Caption: Mr. David Lee (2nd from the left) received HKU Early Career Teaching Award.

The HKU Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony was held last Friday. Mr. David Lee, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty received Early Career Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions and commitment at early stage of his teaching career.

David adopts an interactive approach and complements his teaching with practical case studies in real life. He is a popular faculty member and is always a student’s favourite. David commented that teaching is a meaningful role, which gives him much satisfaction. He further elaborated that his teaching is framed by five principles, namely Transformational Learning, Active Learning Environment, Linking to the Real World, Student Advising and Focus on the Future.

The HKU Excellence Awards are a salute to the exceptional and inspirational accomplishments of our colleagues and a celebration of the diverse range of disciplines and specialisations at the University. Professor Xiang ZHANG, President and Vice-Chancellor, presided at the ceremony and Dr the Honourable Sir David LI Kwok Po, Pro-Chancellor, was the Guest of Honour.

Caption: Mr. David Lee (2nd from the left) received HKU Early Career Teaching Award.

The HKU Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony was held last Friday. Mr. David Lee, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty received Early Career Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions and commitment at early stage of his teaching career.

David adopts an interactive approach and complements his teaching with practical case studies in real life. He is a popular faculty member and is always a student’s favourite. David commented that teaching is a meaningful role, which gives him much satisfaction. He further elaborated that his teaching is framed by five principles, namely Transformational Learning, Active Learning Environment, Linking to the Real World, Student Advising and Focus on the Future.

The HKU Excellence Awards are a salute to the exceptional and inspirational accomplishments of our colleagues and a celebration of the diverse range of disciplines and specialisations at the University. Professor Xiang ZHANG, President and Vice-Chancellor, presided at the ceremony and Dr the Honourable Sir David LI Kwok Po, Pro-Chancellor, was the Guest of Honour.

The Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of HKU announced on December 21, 2018 the award recipients of the 2017-18 Outstanding Researcher Awards scheme. The following paper of Dr Heng Chen, Associate Professor in Economics and Professor Wing Suen, Chair of Economics and Henry G. Leong Professor in Economics has been awarded the Research Output Prize (ROP): 

Chen, Heng and Suen, Wing. “Aspiring for Change: A Theory of Middle Class Activism.” The Economic Journal  127.603 (2017): 1318-1347.

The ROP is a Faculty-based award to honour the best research output from each Faculty.  This year, ten Research Output Prizes are conferred on the authors by the Faculties. 

Reference: Research Output Prize Winners 2017-18

Dr. Jayson Jia has published in top-tier journals such as Management Science, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Dr. Jayson JIA, Assistant Professor of Marketing from the Faculty of Business and Economics at HKU recently became a Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar 2019 – a distinguished accolade to recognise young marketing scholars worldwide with great potential to be the ‘leaders of the next generation of marketing academics’.

“I feel very lucky to have won such recognition for taking the road less travelled and undertaking some high-risk research. I am incredibly grateful for the constant moral support from my colleagues, and funding support from the faculty and Hong Kong Research Grants Council, without which I would not have been able to pursue this line of research,” says Dr. Jia.

Dr. Jia’s research focuses on consumer behavior and digital experimentation. His recent work involves combining social experiments with individual-level mobile telecom metadata to study what drives people to respond to strangers online. He also studies the psychological recovery of earthquakes victims by analysing mobile app usage data and earthquake data. These and other related projects, combined with big data and psychological theory, will help us understand human dynamics and consumer behavior.

At HKU, Dr. Jia teaches Introduction to Marketing and Internet Marketing. He received his PhD degree in Marketing from Stanford University.

MSI is a non-profit research organisation dedicated to bridging the gap between academic marketing theory and business practice. This year, the biennial MSI Young Scholar Program recognised 35 promising marketing academics from around the world who earned their PhD degree within three to six years. Professor Echo WAN, Professor of Marketing at HKU, was honoured as a MSI Young Scholars in 2013. Professor David TSE, Chair Professor of International Marketing at HKU, served as a MSI Academic Trustee in 2008 to advise and support MSI’s research efforts and represent MSI’s worldwide community of marketing scholars.

A team of four FBE students won the Outstanding Award in the 2018 Deloitte Tax Championship. Having achieved the highest score in the Regional Round in September, the FBE team entered the National Round held on 9th – 11th November with teams from top universities in Greater China, exchanging knowledge and insights on tax and business, particularly the most recent tax reforms and technology advancements in the industry.

Deloitte Tax Championship is an international competition aiming at promoting education, research and innovation in taxation by supporting an array of national and local programmes across Greater China. Themed “Intelligent innovation for a digital future”, the participating teams were asked to explain how tax reform could stimulate the economy and business in this year competition.

Thanks to Dr. Christina Ng, Principal Lecturer in Accounting, for being the advisor of the team, and congratulations to all the team members.

FBE members include:
Miss Wu Yuxuan, BBA(Acc&Fin), Team Leader
Mr. Hao Yifeng, BBA(Acc&Fin)
Mr. Ho Wai Yiu Ryan, BBA(IBGM)
Miss Xiong Shuying, BBA(Acc&Fin)

In the academic year 2018-19, the Faculty welcomes seven faculty members. They are all distinguished scholars and experts in their respective fields.

 

Professor James Kai-sing KUNG Professor (Economics) Isaac R Souede Professor in Economic History

My research interests span the economic history of China, its institutions and its political economy of development, Particularly, I am interested in the civil exam system, ’keju’, because this meritocratic system for selecting officials based on a series of exams appeared in Song Dynasty of ancient China almost 800 years before a similar system was introduced in Europe. This institution has likely bred a culture of valuing education. The meritocratic nature of the civil exam system has an intriguingly strong parallel with the bedrock of China’s economic reforms — one designed to reward individual officials who have achieved robust economic growth in their administrative jurisdictions with promotion to the next level. As an undergraduate, in order to broaden my horizon I took as many electives as possible: anthropology, comparative literature, economic history, philosophy, you name it.

‘Experience suggests that passion and curiosity are important elements of success in one’s career’

‘Stay open, stay curious, and keep learning new and exciting things’

‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; work ten years like day’

‘Work hard and play hard’

‘Be open-minded, make friends, learn from each other, and understand that there are many perspectives of viewing the world’

‘My task is to bring students closer to real world data science, teach them the principles as well as practices’

HKUFBE hosted a launch event for the Career Development and Training Team, Investing in HKU Business School’s Global Talents – “Pitch & Catch” in Loke Yew Hall on 26 Oct, 2018.

70 corporate guests representing over 20 companies showed up to support us. 140 students from 14 nationalities and across different majors and level of studies seized this opportunity to proactively pitch themselves to the companies they admire. Thanks for joining us and we look forward to bridging more opportunities for our students.

News report in HKET: https://bit.ly/2RSXyuv

Event Highlight Video

(from left) Kenny LAM, Wilfred CHAN, Atthaseda Anthony LIM and Pinto Rasika TASDYATA .

A team of four FBE students is awarded 1st Runner-up in the BI International Case Competition (BIICC) 2019.

This is an annual business case competition organised by BI Norwegian Business School since 2016. This year, 12 international teams from 10 different countries competed in solving real business case of strategic partners from the business community. The competition consists of a warm-up case followed by a 30-hour main case. In the grand finale, the top three teams presented their solutions in front of a panel of judges, who are senior representatives from the strategic partners of BIICC.

After six intense days of programme and competition, the FBE team, Causeway Consulting, claimed the 1st Runner-up with their creative solutions and exceptional presentation.

Congratulations to all the team members and a special thank you to Mr. Albert Fung for being the team coach.

Students feedback:

In the case competition, we were asked to suggest a solution to help a Norwegian oil company, Equinor, to commercialize Hydrogen as a viable energy source. It was quite a challenge for us to integrate business knowledge into the energy industry in a short period time. But we enjoyed much in the 30-hour case cracking process, completing internal deadlines and regular trainings. Our favourite part was the finale, where we were able to learn different ways in solving a case from other teams’ presentation.

Our time in Norway was simply great. It was our first visit to Norway and we are pleased to meet with many like-minded students from all around the globe. We were also lucky to have been invited by the city Mayor to visit the town hall where legislators conduct hearings and pass laws, and where the Nobel Peace Prize is presented at every year.

Members of the student team are:
LAM Yan Ho Kenny, BBA(IBGM), Year 4
CHAN Wilfred, BBA(IBGM), Year 4
LIM Atthaseda Anthony, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 4
TASDYATA Pinto Rasika, BBA(IBGM), Year 4