The MBA in Hong Kong: CUHK Business School in Profile

This year, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) marks 50 years as a provider of MBA programs. A full-time, two-year MBA in Hong Kong was first offered by the university in 1966. Since then, much has changed. For one, the full-time CUHK MBA is now taken over the course of 12 to 16 months. In addition, dual degree MBA programs are now available in conjunction with HEC Paris and Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) in Europe, and with the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business in the US.

To date, 2016’s anniversary celebrations at CUHK Business School have included decking out some of Hong Kong’s renowned public tramcars with wrap-round advertising, while still to come is September’s signature event – a conference on the subject of business in China and its surrounding regions. Alongside these activities, the school has also found time to appoint a new MBA programs director and associate dean of graduate studies. Stephanie Villemagne comes to CUHK Business School after a decade at INSEAD and, most recently, its campus in Singapore, where she served as global director of its MBA. While there, she also undertook and graduated from the school’s executive MBA program.

In this interview, Villemagne tells TopMBA.com about her plans to push for an increase in the number of students coming to CUHK Business School’s MBA programs from outside of Asia, the impending launch of a pre-experience master’s in management and some of the differences she has observed between MBA study in Hong Kong and Singapore.