At CKGSB, we are dedicated to incorporating ESG and social innovation in everything we do and preparing our students to become responsible business leaders who solve humanity’s most challenging problems head-on.
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CKGSB professors produce rich research around ESG topics in leading journals, contributing valuable insights and knowledge that inform business practices and public policy.
SUN Tianshu Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Information Systems, CKGSB
Patients using healthcare services have substantial privacy concerns when writing online reviews of their physicians that may deter them from sharing information potentially helpful for others. This paper looks into how nudging strategies together with privacy control affect reviewers’ decisions related to the provision of reviews, disclosure of sensitive information, and identity revelation.
SUN Tianshu Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Information Systems, CKGSB
This paper illustrates how artificial intelligence acts as an invisible hand, using algorithms and personal data to shape consumers’ behavior and the dynamics of competition. This research offers a roadmap for managers to use AI to build a sustainable competitive advantage through ongoing innovation.
Tao Zhigang Professor of Strategy and Economics, CKGSB
In China’s state-guided market economy, non-state-controlled firms donate to government-favored causes to counter ownership-based discrimination. Examining donations to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake relief campaign, this paper finds strong positive market reactions, particularly for previously inefficient firms in regions with greater government intervention, where discrimination is more severe and donations can help restore a level playing field.
Brian VIARD
Associate Professor of Strategy and Economics, CKGSB
ZHANG Gang
Assistant Professor of Economics, CKGSB
A paper based on a study to investigate the impact of foreign ownership on the environmental and social (ES) performance of publicly listed firms in an emerging market.
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We advance female empowerment through our advocacy work, research and teaching.
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We equip our students with the latest knowledge and practices on social innovation and business for good.
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We collaborate with businesses, governments, multilateral institutions, non-profit organizations and civil society to generate greater impact for the greater good.
We empower less advantaged groups, such as those in the rural areas, with more access to quality education.
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CKGSB earned the LEED Platinum certification, the highest level in the LEED green building rating system, for its Beijing campus.
CKGSB won the Community Excellence Award (Rural Development Track) at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China’s 2025 Sustainable Business Awards (SBA) for its Rural Revitalization Program and its long-term commitment to rural development, social responsibility, inclusive leadership development, and positive community impact.
CKGSB hosted the 2025 Western China MBA Professor Training Program in collaboration with the China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee and Shantou University School of Business on December 17 and 18, 2025, training 64 professors from over 40 universities in China nationwide, mostly western China.
CKGSB professor Juliet Zhu launched the ESG Assessment Map, providing businesses with an actionable toolkit to simplify the process of incorporating ESG into their strategies and operations.
CKGSB was named "Charity Role Model of the Year" by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs and Philanthropy Times.
CKGSB was awarded as the “2022 Social Organization” by Philanthropy Times, a leading public welfare newspaper in China.
23 of the Top 100 Chinese entrepreneurs named on the “2021 Forbes China Philanthropy” list are CKGSB alumni. CKGSB’s alumni contributed 30% of the total 221.7 billion RMB in charitable donations.
The CKGSB community came together to gather and provide support for those affected by the COVID outbreak. By April 2020, CKGSB’s student and alumni community raised over $573 million in cash donations and goods.
In November 2019, CKGSB was awarded the 2019 China Social lmpact Award in the poverty alleviation category by the United Nations and British Chamber of Commerce in China.
Since 2018, CKGSB has awarded the Philanthropy Scholarship across all of our degree programs to outstanding civil society and NGO leaders.
In 2017, 4 companies led by our Executive Education students were on the list of “50 Most Innovative Companies.”
In February 2016, CKGSB founded the Cheung Kong Education Development Foundation (CKEDF), a non-profit organization with a mission to support CKGSB’s sustainable development, to help the development of our alumni, and to work for the betterment of society.
CKGSB professors and alumni started the “Go’ji Berry Project,” helping farmers in rural Gansu province brand, package and distribute their products, generating sales of 2.18 million RMB in the first three months of the campaign and as a result raising the local farmers’ annual income by 35%.
CKGSB granted the first “CKGSB Philanthropy Award” to eligible students and their projects.
In September 2013, CKGSB hosted the first Women in Leadership Forum, featuring Facebook’s then Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
CKGSB began requiring all degree students to conduct community work in order to graduate.
Starting in 2010, all EMBA students—98% of whom are decision-makers of companies—to conduct 48 hours of volunteer work.
In 2009, CKGSB launched the CKGSB Philanthropy Fund.
In 2008, CKGSB sent groups of volunteers to Sichuan Province to support those affected by the May 12th earthquake. Alumni and staff donated 430 million RMB, roughly 7% of all Chinese corporate donations to earthquake victims.
Since 2007, CKGSB has been working with the China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee on an annual training for MBA professors of universities based in less developed areas of Western China, so as to narrow the gap in management education between Eastern and Western China.
In 2005, CKGSB was the first business school in China to incorporate the humanities—such as history, religion and philosophy—into its core business curricula to give students a more holistic view of business.
In 2002, CKGSB set up the EMBA Philanthropy Scholarship.
