Annual Report 2004–05

劉遵義校長與成思危敎授 Prof. Lawrence J. Lau and Prof. Cheng Siwei • P r o f. Le Tien-sheng , faculty dean, and Prof. Andrew C.F. Chan, EMBA director, received The China Business School Dean Leadership Achievemen t Award and The Best EMBA Educationa l Organization Award respectivel y at the Smart Fortune China Human Resources Forum and Annual Award in Macau on 2nd December 2004. The award recognizes the achievement s of individuals and organizations for their contribution to the developmen t of human resources in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. The Centre of Internationa l Business of Amity Business School in India also presented the Amity Academic Excellence Award to Prof. Le Tien-sheng in February 2005. The award recognizes his efforts at combining the best business practices with the world of academia to achievexcellent results. • T he MBA Programmes were ranked top in East Asia in business magazine Asia Inc 's ranking of 'Asia's Best MBA Schools' in 2004, making it the winner for thre years in a row. The magazine praised the programme for its large and strong student base and its wide Hong Kong and mainland China network. In October 2004, London-based F i n a n c i a l T i m es ranked the CUHK EMBA Programme No. 12 worldwide. It has also been ranked the No. 1 independen t programme in Asia from 2001 to 2004 for four years in a row. The MBA Programme in Finance offered jointly with Tsinghua University in Beijing attained No. 9 in the World Business Newswire' s annual ranking of 'The Most Influential Mainland China-Foreign Partnershi p MBAs' in December 2004. • P r o f. Cheng Siwei, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and dean of the School of Managemen t of the Graduate School of the ChinesAcademy of Sciences, visited the University in March 2005. He conducted a seminar and delivered a public lecture. The vice- chancellor , Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, presented a certificate of appointment to Prof. Cheng as an honorary professor f the faculty. • T he faculty has established a partnership with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagle r Business School a nd Copenhagen Business School (CBS) to launch an internationa l programme in undergraduat e business in September 2005. This innovative Global Learning Opportunities in Business Education (GLOBE) programme has a comprehensive and internationall y oriented curriculum which allows students to experience different cultural settings and develop a global mindset . Every year, 45 students from the thre top-ranked business schools will study together as one cohort in thre locations across the world — Denmark, Hong Kong and the USA. • F u l l - t i me MBA students Carol Fan, Tony Liu, Arion Maniatis, jointly with Ph.D. students in biomedical engineering Carmen Poon and Johnson Yan, beat over 180 teams of more than 80 students from eight local institutions to win the Youth Entrepreneur s Developmen t Counci l Entrepreneurshi p Challenge 2005 Business Plan Competition n 25th June 2005. The first runner-up was a team comprising thre full-time MBA students and a Ph.D. student in automation and computer-aided engineering from CUHK. (左起）哥本哈根商學院院長 Finn Junge-Jensen 、中大署理校長 楊綱凱敎授、北卡羅萊納大學商學院環球課程副主任 Mark Scullion 和中大工商管理學院院長李天生敎授，出席三校合辦的「環球商 業學」課程於二零零四年十月二十七日舉行的開展儀式。 (From left) Mr. Finn Junge-Jensen, president of CBS; Prof. Kenneth Young, acting vice-chancellor of CUHK; Mr. Mark Scullion, associate director of global programmes, UNC Kenan-Flager; and Prof. Lee Tien-sheng, dean of business administration, CUHK, at the official launch of GLOBE programme on 27th October 2004 學術發展 A c a d e m i c D e v e l o p m e nt 3 1