HKUST Operations Management

Freight industry is one of the most ancient industries in history. Some current practices in use have not been changed for the past century, and most companies are still moving freight with paper documents, phone calls and fax machines. Silicon Valley freight-tech unicorn Flexport is going to discuss how they are transforming and modernizing this old-fashioned industry, and the current trade trends amid the trade war.

We are excited to have Ms Dawn Kaung, the General Manager at Flexport, a digital freight forwarder to come and share her current role in Flexport. The presentation is about “From Steam Engine to Cloud Server: Building an OS for Global Trade” which provides a good opportunity for students who want to pursue a career in supply chain and logistics industry. You will also gain a better overview on how OM can be integrated into your career.

📌The event details are as follows:
Date: ‪4 November 2019 (Monday)‬
Time: ‪6:00pm – 7:00pm‬
Venue: LSK G003

For more details, please refer to the email sent by the OM Program. To help us plan for the event, please register before 31 October (Thursday)‬. See you on that day.

Great to see the new batch of mentees and mentors at our kick-off gathering of the OM Mentorship program 2019/20 held on Saturday (7 Sept)

Here are the happy faces of our mentors at the event together with the mentees!

We hope by bringing together our students with experienced alumni, students will have the chance to look beyond the classroom and learn from mentors who are professionals and experts from different walks of life. In return, our alumni mentors could reconnect with our program and HKUST.

FINAL REMINDER🔊 REGISTER NOW!

OM Graduation Party 2019

It is approaching the end of the semester, and it is time for some of us to graduate from HKUST! To celebrate so, we hereby invite those who are graduating to join us at our grad party!

Date：9/5/2019 Thu (last school day!)
Time：7:00pm -10:30pm
Place：Hyphen Party Room, 1715, 17/F, Pacific Trade Centre, 2 Kai Hing Road, Kowloon Bay
Price：$100 ($50 refundable)

Food🥓🍖🍗🥗🍝
Games & Prizes🎁🎉
and.... an OM Graduate 2019 T-Shirt!💁‍♂
REGISTER NOW!!!😍😍😍

Registration Link:👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fzr3rSjg34FfNw7wgjJSGyauq9xQrsjYbRl4lafLmjE/viewform?edit_requested=true

OM Graduation Party 2019

It is approaching the end of the semester, and it is time for some of us to graduate from HKUST! To celebrate so, we hereby invite those who are graduating to join us at our grad party!

Date：9/5/2019 Thu (last school day!)
Time：7:00pm -10:30pm
Place：Hyphen Party Room, 1715, 17/F, Pacific Trade Centre, 2 Kai Hing Road, Kowloon Bay
Price：$100 ($50 refundable)

Food🥓🍖🍗🥗🍝
Games & Prizes🎁🎉
and.... an OM Graduate 2019 T-Shirt!💁‍♂
REGISTER NOW!!!😍😍😍

Registration Link:👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fzr3rSjg34FfNw7wgjJSGyauq9xQrsjYbRl4lafLmjE/viewform?edit_requested=true

BBA in Operations Management 25th Anniversary Alumni Gathering

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the graduation of the first BBA (OM) student at HKUST. To celebrate so, we organised a lunch gathering where our alumni and final year students were invited.

During the event, we announced our annual OM program awards. Together with lucky draw, small table games, and sharing from our professors, students and alumni on program milestones, student competitions and career, we hope all our participants had a good time!

We would like to thank those who came today, and everyone in the BBA OM community to make our program a successful one throughout the years!

Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the BBA-OM Program!

Hope everyone enjoyed the great cooking of Master Chef Lau (Prof Ronald Lau) and learnt a lot from the company visit at Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (HACTL). It was a great chance for everyone to get to know our faculty, staff and other OM-mates.

We wish everyone the best of luck with their finals and we look forward to seeing you all at other events next semester!

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of OM program, we will talk with a number of OM people. The third in this series is OM alumnus, Mr. Pranav Prasad, who is working in the financial services industry.

“From a day to day perspective, I am often reminded of the management science class that I took in OM. It was one of my favorite classes when I was studying in UST. The course was interesting, and it gave me so many excel skills which I still use every day in my job. Other than that, OM taught me a lot about identifying bottlenecks in processes. That comes in handy at work as well where I constantly have to look at several processes and try to identify what is slowing it down in order to speed it up.”

The complete interview will be featured in the 25th anniversary booklet, which will be published later. Stay tuned for more sharing from other OM people!

We would like to congratulate our OM graduates for their graduation today!

Hope you all enjoy your time at HKUST, and we wish you good luck in your future endeavours!

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of OM program, we will talk with a number of OM people. The second in this series is OM Undergraduate Course Coordinator, Professor Ronald Lau.

25 years! That's a long time. We take pride in what we are doing. More importantly, we always try to tell the students: your success is our success. So, we are going to see more successful years ahead of us!

The complete interview will be featured in the 25th anniversary booklet, which is to be published later. Stay tuned for more sharing from other OM people!

[BBA-OM 25th Anniversary events]

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoy the events we have been organising this year!

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the BBA-OM Program, we are excited to organize the first-ever rooftop barbeque at Prof Ronald Lau’s place. You are warmly invited to come and mingle with our faculty, staff, and other OM-mates.

On top of that, we are happy to bring you to the Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (HACTL) for a company visit to better understand their operations and cargo transhipment on the same day after the BBQ:

Date: 7 December 2018 (Friday)
Time: 11:30am – 2:00pm (BBQ) // 2:00pm (Bus will leave HKUST campus to HACTL at 1:50pm) // 3:00pm – 4:30pm (Company visit) // Gathering/dismissal point for HACTL visit: HKUST Hall 3 and Red Bird Circle (A coach will be arranged from HKUST campus to HACTL)

You can choose to participate in just one or both events. Interested students please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19rSCkBJ9EFMnPyll22L0DSE4sCMDTNvIg4-cvy1hQ24/viewform?edit_requested=true before 14 November 2018 (Wednesday).

Due to a limit of the group size, a deposit of HKD 100 is required to secure your place if you would like to join the HACTL visit. The deposit will be fully refunded on the event day. Confirmed participants will receive email notification later about the deposit arrangement. Thank you.

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About HACTL: HACTL is one of the world’s leading air cargo terminals with the unique world-class facilities, highly efficient operation, and innovative technology.

This evening, our OM UG Program Coordinator, Prof. Ronald Lau, shared with interested students about selecting OM as their major! Our OM student representatives also mingled with students before and after the event about some amazing experiences they had!

If you are unable to join in today's event and wish to know more, please do come by and pick up a leaflet at our counter at LT-J or LSK, or visit our website for more details!

This afternoon, we are more than pleased to invite in Neal Beatty, the Partner and General Manager of Control Risks’ Hong Kong office for a sharing session!

He shared his role in advising on areas of business risk that impact their operations in Hong Kong, Greater China and the Asia Pacific region. His scope of work is mainly on the importance of strategic risk management and crisis preparedness, including restructuring and reputational issues.

Mr Beatty also shared his recent experience of advising companies regarding risks caused by variations in different parts of China.

We would like to thank Mr Beatty for coming in and all participants for spending their time with us today! Stay tuned to our page for our future events!