Business students shine in inter-varsity biz paper contest

Eclipsing 138 groups from eight local universities, a team of four from HKBU's School of Business has swept all three awards of the inter-varsity Business Administration Paper competition this year.

The team members are Janny Chan (Year 3, Human Resources Management), Carrie Chan (Year 3, Human Resources Management), Calvin Lee (Year 3, Finance) and Frankie Liu (Year 3, Accounting). They won both the Championship and the Innovation Idea Award, while Janny was named the Best Presenter.

Participants were required to offer solutions to a given scenario. This year's theme was "Improve Hong Kong - My City". The BU team developed a "CEPA-PLUS" proposal to capture the trade and investment opportunities arising from CEPA.

The winning team and its coach Dr. Alicia Leung, Associate Professor of the Management Department, shared their insights at a media session today.

Their plans called for a Manufacturing and Distribution Park in the Lok Ma Chau Loop, a one-stop e-Procurement Centre, encouraging campus-business collaborations, and other synergistic measures to enhance coordination between the governments in Hong Kong and the Mainland.

The Business Administration Paper is an annual contest hosted by the Hong Kong Federation of Business Students, a not-for-profit body comprising student organisations from the eight tertiary institutions. HKBU students have been among the top three teams in the competition since 1998.

The winning team with Prof. Simon Ho, Business Dean (first from left), Dr. Randy Chiu, Head of Management, (first from right) and Dr. Alicia Leung (centre)

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