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Asia’s top universities gather at HKU to compete at The HSBC/McKinsey Business Case Competition 2010

01 Jun 2010

VenueThe final round of the annual HSBC/McKinsey Business Case Competition 2010 is going to be held on 3 June at the main campus of HKU. Unlike past years in which only full-time undergraduate students (local or exchange) studying in Hong Kong are invited, this year's competition will see four delegations from top universities in the region participating as well.

Running in its third year, the HSBC/McKinsey Business Case Competition is a unique case based competition with exceptional internship opportunities at HSBC or McKinsey and generous cash award, organized by HKU's Asia Case Research Center (ACRC) and sponsored by HSBC and McKinsey. The cases used at the competition are unpublished business cases developed by a team of professional researchers at the ACRC. They are strategy and general management based cases dealing with some of the most relevant topics in today's business agenda including entrepreneurship, innovation, corporate sustainability and cultural diversity.

You are cordially invited to attend and to report on the final round of the competition as follows:

Judges for the final round include:
• Ms. Teresa Au, HSBC Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asia Pacific Region
• Mr. Justin Chan, Deputy Head of Global Markets, Asia Pacific and Head of HK Trading, Global
Markets, HSBC
• Mr. Prashant Bhatt, Senior Regional Strategic Change Manager, Asia Pacific Finance, HSBC
• Ms. Katrina Cokeng, Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company

Guests of honor include:
• Ms. Teresa Au, HSBC Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asia Pacific Region
• Dr. Allen Fung, Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, Hong Kong
• Prof. Amy Lau, Director of School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU
• Prof. Ali Farhoomand, Director of Asia Case Research Center, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU

This year's competing teams include eight universities in Hong Kong as well as Asia teams from Korea University, National University of Singapore, Shri Ram College of Commerce under the University of Delhi of India and Thammasat University of Thailand. Students representing the team are selected from vigorous screening process, and all of them are recipients of several awards and/or scholarships.

For media enquiries, please contact:
Ms. Yvonne Mak
Director, Communications and Corporate Relations,
Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2219 4488
Email: yslmak@hku.hk

For programme enquiries, please contact:
Mr. Jeroen van den Berg
Centre Manager, Asia Case Research Centre
Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2241 5360
Email: info@acrc.org.hk

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About the Faculty of Business and Economics
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is Hong Kong's first and foremost university, with a history of nearly 100 years. Our alumni are the "who's who" leaders of the region in business, education and government.

HKU's Faculty of Business and Economics offers a full range of Bachelors and Masters degree programmes plus PhD degree and non-degree open enrollment and customized Executive Education programmes.

Bachelor's degree programmes attract top students from Hong Kong and the region, with four ranking among HKU's top ten programmes in terms of average JUPAS entry scores (2009). More than 30% of HKU's elite students admitted via the "Early Admissions Scheme" (2009) choose the Faculty's programmes.

The EMBA-Global Asia, jointly offered by Columbia Business School, London Business School and HKU Business School, is an expansion of the flagship EMBA-Global programme, which was ranked first in the world by the Financial Times in 2008.

The full-time MBA programme, offered in partnerships with London Business School and Columbia Business School, has a strong Asia and China focus. Its unique features provide a rich and balanced education to students with local knowledge and global exposure.

The International MBA offered in collaboration with Fudan University in Shanghai has twice been ranked "best of its kind" in Mainland China by the Academic Degrees Committee of the China State Council.

While the Master of Economics programme has modeled its Hong Kong success with a similar programme launched in Shenzhen in collaboration with Peking University in 2005. Today, the Master of Finance programme in Shenzhen is offered in conjunction with either the Master of Economics or Master of Management programme of Peking University to bring together the rigorous training in finance and in economics/management of the two institutions.

The research excellence has enabled HKU to assume the position of the most successful university in Hong Kong in terms of securing competitive research funding from the Research Grants Council (RGC).

For more information, please visit: http://www.fbe.hku.hk

About Asia Case Research Centre
The ACRC is the region's largest producer of business cases, which are distributed globally through its own website (www.acrc.org.hk ), Harvard Business School Publishing and the European Case Clearing House (www.ecch.com ). Our mission is to advance learning and teaching in business education through the development of business cases that are timely, informative and capture the diversity of regional business context.

The ACRC has over 400 publications on a wide range of industries with over 450 universities and nearly 350 companies using ACRC cases in 2009. Amongst the top 25 users of our cases are renowned institutions such as MIT Sloan school of Management, University of Chicago, Stanford University, London Business School, INSEAD, Oxford University, Groupe HEC and IESE.

The ACRC collaborates with faculty from leading universities such as: Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), Columbia University, Peking University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.