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The Department of Marketing, which administers the MScMARK program, maintains high standards for teaching, research, and service to the academic community. MScMARK students learn from international faculty who lead the world in integrating academic and industry insights in the field of marketing.

Teaching

Our faculty regularly receive recognition for their teachings, such as the HKUST Business School’s Dean’s Recognition for Excellence Teaching Performance and the Franklin Prize for Excellence in Teaching Awards. Members of our faculty have also won the HKUST Faculty Recognition Award, which recognizes outstanding research achievements in the previous academic year.

Research

Thanks to faculty in the Department of Marketing, the HKUST Business School ranks first among all business schools in Asia in terms of its contributions to marketing research, according to the University of Texas at Dallas’s Top 100 Business School Marketing Research Rankings. From 2016 to 2020, the Department ranked 18th in the world based on the number of articles published in the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, and Marketing Science. Furthermore, many of our faculty are Scholars of the Marketing Science Institute (MSI), designating them as among the best marketing academics worldwide.

Service to the Academic Community

Many of the Department’s faculty members also serve the academic community by taking up leadership roles on behalf of top-tier journals in marketing, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Sciences, Management ScienceJournal of Marketing, and Journal of Consumer Psychology,

Prof. Jia LIU

Associate Professor, Lee Heng Fellow
(PhD, Columbia University)

Research Interests:

Online Search, Advertising, Loyalty Programs, Recommendation System, User Generated Content, Social Network, Pricing, Complaints & Recalls, Product Assortments, Behavioral Economics, Big Data Analytics, AI

Prof. Rongrong ZHOU

Associate Professor
(PhD, Columbia University, Marketing)

Research Interests:

Consumer judgment and decision making, Motivational influences in consumer behavior, Customer experiences in services, The role of visual processing in decision making