City Business Magazine Issue One 2025: Weaving a Sustainable Future

7 May 2025
College News

City Business Magazine takes a fresh look at breaking global business issues. We showcase the achievements of our faculty, students, alumni and distinguished guests.

The theme of the latest issue of CB’s City Business Magazine is “Weaving a Sustainable Future”. As AI accelerates, we pose the question: How are we to weave sustainability into our future? CB alumnus Professor Haiyang Li, of Rice University, Texas, takes the big picture and describes a future of flattening hierarchies where corporates increasingly adopt open innovation. Ms Teresa Yang, Vice Chairman of Esquel Group, and member of our College International Advisory Board, promotes inter-industry "Integral Conversations," soliciting viewpoints, beyond both the company and the textile sector. Whilst our alumna Professor Helen Bao of Newnham College, Cambridge, sees academic freedom as a key to fostering innovation as cultivated in the collegiate Cambridge University ecosystem. Plus, all our College news and much more.

Apart from the online version available on CB website, limited printed copies are ready at the reception counter of the College of Business office on the 12th floor of the Lau Ming Wai Academic Building.

We hope you enjoy the read! 

ISSUE ONE, 2025
Weaving a Sustainable Future
ISSUE ONE, 2025
A Year of Strategic Transformation
The College of Business has experienced a year of significant strategic advancement focused on innovation, international collaboration, and societal impact.
Innovation in the 21st Century
City Business Magazine caught up with Haiyang in Cambridge and talked about change around flattening hierarchies, the disruption myth, and the future of a market-oriented university.
Weaving a Sustainable Future
Teresa Yang is Vice Chairman of Esquel Group, a knowledge-based textile and apparel business, and member of the College International Advisory Board.