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College of Business 城大商學院 A Key Business Education Hub – in China for the World CB achieves 5-Year EQUIS Accreditation CB rises to second-ranked Business School in China Interview with Dean Houmin Yan Networking with International Partners and Alumni Delegates of the CityU Partner’s Day Innovation on show at DEC Fair CB Retreat explores future of Graduate Business Education Provost Ellis presenng the champion’s trophy to the winning team MBA – Programme revamp and new scholarships Executive Education Drive IDBA – Focus on China CB students win SCMP Ricoh Green Competition CB students shine at Asian Job Express CB excels in University Teaching Excellence Awards (from leſt) Dr Tom Vinaimont, Dr Ron Kwok, Dean Yan, and Ms Wisteria Cheung Bulletin Issue May 2013 Congratulations to College Excellence Award Winners UT Dallas Rankings HNA Group execuves aending EE programme at CityU campus The College of Business has been awarded a 5-Year EQUIS accreditaon following the peer review visit in November last year – placing us in a select group of top Business Schools worldwide and represenng a significant enhancement to our internaonal profile. In delivering the 5-Year Accreditaon, the EQUIS Peer Review Team outlined a number of areas where they felt that CB was excelling, and also some areas which would serve as useful guidelines for us as we connue our development. In other accreditaon news, the College has decided not to renew its accreditaon with AMBA. The College has risen to #63 in the latest UT Dallas Rankings, an improvement of six places on last year – based on our research contribuons from 2008-2012. This means that we are now the second-ranked business school in China, and the fourth-ranked in Asia. The College is also the number two business school in Hong Kong in terms of successful General Research Fund (GRF) applicaons, so we have consolidated our posion as a leader in terms of research producvity. Dean Houmin Yan has given an interview to CB Bullen in which he put forward his vision for the coming years. Professor Yan talked about his ideas for strategic development, projecng CB’s profile on the worldwide stage, linking up with Columbia Business School, the importance of building alumni links, and the possibility of developing a signature College of Business building – amongst other things. You can read the full interview here. How best to map our path to success? This was the queson asked at a recent College of Business retreat workshop, Reaching New Heights: A New Way of Thinking, held in early February. The one-day workshop took detailed stock of the current state of play with our graduate business educaon programmes, and a radical and wide ranging look at how best they may be developed. The retreat was opened by the Provost, Prof Arthur Ellis, with contribuons following from Prof Chen Hong and Ms Melody Guo of the Shanghai Advanced Instute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Prof Xu Yan of HKUST’s Bilingual EMBA. ‘Maps to Success’ were drawn up for individual graduate programmes – idenfying obstacles and the iniaves required to successfully move forward. Dean Houmin Yan wrapped up the workshop, highlighng issues of concern raised by our accreditaon bodies EQUIS and AACSB. CityU hosted a lively Partner's Day event – aended by 70 delegates from instuons around the world – in March 2013. The event was kicked off by Professor Way Kuo, CityU President; Professor Arthur Ellis, Provost of CityU; and Professor Roderick Wong, Vice-President (Development and External Relaons) at the University Welcoming Ceremony. During the CB welcoming session, Dean Houmin Yan shared with our exchange partners some of his plans for the College such as space, branding and internaonal programmes and collaboraons. A further networking event, the first Joint Alumni Recepon, was hosted by the College of Business and the Queensland University of Technology for the Internaonal Business School Network on 14 March 2013. It was a huge success with some 240 students and alumni from nine parcipang instuons across Europe, North America and Oceania taking part. Provost Ellis officiated and gave opening remarks about internaonalizaon, and Mr. James Thompson, founder, chairman and chief execuve of the Crown Worldwide Group, delivered the keynote speech on "Moving the World – the Crown Story". As part of the inaugural CityU Discovery Fesval, the College of Business organized a Discovery Enriched Curriculum (DEC) Fair in early March. The event was designed to showcase the journey of discovery, innovaon and creavity that our students are traversing. Dean Houmin Yan inaugurated the event, and in his opening remarks expressed the hope that CB graduates will nourish the spirit of innovaon and creavity throughout their life-long journey of learning. A team of students from each of the six CB departments presented their DEC projects ulizing both convenonal and mulmedia formats. Over 500 visitors, including faculty and students from the various colleges, aended the event and had the opportunity to interact with the teams as well as cast their votes for the project they liked best. The IS project “Smart CV for Smarter Career Development” proved the most popular – gaining 178 votes – and was duely declared the winner. Provost Professor Arthur Ellis presented the champion’s trophy as well as cerficates and book coupons to all teams, and rounded off the event by sharing some of his thoughts on DEC – emphasizing its central role in all forms of learning at CityU. The College of Business has conducted a restructuring of the MBA programme curriculum and introduced a brand new scholarship scheme to aract high quality students - those who have the aspiraon to be high flyers, disnguished leaders or entrepreneurs. These students will have the opportunity to learn under top professors, and also with outstanding peers in the new state-of-the-art Academic 3 complex. The Internaonal DBA programme presented a day of China-themed talks on 22 February 2013. Mr Shih Chi Ping, Phoenix Satellite TV financial commentary show host, opened proceedings with “Does China have a fourth period of strategic opportunies? Outlook for China’s development and reform aſter the 18th CPC Naonal Congress”. In the aſternoon, former CityU President, Prof Chang Hsin Kang, gave a talk on “Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road.” To round off the day IDBA students of the 2011 and 2012 Classes, DBA students and teachers from CityU and Fudan University enjoyed a dinner gathering at a Sai Kung restaurant. The contribuon of CB’s Execuve Educaon drive has been underscored by the wide range of programmes delivered over the past few months. CB has provided programmes to a number of leading mainland business corporaons, as well as overseas public organizaons and universies in the past half year . Our partners include the HNA Group, the Agricultural Bank of China, the China Chongqing Internaonal Construcon Corporaon, the HNA Capital Holding Company Limited, PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited, the Graduate School of Internaonal Business of the Russian Presidenal Academy of Naonal Economy and Public Administraon, Shanghai Jiaotong University Overseas Educaon College and the Omnium Global EMBA (GEMBA) programme of University of Toronto and University of St. Gallen. Both programme porolio and student numbers look set to expand further. Four CB students have won the South China Morning Post Ricoh Green Compeon 2013: Bright Ideas for A Green Office. Their project Ricoh Office Goes Green hit on the innovave concept of introducing energy saving parons into offices – taking advantage of thermoelectric cooling produced by the Peler Effect. The cross-disciplinary undergraduate team consisted of Li Wing Yan Cathy (BBA MIM), Au Wing Lam Janet (BBA QFRM), Tung Ho Lam Jim (BBA ACT), and Leung Hing Yuet Ada (BBA ACT). CB students have scored success at the Asian Job Express. Congratulaons to Chung Kam Mei Camillia (BBA IBJ) and Chan Tsz Long (BBA IBJ) who aended the Asian Business Contest, which was held in Tokyo in December 2012. During their stay, they teamed up with other parcipants from various countries around Asia. Tse Long’s group was chosen winner and was presented with the trophy for Asia Job Express Best Business Plan – Muji secon. The aim of Asian Job Express is to discover potenal Asian leaders - people who expect to be acvely involved in the front line of the business world. The compeon is open to all university students in Asia, and is designed to support them in achieving their goals in their chosen fields. Applicaons are now being received for 2013 - you can find more informaon here. CB contributed 50% of the outstanding teachers receiving the 2012-13 Teaching Excellence Awards. Our successful colleagues were Ms Wisteria Cheung Yuen Yi , Teaching Fellow of the Department of Markeng; Dr Ron Kwok Chi Wai, Associate Professor of the Department of Informaon Systems; and Dr Tom Vinaimont, Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance. At a session in early March, the awardees spoke of how they try to encourage colleagues to become excellent teachers, and how the various teaching grants offered by CityU supported their new teaching iniaves. CB proudly announces the recipients of the College Teaching and Research Excellence Awards 2013. They are Dr. Terence C.H. CHEUNG (IS), Dr. Maris MARTINSONS (MGT), and Ms NG Shuk Wai Raine (MKT) for the Teaching Excellence Awards. And the College Research Excellence Awards have been awarded to Dr. FENG Juan (IS), Professor LIM Kai Hin (IS), and Professor YANG Zhilin (MKT). The College emphasises research and teaching excellence and recognises and awards those who excel in these areas. Award presentaon will be held at the upcoming College Retreat on 27 May 2013. From 2013/14 MBA students may choose to take one of the concentraons of Accounng, Finance, Markeng or Supply Chain Management. These new specialisaons are offered to deepen student knowledge and skills in selected business areas, and prepare them for job opportunies created by industry and the fast growing mainland economy. More details can be found here. To aract top quality candidates and recognise their achievements, for the first me outstanding applicants and students will have the opportunity to receive a variety of aracve MBA scholarships. For more details, please visit our programme website.
