Graduate Business Conference Delegates Set Best Practices

The Graduate Business Conference (GBC) hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School MBA programs (CUHK MBA) on May 24-28, 2017 has concluded with great success.

Now in its 34th year, the only global business school and MBA student leadership conference was co-organized by CUHK MBA and the Graduate Business Forum and attended by around 100 people from all over the world.

The “Business 4 Good: The Ultimate Challenge!” conference aimed at helping student leaders identify and document best practices and innovative ideas in graduate business student government, learn from each other’s strengths in best practices and synthetize the information to create new solutions.

Keynote speaker Dr Kelvin Wong, JP, executive director and deputy managing director of COSCO Shipping Ports spoke about The Governance of Two Sovereign Masters, while speaker Niven Huang, general manager of KPMG discussed the importance of CSR and ESG in the competitiveness of Asian businesses.

Panel discussions were held on impact investing and “turning good into sustainable great”.

Brainstorming and networking sessions were held, where participants shared what their school did best to create a wealth of collective knowledge that can motivate them throughout the year.

The Best Practice interactive workshops shared innovative ideas and developed solutions to issues suggested by the student leaders. Proceedings and findings were later distributed to the attendees to inform those who were in different concurrent workshops.

Participating current and former student leaders from the world’s top graduate business programs, student government presidents and vice presidents and other participants praised the program. Unexpectedly they found that universities faced similar problems all over the world and found enlightening some of the innovative solutions that came up during sharing.

They were also impressed by the sense of community and international participation, and the high level of engagement between delegates.