https://www.scmp.com/rss/328165/feed Celebrating 20 years of collaboration, learning and worldwide recognition en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com [Sponsored Article] Since it was launched in 1998, the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA programme has gone from being the first of its kind in Asia to the best of its kind in the world. Ranked as the global number one EMBA programme in eight out of the past 10 years by the Financial Times, its 20th birthday was celebrated over a long weekend in Hong Kong in early July. On Saturday, July 7, more than 300 business leaders, faculty and programme alumni gathered for a special “Leadership in an Age of Disruption”... https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157983/world-beating-kellogg-hkust?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157983/world-beating-kellogg-hkust?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:30:04 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Mike Gault, founder and CEO of blockchain business Guardtime, believes he may be unique among Kellogg-HKUST EMBA alumni, having been a member of three separate cohorts. “I was in KH11, KH12 and KH13,” he explains. Work pressures contributed to the delayed completion of his studies. At that time, he was establishing his tech company in Tallinn, Estonia, while working as a derivatives trader in Tokyo. However, the deferments proved fortuitous, Gault says. “If I hadn’t done... https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157982/guardtime-ceo-mike-gault?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157982/guardtime-ceo-mike-gault?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:29:48 +0000 [Sponsored Article] One year stands out in the career story of Angela Dong, Nike’s global vice-president and general manager of Greater China. That year was 2008, when the Olympic Games were held in Beijing, and Dong was studying on the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA programme. “That was an amazing year,” she recalls. Dong was drawn to the programme’s global mindset and scope, and its sharp focus  on Asia. Once her studies had begun, the relationships she developed with the other members of the KH10  cohort... https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157981/how-kellogg-hkust-emba?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157981/how-kellogg-hkust-emba?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:29:32 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Hakan Bulgurlu is the CEO of Istanbul-based consumer goods manufacturer Arçelik and one of the distinguished alumni of the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA programme, but it took him two attempts to get a place on the course. When he was in his 20s, Bulgurlu left his native Turkey to open a regional office for Arçelik in Hong Kong, and he made his first application to the programme when he was 28. However, given the programme’s minimum 10-years-work-experience criteria, he had to wait... https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157974/kellogg-hkust-emba-programme?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157974/kellogg-hkust-emba-programme?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:29:15 +0000 [Sponsored Article] It has been quite a journey. A programme launched 20 years ago, after a struggle to secure faculty, amid worries about whether it would attract sufficient applications for places, has blossomed into the EMBA, which has established itself as the number one programme in the world. In 1997 Professor Steven DeKrey, associate dean of HKUST Business School, was recruited to run the school’s MBA programme. DeKrey had not only graduated from the Kellogg School of Management, but also... https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157979/quality-key-making-kellogg?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/business/topics/20th-anniversary-celebration/article/2157979/quality-key-making-kellogg?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:28:56 +0000