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Innovation Fuels Success Spring 2020 INNOVATION FUELS SUCCESS Slam dunk for David Lee’s basketball app “HomeCourt” Vision: To be a leading, globally-impactful academic institution of business and economics. Mission: To provide world-leading business and economics education that nurtures dynamic and responsible leaders. To advance the frontiers of knowledge through innovative and To create positive change to the world by partnering with communities. CONTACT magazine is published by HKU Faculty of Business and Economics for its faculty, staff, alumni, students and stakeholders, featuring highlights of the Faculty. Communications and Public Relations Faculty of Business and Economics The University of Hong Kong Room 503, 5/F, K.K. Leung Building The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong Telephone: (+852) 3917 5343 Email: [email protected] Website: www.fbe.hku.hk ONLINE VERSION www.fbe.hku.hk/faculty-magazine Special thanks to faculty, staff and students who contributed their stories and photos to CONTACT. HKU Faculty of Business and Economics is fully accredited by: Spring CONTENTS 2020 COVER 4 Silicon Valley legend David Lee offers sage advice to students FEATURE 8 HKU Business School raises its teaching game 10 Double Davids in awards bonanza 11 Dr. Lilian Chan wins Faculty Knowledge Exchange 4 Award 2019 Vision: 12 Shenzhen alumni and HKU-PKU EMBA students To be a leading, globally-impactful academic institution of toast their joint success 13 Lively welcome for taught masters programmes business and economics. students 14 Fostering a brilliant future with FBE Mentorship Mission: Programme 2019-20 To provide world-leading business and economics education that 10 RESEARCH nurtures dynamic and responsible leaders. 16 Corporate social responsibility: Doing good is good To advance the frontiers of knowledge through innovative and for business AWARDS To create positive change to the world by partnering with 19 Scholarships, prizes and Dean’s Honours List communities. 14 PEOPLE 32 New faculty members bring talent to the fore SPOTLIGHT CONTACT magazine is published by HKU Faculty of Business and Economics for its faculty, staff, alumni, 34 The grandmaster: Professor Yuk-fai Fong students and stakeholders, featuring highlights of the Faculty. 35 Marketing makes sense with Dr. Mengzhou Zhuang Communications and Public Relations Faculty of Business and Economics STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS The University of Hong Kong 36 Students shine in HKSI Institute Scholarship 37 Room 503, 5/F, K.K. Leung Building Programme 2019 The University of Hong Kong 37 Tax championship a walk in the park for FBE Pokfulam Road Hong Kong students Telephone: (+852) 3917 5343 Student innovators win HSBC case competition Email: [email protected] Website: www.fbe.hku.hk ONLINE VERSION STUDENT EXPERIENCE www.fbe.hku.hk/faculty-magazine 38 Deep insights and eye openers at Asia Pacific Study 3 Tour 8 Special thanks to faculty, staff and students who contributed their stories and photos to CONTACT. 39 A Swiss adventure HKU Faculty of Business and Economics is fully accredited by: First private equity experience at Neuberger Berman 40 Red Cross experience opens new perspectives 41 A life-changing year at Yale 42 Tales of a Hong Kong business legend at HKU 40 42 COVER Guest of honour David Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of NEX Team Inc., delivers a keynote speech at HKU Faculty of Business and Economics Graduation Ceremony. 4 COVER Silicon Valley legend David Lee offers sage advice to students Tech giant returns to alma mater as keynote speaker for the FBE graduation ceremony KU alumnus David Lee is flying high Apple in 2008 and David was honoured as one of across the tech world, yet the Hong Business Week’s “Asia’s Best Entrepreneurs under Kong native has never forgotten 25”. “When you envision a different future, you H his roots. In front of the FBE class can start bending reality with your own effort,” he of 2019, he offered fascinating insights into his said. “Start by sharing your vision and asking for career, returning triumphantly as keynote speaker support – you’ll be surprised how many people at the FBE graduation ceremony. share the dream – blaze your own path,” he told the students. From learning halls to the big league David graduated from the University of Hong David’s innovations were noticed by industry Kong with first class honours in BBA (Information players and he relocated to Silicon Valley to work Systems) and BEng (Software Engineering) in for Apple in 2009. After eight years, he decided it 2003 and 2004 respectively. It was during his was time to move on. He co-founded NEX Team third year of study at HKU that he co-founded his Inc., which uses mobile AI technologies that first start-up “Team and Concepts” with seven understand and analyse mobile video capture other HKU students, developing a web calendar in real-time. The team is currently focused on app three years before Google Calendar was their iOS app, HomeCourt, which applies these invented. “We didn’t have a lot of resources, but technologies to basketball. “Look at me, I’m 5 foot we were very resourceful,” he told the attentive 5, and I’m not even good at basketball,” he told at audience. the congregation. After graduation, he joined classmates to set Reaching the NBA up a company full time. Editgrid, their online Step by step, the team inputted information and collaborative spreadsheet, was acquired by data and built the app’s capabilities, making it applicable to players and coaches wanting feedback on their techniques. They eventually signed a strategic partnership with the NBA and gained investors such as Jeremy Lin, Steve Nash and Mark Cuban. A highlight of their work was being invited by Apple to present HomeCourt’s innovative Shot Science with Steve Nash at Apple’s new iPhone event. We didn’t have a David’s journey up until now has been one of lot of resources, spirit, innovation and commitment and he has but we were very been an inspiration for many at the University of Hong Kong. Does David have any words of resourceful. wisdom for FBE graduates? As he puts it, “Write your own story. With every challenge there comes an opportunity. The opportunity to build your character, resilience, and test your creativity. Follow your passions, listen to your heart, you will find your path. The future is for you to create.” 5 COVERCOVER Kenny Lam proposes a vote of thanks on behalf of the graduating class of 2019. 6 COVER 7 FEATURE HKU Business School raises its teaching game The Faculty Teaching Award Scheme recognises and rewards teachers with outstanding achievements and significant contributions in teaching and student learning in the Faculty. The award-winners for the academic year 2018-19 are: Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Undergraduate Teaching) My passion for teaching drives me to explore different practices to establish an effective learning environment for my students. Excellent course preparation and design is essential. Everyone in my class is a distinct individual learner, so I do my best to recognise each student’s learning progress. With mutual respect, a personalised experience will enhance students’ learning and progress. Dr. Alex CHAN Principal Lecturer in Finance As a researcher, I strongly believe that the beauty of academic business research lies in its power to address real-world issues with theoretical insights, which practitioners might not be readily aware of through simply accumulating business experiences. It is crucial to engage students in active learning by encouraging them to apply theoretical frameworks to various real-life examples and cases. By doing so, we can inspire them with recent research findings that offer important insights into managerial problems. Through various forms of active learning, students can eventually acquire analytical skills and develop sharp business insights. Dr. Michael JIA Assistant Professor in Marketing 8 FEATURE To inspire the interest of students to learn economics, we cannot simply teach them the technical skills to solve the economic models. We have to show them that economics is relevant: the subject can help them develop insights about the real world that they live in. To engage the students in the learning process, we cannot simply use the monotonous chalk-and- talk presentation format in the lectures. We have to draw the attention of the students by using multi-media in the lecture presentation and to enrich the learning experience of the students by adopting a variety of active learning activities. Dr. Claudian KWOK Principal Lecturer in Economics Design and delivery are the two most significant factors in my teaching preparation. Design includes digesting academic materials to find the hidden twists that may challenge students’ understanding and creating teaching materials that fit the learning style of most students. While good design produces the tangibles, delivery is all about the intangibles, such as logic, pace, tone, and atmosphere. You may vary these elements in different classes based on the background, interests, and characteristics of different student groups. Successfully established intangibles will naturally build a trustworthy environment for students to interact with you. The feedback you collect from students will also help you with designing the next class. Dr. Olivia LEUNG Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Law 9 FEATURE Double Davids in awards bonanza n a swoop of accolades, HKU Faculty of Business and Economics lecturers David Lee and David Bishop received both the Teaching Innovation Team Award from the university and the Faculty I Special Contribution Teaching Award conferred by the Faculty. The double win came with the team running a highly popular MOOC (massive online open course) about ethics and risks in financial technology on EdX. Abandoning the talking head style instructional videos commonly used in MOOCs, they designed a series of dialogical, animated and case-based instructional videos to engage learners and initiate debate and discussion.
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