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Teaching courses that form part of the Kellogg-HKUST executive master of business administration (EMBA) degree in Hong Kong is demanding, and this is precisely why top professors around the world want to be involved.

They know that instructing and interacting with a class full of ambitious business executives on the programme – offered jointly by Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, in the United States, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School – will not simply keep them on their toes.

It will be a true test of their abilities, place them on the cutting edge, possibly reveal new avenues for research and make them part of a network of achievers that now spans the globe.

“Teaching the high-calibre executives in this programme is a special challenge; I’m constantly aware of trying to deliver something of value to them,” says Professor Kay Stice, a specialist in managerial accounting who has been an integral part of the EMBA programme since the very first cohort 25 years ago.

“I also realise they don’t enrol to become expert book-keepers. My challenge is to demonstrate the business relevance of the accounting principles and illustrations I use in class and to engage in discussions in which they can practise using the various tools.”

His approach is clearly working because Stice is a three-time winner of the programme’s Professor of the Year Award, most recently this year. He is popular with students and alumni for making the subject accessible and fun.