HKUST Business School Ideas Lunch Series – Alumni Online Sharing: 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.
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Carol Zhou (MBA) 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: |
- 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.
Kindly contact the Business School External & Alumni Relations (EAR) Team.
May
27
May
27
13:00 - 14:00 (Please sign in at 12:50)
Online via Zoom