Common Core Program Series: “Motivating Students and Broadening Their Horizons through Collaboration with Business Practitioners

Seminar Overview:

The seminar focuses on two themes; how successful collaboration with business practitioners has helped connect theories and applications, which acts as a source of inspiration to students. This builds on a major characteristic of MGMT 1120 Developing the Leader in You, which collaborates with leaders from the local industries to develop real-world course materials encompassing business scenarios and ethical issues. This partially involves the effective integration of experiential learning business cases to help motivate students on this course. The seminar also focuses on how a combination of knowledge-sharing and self-discovery processes further developed interest in this common core course.

About the Speaker:

Professor Roger Levermore is an Associate Professor of Business Education at HKUST. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Plymouth (focused on poverty alleviation in southern Africa) and taught at the University of Liverpool for eleven years before joining HKUST. He always strives for continuous improvement in teaching and has been enthusiastically adopting and developing educational innovations to stimulate and support student learning. This has made him, together with Dr Cubie Lau, the winners of the Common Core Course Excellence Award 2015 for their common core course MGMT 1120 Developing the Leader in You. He is also Associate Director of the HKUST MBA programs.