Bulletin No. 2, 2009

The Best and the Brightest   37  Global Business Students Sweep Top Awards G lobal Business students clinched championships in local and international competitions. Four Year 2 students, (From left, photo 1) Katie Sham, Janie Fung, Steven Chan and Thomas Lai, defeated seven regional champions from the UK, Ireland, Sri Lanka, India, mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore to win the Global Final of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Global Business Challenge held in August 2009. Prof. Gordon Cheung, Global Business Studies (GBS) Programme director, said the GBS programme admits only 15 students each year and nurtures the cream of the crop. In the academic year of 2008–09, 20 out of the 45 students from Years 1 to 3 have won championships in different local and regional competitions. He was most gratified to see the students successfully applying their learning to business cases. Another team of three GBS Year 1 students, comprising Jeff Hui (1st left, photo 2), Derek Sin (1st right) and Juliana Tam(centre), who won the Gold Award at the Hong Kong final of the HSBC Young Entrepreneur Awards in April 2009, represented Hong Kong in the regional competition on 22 June. Being the only Year 1 team in the regional competition, they took home the Diamond Award (first runner-up) by defeating teams from Bangladesh, Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand. Henry Keung (1st left, photo 3), another Year 1 student, who was in a team with four other CUHK business students, captured second runner-up position in the YDC Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2009 organized by the Young Entrepreneurs Development Council. w u v