School News

We are proud to announce that our student teams achieved outstanding results at the HKCGI Corporate Governance Paper Competition and Presentation Awards 2025! Our students won the Best Paper Award and 1st Runner-up in the Paper Writing Competition, the Best Presentation Award and 2nd runner-up in the Paper Presentation Competition, and the Audience’s Favourite Team Award.

The Centre for Quantitative History (CQH) successfully held the first Hong Kong Economic History Workshop on October 17, 2025, at May Hall, The University of Hong Kong. As the inaugural event of this new workshop series, the meeting brought together scholars from leading local institutions — HKU, CUHK, HKUST and HKBU — to strengthen the research network among economic historians in Hong Kong and promote deeper academic exchange in the field of economic history (EH).

The global economic history community is celebrating a remarkable achievement — and here at the Centre for Quantitative History (CQH), we share in that pride as we honour Professor Joel Mokyr’s 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Professors Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, in recognition of their ground‑breaking work on innovation‑driven economic growth. It is also worth noting that the Prize has been granted to economic historians for four consecutive years since 2022. “Professor Mokyr is one of the most influential scholars in the field of economic history,” said Professor Zhiwu Chen, Director of the Centre for Quantitative History. “For decades, his work has shown that technological change is the most important driver of progress since the Industrial Revolution. For our community, which is dedicated to promoting quantitative history research, this is wonderful news — it reaffirms that historical research is vital for understanding today’s complex world, whether you are a policymaker or an ordinary citizen.”

Exciting news from Tokyo! On 29 October 2025, we inaugurated the HKU Business School Japan Alumni Network at the Hilton Tokyo—our third international alumni network. With 100+ HKU Business School alumni based in Japan, we were delighted to welcome over 60 attendees, including prospective students and leaders who connect Hong Kong and Japan in business and education.

On October 16, 2025, the BFin (AMPB) programme hosted its annual Alumni Sharing Session at HKU iCube, bringing together current students with 15 distinguished graduates who are now building their careers at prestigious financial institutions including J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Citi, HSBC, CICC and others.