Two teams of undergraduate business students represented HKUFBE to take part in the Oliver Wyman Impact 2018 and bring home the Champion and 1st Runner-up in the final round. 

Oliver Wyman Impact is a business case competition held in Hong Kong, targeting students who are interested in exploring a career in strategy consulting. This case competition focuses on strategic trends that are directly impacting businesses and society. 

Participating teams were required to develop a proposal with their recommendation to advise how businesses should respond to such trends and present it to a panel of judges from Oliver Wyman.

Two team members are as follows: 

Champion
Miss Chan Yuen Yu, BBA(IBGM), Year 2
Miss Li Hui Tou Vanessa, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 2
Miss Moy Yee Ching, BBA(IBGM), Year 2
Mr. Ng Ngo Tin, BBA, Year 2

1st Runner-up
Miss Bi Yuwei, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 4
Miss Han Shichen, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 3
Miss Xing Haiyi, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 3
Miss Zhang Yuchen, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 3

Hong Kong Shared Good Values Case Competition aims at inspiring young people to become future leaders who embrace the idea of “Creating Shared Value”. Participating teams attended an intensive mentorship session, followed by submitting proposals aligned with the core business ventures of selected companies. In 2018, the two supporting organisations are Airport Authority Hong Kong and St. James’ Settlement. By adopting the CSV approach and business mindset, contestants provided recommendations in their proposals on expanding Airport Authority’s community investment project ‘Extra Mile’ or improving the operations of social eco enterprises under St. James’ Settlement ‘Green Ladies’ and ‘Green Little’. Sixty-seven teams joined the competition this year. 

Big Congratulations to HKUFBE teams who altogether won five out of six prizes in the competition (four teams consist of FBE students only, and one consists of both FBE and students from other university), and their ideas might be adopted by the supporting organisations.

The winning teams and their team members are:

I) Airport Authority Hong Kong Case Category

Champion – Team ATHIATION 

Mr. Li Cheuk Lun, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 4

Mr. Fung Chun Kit, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 4

Mr. Ng Suen Ngai, BBA(IBGM), Year 4

1st Runner-up – Team Silver Liners 

Mr. Ma Chuangsen, BBA(IBGM), Year 2

Miss Do Ki Wai BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 2

(Remarks: This team comprises 2 more members from other Universities in Hong Kong.)

II) St. James' Settlement Case Category

Champion – Team I TREASURE

Miss Chan Ka Wing, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 3

Miss Fong Yin Wai, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 3

Miss Chung Yi Han, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 3

1st Runner-up – Team The INNOVEST

Mr. Lam Cheuk Ting, BEcon&Fin, Year 1

Miss Mok Jovy, BBA(IBGM), Year 1

Miss Cheng Kwan Lok, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 1

Miss Au-Yeung Wing Lam, BSc(QFin), Year 1

2nd Runner-up – Team The Evergreens

Miss Hui Yi Lam Yvonne, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 1

Miss Chung Yu, BSc(QFin), Year 1

Miss Ngai Jennifer Wing Yee, BBA(Acc&Fin),  Year 1

Team Decoding Law comprising three BBA(Law)&LLB students, two law students from another university, together with experienced software developers, data scientists and AI researchers was crowned one of the four winning teams in the Global Legal Hackathon.

Co-organised by Asia Capital Markets Institute and Thomson Reuters, with supporting organisations Fintech Association of Hong Kong, HKU, Cyberport, WHub, InvestHK, Korum Legal and Association of Corporate Counsel – Hong Kong, this hackathon drew entrants from 40 teams from 40 cities across 22 countries worldwide.

The team’s invention, also named Decoding Law, is a machine learning powered browser plug-in that helps people, especially unrepresented litigants, to read and understand legislation by breaking down complex legislative drafting into simple language and explaining defined terms.

The team developed their prototypes over a hectic weekend under the supervision of experienced mentors from diverse backgrounds in the local competition, and was selected as Hong Kong’s overall winner. Its efforts to improve access to justice had also gotten the attention of Hong Kong’s Department of Justice, who invited the team for a mutual sharing before they left for New York to compete with 13 teams for the world championships.

Team members from HKU (2^nd to 4^th from left):
Miss Sally Yiu Man Ki, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 3
Miss Alison Li Pui Wun, BBA(Law)&LLB), Year 3
Miss Edelweiss Kwok Yuet Yi, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 3

Team Decoding Law comprising three BBA(Law)&LLB students, two law students from another university, together with experienced software developers, data scientists and AI researchers was crowned one of the four winning teams in the Global Legal Hackathon.

Co-organised by Asia Capital Markets Institute and Thomson Reuters, with supporting organisations Fintech Association of Hong Kong, HKU, Cyberport, WHub, InvestHK, Korum Legal and Association of Corporate Counsel – Hong Kong, this hackathon drew entrants from 40 teams from 40 cities across 22 countries worldwide.

The team’s invention, also named Decoding Law, is a machine learning powered browser plug-in that helps people, especially unrepresented litigants, to read and understand legislation by breaking down complex legislative drafting into simple language and explaining defined terms.

The team developed their prototypes over a hectic weekend under the supervision of experienced mentors from diverse backgrounds in the local competition, and was selected as Hong Kong’s overall winner. Its efforts to improve access to justice had also gotten the attention of Hong Kong’s Department of Justice, who invited the team for a mutual sharing before they left for New York to compete with 13 teams for the world championships.

Team members from HKU (2^nd to 4^th from left):
Miss Sally Yiu Man Ki, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 3
Miss Alison Li Pui Wun, BBA(Law)&LLB), Year 3
Miss Edelweiss Kwok Yuet Yi, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 3

The Wolves of U Street, a team formed by two HKUFBE students and another student from the Faculty of Engineering, has wonderfully analysed a FinTech business case and won the Championship at the ISACA Student Group Annual Case Competition 2018. 

This is a joint-university case competition organised by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (“ISACA”) China Hong Kong Chapter and assisted by the ISACA Student Groups, which aims at developing university students’ interest in IT Security. 96 teams from eight universities joined the competition this year and prominent industry leaders were invited as judges. 

Team members from FBE are: 
Mr. KOO Chak Yin, BEcon&Fin, Year 5
Mr. NG Chun Wai, BEcon&Fin, Year 5

Organised by Ernst & Young, Young Tax Professional of the Year is an international competition designed to identify young talent with an interest in tax, help them enhance their professional skills and develop their careers . Participants perform case studies at different levels of competition , and are evaluated by the judging panel based on their tax technical, reasoning, presentation and communication competencies.

Congratulations to BBA(Acc&Fin) Year 4 student Mr. Chan Yui Hang who not only won My Most Favorite Presenter Award and 1st Prize at the local competition  2018, but also beat representatives from mainland China and Taiwan , and won the 1st Prize at the national competition that followed. He will represent Greater China at the international competition  taking place in Europe in late 2018  and compete with all finalists across the world for the prize of a 30-day round-the-world business trip.

Congratulations also to BBA(Acc&Fin) Year 3 student Mr. Hao Yifeng who won the 3rd prize in the local competition.

The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that offers a simulating setting for participants to act as real-world research analysts. 11 teams each representing a local university joined the 2017 – 18 final competition in Hong Kong. Each team analysed a HK listed company in-depth with the assistance of mentors, met the company management and wrote a research report on the company with a buy, sell, or hold recommendation. The five teams with the highest written report scores then presented their investment research to the panel of judges at the report presentation and award ceremony, and be advised of judges’ comments and recommendations. 

Congratulations to HKU FBE’s team who won the 2nd Runner Up, and thanks to their advisor Mr. Jimmy Woo. Team members are: 

Mr. NG Chun Wai, BEcon&Fin, Year 5 (1st from right)
Miss Ho Ching Man Joyce, BEcon&Fin, Year 4 (2nd from right)
Miss Kowk Yee Huen, BEcon&Fin, Year 4 (3rd from right)
Mr. Leung Tak Wing, BSc(Qfin), Year 4 (1st from left)
Miss Tsui Pui-Chi Melanie, BSc(Qfin), Year 4 (2nd from left) 

Congratulations to team “GreenPrice” formed by four FBE students and two students from other institutions, which won one of the Champions (two in total) and the Best Presentation Award in the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge (HKSEC) 2017-18! 

In HKSEC, students have to employ creative entrepreneurial approaches to solve real world social issues through a structured competition model. Trainings are provided to them through a series of social entrepreneurial seminars, workshops and an online self-learning platform. Participants can also exchange ideas with executives from the commercial sector.

The Challenge is open to students and graduates from all institutions. 82 teams participated this year. Teams that entered the semi-final each presented a detailed social venture plan that illustrated a serious problem it seeks to address. They are required to elaborate also on the market needs, the competitive landscape, the potential risks and strategies for managing those risks, as well as the social impacts it would generate. 

 “GreenPrice” runs a real social supermarket (www.greenprice.hk) that resells safe and decent groceries that are getting close to, or have just passed their “best before” dates. The reselling is done lawfully and at bottom prices through multiple distribution channels, through which the public is educated about the food waste problem and the “best before” date concept.

Thanks to Faculty Advisor Dr. Ernest Lo, and the team’s FBE members are:

Mr. Hon Chun Him, BBA, Year 3
Mr. So Hon Wan, BEcon&Fin, Year 3
Mr. Chau Chun Yin, BEcon&Fin, Year 3

The “Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China” Summer Programme 2019 kick-started on 24 June 2019 with an opening ceremony to welcome 29 students from HKU Faculty of Business and Economics and other overseas institutions in Australia, US, UK, Canada and Mainland China. The group has embarked their entrepreneurship journey in Hong Kong, and will later head to Zhuhai, Macau, Jiangmen, Guangzhou, Huizhou and Shenzhen to explore the boundless future in China’s Greater Bay Area in the coming three weeks.

Providing students with a deeper understanding of economics, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the context of business practices in the Greater Bay Area, this summer programme has arranged different company visits to China Resources, DHL, E Fund, Huawei, Lee Kum Kee, Hong Kong Science Park and The Mills. Students can also learn from sharing by industry professionals from Alibaba, IDEA Intellectual and Microsoft.

Coming to its 8th year, the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) HKU Chapter has inducted 105 undergraduate and postgraduate students at the ceremony held on 26 April 2019. Two esteemed business leaders, Dr. Anna YIP, Chief Executive Officer of SmarTone, and Mr. Henri ARSLANIAN, FinTech & Crypto Leader in Asia of PwC, were conferred the BGS HKU Chapter Honorees.

Professor Zhigang TAO, Acting Dean of Faculty of Business and Economics, welcomed the guests and expressed his congratulations to students inducted into the Beta Gama Sigma, “This prestigious life-time membership serves as an extensive global networking platform, where you can connect with a lot of intelligent and high calibre individuals just like you, and enjoy meaningful exchange on academic, professional and personal development”.

At the ceremony, the two Chapter Honorees shared their interesting stories to the students. With extensive experience in consulting and management, Dr. Anna Yip summarised her experiences in three different stages: Experiment, Grit and Radiation. In her early years of career, Dr. Yip was not very certain of what her direction was but kept experimenting with exciting ideas and tasks, “When looking back, it is sometimes how the dots connected them years later, about what you experimented turns out to be relevant experience some years later”.

Dr. Yip also mentioned that during her 13 years work in a consulting firm, she realised the importance of having the power of grit — a blend of passion, resilience and physical endurance in a sustained basis. The stage of radiation came when she became the leader in a telecom company. In the highly competitive and volatile industry, Dr. Yip emphasised on practicing leading innovations and collective genius, “My success is built on other people’s success. It is the collective effort of my teams.”

She strongly believed that effective intrapreneurship — cultivating a start-up culture within an organisation — would be very useful for business growth and talent management.

Mr. Henri Arslanian, a pioneer and prominent figure in the FinTech sector, inspired the audience with the “10-S” principles he lives by. He started with asking students to “Sit on the edge of your seat”. The constantly changing landscape and tremendous use of technology in different sectors make the job market more competing now, and in the future. Mr. Arslanian told students his career changes along the years and how these changes led to where he was, “Never sit comfortably, but sit on the edge. Making the big decisions that will impact your careers.” 

He further advised students to always seize the opportunities around, capture the shifts happening in society, and to set straight goals in life, “If you don’t put very straight-setting goals, you will be like driving around the desert and never knowing what the road is.” Encouraging students to treasure the school of life, Mr. Arslanian ended his speech affirming the importance of staying healthy, grateful and humble, be selective in life, and to serve the community.

For the video of the Honorees’ speeches and event highlights, please click here.

About Beta Gamma Sigma

Established in 1907 in the U.S., Beta Gamma Sigma is the international honor society serving business programmes accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive. Since 1913, Beta Gamma Sigma has inducted more than 700,000 outstanding students in more than 160 countries around the world.

About BGS HKU Chapter

The BGS HKU Chapter was installed in 2012. Since its inception, over 400 students were inducted. The lifelong membership conveys academic excellence, a commitment to high principle and superior achievement. Eligible students must attain CGPA of at least 3.60 and simultaneously be on the Dean’s Honour List and be on the top 10% of their respective undergraduate or postgraduate programme.

Dr. Anna Yip is conferred the BGS HKU Chapter Honoree.

Mr. Henri Arslanian is presented the BGS HKU Chapter Honoree by Professor Zhigang Tao.