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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