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Four participants relate their experience at the inaugural Classified Post Hackathon

Steffany Cheng University of Hong Kong Describing taking part in the inaugural Classified Post Hackathon as........ ...

The HKICPA’s Shadow CPA programme offers unparalleled access to business leaders

For Lincoln Chan, a final-year accounting and finance student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), spending a day with a CPA professional was an insightful experience....... ...

Constructing a solid career base

Last month, three students assigned to shadow Joseph Choi, managing director of Hsin Chong Construction, got an exciting opportunity to see the decision-making process that goes on behind the scenes of a huge multi-purpose project, writes John Brennan. ...

Seeing the big picture at HKSTPC

It was three students, two days and one happy experience at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC), with Richard Tse Kin-pang, vice-president of finance and corporate services, keen to share what it is like to work in the company's upper echelons, writes Ben Kwok. ...

Connecting the dots at The Link

To know someone, you have to walk with them. Students Wayne Fong and William Lam from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology had the privilege of job-shadowing George Hongchoy, CEO of The Link Management, for two days, and experience first-hand what it is like to run some 180 shopping malls, writes Ben Kwok. ...

Firms seeking leaders who can walk the walk

The prime quality that companies and their boards of directors look for when hiring senior executives is the ability to lead and motivate others, according to a global survey of 1,270 business leaders conducted by executive search firm IIC Partners, writes John Brennan. ...

IP trading set to create technical and support jobs

The development of Hong Kong into an intellectual property (IP) trading hub will drive job growth in the city’s creative and technological sectors, in addition to providing benefits to directly related intermediary services such as law, accountancy, finance and brokerage, says a senior government adviser, writes Raymond Ma. ...

Sparking change

Microsoft HK and Women’s Foundation launch scheme to get more women into IT, writes Jolene Otremba. ...

Top of the world

Stimulating class discussion and cross-cultural exchange are hallmarks of the lauded Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Program, writes Raymond Ma. ...

The global school for future leaders

The business world has profoundly changed since 2000. It’s seen the emergence of the global collaboration economy, where traditional forms of economic might, social status and power no longer hold, writes Raymond Ma. ...