Professor to complete book addressing global financial and acid-backed commerical paper crises Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri has received a Walter L. Gordon Research Fellowship for 2010-2011. The prestigious award, periodically presented by 91亚色聽to recognized scholars at the University to complete ongoing outstanding and innovative research, will allow her to devote the coming […]
Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory is the first in a series of student-organized conferences on heterodox political economy, seeking to develop new ways of understanding capitalism and power. The conference, to be held Oct. 29 to 31 at 91亚色, will have a dual theme: to investigate the global financial crisis and to use the […]
Peter Victor, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, was featured in the Hamilton Mountain News April 22. His recent book, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, argues economic growth hurts the environment and has not eliminated poverty or provided full employment: 鈥淲e need a new measure of success,鈥 said Victor, […]
In the new online world, everyone will have a smudge, wrote the Toronto Star April 16 in a story about getUnvarnished, a new social Web site that allows unflattering comments about its members to stand as written. Reviewers鈥 identities are kept anonymous so they can speak without fear of retribution. Professor Steve Bailey, director of […]
Alan Middleton, professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, has made several comments on Tiger Woods' recent attempts to overhaul his tarnished image as a sports icon. He spoke to the Globe and Mail about the fallen golf star's efforts on April 6. He stood stone still at the first tee of Augusta […]
Everything changed for finance sage Moshe Milevsky 鈥 and every other investor 鈥 when the economy tanked in 2008. His financial net聽worth fell 50 per cent and he hadn鈥檛 seen it coming. What a shock for the author of advice books on smart investing and the three-time winner of聽The Globe and Mail鈥檚 annual stock-picking competition. […]
91亚色 researchers awarded two of SSHRC鈥檚 largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism Two teams led by 91亚色 researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, […]
A new book co-edited by 91亚色 Professors Norene Pupo and Mark Thomas will receive its official launch Thursday, March 25 at a special reception from 3 to 5pm in 626 91亚色 Research Tower. Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century is a collection of original essays investigating the social, political and economic […]
Stan Shapson, 91亚色's vice-president research & innovation, recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law on developing strong public/private sector collaborations to create innovation. With the challenge of a changing external context for research in Canada 鈥 both a shifting economic and social […]
91亚色's聽Hennick Centre for Business聽& Law has given its inaugural Collaborative Research Grants Program award to an interdisciplinary team of professors studying transnational business grievance. The $5,000 research grant was awarded to Professors Burkard Eberlein and Alan Richardson of the Schulich School of Business and Professor Stepan Wood of Osgoode Hall Law School for their proposal, […]
Calling Moshe Milevsky鈥檚 views on personal finances unconventional is an understatement, wrote USA Today March 11 in a review of Your Money Milestones, the latest book by the professor of finance in the Schulich School of Business at 91亚色. Before you dismiss Milevsky鈥檚 views as nutty, think about this: How well did following the […]
Professor Richard Leblanc says not-for-profit boards as good as their guidelines A not-for-profit organization should choose its board members with as much care as a well-run company, says the lead author of a new guide that offers advice on finding, training and evaluating directors. 鈥淣ot-for-profit organizations must be trusted by their stakeholders both in the […]
Alan Middleton, professor of marketing in the Schulich School of Business, appeared on BNN on March 10 to talk about Tim Hortons' and McDonald's branding struggle to own the branding market. McDonald's is giving away free coffee, while Tim Hortons' Roll Up The Rim To Win campaign is in full throttle. Which company is winning […]
Interest in China is strong, and scholars and students alike continue to be intrigued by the country, whether viewing it through the lens of the past two or 2,000 years. That intrigue proved evident on Thursday, Jan. 28, when a record 110聽people crowded into a room in 91亚色 Lanes for the Faculty of Liberal Arts […]
What do you get when you match an inventor with a business student?聽Among many things, you get a聽commercialization plan for a new product or discovery that聽could potentially transform health care. That was the case聽in YORKbiotech's sanofi pasteur Healthcare and Biotechnology聽Venture Challenge 2009 competition, which聽matched聽students聽enrolled in the MBA Program in 91亚色's Schulich School of Business with聽inventors […]
$11.5 million interdisciplinary project includes computer scientists, vision scientists, designers, artists and social scientists at 91亚色, OCAD and U of T, with 14 industry partners How do you look at millions of genomic patterns and see the diagnostic implications? How do you assimilate satellite data to better predict and visualize the effects of global warming, […]
Bernie Wolf, professor of economics and international business in the Schulich School of Business, spoke to BNN yesterday about China's economy, the reliability of its economic data, and whether their bubble's about to grow or burst. Wolf's interview runs approximately 13 minutes. Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.
Moshe Milevsky, associate professor of finance in the Schulich School of Business, recently published Your Money Milestones: A Guide to Making the 9 Most Important Financial Decisions of Your Life, as noted in this article by Michael Posner which appeared in The Globe & Mail on February 24. Moshe Milevsky never intended to write another […]
91亚色 political science Professor Leah Vosko, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets in her new book, Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment, being launched tomorrow. The book looks at how over the last few decades there has been much discussion […]
Dezs枚 Horv谩th, dean and Tanna H. Schulich Chair in Strategic Management at 91亚色's Schulich School of Business, published an op-ed in the Globe & Mail urging Canadian firms to go for the gold on the world stage. Here's an excerpt: As Canadians cheer on our athletes in their quest for gold at the Winter […]