HKUST Annual Report 2017-18

30 BROADENING UNDERSTANDING The School of Business and Management continued to share its knowledge and expertise with the wider community through various BizInsight@HKUST talks. In an event held with the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in July 2017, speakers discussed the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Central Asia. A forum on the “Shaping the Future of Chinese Family Businesses” in September 2017 featured academics in the field and a group of next-generation leaders. The discussion, led by the School’s Tanoto Center for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies, attracted more than 160 business leaders and guests. In addition, four thought-provoking lunchtime seminars, with direct relevance to today’s business environment, gave participants the chance to hear the latest research findings from the School’s faculty in Spring 2018. Topics comprised the online labor market, diversity and inclusion, creativity and collaboration in the workplace, and how different factors affect financial behavior and portfolio management. The Executive MBA for Chinese Executives held its first open classroom lecture in November 2017. At the event, Prof. BA Shusong, Chief China Economist at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and Chief Economist of China Banking Association, discussed Hong Kong’s role in facilitating renminbi-denominated asset allocation and renminbi internationalization. To reach a broader audience and provide understanding on the many rapid developments impacting the business world the School revamped its Biz@HKUST magazine. In each edition, the publication now examines a different topical issue, such as FinTech and the Belt and Road Initiative. The Division of Humanities held 16 public lectures at the Hong Kong Museum of History throughout the year. Topics ranged from Tang dynasty poetry and the mysteries of human language to Cantonese pop song lyrics. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE The University’s frontier research was the focus of several generous donations over the year to move researchers ahead in their quest for discoveries on how diseases operate, potential preventative measures, and improved therapeutic care through both western and traditional Chinese medicine pathways. A mega gift was received from the Lo Kwee Seong Foundation to support research and education in life science including the acquisition of a Cryo-electron microscopy facility while a gift from the Lo Ka Chung Charitable Foundation assisted the Hong Kong Epigenomics Project, led by HKUST. Nan Fung Life Sciences Limited supported research into the mechanisms that cause Alzheimer’s disease while Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation Limited provided funding for development of a comprehensive Alzheimer’s disease database for Han Chinese in Hong Kong. Community Engagement