Activities

Business creates, and sometimes destroys, values for customers, suppliers, employees, and society. Different from the traditional profit maximisation approach, a new model of business has been emerging – a model in which a business also pays attention to the key stakeholders and society. Popular terms like Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creating Shared Value (CSV), Responsible Business and Business Sustainability, to name a few, are all built on this new model.

The Workshop “Responsible Business – from East to West” brings together experts from Taiwan, Japan, UK, and Poland to discuss what this new business model means, and how it benefits businesses themselves and the world at the same time.

The Workshop consists of 5 online, interactive and discussion-based classes co-led by Dr. Fred Ku and experts from overseas. We will use case method, and discuss cases from both developed and developing economies, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, and Poland.

Through this Workshop, you will:

• Have a deep understanding on different social issues faced by different economies
• Learn how businesses can create financial and social values by helping resolve these issues
• Act as a business leader to balance doing good and doing well

The Workshop is jointly offered by CUHK Business School and National Chiayi University. Students will have the valuable opportunities to interact with peers from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Students will team up and work on a project. The best performing teams will be nominated for awards and invited to a virtual symposium to be organised in June.

Schedule and Activities:

• 5 class meetings (~120 minutes each)
• Virtual symposium

Class Meeting 1 Responsible Business Is It a Good Idea?

Date: 2 March 2021, Tue, 4:30 – 6:30pm HKT Professor Chi-Leung CHU, National Chiayi University, Taiwan Dr. Fred KU, CUHK Business School

Class Meeting 2 Leader’s Vision and Purpose Driven Company – Case Study of Suzuhiro How to Lead a Sustainability Transformation of a Traditional Business?

Date: 16 March 2021, Tue, 4:30 – 6:30pm HKT Professor Takehiko ITO Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan

Class Meeting 3 The Dynamics of Sustainability Risks in the Indonesian Coffee Supply Chains

Date: 30 March 2021, Tue, 4:30 – 6:30pm HKT Professor Benny TJAHJONO Coventry University, United Kingdom

Class Meeting 4 Can Bike Become a Remedy for Homelessness? – Cracow’s Case Study of Social Enterprise “Living Workshop” How the Business Model Canvas Help Solve the Problem of Social Exclusion?

Date: 13 April 2021, Tue, 4:30 – 6:30pm HKT Professor Iwona Lupa-Wójcik, Professor Dorota Murzyn, Professor Marta Czyżewska, Professor Wojciech Maciejewski Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland

Class Meeting 5 Student Presentation

Date: 18 May 2021 25 May 2021, Tue, 4:30 – 6:30pm HKT Professor Chi-Leung CHU, National Chiayi University, Taiwan Dr. Fred KU, CUHK Business School

Virtual Symposium

Date: 8 June 2021

International Partners

• National Chiayi University, Taiwan
  • Offering EMBA and DBA programs to business executives, the Department of Business Administration of NCYU engages in practical business research and has close relationship with industry practitioners.
• Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan
  • Ranked no. 1 in Japan by Financial Times (FT), NUCB Business School offers the best EMBA programs in Japan (QS EMBA 2019). NUCB is known for the use of case method and its internationalized student body, and its close connection with business enterprises in Japan.
• Coventry University, United Kingdom
  • Founded by experts in business sustainability, the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS), Coventry University, focuses on organizational practices and the management of corporate responsibilities.
• Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
  • Founded in 1946, UP is the largest and one of the oldest universities in Poland. A team of social entrepreneurship expert from “Innovative Social Entrepreneurship with Young Engagement” (INN@SE) that aims to promote an EU culture of SE among society.