
International Recognition
Our commitment to world-class education provided by faculty from across the globe with diverse professional expertise.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Best Business School 2023-24, 2024-25
Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2024-25
Poets&Quants International MBA Ranking 2024-25, a Times Higher Education partners
Highlighting Our Professors

PROF. ALLEN HUANG
PhD, Duke University
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
- Earnings Management
- Fintech and Big Data
- Machine Learning
- Securities Regulation

PROF. CAROLINE WANG
Former Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Information Officer, IBM
MSc, Harvard University
- Managerial Communication
- Decision and Leadership

PROF. JAIDEEP SENGUPTA
PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, Management
- Consumer Information Processing
- Persuasion and Attitude Strength
- Effects of Marketing Communications
- Self-regulation and Self-control

PROF. XINYU HUA
PhD, Northwestern University
- Industrial Organization
- Law and Economics
- Contract Theory

Prof. Chris Doran
MBA, INSEAD
Former Strategy Director, A.S. Watson
- Applied Mergers and Acquisitions
- Consulting

Prof. Stephen Nason
PhD, University of Southern California
- International management and culture
- Human resource management
- Organizational learning
- Organizational culture

Prof. Jeevan JAISINGH
PhD, Management Information Systems, Purdue University
- Information Systems
- Business Statistics
- Operations Management
- Economics of Information Systems
- Information Security and Privacy
- Electronic Commerce

Prof. Xuan Wang
PhD, New York University, Operations Management
- Operations Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Operations/manufacturing Flexibility Design and Analysis
- Revenue Management and Online Marketplaces

Prof. Jiewen Hong
PhD, Northwestern University
- Consumer Information Processing
- Subjective Experiences in Consumer Judgment
- Affect and Consumer Judgment

Prof. T. Bradford BITTERLY
PhD, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Operations, Information and Decisions
- Negotiation
- Power and Status
- Trust
- Communication

Prof. Stephen Lee SHIH
MBA, University of California
Associate Dean of Business and Management (MBA Programs)
Former Partner, Bain & Company
- Career Development
- Leadership Development
- Non-profit Management
- Consulting
- Business-to-business Marketing

Prof. Yuk Fai FONG
PhD in Economics, Boston University
Associate Dean of Business and Management
Academic Director of HKUST EMBA Program
- Industrial Organization
- Quantitive Marketing

Prof. Eugene RAITT
MA, LaSalle University
- 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
PhD in Marketing Tilburg University
Chair Professor
- Bayesian Data Analysis
- Eye Movements
- Pricing Strategies
- Visual Attention

Prof. Zhihong Chen
PhD in Accounting, HKUST
- Corporate Governance
- Executive Compensation
- Real Effect of Accounting
- Capital Markets
- Disclosure

Prof. Eyub Yegen
PhD in Finance, University of Toronto
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Empirical Corporate Finance
- Political Economy
- Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

Prof. Mitya New
MA, Johns Hopkins University
Former Managing Director, Dow Jones & Reuters
- Responsible Leadership
- Cross-cultural Authenticity
- Multicultural Leadership and Performance

Prof. Ekkachai SAENYASIRI
PhD in Business, The City University of New York
- Corporate Finance
- Investments
- International Financial Markets
- Asset Pricing

Prof. Frederick Mutto
DBA, HKUST
Former Global Vice President of Customer Experience, Schneider Electric
- Customer Experience
- Quality Management
- Change Management
- Sustainable Development

Prof. Dean He
PhD in Economics of Education, Columbia University
- 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.

Thompson Center for Business Case Studies
Asian Cases for the World
We develop top-quality business cases from an Asian perspective as a world-leading case center, with a mission to promote case study method of teaching and learning.
- DJI Innovation: Product Development in Start-ups
- The Birth of Tencent Music Entertainment
- Lenovo: Digital Transformation for Supply Chain Intelligence
- Samsung as a Silicon Valley Company
- Cathay Pacific Airways: Implementing a Sustainable Development Strategy
- Uniqlo's Technology Drives Fashion Retailing
- Fintech at ANZ
- Samsung as a Silicon Valley Company
- Chow Tai Fook: Driving Towards a Century of Jewellery Making
- SOGO: Leveraging Digital Technologies to Enhance Customer Engagement and Drive Growth
- WeLab Bank: Reimagining Financial Services for Hong Kong People
- Asiaray: Managing Space Innovatively