pedagogy and teaching innovation. this recognition because it indicated that her research work appealed to an interdisciplinary audience that consists of both quantitative and qualitative researchers. Professor Chao added that she also integrated her research work into teaching practices. She aspires to foster a supportive learning environment that encourages students to share and exchange different ideas openly. “Intercultural interaction can be challenging, yet there is much that we can learn through working with people from diverse social cultural backgrounds,” she said. Management Department Wins Fourth Franklin Prize Top Journals Appoint Management Professors Common Core Excellence Honored Cross Cultural Curiosity Earns Early Career Award The prize winner for MBA required courses is Professor Tai-Yuan Chen in Accounting. The winners for MBA non-required courses/MSc Teaching are Professor Christopher Doran in Management and Professor Jaideep Sengupta in Marketing. The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence was established in 2000 with donations from the Larry and Mei Kwong Franklin Endowment Fund to recognize business faculty contributions through teaching excellence at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Riki Takeuchi J T Li Melody Chao