Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2006

34 Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 2006 Student Achievements Champions of Business Paper Contest A four-student team from the Faculty of Business Administration secured the championship of the Business Administration Paper of the Year Award for the second year in a row on 18 February with their business paper, their unique perspectives, and their outstanding analytical and presentation skills. The team comprised three Integrated BBA undergraduates — Lilian Chan ( right 2 ), Joyce Ho ( left 3 ) and Vivian Wong (left 2 ), and one professional accountancy undergraduate — Hallas Cheung ( right 3 ). Vivian also won the Best Presenter Award. Now in its 20th year, the competition is organized by the Hong Kong Federation of Business Students. This year’s event saw the participation of over 200 teams of business students from eight local tertiary institutions. Third Place in International Internet Strategic Competition Full-time MBA students Peter Liu, Phoebus Ng, and Caly Xiao, won the championship of both the Hong Kong Division and the Geographical Zone Division (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong) of the MBA Category of the L’ORÉAL e-Strat 6 Challenge. The students then went on to compete with the winners of the other seven zones in the international finals held on 12 April 2006, at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, coming third place. The L’ORÉAL e-Strat 6 Challenge is the world’s largest Internet strategic competition. Since L’ORÉAL launched its e-Strat Challenge in 2000, applications have risen thirteen-fold. This year, the 40,000 participants from 125 countries are divided into eight geographical zones to compete in the MBA and the Undergraduate Categories. There were six rounds of competition. The students formed teams of three each; each team was required to assume the role of General Manager in an international cosmetics firm. The participants came from world- renowned universities including London Business School, Indiana University, Yale University, The Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School, MIT School of Management and Peking University. The 16 international finalists had to present their business plans to a jury of L’ORÉAL’s top management and strategic experts. ( From left ) Caly Xiao, Phoebus Ng, and Peter Liu