Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2004

Business School Recognizes Excellence at Induction and Award Ceremonies About 400 teachers, students, and guests attended the Fifth Induction Ceremony of the CUHK Ch a p t er of Beta Gamma Sigma on 28th March 2004 at Sir Run Run Shaw Hall. Two prominent business leaders, Mr. Roger K.H. Luk, treasurer of the University, and Mr. Alfred W.K. Chan, managing director of the Hong Kong and China Gas Co. Ltd. were presented the Chapter Honouree Award at the induction ceremony. Thirty-six MBA/EMBA graduates and 71 undergraduates were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma membership in recognition of their achievements in business studies. On the same occasion, the University's Faculty of Business Administration presented awards to some of its most outstanding teachers and students. CUHK as Incubator for Budding Belgian Entrepreneurs Th r ee y o u ng Belgian executives hand-picked by the Belgian government under the ‘Business in Asia' p r og r amme completed their semester at CUHK's MBA P r og r amme and launched into respective internships in 2004. One of them, Frederik Vanden Bulcke, is putting his newly-acquired business knowledge to immediate use by establishing the Asia regional office for TOPCOM in Hong Kong. TOPCOM is a top Belgium-based European telecom company with a turnover of 60 million Euros in 2003 which is expected to reach 75 million Euros in 2004. The ‘Business in Asia' programme is funded by the Belgian Government's King Baudouin Foundation. Its objective is to help develop, in promising young executives, expertise in Asian business through a semester-long attachment to a business school followed by a nine-month internship with a company in Asia. Although the programme was started some 20 years ago, Hong Kong was first included in 2002. The Chinese University's Faculty of Business Administration was chosen as the partner to provide the necessary knowledge and skills to prepare these budding executives for the internship. The other two executives under the programme, Yves Slachmuylders and Benoit Empain, are interning respectively with Domo International and ING's offices in Shanghai. VC's Exemplary Teaching Awards 2003 Eight teachers from different faculties of the University were awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award 2003 by Prof. Ambrose King at a ceremony held on 13th May 2004 in the Esther Lee Building. TOPCOM CEO, Mr. Stan Lowette, demonstrating the cordless telecommunication product at the opening ceremony of the Asia regional office of TOPCOM The Vice-chancellor with winners of the award: (from left) Prof. Lisa L.M. Wong, Prof. Michael J. Ferguson, Prof. Leo Y.M. Sin, Prof. Alison S.C. Yeung, Prof. Ambross King, Prof. Chan Yiu-tong, Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung, Prof. Ge Wei, and Prof. Tracy L.D. Lu News in Brief 5 9