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In an interview with Ta Kung Pao, Prof. Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of HKU Business School and Director of the Asia Global Institute, outlined three pathways through which finance can empower the real economy: supporting innovation and technology enterprises, particularly SMEs with new productive capabilities; facilitating the global expansion of intellectual property, as Chinese firms enter a new phase of exporting culture, brands, and IP; and strengthening trade finance and trade insurance to help firms secure financing and navigate complex international environments.

Prof. Roy Tan, Professor of Practice at HKU Business School and Academic Director of Custom Executive Education, argues in Fortune China that HR is undergoing fundamental disruption in 2026 — not incremental change. Drawing on his MBA and EMBA teaching and executive education work with global firms, he identifies three structural breaks: AI has automated HR's traditional workload, leaving the profession without a clear new mandate; the psychological contract between employers and employees has expired without a replacement; and most leadership development frameworks still train leaders for a predictable world that no longer exists. He calls on HR professionals to rebuild from first principles.

Hong Kong's new dog-friendly dining scheme has attracted overwhelming interest from restaurants, drawing more than twice the number of applications available as eateries seek to tap into the city's growing pet economy.

A Harvard–BCG experiment found consultants using GPT-4 excelled on tasks within AI's reach, but erred more on complex problems beyond it. The reason: AI cannot grasp the unspoken standards that live in human experience. Prof. Xin Tong of HKU Business School argues that delegating to AI well means making these tacit judgments explicit. In the age of AI, each of us must learn to define what "good" means.

Anthropic’s move to restrict access to its cutting-edge model, Claude Fable 5, is expected to create new hurdles for Chinese artificial intelligence labs, experts say, even as the US firm walks back part of its enforcement plan following a backlash from the global AI research community.

In 2024, I taught a master’s course at HKU on the dynamics of multinational corporations. For their capstone graduation project, one student group chose to study the Danish company Too Good To Go.

The history of global commerce over the past half-century features two indelible spectacles. The first is the global sweep of American titans like General Motors, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Starbucks, Nike, Apple, and Tesla. The second is the aggressive overseas expansion of Japanese giants such as Toyota, Sony, and Fast Retailing.

In recent years, as the two-way investment landscape between China and the rest of the world has markedly changed, the scope of Hong Kong’s bridging role has also expanded. To analyse this evolution and the development opportunities it presents, it is necessary to examine trends in the data on China’s realized foreign direct investment (FDI) and outward foreign direct investment (ODI).