DBA Awards honour excellent business research

Four Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) learning partners and graduates were awarded the CityU DBA Contribution to the Society Awards and Outstanding CityU DBA Alumni Awards for the year 2014/2015. The presentation ceremony was held on 19th September.

The Awards aim to recognise awardees’ efforts in conducting business research which can potentially lead to significant societal impacts. Prof Way Kuo, President of CityU, presented the awards and congratulated the students. Dr Xueping Wu, Associate Director of the DBA Programme, introduced the award details prior to the ceremony.

Our warmest congratulations to this year’s awardees:

CityU DBA Contribution to the Society Awards

Mr Chunkwong Chan (Cohort 2011)
Global Head of Digital Mobile and Channels Engineering, HSBC

“The DBA learning journey is indeed a very rewarding experience, testing one’s perseverance in search of a research question. The emphasis on quality and academic rigor has been a very important guiding principle throughout the many reviews of the research proposal, leading to the completion of the research, and the ­nal completion of the thesis. I felt the DBA journey in search of knowledge is most refreshing.”

Mr Benny Kingsang Luk (Cohort 2014)
Regional CEO North Asia, ICAP

“To me, the DBA learning journey at CityU is similar to enjoying a cruise. You will embark on the journey with your preliminary research topic and all sorts of relevant insights. You will then disembark at different ports by attending the core courses of the program, where you will be downloaded with all the necessary skill sets and knowledge to compile the thesis efficiently and effectively.”

Mr Floyd Emahn Newsum (Cohort 2011)
Senior Manager, Digital Banking / eFinancial Services (Top 5 multinational firm)

“The CityU DBA programme provides the ideal balance of theoretical learning and training in pragmatic, yet scientifically rigorous methodologies of applied business research and problem solving. The innovative teaching approach (spiral learning) championed by the CityU Business School empowers an individual to expand beyond contributing standard analyses of business events from a historical context (i.e. "what happened?") to researching and determining the “how” and “why” certain business phenomena actually occur.”

Outstanding CityU DBA Alumni Awards

Dr Mayank Kaul (2015 Graduate)
Head of Asia Pacific and Japan, Real Estate Risk Management, Institutional Clients Group Citibank N.A

“My journey was not without its ups and downs, but the team at CityU, whether it was my mentors, the programme director and the associate director or the support staff, was always available to help out and recognise that my needs as a working professional were different from full time university students.”

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