Hosted by the Dean of HKUST School of Business and Management and featuring a distinguished keynote speaker, the Global Leadership Forum (GLF) is an enrichment event within the HKUST Global Business (GBUS) program. It was first incepted in March 2009 with an intention for the GBUS students to meet leaders from the Hong Kong community.
The Forum is held twice a year for these bright young students to provide an ideal platform for them to learn from the keynote speaker and from each other. Joined by faculty members, corporate mentors, we hope our students will be inspired and gain insights from the leader's experience to broaden their exposure of conducting business in the global environment, and to sharpen their critical thinking through informed viewpoints.
Keynote speakers in the previous Global Leadership Forum (in alphabetical order):
Career Mentor Link Program is a year-long corporate mentorship program, which aims to help with our students' personal and professional development by introducing a corporate mentor to the students.
The program will organize a few events to gather the mentors and mentees (e.g. kick-off luncheon, interview workshops, service gathering) but mostly the mentoring relationship continues through the proactive and receptive attitude of our students to learning from the mentor through individual mentoring sessions.
In GBUS, we have different team building exercises for different classes of study. It is held once a year at the beginning of the Fall semester. Team building exercise is always a physically and mentally challenging event for the GBUS students - to challenge themselves to step out of their comfort zone, as well as building the team work among the class.
As an individual, we aim to increase self-awareness:
As a team, we aim to work together more effectively in teams:
The Affiliation Team embarks on bonding within the community as it strives to foster intra-year and inter-year bonding by organizing social and mingling events, expediting cross-year knowledge transfer to pass on the expertise and experiences of seniors in the community, and providing a fun platform for the GBUS community to inspire, to interact and to share.
The Career and Professional Development Team takes initiatives to provide information, training and resources to match the needs of GBUS students to exploring their career and professional ambitions.
The Design and Communications Team aims at strengthening the brand of GBUS and its core values; and fostering effective programme communication to external and internal stakeholders.
The External Relations Team aims at building an extensive, sustainable network for the GBUS community through establishing strong and responsive relationships with external parties, including other universities and prospective students, as well as other external organizations concerned.
The Global Exposure Team works to provide international exposure to GBUS students with the aim of cultivating global perspectives and cultural awareness.
This is a project-based service-learning course with the aim to nurture students' passion in taking socially responsible leadership roles. Students collaborate with non-governmental organizations to design, lead, and implement service projects.
Example NGO Partners throughout the years:
