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Schulich student earns inaugural RioCan Scholarship

An inaugural scholarship of $25,000 for a student entering the Schulich School of Business Master of Real Estate & Infrastructure (MREI) program was awarded to its first recipient earlier this month.

Natasha Kuperman received the RioCan Scholarship for demonstrating the highest academic standing, a top-ranking GMAT score, and strong evidence of leadership ability and commitment to the industry.

Left to right: James McKellar (MREI program director; executive director, Brookfield Centre in Real Estate & Infrastructure); Sherena Husain (assistant professor, Brookfield Centre in Real Estate & Infrastructure), Patrick dos Santos (MREI student and co-president, Schulich Real Property Student Association); Natasha Kuperman (MREI student and scholarship recipient); Stuart Baum (VP, Human Resources, RioCan); Mallory Margel (director, Human Resources & Employee Relations); Bryna Abtan (program administrator, Brookfield Centre in Real Estate & Infrastructure); and Jeanhy Shim (associate director, Brookfield Centre in Real Estate & Infrastructure)

Members of the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate & Infrastructure at the Schulich School of Business, together with representatives from RioCan, including Stuart Baum (vice-president, Human Resources), Mallory Margel (director, Human Resources & Employee Relations) and Emmett Costin (human resources administrator), gathered to celebrate the achievements of Kuperman.

Schulich launched the MREI program in January 2017. It is Canada’s first 12-month master of real estate and infrastructure program – one of only a few programs of its kind in the world.

RioCan has also generously established a fully funded development internship position for one MREI student in term 3.

More information about the Master of Real Estate & Infrastructure program can be found on the MREI website.

RBC-Schulich Enterprise Forum hosted by Centre for Global Enterprise

The third annual RBC-Schulich Enterprise Forum took place on June 20 at the Miles Nadal Management Centre in Toronto. It was organized by the Centre for Global Enterprise, which operates out of York University’s Schulich School of Business.

Pictured, from left to right: Roshan Mohan, Dana Fox, Lorna Wright, Greg Grice, Mark Patterson, Adam Froman, Douglas Kennedy

The theme for this year’s forum was finding new ways to connect Canadian entrepreneurs and small-and-medium-sized enterprises with the expertise and capabilities they need to support their global ambitions.

The event attracted representatives from approximately 35 different companies and organizations, and addressed three major topics: Connecting Through Better Organization; Connecting With Technology; and Connecting New and Underutilized Capabilities.

The keynote of the event was an address by Adam Froman, founder and CEO of Delvinia and member of the Canadian Council of Innovators, who reminded participants that Canada has less of a startup problem and more a scale-up problem.

For more information about the RBC-Schulich Enterprise Forum series, contact the Centre for Global Enterprise at cge@schulich.yorku.ca.

Schulich Professor Emeritus Ron Burke receives Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award

Ronald J. Burke, professor emeritus of organization studies at the Schulich School of Business at York University, is the recipient of one of the top awards presented by the Academy of Management (AOM). Burke received AOM’s 2017 Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner.

This lifetime career achievement award is given annually in recognition of “long-term, significant contributions” for scholarly work that has affected the practice of management.

Burke’s research interests include career development, diversity in the workplace, organizational change and development, women in management, work and family, and work and health.

In announcing the award, the Academy of Management’s Career Achievement Awards committee said that Burke “is a prolific scholar and has used his research to spur change in organizations, especially relative to gender issues. He is an exemplar of the scientist-practitioner model, exemplary in pursuing a broad range of research topics that contribute to improving organizational practice and the ability to bring about organizational change on the basis of that research.

“In addition to a strong publishing and teaching record, Ron has contributed in multiple ways to improving women’s opportunities and abilities to take on important leadership roles – including positions on corporate boards. His activities have led to significant advancements for women in the business community.”

The Academy of Management describes itself as the preeminent professional association for management and organization scholars. It has approximately 20,000 members in 120 countries around the world.

Burke will be presented with the award at the academy’s annual meeting in Atlanta on Sunday, Aug. 6.

17th-Century perspective earns prestigious book award for York prof

Moshe Milevsky
Moshe Milevsky

The American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) recently announced that Schulich School of Business Professor Moshe Milevsky’s book King William’s Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future Should Resemble Its Past has been selected to receive the 2017 Kulp-Wright Book Award.

Moshe Milevsky
Moshe Milevsky

The Kulp-Wright Award is presented annually by ARIA, the premier association of researchers in insurance, to the book considered to be the most influential, published during the prior year on the subjects of risk management and insurance. The award has been granted annually since 1944 and Milevsky joins a prestigious list of prior winners.

“This honour shows that tontine thinking, in the design of personal risk management products, is a concept with a high likelihood of catching-on in both academia and industry,” Milevsky said. “It also proves that there are valuable lessons to be learned from 17th century financial and insurance history, even in the rapidly changing 21st century.”

The award will be presented at the annual ARIA conference which takes place in Toronto this August. The accolade comes on the heels of recent media and publicity for Milevsky’s research on tontines and the history of financial retirement products; profiled in the Economist Magazine in June and The New York Times in April. Milevsky is about to publish a prequel titled The Day the King Defaulted: Lessons from the Stop of the Exchequer in 1672.

Outstanding international secondary school students awarded scholarships to York U

International students receive scholarships from York U
International students receive scholarships from York U

Two international students at the J. Addison School in Markham have been awarded $5,000 scholarships as a result of a partnership with the York University English Language Institute (YUELI). Emosa Xu ( Xu Yuxin) and Jenny Zou (Xue Ying) were recognized at a ceremony at the school on May 18. Isaac Garcia-Sitton, director of International Education and the English Language Institute at York University, was on hand to present the scholarships and to acknowledge the outstanding accomplishments of these exceptional young students.

J.Addison School and York University partnership scholarship ceremony (May 2017)
J. Addison School and York University partnership scholarship ceremony

“York University is firmly committed to community involvement in and around the city, as we welcome many, many students from local high schools like yours every year,” said Garcia-Sitton.

“York is well-known for its flexibility and dedication to accommodating the many pathways students take in achieving their academic goals, and we are very glad to assist J. Addison students in their transition into postsecondary education. We are very pleased to offer these scholarships not just as a form of financial aid, but as an acknowledgement of outstanding academic achievement, and as a warm welcome to a fulfilling academic career at York.”

These scholarships help to remove financial barriers for international students, and are just one way that York University is setting the bar of inclusive learning for students at home and abroad.

About the students

Emosa Xu ( Xu Yuxin) left the comforts of home and traveled overseas pursue a postsecondary education in business at a top university in Canada. She paved the way to completing this goal by entering J. Addison School, impressing her teachers with her strong work ethics, as well as her strong aptitude for business. Xu made the most of her high school experience by running and being elected President of Student Council, placing on the honour roll two years in a row, and also being awarded the 2017 Business Award. Her outstanding academics led her to be an Ontario Scholar and to accepting an offer to attend the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Jenny Zou (Xue Ying) is a committed student who has excelled in her academics. In stepping outside her comfort zone through her decision to study abroad and work on her language skills, Zou has grown immensely academically and personally. She has adjusted seamlessly to life in Canada, and to J.Addison school, and her teachers speak very highly of her character and diligence. As a result of her hard work and determination, she has been accepted into the Commerce Program in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University.

 

 

Stellar results for Schulich’s Alumni Challenge

The Alumni Match celebration graphic shows the new building with fireworks and the words "We Made It!"The Schulich $5 Million Alumni Challenge, launched late last year by the Schulich School of Business at York University, has exceeded its original fundraising goal. In an announcement to the Schulich community on July 6, Dezsö J. Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, declared the campaign result “a complete success.”

Between Nov. 1, 2016 and June 30, the business school raised more than $5,008,760 in gifts from 734 alumni who took up the Alumni Challenge. “This is an incredible achievement and demonstrates the strong pride and generosity of our Global Alumni Network,” said Horváth. “This tremendous result does not include the more than $3.0 million from alumni who donated prior to the challenge, as well as the contributions from our friends and corporate partners, including most notably, very generous gifts from the Waugh Family Foundation as well as Tim and Frances Price & The Brookfield Partners Foundation.

Dezsö J. Horváth
Dezsö J. Horváth

“I wish to thank all of our alumni donors and volunteers, our Leading Change Campaign Co-Chairs, and the team of staff at Schulich who rallied behind this once-in-a-lifetime challenge to help us raise a total of $10 million, which includes the Schulich Foundation match, for our new Graduate Study and Research Building,” he said.

“Of course, the challenge opportunity would not have even been possible without the incredible generosity, confidence and support of our distinguished benefactor, Seymour Schulich OC, and the Schulich Foundation. The Schulich Foundation’s extraordinary grant allowed every Challenge gift received to double its impact on the project and on our school’s next chapter of growth and innovation,” he said.

The Leading Change Campaign is the business school’s boldest and most ambitious fundraising and alumni engagement campaign in history.  The campaign, which launched in 2017 and runs until 2021, is seeking to raise $50 million to support campus expansion, enhanced research and the establishment of new Centres of Excellence, the creation of chairs and professorships, as well as to increase the Schulich School’s financial aid offerings and student success-focused initiatives. Leading Change has also identified a set of exciting goals designed to deepen and strengthen the Global Alumni Network through engagement, partnership and volunteer leadership.

“I am sure you will agree: Leading Change is off to a very strong start given the success of the Alumni Challenge, as well as the generous gifts listed above and those still to be announced later this year. I look forward to sharing more updates on campaign activities and progress later this summer and into the fall,” said Horváth.

Bharat Masrani says diversity is strength at Schulich convocation

Schulich School of Business has one of the most diverse student bodies of any business school in North America and in today’s global economy this provides a significant competitive advantage, according to Bharat Masrani (BBA ’78, MBA ’79), president and CEO of TD Bank Group.

Chancellor Greg Sorbara, Bharat Masrani and President and Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri

“In Canada, we see diversity as a strength – not a weakness,” said Masrani to the more than 1,000 graduating students at Schulich’s Spring Convocation, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University for his achievements in business and the community. “I’m convinced that success, in whatever form, relies on the forces that bring us together, not drive us apart.”

Masrani, who graduated from the Schulich School of Business 38 years ago, is president and CEO of TD Bank Group. He is a champion of York University throughout the TD community, and returns to Schulich frequently as a guest speaker. As part of Schulich’s 50th Anniversary celebrations last year, he was keynote speaker at CONNECT2016.

Masrani became the first member of a visible minority to ascend to the corner office of a major Canadian bank, being appointed president and CEO of TD in 2014. His banking career with TD spans more than three decades of multi-faceted experience. Starting his career at TD in 1987, he has held various roles in four countries, including India where in 1995 he set up the bank’s first offices in Mumbai.

Born and raised in Uganda, in the early ’70s his community was expelled despite being active in the country’s growing economy. Moving to Canada and attending Schulich, he told graduands, he was never denied the opportunities to excel. Masrani said his success was only measured by his level of commitment, his abilities, and character.

Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth and Bharat Masrani

“Bharat Masrani’s extraordinary business career, his global orientation, and his commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion are an inspiration to our students and graduates alike,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth.

Story supplied by Jason Miller, Schulich School of Business

Two Schulich professors earn Citation of Excellence Awards

Two professors from York University’s Schulich School of Business were recently honoured with prestigious Citation of Excellence Awards. Professor of strategy Dirk Matten and Professor of operations management and information systems Wade Cook have recently bestowed the awards for their 2014 papers in the Emerald Group Publishing journals.

Matten’s paper published in the California Management Review was a critique of the idea of “Creating Shared Value” popularized by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer in the Harvard Business Review.

Wade Cook and Dirk Matten

“It is a great success to see that an article that engages critically with the work of Michael Porter finds such a broad reception,” Matten said. “It also shows how important alternative ways of looking at the responsibility of business in society are and how many researchers are concerned with this topic.”

Cook’s paper published in Omega (United Kingdom) addressed issues related to the use of data envelopment analysis, which is a mathematical methodology for measuring the performance of organizations.

“It is very gratifying to receive this award, as it not only helps to solidify the importance of this decision support tool in terms of its benchmarking capability but as well provides a road map for proper implementation of the tool in the real world,” Cook said.

The selection process was conducted by Emerald Group Publishing editorial experts. The initial review was based on the citations being given to papers published during the previous year. The judging panel also took into account the research content and its relevancy in today’s world.

Schulich receives prestigious EQUIS five-year accreditation

Schulich school of business
schulich school of business

Schulich School of Business at York University has received its second consecutive five-year EQUIS accreditation from EFMD (The European Foundation for Management Development). EQUIS, also known as the European Quality Improvement System, is widely regarded as the premier quality designation for internationally oriented business schools.

Institutions accredited by EQUIS must demonstrate not only a high level of quality in all dimensions of their activities, but also a high degree of internationalization, close connections to the corporate community, and responsible management.

EQUIS has two levels of accreditation, with five-year accreditation being the highest level. Only business schools that meet all of the EQUIS quality standards are awarded EQUIS accreditation for a period of five years. A total of 170 business schools across 42 countries have been accredited by EQUIS over the years, and of these, only 97 have attained five-year accreditation.

“We have been working diligently for many years to enhance our strategic positioning, to continuously improve quality in all areas of our business school, and to expand our global footprint in order to establish Schulich as a leading centre of management education globally,” said Dezsö J. Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business. “The EQUIS five-year re-accreditation once again provides additional third-party confirmation that our School’s academic programs and research output are world-class.”

To read the official announcement regarding Schulich’s EQUIS accreditation, click here.

Next stop, the Lassonde School’s Transportation Research Symposium June 27

The Lassonde School of Engineering will be hosting the Transportation Research Symposium on Tuesday, June 27, from 8.30am to 3pm in Room 125, Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence, Keele campus.

The Transportation Research Symposium is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on rapid urbanization and the resulting congestion, which has significant economic implications, loss of productivity, increased pollution, and health and safety concerns for commuters and residents of urban areas.

Peter Park

Department of Civil Engineering Professor Peter Park will lead the symposium. Park has more than 20 years of experience as a traffic safety analyst, transportation engineer and planner.

“The idea is to bring researchers together to find areas where we can collaborate,” said Park.

The interdisciplinary symposium will bring together Faculty from the Lassonde School of Engineering, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Schulich School of Business, and Faculty of Environmental Studies. Participants will consider a variety of topics including GIS data analytics, vision-based technologies, electric vehicles, self-driving cars and more.

For more information contact Paulina Karwowska-Deaulniers at paulina.karwowska-desaulniers@lassonde.yorku.ca or Professor Peter Park at peter.park@lassonde.yorku.ca.

All are welcome to attend, however, organizers ask that you register for the event at http://bit.ly/2tXT5uN.