Faculty Profiles

Kwan, Ho Kwong
Associate Professor of Management, CEIBS
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 100 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 10,000 Google Scholar citations. He achieved the honor of one of the 2021–2023 World’s Most Cited Chinese Researchers, released by Elsevier, and he was included in the 2024 World’s Top 2% Scientists list, published by Stanford University and Elsevier. 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 is currently a Senior Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management, an Editorial Review Board Member for Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Management and Organization Review, and Personnel Psychology, and a Board Representative for Asia Academy of Management (2019–2026). Professor Kwan said he is here at CEIBS to help students to think globally and act locally.
- Ph.D. in Organisation and Strategy, Drexel University, USA
- MPhil in Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- MBA, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
- M.Sc. in Global Business, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- B.A. Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Leadership
- Deviant Behaviour
- Work-family Interface
- Human Resource Management
- Organisational Behaviour
- Human Resource Management
- Business Ethics
- Managerial Psychology
- Cross-cultural Management
2024-12-04 Trickle-down effects of CSR from top managers to middle managers and employees
2024-03-01 How should companies manage employees with side hustles?
2022-01-05 Prof. Michael Kwan talks about China's divorce rate in live Bloomberg TV interview
2021-12-02 What killed marriage? China’s divorce rate is up 75% in a decade
2021-07-23 Is mixing business and booze leaving you with a hangover?
2021-05-31 CEIBS Prof Michael Kwan explores the role of time in family-business succession planning
2021-05-10 A Matter of Time: CEO Temporal Focus and Succession Planning in Family Firms
2021-01-04 Can Authentic Leadership Create a Positive Impact on Work-Family Balance?