Featured Faculty
SFU Business professor Tom Lawrence to receive USC’s Greif Research Impact Award
April 21st, 2010
Tom Lawrence, associate professor in management and organization studies and the Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at SFU Business, is the 2010 recipient of the Greif Research Impact Award.
The Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California has selected Lawrence’s 2004 Academy of Management Journal article, entitled [...]
The Measure of Responsibility
March 3rd, 2009
by John Peloza
Corporate social responsibility has become commonplace in business plans. Studies regularly report that consumers would switch to support a socially responsible business over one that is not responsible.
Ian McCarthy Awarded Fulbright New Century Scholar
February 12th, 2009
SFU Business is proud to announce Dr. Ian McCarthy as a Fulbright New Century Scholar (NCS) for the May 2009 to April 2010 term.
Lawyers Incorporated?
January 29th, 2009
by Andrew von Nordenflycht
In 2007, Australia’s Slater & Gordon became the world’s first publicly-traded law firm. This begs the question of why no law firms have been public corporations before now — as well as whether this development is a good thing.
Don’t Follow the Herd
December 16th, 2008
by Peter Tingling
Making the right decisions has long been the hallmark of superior performance — and never more important than now. Indeed, good decision making is as equally relevant to developing a solution for the current economic crisis as it is to the NHL draft.
Making Starbucks Recession Proof
December 9th, 2008
By Steven Kates
I have an abiding love for the Starbucks brand. Somehow, my day does not seem right unless I start it off with a Venti coffee (half dark roast, half decaf )and spend a few hours sitting in a comfortable chair, doing my reading, preparation and grading for the classes I teach in buyer [...]
Managers Want Tribes, Not Teams
November 28th, 2008
by Gervase R. Bushe
In the past 20 years “teamwork” has become so cliché in organizations that every group is now a “team.”
Consultants and managers are constantly looking for improved “teamwork.” I sometimes get called in to work with senior “management teams” after previous attempts have failed to create any more teamwork.
Stretching Luxury Brands
November 20th, 2008
By Michael Parent and Leyland Pitt
Chateau Margaux, the famous Bordeaux first growth, is up there with the very best. Live like a Saint and die, said William Styron in the novel Sophie’s Choice, and “that must be what they make you to drink [sic] in paradise.”
Blaize Reich awarded “Best Paper of 2007” by Project Management Journal.
Dr. Reich’s paper, “Managing Knowledge and Learning in IT projects – A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Practice”, recognizes that highly uncertain projects require an approach that focuses on learning and effectively creates, integrates and transfers knowledge to develop unique solutions.
Do the Math on Social Responsibility
November 19th, 2008
by John Peloza
CSR advocates should not shy away from financial metrics
Corporate social responsibilities (CSR) is divided into two camps. One is typified by people with expertise in environmental management, community relations or perhaps the non-profit sector.
Biculturalism Pays Big Dividends
November 11th, 2008
by David C. Thomas
Management research has typically assumed that individuals have only one cultural profile
Ali is an immigrant from Iran who works at a Vancouver bank. Tarvinder, who grew up in Punjab, is a lab technician in a Toronto medical lab. And Jim, whose parents emigrated from Hong Kong, is a middle manager for a [...]
Stretching The Luxury Brand
October 28th, 2008
by Leyland Pitt And Michael Parent
Why do so many luxury brand extensions fail?
Chateau Margaux, the famous Bordeaux first growth, is up there with the very best.
Want to Be “CEO of Me? New Book Tells How
April 7th, 2008
Feeling victimized by your over-committed work and family schedules? SFU Business associate professor Brenda Lautsch has a remedy.