I am especially pleased to celebrate your achievement as graduates of our joint programme in Hong Kong. As you represent the last graduating class in our joint programme over which I will serve as Dean of the Kellogg School, I would like to present you with a special challenge: to play a continuing role in strengthening the alliance between the HKUST School of Business and Management and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
We are proud to welcome you into the world community of more than 40,000 Kellogg alumni. You join an ever-growing cadre of global management programme alumni with your peers in Evanston, Illinois, at the Recanati School in Israel, and at the Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany. I trust that you have fond memories of meeting them at the Allen Centre in Evanston.
It has been our experience at Kellogg that the bonds formed in intensive learning sessions provide a lifetime of contacts and networks. With the newest technology being employed in all of our Kellogg programmes, our students and alumni can immediately keep in touch with each other in all corners of the globe.
In our inter-reliant world of business, these contacts will increasingly become more essential to success. Nothing pleases me more than the success of our graduates.
You and your families can be proud of your hard work, and your commitment to learning while maintaining the heavy responsibilities of family and business life. We are grateful to your families for their support. And we can all be grateful for the vision of the faculty and administration of HKUST. They recognised the potential of such a global programme and continue to expertly meet our customer's expectations.
I would like to thank Acting Dean K. C. Chan and Associate Dean Steve DeKrey for helping to make this a formidable and successful partnership.
