Research
LSG’s Partnership with Executive Foundation Lund (EFL), Sweden
Nov 24, 2009
The Learning Strategies Group (LSG) is developing a strategic partnership with the Executive Foundation Lund (EFL) in Sweden. Just as LSG is responsible for SFU Business’ Executive Education portfolio of programs and services, EFL manages Executive Education at Lund University’s School of Economics and Management. “We see many similarities in our client structure and there are a number of Swedish companies operating in your region”, says Pia Sander, Managing Director for EFL. “SFU Business is more »More...
SFU Business Names Sustainability Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Nov 19, 2009
SFU Business has become one of the first university business schools in Canada to appoint a sustainability entrepreneur-in-residence. Boyd Cohen, a former SFU Business assistant professor and green entrepreneur, has returned as an adjunct professor to take up the new appointment. Link to StoryMore...
LSG’s Industry Council for Aboriginal Business (ICAB) Leadership Exchange
Nov 19, 2009
SFU News – November 19, 2009 Canada’s first leadership program to place senior executive officers at meetings on aboriginal reserves and get First Nations chiefs into executive suites kicked off earlier this month. The Leadership Exchange program, created by SFU’s Learning Strategies Group (LSG) in partnership with the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business (ICAB), is the first to pair aboriginal and non-aboriginal business leaders so that they can experience each other’s work and cultural environments. more »More...
SFU Means Business: Looking ahead to the knowledge economy
Nov 16, 2009
Vancouver’s physical location on the Pacific Rim leads us to look both east and west; our location in time means we are moving away from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based one. It’s a period of rapid change in the business world, a period that requires new thinking from sophisticated and innovative managers. SFU’s Faculty of Business Administration is poised to develop these managers while solidifying its position as a conduit between east and west…(download more »More...
McKinsey Survey: Top Nonmonetary Incentives that Motivate and Retain Employees – Leadership and Learning Opportunities
Nov 9, 2009
The economic slump offers business leaders a chance to more effectively reward talented employees by emphasizing nonfinancial motivators rather than bonuses. A recent McKinsey survey indicates that executives find some nonmonetary rewards motivate employees better than cash bonuses do. In particular, the survey identified that a chance to lead projects and participate in leadership and learning opportunities as top motivators and a powerful ways of inspiring employees to make a strong contribution at a challenging more »More...
Leyland Pitt Awarded Grant to Investigate Apps
Oct 27, 2009
Marketing Professor, Leyland Pitt has received a seed grant from the Advanced Practices Council (APC) of the Society for Information Management to investigate “iApps in U-Space: Developing Customer Service Applications for Smart Phones”, with Iris Junglas, University of Houston. The Advanced Practices Council is a forum for senior IT executives who commission exclusive research and share cross-industry perspectives. This grant is awarded for a proposal that is to be developed into a presentation for an more »More...
Ian McCarthy’s Canada Research Chair Renewed
Oct 26, 2009
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), formally announced 181 Canada Research Chairs newly awarded or renewed in 45 Canadian universities. As part of that announcement, Associate Professor Ian McCarthy’s Canada Research Chair in Technology and Operations Research has been renewed for five years.More...
Business Prof Has One Foot in Oil Patch
Oct 23, 2009
From SFU News Online. By Barry Shell In April 2009, Alberta oil-sands giant Suncor Energy was fined $675,000 for not installing pollution-control equipment at one of its plants near Fort McMurray. But in a gratifying turn for academics, the provincial court applied something new called creative sentencing, which in part resulted in a $315,000 research project for SFU Business assistant professor Stephanie Bertels and colleagues at the University of Calgary. The project will examine the more »More...
September 30, 2009 – Measuring the Impact of ROI in HR Programs
Sep 15, 2009
Measuring the Impact of ROI in HR Programs: A Knowledge and Networking Event with Dr. Jack Phillips and Dr. Patti Phillips September 30, 2009 Segal Graduate School of Business 500 Granville St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6C 1W6. Register at http://www.bchrma.org/content/events/ls/details.cfm?EventID=036-111 What will be discussed The morning tackles the key questions that often arise about this level of accountability. Why ROI? What’s the value of having this information? How do I implement ROI? What is more »More...
New Book
Sep 15, 2009
Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations Edited by: Thomas B. Lawrence Simon Fraser University Roy Suddaby University of Alberta Bernard Leca ESC Rouen http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521518550 The ‘institutional’ approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life – such as marriage and bureaucracy – act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong more »More...