Gautam Khattak, Class of 2013 
Full-time MBA 
Asia 

The HKUST MBA curriculum is designed to help grads launch careers in tech. 34% of 2019’s MBA cohort entered tech companies like Apple, Google, and more 

Technology is overtaking banking and finance in Hong Kong as the most popular destination for MBA graduates from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School. Up to 34% of HKUST MBA graduates entered the sector in 2019. 

COVID-19 has hit the travel industry hard. HKUST Business School MBA, Aldric Chau, explains how top MBA talent can help the industry recover 

“We should get used to managing technology.” Takashi Kobayashi, our HKUST MBA graduate, also a sponsored nominee from a leading Japanese telecom shared how the MBA interlinks technology with different business sectors. Takashi has also recently expanded his career footprints from Japan to Singapore. 
Pre-MBA: Account Manager, NTT Communications (Japan) 
Post-MBA: Corporate Strategy and Planning, NTT Ltd. (Singapore) 

Takashi Kobayashi,Class of 2019 

 

The flexibility of the HKUST MBA program allowed Lin Yuan to extend his three-month MBA internship with BASF. He's now set to start a full-time role with the firm. 

Lin Yuan was able to extend his MBA internship with BASF before landing a full-time job with the firm in 2021 

‘Be like water, my friend.’ Lin Yuan says the Bruce Lee quote has guided him throughout his career. Be flexible; adapt to your surroundings; be prepared for change—those are the biggest learnings Lin says he got from his MBA at HKUST Business School. 

BCG consultant Stephanie van den Boogaard is being sponsored by her company to study an MBA at HKUST. Here’s how business school is making her a better consultant. 

For many MBA graduates, management consulting is the ideal end-goal, with a career in consulting offering sky-high salaries and the opportunity to combine everything learned on an MBA to lead projects across an array of sectors and functions. But Stephanie van den Boogaard is already there. 

“Some people would say an MBA can’t future-proof you, but I would argue it provides means to future-proof yourself.” by Sagar Sethi 

1. Accelerated MBA students spend less time out of the workforce 

Studying an MBA can take your career to the next level. But to do so, you’ll need to take time out of the workforce. 

Pre-MBA: Consultant, KPMG India 
Post-MBA: Product Manager, Setu 

“The True New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike. 

Natasha Hsiao(Taiwan) 
Class of 2020 
Pre-MBA: Strategy and Insight Analyst, Japan Tobacco International 
MBA Internship: Project Consultant, BASF 

Pimolpat (Pauline) Thanusutiyabhorn (Thailand) 
Class of 2020 
Pre-MBA: Head of Business Development and Marketing, Thai B.B. Friut Co., Ltd  

Yo Ichiro (Japan) 
Class of 2020 
Pre-MBA: Education Consultant, Overseas Education Research Co, Ltd