Faculty 

The pool of teachers at the School of Management and Economics (SME), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen) is expanding, with 25 new professors on board, increasing the total number of faculty members to 126. Among them, 19 specialize in operations management and information system, 22 in accounting, 14 in management, 27 in economics, 28 in finance, and 16 in marketing.

Total number of faculty members

The number of newly recruited teachers

Accounting: Deng Tian, Kim Hojoon, Li Mei, Tang Shibin, Yoon Joonsang, Zhi Weijia

Economics: Cao Yue, Dai Liang, Fang Yue, Hui Xitong, Yuan Huaiping, Zhang Wanchang

Finance: Chen Jingxuan, Li Yazhu, Ma Houning, Wang Wei, Xiao Han

Management: Baik Sooyun, Jiang Han, Pan Xinyue

Marketing: Han Ruobing, Huang Der-Wei

Information System & Operations Management: Guo Yutong, Liu Yidi, Zhang Hongzhe

They graduated from the world’s top universities, all with doctoral degrees from prestigious overseas universities. Among them, 70% graduated from schools in North America, 10%, Europe, and 20%, Asia.

They come from all corners of the world, including 105 from China (Hong Kong 14, Taiwan 2), United States 5, Brazil 1, South Korea 8, Netherlands 2, Canada 2, Malaysia 1, Thailand 1, Italy 1. 

 

Academic Achievement

In 2023, SME witnessed 58 newly accepted papers, of which 24 papers were accepted by FT50 journals and 19 by UTD24 journals.

 

UTD24  (*Alphabetical order by author's last name)

 

Cao Jiyin

Lay Theories of Instrumental Relations: Explaining Individual Differences in Dispositional Similarity-Attraction

Academy of Management Journal

 

Dai Liang

Disclosure of Bank-Specific Information and the Stability of Financial Systems

Review of Financial Studies

 

Di Chenchen

Return Window Decision in A Distribution Channel

Production and Operations Management

 

Huang Der-Wei

Consumer Trust: Meta-analysis of 50 Years of Empirical Research

Journal of Consumer Research

 

Jiang Han

Social Embeddedness and Supply Chains: Doing Business with Friends vs. Making Friends in Business

Production and Operations Management

 

Jiang Yangzi

Geographic Virtual Pooling of Hospital Resources: Data-Driven Trade-off Between Waiting and Traveling

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

 

Liu Yidi

Smart Natural Disaster Relief: Assisting Victims via AI in Lending

Information Systems Research

Consequences of China’s 2018 Online Lending Regulation and the Promise of PolicyTech

Information Systems Research

 

Ming Liu

The Sales Impacts of Traffic Acquisition Promotion in Live-Streaming Commerce Production and Operations Management

 

Ren Qitian

Advertising and Content Creation on Digital Content Platforms

Marketing Science

 

Shi Duo

Quick Response Under Strategic Manufacturer

 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

 

Wang Jingqi

Patient Sensitivity to Emergency Department Waiting Time Announcements

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Cross-licensing in a Supply Chain with Asymmetric Manufacturers

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

 

Zhang Chenglong

When Sharing Economy Meets Traditional Business: Coopetition Between Ride-Sharing Platforms and Car-Rental Firms

Information Systems Research

 

Zhang Hongzhe

Proactive Resource Request for Disaster Response: A Deep Learning-Based Optimization Model

 Information Systems Research

 

Zhao Jianliang

Deterring the Gray Market: Product Diversion Detection via Learning Disentangled Representations of Multivariate Time Series

Journal on Computing

 

Zhang Qiang

Final Price Neglect in Multi-Product Promotions: How Non-Integrated Price Reductions Promote Higher-Priced Products

Journal of Consumer Research

 

Zhang Tianyu

Calling for Transparency: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Journal of Accounting and Economics

 

Zhang Yiming

Delay Information in Virtual Queues: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on a Major Ride-Sharing Platform

Management Science

 

FT50 (*Alphabetical order by author's last name)

 

Jiang Han

A Recombinant Framework of Technological Information Disclosure and Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance of Technology Projects

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? Female Representation on Decision-Making Group of Venture Capital Firms and Funding of Woman-Led Businesses

Journal of Business Venturing

 

Wang Cong

Directors: Older and Wiser, or Too Old to Govern?

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

 

Xiao Fenglong

Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism

Research Policy

 

Zhang Rongrong

Beyond the Feeling Individual: Insights from Sociology on Emotions and Embeddedness

Journal of Management Studies

 

Other International Top Journal (*Alphabetical order by author's last name)

 

Huang Kanyuan

Sharing names and information: Incidental similarities between CEOs and analysts can lead to favoritism in information disclosure

PNAS

 

Jia Jianmin

Emergency communications after earthquake reveal social network backbone of important ties

PNAS Nexus

 

Wu Tao

Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data

PNAS

 

SME received five grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2023. Jia Jianmin was acknowledged by NSFC Key Program; Chen Qihui was acknowledged by NSFC General Program; three professors, namely Lin Wei, Lin Wenlian and Zhang lingyi received grants from NSFC’s Youth Science Fund.

SME won 1 grant from Guangdong Province in 2023. Lin Wei was acknowledged by NSFC General Program of Guangdong Province.

 

Honors and Qualifications

SME professors crowned many awards in 2023

 

Xiong Wei

• Fellowship of the World Econometric Society
• Selected as one of the "2023 List of the World's Leading Scientists"

 

Ai Chunrong

Selected as one of the "2022 Chinese Highly Cited Scholars Annual List"

 

Zhao Jianliang

Selected as one of the "2023 List of the World's Leading Scientists"

 

Liu Bin

• Awarded "2023 China Society for Information Economics Innovation Achievement Award".
• 2022 Program Performance Evaluation by the Department of Management Science, NSFC - "Award of Exceptional Merit"

 

Hung Iris

“Creative thinking facilitates perspective taking” was awarded "The 22nd Outstanding Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Science in Zhejiang Province"

 

Li Dan

“Does High Frequency Market Manipulation Harm Market Quality?” was awarded "Outstanding Paper Award at the 18th Asia Pacific International Conference on Financial Markets"

 

Liu Hongqi

“Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field” was awarded " Behavioral Finance Best Paper Award at the 2023 China Financial Research Conference"

 

Wang Xiaoqiao

“Do Consumers Bear the Cost of Environmental Regulation? Evidence from NOx Budget Trading Program” was awarded  "Industrial Securities Excellent Paper Award at 7th China Finance and Accounting Conference"

 

Zhang Rongrong

Won the Best Reviewer Award by Management and Organization Review

 

Zou Wenli

“Digital Resilience to COVID-19: Evidence From The Medical Aesthetics Industry” was awarded "The 7th International Summit on Marketing Science and Innovation (MSI) 2023 Outstanding Paper Award"

 

Ren Qitian

Awarded the Title of “Outstanding Teacher in Shenzhen 2023”

 

Wang Jingqi

Awarded the “Youth Scientific Research Award 2022”

 

Lee Sung Kwan

 Awarded the “CUHK-Shenzhen Award for Ethics in Teaching 2023” 

 

Cooperation and Development

Ceremony of Signing Memorandum of Understanding between SME CUHK-Shenzhen and AICPA® & CIMA®

SME Becomes a Signatory Member of Principles for Responsible Management Education（PRME）

SME Awarded “Advanced Teaching Unit in Shenzhen 2023”

 

 

Academic Events

Organized 20 Academic Events & High Profile Forums

The Sixth China Marketing Summit

   

CUHK-Shenzhen Forum of Asian Accounting Scholars 2023

 

International Biodiversity Finance Conference 

The Greater Bay Area Chief Economist Forum 2023

The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Conference

The Greater Bay Area Entrepreneurs Forum 2023

The 5th PHBS-CUHKSZ Economics and Finance Workshop

The NBER Conference on the Chinese Economy

The 14th Journal of Financial Research Forum

 

SME held a total of 161 seminars

2023 Seminar & Brownbag
Accounting	Economics	Finance	Information System	Management	Marketing	Operations Management	Total
28	38	30	18	17	19	11	161

            The institutions of speakers span four continents, with over 50% from North America

North America 86, Asia 68, Europe 6, Oceania 1

In addition, SME and SFI held 6 sessions of Distinguished Lecture Series themed on global economic hotspots and invited influential industrial leaders, experts from decision-making departments and other well-known scholars to share their in-depth opinions. The event had 1.73 million online viewers and received overwhelming social response.

 

Talent Cultivation

 

A total of 1,553 new undergraduate and graduate students will be enrolled in 2023; undergraduates: 634; master's students (including part-time programs): 886; doctoral students: 33

 

Discipline development

Undergraduate

Accounting major is accredited by AICPA & CIMA

SME Course Fintech Theory and Practice Hailed as 2023 First-Class Undergraduate Course in Guangdong Province

Postgraduate

The MSc in Data Science Continues to Top QS Master’s in Business Analytics Ranking in China (Business Analytics)

97 master's and doctoral programmes were evaluated by an external evaluator, EE, and the report showed that all of them met the standards of the same programmes of the top international universities.

Ph.D.

SME First Approved as Applied Economics Research Center

 

Global Exposure

A total of 380 students will participate in international exchanges in 2023, covering the following countries: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, Australia

Four undergraduates were selected for Oxford University Visiting Student Program for the 2023-24 academic year, they are Li Jiaqi, Ren Zijia, Xu Jiayi, Chen Yizheng

SME students maintained their excellent performance and won many awards in 2023.

2022-2023 CFA Institute Research Challenge（South China）	Champion, third place
L’Oréal BRANDSTORM 2023	（Global）Top 10 （China）Champion, Runner-up
CGMA Global Business Challenge 2023	Champion
The BUD Challenge 2023	Champion

 

 

 

8 doctoral dissertations accepted

Guo Gangxing

Ph.D. student of class 2022 in Finance

• Is Air Pollution Pushing You when Lending Online? Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending Market
• Can Online Platforms Break Distance Constraints? Evidence from Chinese Peer-to-Peer Lending

Huang Xiangqian

Ph.D. student of class 2019 in Finance

• Factors and Anomalies in the Vietnamese Stock Market
• The Price of Health: Paid Sick Leave Mandates and Corporate Innovation

Liu Jiayin

Ph.D. student of class 2022 in Economics

• Mean Parity Fair Regression in RKHS

Su Dan

Ph.D. student of class 2021 in Economics

• Nutrition, Health, Cognitive Skills and Behavior Scales: Evidence from Students’ Nutrition Improvement Program

Wang Sijie

Ph.D. student of class 2020 in Finance

• The Rise of E-Wallets and Buy-Now-Pay-Later: Payment Competition, Credit Expansion, and Consumer Behavior

Xu Maobin

Ph.D. student of class 2021 in Finance

• No News is Bad News: Strategic Disclosure on Online Interactive Platforms

 

Further education and employment

 

Overall employment rate remains high and stable

• The overall employment rate of the 523 graduates was 95.6 percent
• 77.44% chose to continue their education; 18.16 chose direct employment
• The number of offers per capita increased by 34.2% year-on-year

 

The quality of progression to higher education continues to improve

• 77.44% chose to continue their education
• 45.68% of students enrolled in the top 30 schools in the world
• 71.11% of students enrolled in the top 50 schools in the world

 

Quality of employment remains high

• The average annual salary is up to 156,000 RMB
• 66.67% of the students were employed by Fortune 500, China's top 500, and listed multinational companies.

 

The power of SME alumni continues to grow

• Total number of alumni reached 2,592 (2,513 Mainland students, 79 international students)