Global Leadership Forum (GLF)
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):
- Prof. K.C. CHAN, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury
- Dr. Michael CHAN, Chairman, Café de Coral Holdings Limited
- Mr. Ronnie CHAN, Chairman, Hang Lung Group
- Mr. Benjamin HUNG, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
- Mr. Tim LUI, Partner, Tax Services, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
- Mr. Tom MEHRMANN, Chief Executive of Ocean Park Corporation
- Mr. Joseph WONG, Partner and Head, Hong Kong Practice, Global Business Services, IBM China/ Hong Kong Limited
- Mr. Albert SHU, Managing Director, Weber Shandwick
- Mr. Michael WU, Chairman and Managing Director of Maxim's Group
- Dr. Anna YIP, Head of Hong Kong and Macau, MasterCard
Career Mentor Link Program (CML)
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.
Team Building Exercise
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:
- Explore participant’s potential and develop pro-active “can-do” attitudes by stretching out of one’s physical and mental comfort zone
- Re-align personal attitudes and value towards nature and people
As a team, we aim to work together more effectively in teams:
- To develop trust, mutual support, collaboration, and synergy among team members
- Build interpersonal relationships through overcoming challenges presented in an outdoor environment