Press Release

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, together with HKU Business School, today jointly announced the first credit course “Cloud Computing: Essential and Application in Entrepreneurship” for undergraduate students, exploring “a business world on cloud”. Alibaba Cloud is the first enterprise partner of HKU Business School to participate in credit course design and teaching.

HKU Business School is pleased to collaborate with the University of Glasgow, with the support from the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, to jointly organise the Smith Around the World Lecture Series (the Lecture), which was held successfully at the University of Hong Kong today. In celebration of Adam Smith’s tercentenary, the Lecture was titled “Triumph of the Market: What China’s past and present tell us”, covering the relationship between the rise to prominence of the southern coastal regions in China and the Smithian growth drivers.

HKU Business School and KPMG China jointly announce a new round of collaboration to nurture accounting and business analytics talent. The two parties signed their second Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) today, strengthening the partnership since 2018 and entering a new stage of collaboration.

Science, an internationally renowned academic journal on scientific research, has recently published a research paper co-authored by Dr Yanbo Wang from HKU Business School and Dr Dongbo Shi from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, titled ‘Has China’s Young Thousand Talents program been successful in recruiting and nurturing top-caliber scientists’, examining the effectiveness of China’s Young Thousand Talents (YTT) programme in recruiting, retaining and nurturing top scientists.