World Class Faculty

It takes the best teachers to bring out the best in students.
It takes the best teachers to bring out the best in students.

International Recognition

Our commitment to world-class education provided by faculty from across the globe with diverse professional expertise.

No.
1
MBA in Asia

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Best Business School 2023-24, 2024-25

No.
1
MBA in Hong Kong

Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2024-25

No.
1
MBA in Asia

Poets&Quants International MBA Ranking 2024-25, a Times Higher Education partners

Highlighting Our Professors

PROF. ALLEN HUANG

PROF. ALLEN HUANG

PhD, Duke University

Research focus:
  • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
  • Earnings Management
  • Fintech and Big Data
  • Machine Learning
  • Securities Regulation
PROF. CAROLINE WANG

PROF. CAROLINE WANG

Former Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Information Officer, IBM

MSc, Harvard University

Course:
  • Managerial Communication
  • Decision and Leadership
PROF. JAIDEEP SENGUPTA

PROF. JAIDEEP SENGUPTA

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, Management

Research focus:
  • Consumer Information Processing
  • Persuasion and Attitude Strength
  • Effects of Marketing Communications
  • Self-regulation and Self-control
PROF. XINYU HUA

PROF. XINYU HUA

PhD, Northwestern University

Research focus:
  • Industrial Organization
  • Law and Economics
  • Contract Theory
Prof. Chris Doran

Prof. Chris Doran

MBA, INSEAD

Former Strategy Director, A.S. Watson

Research focus:
  • Applied Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Consulting
Prof. Stephen Nason

Prof. Stephen Nason

PhD, University of Southern California

Research focus:
  • International management and culture
  • Human resource management
  • Organizational learning
  • Organizational culture
Prof. Jeevan JAISINGH

Prof. Jeevan JAISINGH

PhD, Management Information Systems, Purdue University

Research focus:
  • Information Systems
  • Business Statistics
  • Operations Management
  • Economics of Information Systems
  • Information Security and Privacy
  • Electronic Commerce
Prof. Xuan Wang

Prof. Xuan Wang

PhD, New York University, Operations Management

Research focus:
  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Operations/manufacturing Flexibility Design and Analysis
  • Revenue Management and Online Marketplaces
Prof. Jiewen Hong

Prof. Jiewen Hong

PhD, Northwestern University

Research focus:
  • Consumer Information Processing
  • Subjective Experiences in Consumer Judgment
  • Affect and Consumer Judgment
Prof. T. Bradford BITTERLY

Prof. T. Bradford BITTERLY

PhD, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Operations, Information and Decisions

Research focus:
  • Negotiation
  • Power and Status
  • Trust
  • Communication
Prof. Stephen Lee SHIH

Prof. Stephen Lee SHIH

MBA, University of California

Associate Dean of Business and Management (MBA Programs)

Former Partner, Bain & Company

Research focus:
  • Career Development
  • Leadership Development
  • Non-profit Management
  • Consulting
  • Business-to-business Marketing
Yuk Fai FONG

Prof. Yuk Fai FONG

PhD in Economics, Boston University

Associate Dean of Business and Management

Academic Director of HKUST EMBA Program

Research focus:
  • Industrial Organization
  • Quantitive Marketing
Prof. Eugene RAITT

Prof. Eugene RAITT

MA, LaSalle University

Course:
  • Former Chief Direct & Digital Marketing Officer, AIG
  • Former Chairman & CEO – China Insurance Marketing & Administration Company 
  • Chairman – Direct Marketing Association (USA)
  • Chairman of the Board – Hong Kong Direct Marketing Association
Prof. Ralf VAN DER LANS

Prof. Ralf VAN DER LANS

PhD in Marketing Tilburg University

Chair Professor

Research focus:
  • Bayesian Data Analysis
  • Eye Movements
  • Pricing Strategies
  •  Visual Attention
Prof. Zhihong Chen

Prof. Zhihong Chen

PhD in Accounting, HKUST

Research focus:
  • Corporate Governance
  • Executive Compensation
  • Real Effect of Accounting
  • Capital Markets
  • Disclosure
Eyub Yegen

Prof. Eyub Yegen

PhD in Finance, University of Toronto

Research focus:
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
  • Empirical Corporate Finance
  • Political Economy
  • Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
Prof. Mitya New

Prof. Mitya New

MA, Johns Hopkins University

Former Managing Director, Dow Jones & Reuters

Research focus:
  • Responsible Leadership
  • Cross-cultural Authenticity
  • Multicultural Leadership and Performance
Prof. Ekkachai SAENYASIRI

Prof. Ekkachai SAENYASIRI

PhD in Business, The City University of New York

Research focus:
  • Corporate Finance
  • Investments
  • International Financial Markets
  • Asset Pricing
Prof. Fred Mutto

Prof. Frederick Mutto

DBA, HKUST

Former Global Vice President of Customer Experience, Schneider Electric

Research focus:
  • Customer Experience
  • Quality Management
  • Change Management
  • Sustainable Development
Prof. Dean He

Prof. Dean He

PhD in Economics of Education, Columbia University

 

Research focus:
  • Economics of Prestige
  • Economics of Education
  • Economics of Entrepreneurship
  • Economics of Happiness

Other institutions represented by our faculty (partial list): Berkeley, Chicago, Cornell, Fudan, Harvard, INSEAD, Oxford, Princeton

*There may be changes to the profiles due to personnel change. For updated list of professors and their academic pursuit, please contact us at mba@ust.hk.

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