Ho Kwong Kwan

Dr. Ho Kwong Kwan is an Associate Professor of Management at CEIBS. Before joining CEIBS, he worked at the Advanced Institute of Business Research and was the Head of Organisation and Management Department at the School of Economics and Management of Tongji University.

Dr. Kwan received his PhD in Organisation and Strategy from Drexel University; MBA from HKUST; and undergraduate, MPhil, and MSc from CUHK. Dr. Kwan's research interests mainly concentrate on work-family interfaces, mentoring, leadership, and deviant behaviour. He has published over 60 articles in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. His scholarly works have had a major impact and he has received over 2,000 Google Scholar citations. He has received research awards from AOM and SIOP. Dr. Kwan's teaching interests currently lie in organisational behaviour, human resource management, business ethics, leadership, managerial psychology, cross-cultural management, as well as strategic management. He received the Teaching Excellence Award (1st rank, 2017), Outstanding Worker Award (2015), and Best Supervision Award for Undergraduate Student Thesis Award (2013) from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; the Emerald/ IACMR Chinese Management Research Fund Award (2015); the Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing from the International Journal of Hospitality Management (2015); the Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald Group Publishing (2015); and the Top Poster Award from the Annual Conference of Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (2015).

He has served on the Editorial Review Board for both the Journal of Managerial Psychology and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He is now a Senior Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2019–2021). Professor Kwan said he is here at CEIBS to help students to think globally and act locally.