The College of Business of CityU is one of the five colleges at the City University of Hong Kong. It was founded in 1990. There are six departments under the College, providing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The office is located at 12/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, an academic building of CityU offering more facilities for learning and teaching activities.
CB is ranked 32nd worldwide and 2nd in Asia in the latest UT Dallas Rankings, based on research contributions from 2013-2017 in 24 leading journals in major business disciplines. It is also ranked 58th worldwide and 5th in Asia in Economics and Business, in the U.S. News & World Report 2018 Best Global Universities rankings.
Management Team
There are around 160 research faculty members of over 20 nationalities in the CB. The management team is headed by Professor Chen Youhua Frank, Dean of CB and Chair Professor of the Department of Management Sciences.
The College International Advisory Board was founded on 22 October 2009. It acts as a steering force on internationalization and helps CB to gain external inputs on its internationalization drive as well as offering advice on the ways of strengthening the College's ties with local business. CIAB comprises people from the business world and academics.
The College of Business has been providing Executive Education in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and worldwide for over a decade. It aims to serve clients in a wide range of industry sectors. The College provides Company Programmes to clients regionally and worldwide, and contributes to international programmes such as the Advanced Masters Program in Management of Global Enterprises of Globally Distributed Work Foundation in Bangalore; the Omnium Global Executive MBA of the University of Toronto, Canada; and the Executive MBA Program of Graduate School of International Business, RANEPA in Russia.
The College's Business Career Services aims to help students to enhance their employability by guiding through all stages of career development process. The College provides students personalized career consultations, career fair, recruitment events, and opportunities for students to build up sustainable network with industry communities, etc.
Controversies
Intervention of students' academic autonomy by Prof. TAN Yong Chin from the Department of Marketing
In October 2019, Prof TAN Yong Chin who was teaching a digital marketing course sent an email to the students, which warned the students not to deliver any political messages in class presentations or they will be given zero marks. The e-mail caused dissatisfaction among the students. Some of them thought that their presentation were solely integrating the related course content with the recent social issues, while they did not call slogans in the classroom or affect the classroom order. They questioned Tan for creating white terror.
The Student Union of CityU cross-checked the University Assessment Policy and Principles for Taught Programmes, and considered the marking policy of Tan to be violating the policy of the university and the university's promise of protecting freedom of speech
Pro-democracy group Frontline Technology Workers pointed out that the relevant presentations were highly relevant to the course although it was touching the social controversies and criticized the professor for creating troubles and dispute. They also highlighted many academic journal articles which discussed the relationship between politics and marketing.
