HKUST Business School Ideas Lunch Series – Alumni Online Sharing: Innovating the Future of Beauty in China


Innovating the Future of Beauty in China


Having featured successful alumni across eCommerce, Retail, IT, F&B and Real Estate industries, the Ideas Lunch Series launched last year attracted significant viewership and overwhelming positive feedbacks. In 2021, we continue this lunchtime chit-chat series featuring diverse alumni with their uniquely interesting stories.

On May 27 (Thu), MBA alumna, Carol ZHOU, SVP of China Business Innovation & Investment Office for Shiseido, will share and interact with the alumni community online.

As the second-largest and fastest growing market in the world, China’s cosmetics and personal care products market is expected to grow to over USD65 billion in sales by 2024. How can beauty giant like Shiseido stay competitive and innovate its way through the COVID-19 and beyond? Carol can offer the best insights on this, she leads her team to drive businesses acceleration within the Shiseido group in China, as well as developing innovative customer-centric solutions through R&D and meaningful partnerships. At this Ideas Lunch, Carol will share with us how she integrates innovation to add value and leverages the dynamic ecosystem for the new China generation.

The event will be moderated by Professor Dongwon LEE from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management.

Speaker(s)
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Carol Zhou (MBA)
SVP of Shiseido China Business
Innovation & Investment

As SVP of China Business Innovation & Investment for Shiseido, Carol is helping to shape the next phase of transformation for the company. By leveraging the dynamic ecosystem and entrepreneurial talents in China, Carol will help to accelerate the implementations of innovations and new business models, to create new beauty business as the next growth driver of the Shiseido group on a global level.

During the past 2 years at Shiseido, Carol has accomplished on: 
•    Established strategic alliances with startups and other companies to further accelerate the development and implementation of innovations in existing businesses, as well as new business development in new sectors. 
•    Established the first Shiseido Beauty Innovation Hub in China, a community space where consumers, entrepreneurs, researchers and industry partners can connect, discover, collaborate and create truly consumer-centric beauty offerings. 
•    Incubated new business ideas and successfully scaling and launching them to become the next growth drivers of Shiseido Group on a global level (1st Beauty Device brand launching Q1 2021) 
•    Oversee strategic decisions to grow and restructure the group businesses, establish strategic partnerships, and creating opportunities through M&A. 

Previously, she has held a number of management positions at multinational firms such as Unilever, Burberry, L’Oréal, and Marriott where she has led global strategy & innovation functions across regions and categories. Carol received her undergraduate degree from New York University's Stern Business School and her MBA from HKUST Business School.

Alumni Price
Free
Remarks
  • This is an online webinar on Zoom.
  • Due to limited quota, registration will be on first-come-first-serve basis.
  • Successful registrant will receive a confirmation email with a link to the online webinar.

Enquiry

Kindly contact the Business School External & Alumni Relations (EAR) Team.

May

27

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May

27

Date
27.05.2021 - 27.05.2021 (GMT+08:00)
Time

13:00 - 14:00 (Please sign in at 12:50)

Venue

Online via Zoom

Event Host
Business School
Reg. Deadline
27.05.2021