CUHK Business – June 2021
Our Research
Innovation & Technology
Research by Prof. Jason Yeh, Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at CUHK, finds that FinTech innovations can enhance the stability of financial institutions in emerging markets and even improve their profitability.
Career, Leadership
New research by Prof. Wendong Li, Associate Professor in the Department of Management at CUHK, finds people adapt and grow more conscientious when promoted to supervisory roles at work.
Social Responsibility
Research co-conducted by Prof. Jing Wu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics at CUHK, draws attention to practice of firms greenwashing their corporate social responsibility (CSR) by disclosing supply chain relationships with “green” but concealing “brown” suppliers.
Consumer Behaviour
According to Prof. Lisa Wan’s (Associate Professor of School of Hotel and Tourism Management and Department of Marketing) research, making tourists empathise with local residents can reduce misbehaviour.
Our People
Alumni Story
After Angel Ng (BBA 1990) graduated from CUHK in 1990, she worked more than six years for a multinational FMCG company. In 1998, her expertise and insights in delivering extraordinary customer experience led her to a new home at Citi. At the time, the global bank’s management was hoping to give its retail banking services a customer-centric makeover, which Angel delivered with flying colours.
Faculty Story
A native Australian who lived and worked in Asia for over 30 years, Prof. Paul Kitney has forged an illustrious career in economics and finance and thrived through bears and bulls. Now, this globetrotting investment strategist and Asian economics expert is a full-time professor in CUHK’s Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, where he consolidates his worldly wisdom and passes it on to the next generation for the Asian Century.
Student Story
Yuka Goto (Integrated BBA, Year 3) is always looking for novel experiences in unusual places. She follows the motto: “If you are not different from who you were 12 months ago, you did not learn enough.”
Alumni Whereabouts
With travel restrictions ongoing under COVID, it’s been difficult to travel the globe the way we used to. That’s why we invited several MBA alumni from different corners of the world to be virtual tour guides and share with us life where they live now and their experience at CUHK.
Our Happenings
CUHK Business School announced the development of a Corporate Innovation Index (CII) that will serve as a management and assessment tool to cultivate an innovation culture and to enhance capabilities and achievements in technology adoption among large corporations and SMEs in Hong Kong.
School News Highlight
- MoU Signed between CUHK Business School and Shenzhen Luohu District People’s Government
- CUHK Business School Research Named Journal of Finance’s Top 50 Cited Articles of All Time
- IBCE Alumnus Alvin Cheung Awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021
- Practitioners, Regulators and Researchers Discuss Big Data and FinTech Challenges at Asia’s First Summit of Unsolved Problems
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About CUHK Business
CUHK Business School’s magazine CUHK Business provides a platform to inform readers of selected business topics and school updates through articles written by staff and guest writers. Situated at the world’s doorway to China, with a well developed foundation in business education and research, CUHK Business School has a unique role in nurturing business leaders of tomorrow. We hope you will find the articles interesting and stimulating.