 | EQUISOutlook for Change Named a Top 50 Green Tech BlogNov 14, 2008Green Web Hosting Coupons has chosen associate professor in management and organization studies, Tom Lawrence’s Outlook for Change website as one of the Top 50 Green Technology Blogs. Read More... |
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 | EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsNov 13, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of November 7, 2008 Our Canadian media hit of the week: the Maclean’s 2008 ranking of universities, with SFU sharing the No. 1 spot among comprehensive universities. Read More... |
| EQUISBusiness Pair Earn TD Teaching AwardsNov 13, 2008Scott Powell and Stephen Spector have won this year’s TD Canada Trust distinguished teaching awards, given annually to two SFU Business instructors. Read More... |
| EQUISBiculturalism Pays Big DividendsNov 11, 2008by 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 multinational mining company. Read More... |
 | EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsNov 07, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of November 7, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsOct 31, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of October 31, 2008. Read More... |
| EQUISStretching The Luxury BrandOct 28, 2008by 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Maters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsOct 23, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of October, 23, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISBe Wary of the PendulumOct 16, 2008It is the end of casino capitalism. The end of the era of greed. A new financial world order is on the way. These are the clarion calls coming from many people all of whom share the anger at a financial and banking system that has failed them. Central banks and regulators and politicians of all stripes have already signaled that important and systemic changes are on the way. They have all had to adjust- more » Read More... |
| EQUISOur Regulatory Futures: Beyond the Cover of a TARPOct 03, 2008So now the deal has been done. Bailout 2.0 (more formally known as TARP or the Troubled Asset Rescue Plan) has passed its last Congressional hurdle and now the machinery of US government can soon begin to implement the plan to defrost the credit markets. This political compromise may have preempted a deeper and more formidable financial crisis but it remains unclear whether this plan will stop the US and global economy from descending into more » Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsOct 03, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of October 3, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISAssistant Professor, Amir Rubin’s research on Political Views and Corporate Decision Making: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility was recently referenced on the Science Daily website. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsSep 19, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of September 9, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsSep 12, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of September 12, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISThis report contributes to the emergent discussion about how businesses can better adapt to the new realities of the global marketplace. The report focuses specifically on how globalization is evolving beyond mere multinational presence in different countries to a more complex interdependent network of worldwide assets that can “optimize” resources horizontally and vertically. The report argues that current enterprise management structures such as holding companies, decentralized operating companies and integrated operating companies, do not lead more » Read More... |
| EQUISMBA Explorer has recently chosen Professor Tom Lawrence’s Outlook for Change site as one of the Top 50 Business Professor Blogs. Read More... |
| EQUISOn August 18, 2008, Anne Macdonald, Chair of the Teaching Effectiveness Committee, announced the winners of the 2008 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards: Mr. Scott Powell and Mr. Stephen Spector. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business Professors in the NewsJul 25, 2008How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of July 25, 2008 Read More... |
| EQUISDavid C. Thomas’ Book Reviewed in the Shanghai DailyJul 21, 2008The book, “Cultural Intelligence – People Skills for Global Business” by SFU Business Professor David C. Thomas and Kerry Inkson was reviewed in the July 19 edition of the Shanghai Daily News. Read More... |
| EQUISIf recent events in the financial system are indications of inadequate corporate governance and risk management, do we know how and why the system failed? And perhaps most importantly, do we know what can be done to fix it? Read More... |
| EQUISFollowing a significant number of high profile takeovers of longstanding Canadian corporate personalities and growing concerns about ongoing ‘hollowing out’ of the Canadian economy, the government commissioned a panel to review its competition and foreign direct investment policies. The Competition Policy Review Panel has recently released its results. The Report and its recommendations focus on three areas: liberalizing foreign investment rules, streamlining the competition regulation regime, and promoting a globally competitive business environment.With this focus, more » Read More... |
| EQUISBlaize Horner Reich with “Best Paper of 2007”Jun 25, 2008Professor Blaize Reich’s paper in the Project Management Journal titled “Managing knowledge and Learning in IT projects: a conceptual framework and guidelines for practice” has been selected as the best paper of 2007. Read More... |
| EQUISOn 3 June 2008 General Motors announced that it would close four of its truck plants and move away from building SUVs. On 23 June it amended this to 7 plants. The move was said to be in order to adjust cost structures in line with GM’s energy-efficient competitors in Japan and, from a public relations perspective, looked responsive to mounting concerns over global warming. The market welcomed the news by briefly halting the share more » Read More... |
| EQUISThe Bell Tolls: And It’s UnanimousJun 20, 2008The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision today and sided with BCE, its shareholders and directors. In a unanimous decision (7-0), the Court overturned the decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal which had overturned the decision of the lower court and its approval of the BCE plan of arrangement for a leveraged buyout. Though the reasons for the decision will not come for a couple of weeks, the BCE shareholders are happy, the more » Read More... |
| EQUISGovernance and Risk Management in Global Capital Markets: A New Problem or A Very Old One that Won’t Go Away?Jun 13, 2008As the capital markets stumble, burdened by their own apparent excessive risk appetite, there are many questions to ask. The first and most obvious question is how did this happen. Does the fault lie with inadequate regulation of the banking industry, inadequate internal monitoring and risk modeling among those who create and market risky financial instruments, the inherent flaws and risks in capitalism where high levels of risk are acceptable in the quest for high more » Read More... |
| EQUIS2007 Douglas McGregor AwardMay 31, 2008A paper by Gervase Bushe (and co-author Graeme Coetzer) has been selected as the 2007 Douglas McGregor Award winner in the Journal of Applied Behavior Science. Read More... |
| EQUISIT governance is a complex beast. We take you through some of the legislation, standards and best practices By Danny Bradbury You run a bank and you are in a quandary. A new technology is emerging that will change the way customers interact with you; in the ’70s it may have been ATM cards, now perhaps it’s contactless payments, but in any case all the banks want to be first on the scene with this more » Read More... |
| EQUISLow Cultural IQ Could Hijack Your CareerApr 07, 2008By Diane Luckow A new web-based tool for assessing an individual’s cultural competence could help corporations and government agencies predict whether or not an employee will be effective on an overseas assignment or a good leader or participant on a multicultural work team. Read More... |
| EQUISResearch ReportApr 07, 2008Presentation by the Director of Research, Dave Thomas, on the research accomplishments of faculty over the past year. Click here to download. Read More... |
| EQUISNew Perspectives in Project ManagementApr 07, 2008Project managers who are wondering Does Size Really Matter? or Do Women Perform Better than Men? can find the answers at PMPerspectives.org – a new website featuring short, interesting articles about the latest research in project management. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsWant to Be “CEO of Me? New Book Tells HowApr 07, 2008Feeling victimized by your over-committed work and family schedules? SFU Business associate professor Brenda Lautsch has a remedy. Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Professors Win Ascendant Scholar AwardsApr 07, 2008David Hannah and Chris Zatzick, assistant professors of management and organization studies at SFU Business, are two of four recipients of the 2008 Ascendant Scholar awards from the Western Academy of Management, a regional division of the National Academy of Management. Read More... |
 | EQUISOn March 12, 2008, the CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management, in collaboration with the Shareholders Association for Research and Education, hosted a breakfast for 150 at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business, to hear representatives from three organizations speak about the UN-initiated Principles of Responsible Investing (PRI). The speaker panel consisted of Donald McDonald, a trustee with British Telecom Pension Plan; David Russell, Co-head of Responsible Investing for the Universities Superannuation Scheme more » Read More... |
| EQUISAdam Cotterall Nominated as “Rising Star” by BC HRMAFeb 28, 2008Adam Cotterall, Associate Director at the Learning Strategies Group, was nominated as a finalist for the annual British Columbia Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) “Rising Star Award”. Please join us in congratulating Adam. More information Read More... |
| EQUISFaculty KudosJul 01, 2007SFU’s new tagline “Thinking of the World” is reinforced by what the world thinks of our faculty. Here’s what some of them are up to: Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Researchers ScoreJul 01, 2007SFU Business researchers scored well in the 2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) competition, receiving funding for six out of eight grant requests, plus an Initiative for the New Economy (INE) grant. Read More... |
| EQUISIN THE NEWSMar 30, 2007How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of March 30, 2007 Read More... |
| EQUISResearch KudosMar 01, 2007Professor Lindsay Meredith has won an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence for his article “A diagrammatical template for business market demand estimation” which appeared in the Industrial Marketing Management May 2006 (Vol 35, No 4). Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business researchers are breaking new ground on a wide range of topics from influence of trust in international strategic alliances to consumer demand for professional sports teams. Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business research projects have garnered almost $500,000 in research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Read More... |
| EQUISCanadian directors of TSX-listed companies say they face a high risk of potential lawsuits from shareholders and institutional investors around issues related to financial accounting disclosure and fraud. Read More... |
| EQUISWhen Does Trust Matter to Alliance Performance?Mar 01, 2006“In strategic alliances, trust can be a double-edged sword,” says SFU Business assistant professor Rekha Krishnan. “It can have both performance-enhancing potential and performance-hampering potential.” Read More... |