On August 25, in tandem with the launch of Hong Kong Baptist University's (HKBU) dual MBA programme, the university achieved another milestone.
During an orientation banquet held at the Kowloon Shangri-La hotel that evening, Simon Ho Shun-man, dean of the School of Business at HKBU, and Stephen Lee, chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Academy, signed an agreement to jointly establish a workshop series as part of HKBU's DBA programme.
A DBA, or Doctor of Business Administration, is designed to equip senior practitioners and business academics with updated, contemporary research skills and professional business insights. A traditional DBA programme can take three to four years and allows students to not only develop their business skills and professional knowledge, but is also structured in a way that permits the students to make contributions to business theory and impact real-world practice.
HKBU's new DBA programme is a powerful, integrated professional doctorate structured around taught courses, workshops and intensive research, giving students the opportunity to learn how to lead change, make strategic decisions and enhance corporate accountability. A pool of experienced, world-renowned professors from local and overseas institutions will collectively contribute to the overall programme curriculum. It is a tailor-made study programme which can take three to six years, depending on the student's goals and time.
Some of the programme's key courses include strategy generation, corporate governance and ethics, qualitative approaches to research, advanced statistics and data analysis, and leading organisational change.
The programme is structured to offer a part-time route to a postgraduate doctoral qualification. Seven compulsory courses, eight professional development workshops, and a thesis will be required for completion.