Press Release

The Global Economy and Strategic Decision-Making Summit cum HKU CEO Programme Opening Ceremony, hosted by HKU Business School, was successfully held on 27 June, 2025. The event brought together renowned policymakers, top academics, and industry leaders for keynote speeches and engaging dialogues. Speakers shared valuable insights on the evolving role of Hong Kong in the changing global geo-economic landscape, the new technological and business trends driven by AI, emerging global economic policies, and the challenges and opportunities faced by Chinese Enterprises in their international expansion. Held at Loke Yew Hall in HKU’s main campus, the event attracted a diverse audience of leaders from industry and academia, with more than 200 attendees.

Contestants across the globe put forward innovative approaches to enhance diversity of HSBC’s supply chain in Asia. Over 100 students from 24 university teams took part in the HSBC/HKU Asia Pacific Business Case Competition 2025.

The Forum on the Future of AI in Human Resource Management 2025, hosted by HKU Business School, in collaboration with The Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association (HKCEA), was held on 16 May. The Forum united renowned experts and corporate leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities of HR management, as well as share practical experiences under current AI-driven innovations. Held at Rayson Huang Theatre at The University of Hong Kong, the Forum attracted industry leaders, academic experts, alumni and students, with 280 people in attendance and more than 4300 watching the live stream online. This forum marks the beginning of a long-term strategic partnership between HKU Business School and the HKCEA, which aims to drive in-depth integration of academic research and industry practice for the future.

The 6th HKU Quarterly Forum on Chinese Economy, hosted by HKU Business School’s Institute of China Economy (ICE), in collaboration with the Tsinghua Alumni Association of Hong Kong, was held on 16 April. The Forum brought together renowned experts and industry leaders to examine the growth engines of China’s economy, as well as the related policy directions and outlook under the ever-changing global landscape. Speakers shared valuable insights on the current tariff war, trade war, China’s real estate economy and the challenges and opportunities facing China’s macroeconomy. Held at HKU iCube, the Forum brought together a diverse audience of industry leaders, academic experts, alumni and students, with nearly 230 people in attendance.

HKU Business School released a Comprehensive Evaluation Report on the Image Generation Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence Models, providing a systematic assessment of 15 text-to-image models and 7 multimodal large language models (LLMs). The results showed that ByteDance’s Dreamina and Doubao, as well as Baidu’s ERNIE Bot ranked among the top performers in terms of image content quality for new-image generation and image revision. However, despite DeepSeek having attracted global attention, its newly released text-to-image model, Janus-Pro, did not perform as well in new-image generation. HKU Business School researchers also found that while some text-to-image models excelled in content quality, their performance in safety and responsibility was significantly lacking. In general, multimodal LLMs demonstrated better overall performance compared to text-to-image models.

The 5th HKU Quarterly Forum on Chinese Economy, hosted by HKU Business School’s Institute of China Economy (ICE), in collaboration with the Peking University Alumni Association (Hong Kong), concluded successfully on 23 January. The Forum gathered prominent economists and industry leaders to examine the implications of China’s policy directions to the global economy and the current hot issues in the Chinese economy.