Embracing global opportunities
- Apart from technology advancement and globalisation, academics are examining the outlook of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ and its impact on the world
As the business world continues to change rapidly in the face of technological development and globalisation, so too must the educational approach of business schools and educators.
Fortunately, Hong Kong is home to several of the most prestigious and modernly adapted executive business degrees not just in Asia, but the entire world.
The city offers great executive MBA and doctorate of business administration (DBA) degrees from its local universities, as well as from the top business schools across Asia, Europe and the United States.
Locally, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) DBA programme, now 22 years old, continues to grow in strength while adapting to the fast-changing business environment.
“Rapid advances and new forms of technology, such as AI, the internet of things, blockchain, and the ever-changing business environment and economic landscape, are the biggest challenges for global business leaders nowadays,” says PolyU DBA deputy programme director and professor of practice Petrus Choy. “The PolyU DBA nurtures senior executives to become scholar leaders – not followers – who adopt scientific approaches and critical thinking to conduct original research that can be applied to real-world problems.”
Choy says that a point of pride for the PolyU DBA is its willingness to change and adapt its curriculum to keep up to speed with these current issues. “The programme constantly updates and refines its curriculum and mode of study to keep abreast of the ever-changing developments of the business world,” he says. “The taught subjects and research inclinations of our DBA students cover the most contemporary topics.”
For example, PolyU places so much importance and focus on the “Belt and Road Initiative” that they have formed a task force on the topic. “This was done to build strong partnerships with universities worldwide for student exchange, and academic research collaborations,” says Choy, who notes that PolyU is the only Hong Kong university that offers a doctor of management programme on the mainland. “We have also established the faculty of business – Belt and Road Centre, where members carry out specific research on the movement and deal with practical issues.”
