Here are seven things you may not know about Chicago Booth and our Executive MBA Program in Hong Kong.
Chicago Booth is an American business school with a global reach. Our Executive MBA Program in Hong Kong provides many opportunities for the exchange of ideas among students, faculty, alumni, and the Asia-Pacific business community. With additional campuses in Chicago and London, the Executive MBA Program offers both regional and international networking and learning experiences.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong is a Grade 3 heritage site, meaning that the government has designated it a building of merit that should be preserved in antiquity. The University of Chicago conducted extensive historical research and heritage interpretation exercises to reconstruct the usage of the site. The campus has won several prestigious architecture awards.
The faculty who teach in the Executive MBA Program travel from Chicago to Hong Kong to stay in residence there during class weeks.
Unknown rewards can prove a powerful motivator. Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Luxi Shen (a recent graduate of Chicago Booth’s PhD Program), Booth’s Christopher K. Hsee, and Carnegie Mellon PhD candidate Joachim H. Talloen ran an experiment with a running club in Hong Kong in which runners were encouraged to complete as many track laps as they wanted with a range of prizes to be collected at the end. Shen, Hsee, and Talloen found that those facing an uncertain reward completed almost twice as many laps as runners who knew their prize in advance.
Swee Chen Goh, a 2003 graduate of the Executive MBA Program, served as the chairman of Shell Companies in Singapore—the first woman to earn a role that high in the company.
The Executive MBA Program at the University of Chicago has been around for a while—since 1943—and is the first program of its kind. But did you know we’ve also operated in Asia since 2000? Booth opened its first Asian campus at the historic House of Tan Yeok Nee in Singapore before relocating to Hong Kong in 2018.
Tandean Rustandy is the founder of the Jakarta, Indonesia-based PT Arwana Citramulia TbK, one of the best-performing ceramic tile manufacturing companies in the world. His gift supports the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at Booth, which has a presence in Chicago and in Hong Kong.
Assistant Director, Recruitment and Admissions
Jen Zee joined Chicago Booth in 2019 and is responsible for helping prospective Executive MBA Program students navigate the admissions process and marketing the program in the APAC region. Before joining Booth, Jen recruited students from North Asia for programs ranging from high school to doctoral degrees in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Hong Kong.
Jen Zee