工商管理學院｜
School of Business and Management
T
he School
was the toast of the town at a celebration to mark the world No.1 ranking for the Kellogg-
HKUST EMBA program. The celebration was attended by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR,
Donald Tsang, top officials, community leaders, and university colleagues.
The quality of the School’s MBA program, too, has been recognized in two separate prestigious rankings,
placing it firmly in the global top 20 and providing further evidence that it is now among the world’s best.
A number 17 ranking by the
Financial Times
(
FT
), the highest ever for a Hong Kong-run program, came
just a few months after the Economist Intelligence Unit placed it No. 20 worldwide and No. 1 in Asia and
Australia.
Among the 20 categories measured by the
FT
, the program was ranked 20th for research, 2nd for
international faculty and 5th for the international experience provided to students. Only six other Asian
schools were featured in the
FT’s
Top 20, with HKUST the only one from Hong Kong.
The School is planning new initiatives in a number of important areas. Externally, the School is moving
ahead with new structures to support areas such as China development, corporate relations and executive
education. Internally, efforts on the further improvement of student learning by way of embracing
Outcome-Based Education (OBE) and developing of a four-year undergraduate curriculum are gathering
momentum.
To implement OBE, the School organized a week of activities and workshops in October 2007 for faculty
and staff to immerse in the OBE approach. Prof Harvey Brightman, Regents Professor Emeritus of Decision
Sciences at Georgia State University and world-renowned trainer for enhanced university-level teaching, was
invited to run OBE seminars and workshops.
Other highlights of the School included distinguished lectures by Assistant Governor of the People’s Bank of
China Prof Gang Yi; by former HKUST economics professor and currently Chief Economist and Senior Vice-
President of the World Bank Prof Justin Lin; and also by Nobel Laureate Prof Edward Prescott.
During the year the School signed its 100th student exchange agreement with an overseas institution.
The exchange partner is the McIntire School of Commerce of the University of Virginia, which is ranked the
No. 2 undergraduate business school in the US.
The year saw Prof Steven DeKrey add two important firsts to his name: the first academic to chair the
business-based American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and the first Senior Associate Dean in the
University’s history.
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