Congratulations and best of luck to all of our graduates who

attended convocation in June 2012!

We welcome Dr. Micheál Kelly , the new Dean of the School of Business and Economics.

On September 21, 2012 our Dean will meet with all of our students at the scheduled ori-

entation session.

CONGRATULATIONS 2012 GRADUATES!

The Newsletter of Business PhD & Research-based Masters Programs

JUNE 2012 ISSUE 6.2

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Ziquan (Prince) Wang (Master of Finance): As a continuation of the MFin program,

Prince is currently taking a Canadian Securities course which is providing a good analyt-

ic framework in the finance area. He is active in the job market and expects to finalize a

full time position in the next month.

Majid Shahrokh Esfanhani (Master of Finance): Majid is active in the job search.

PROGRAM UPDATE - 2012/2013 COHORT

We have tremendous growth in both the

number of applicants as well as the number

of students admitted to our graduate pro-

grams. To date we have received over 830

inquiries about our programs.

From this list, we received 168 applications

to our programs as follows:

PhD in Management—52

Master of Finance—89

MSc in Management—27

The admissions records currently show that

the following number of students will be

joining our programs in September 2012,

with additional offers pending:

PhD in Management: 8

Master of Finance: 25

MSc in Management: 4

This September, we will be welcoming the

first cohort into our new Master of Finance

non-coop option. A one year program.

“I would say being part of the

Master of Finance family is a

treasured experience in my life.

Considering my background,

having little finance-related

education, the Master of

Finance program provides me

with not only intensive training

in the finance field, but also 8

months of real industry working

experience. The rigorous

academic research atmosphere,

together with the valuable

guidance from the faculty

members, drives me to succeed

in my coming career.”

- Ziquan Wang

2012 MFin graduate

Inside this issue:

Our Graduates 1

Program Update 1

Student Awards &

Accomplishments

2

Program News and

Announcements

3

Publications and

Conference

Presentations

4

Laurier EMTM &

MABE

5

For more information about SBE PhD & Research-based Masters

Programs, please visit our website: www.wlu.ca/sbe/phd/

Lisa Kuron, a third-year PhD student specializing in Organizational Behav-

iour & Human Resource Management has been awarded an Ontario Gradu-

ate Scholarship for the 2012-2013 year.

“OGS will be extremely helpful for me as I continue to work on my disserta-

tion. Having this source of support will allow me to have a greater focus on

my program research and continue working on papers for journals and at-

tend premiere conferences,” Lisa remarked.

Lisa’s research focuses on the role of goals in the job search process.

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Jonathan Kerr, a first-year PhD student specializing in Marketing has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the 2012-2013 year. Jonathan’s research interests lie at the marketing/entrepreneurship inter-face. They are focused on how the lead entrepreneur’s cognitive models and social capital will influence their degree of market orientation and approach to new product development.

Hossein

Zolfagharinia,

2009 Cohort

PhD in Management: Operations & Supply Chain

Hossein Zolfagharinia, a third-year PhD student specializing in Operations & Supply Chain Management, has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholar-ship for the 2012-2013 year. He is the first Business PhD international stu-dent to receive this scholarship. His research focuses on evaluating the ben-efits of information sharing in truckload transportation.

Hossein is also the recipient of the Ontario Institute of PMAC Achievement of Excellence Scholarship in Supply Chain Management. This annual scholar-ship was established by the Ontario Institute of PMAC (OIPMAC) to support doctoral students in research related to the field of supply chain manage-ment.

STUDENT AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Annika Hillebrandt, an incoming PhD student specializing in Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management, has been awarded SSHRC for 2012-2015. Annika is completing her major research paper for the MSc in Management Degree and will join the PhD program this September. Annika’s research is in the area of organizational justice, and examines the effects of coworkers’ emotions on employee’s fairness perceptions.

Jonathan Kerr,

2011 Cohort

PhD in

Management:

Marketing

Annika Hillebrandt,

2012 Cohort

PhD in

Management:

Organizational

Behaviour & Human Resources

Lisa Kuron,

2010 Cohort

PhD in

Management:

Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources

Doctoral Dissertation News

Two of our PhD students in Operations and Supply Chain Management, successfully defended their disser-tation proposal in June 2012:

Eman Nasr’s dissertation proposal is entitled: “Supply Chain Innovation: Assessing Collaboration Benefits and Challenges.” Committee members: Professors Ignacio Castillo (SBE), Kevin Hendricks (SBE) Marc Kilgour (Math), Kalyani Menon (SBE), and Hamid Noori (SBE, Supervisor).

Adrian Tan’s dissertation proposal is entitled: “The Dis-persed Manufacturing Network (DMN) Model: Theory Building, Measures Development, and Structural For-mation.” Committee members: Professors Ignacio Cas-tillo (SBE), Kevin Hendricks (SBE), Bill Morrison (SBE), Kalyani Menon (SBE), and Hamid Noori (SBE, Supervisor).

Congratulations Eman and Adrian!

Travel & Research Award

Four doctoral students received Travel & Research

Awards from the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral

Studies. These awards are to support opportunities for

doctoral students to carry out independent, high quality

research. Congratulations to the following PhD students:

Adrian Tan (Operations & Supply Chain Management)

Hossein Zolfagharinia (Operations & Supply Chain Man-

agement)

Maryam Hafezi (Operations & Supply Chain Manage-

ment)

Laleh Samarbakhsh (Financial Economics)

PROGRAM NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

JUNE 2012 ISSUE 6.2

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Employment for MSc graduate

Lu (Emily) Gao has been offered a position as Modelling

Optimization Specialist with Lalvani Logistics Inc in Milton.

The company works directly with decision makers and

their teams on supply challenges like inventory manage-

ment, value stream mapping, cost savings initiatives on

freight and warehousing spending. Emily will be joining

the company upon completion of her degree in MSc in

Management: Supply Chain, at the end of August, 2012.

Ontario Trillium Scholarship

Alireza Golmohammadi, an incoming PhD in Management: Marketing student, was awarded an Ontario Trillium Scholarship.

Laurier only awards two of these new scholarships to incoming international doctoral students each year. This is the second

consecutive year that a student from the marketing area has been a recipient of this award.

These Ontario Trillium Scholarships are a government initiative to attract more of the best qualified international students to

Ontario for PhD studies. Each OTS is valued at $40,000 annually and is renewable for an additional three years.

Congratulations Alireza!

Student Representatives

We are pleased to announce the formation of the new

Graduate Student Advisory Council.

The current members are: Jonathan Kerr (PhD), Hamed

Mehrabi (PhD), Hosein Nooriaan (PhD), Laleh Samar-

bakhsh (PhD), Adrian Tan (PhD) and Teodora Trifan

(MSc). You will hear more about their mandates and activ-

ities in our next newsletter.

The following students are currently serving on our vari-

ous committees:

SBE Council: Justin Mindzak (PhD)

Business Council: Emily (Lu) Gao (MSc)

SBE Curriculum Committee: David Lewis (PhD) & Annika

Hillebrandt (MSc)

PhD Curriculum Committee: Sarah Vermunt (PhD)

Exchange Building Committee: Laleh Samarbakhsh (PhD)

Thank you to all of our students who volunteer their time

to help improve SBE programs and curriculum!

Lisa Kuron

Kuron, L.K.J. & S. Taggar (2012). “I want it and I want it

now! Antecedents and outcomes of the goal to find em-

ployment quickly.” Annual Meeting of Academy of Manage-

ment, Boston, MA, August 6-7.

Laleh Samarbakhsh Amoako-Adu B., L. Samarbakhsh (2012). "The Role of Lever-age in Hedge Funds Failure during the 2008 Financial Crisis." Financial Management Association Europe, Istanbul, Turkey, June 6-8.

Samarbakhsh L. (2012). "Hedge Funds Failure in Recent Fi-nancial Crisis." Eastern Finance Association, Boston, US, April 11-14.

Adrian Tan Tan, A. & H. Noori (2012). “Centrality and Dispersed Manu-

facturing Networks.” Production and Operation Manage-

ment Society (POMS), 23rd Annual Conference, Chicago IL,

April 20.

Sarah Vermunt Vermunt, S.M. & S. Taggar (2012). “ Cross-Foci Examination

of Perceived Team Support, Organizational Commitment

and Performance.” Annual Meeting of Academy of Manage-

ment, Boston, MA, August 2012.

Vermunt, S.M. & S. Taggar (2012). “Email and Text Message

Norm Differences and Person Perception in Organizations.”

Annual Meeting of Administrative Sciences Association of

Canada (ASAC), St. John’s, June 2012.

Hossein Zolfagharinia Zolfagharinia, H. & M. Haughton (2012). “A New Model for a

Dynamic Truckload Pickup and Delivery Problem.” Annual

meeting of Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS),

Niagara Falls, June 11 to 13.

C. Conference Presentations

JUNE 2012 ISSUE 6.2

A. Publications in Academic Journals

Michael Kay

Martin, B., J. McNally & M. Kay (2012). “Examining the

formation of human capital in entrepreneurship: A meta-

analysis of entrepreneurship education outcomes.” Jour-

nal of Business Venturing. (Forthcoming).

Lisa Kuron

Lyons, S., L. Schweitzer, E.S.W. Ng, & L.K.J. Kuron (2012).

“Comparing apples to apples: A qualitative investigation

of career mobility patterns across four generations.” Ca-

reer Development International. (Forthcoming).

Schweitzer, L., Ng, E., Lyons, S., & L.K.J. Kuron (2011).

“Exploring the career pipeline: Gender differences in pre-

career expectations.” Relations Industrielles, 66, 422-444.

Hossein Zolfagharinia

Zolfagharinia, H. & S. Isotupa (2012). “A Note on: Optimal

Inventory Control of Empty Containers in Inland Trans-

portation System.” International Journal of Production

Economics. (Forthcoming).

B. Publications in Proceedings

Lisa Kuron

Kuron, L.K.J., Lyons, S., Schweitzer, L., & E.S.W. Ng

(2012). “Growing up and settling down? Comparing the

work values of pre-career and working Millennials.” Pro-

ceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of

Canada, St. John's, NL, June 9-12.

Kuron, L.K.J. & S. Taggar (2012). “Understanding job

search strategies and behaviours: A regulatory focus per-

spective.” Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences

Association of Canada, St. John's, NL, June 9-12.

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PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

LAURIER EMTM & MABE

JUNE 2012 ISSUE 6.2

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Laurier EMTM update

Executive Masters in Technology Management

Our EMTM learners have successfully completed the first

two of the three modules, and are now racing towards the

finish, and in spite of their gruelling schedule and

workload, they are fully committed to the program. In fact,

the professors and industry experts who attended the

second integrated session as panel members were

pleasantly surprised by the level of engagement and

intelligence of our learners. It is also encouraging and

rewarding for every staff and faculty member involved in

the program to know that all of our learners are giving

excellent feedback about the EMTM program.

The Laurier EMTM has been aggressively promoting the

program to increase public awareness through various

publications such as Engineering Dimensions, On Board

Magazine, CheckMark, and the Globe and Mail. The

program has also been featured extensively in the March/

April issue of Exchange Magazine. To facilitate more face-

to-face interaction with the public, the Laurier EMTM has

participated in Tech Leadership Conference in Waterloo,

Canada 3.0 in Stratford, and most recently, OCE Discovery

in Toronto.

The office is currently accepting applications for

September 2012. We have been receiving inquiries from

various industries, and we are excited to add more

diversity to the program.

The Laurier EMTM has recently launched a Facebook page

to get in touch with a larger audience. Our Twitter and

LinkedIn group have become more active as well to reflect

the global trend of social media networking .

The EMTM website is currently going through another

transformation to better accommodate the needs of our

learners and prospects. Visit our website at laurieremtm.ca

and more importantly, don’t forget to “like” us on

Facebook and follow us on Twitter @LaurierEMTM

MABE CORNER

Master of Arts in Business Economics

List of graduate students - Spring 2012 Convocation

John Bland Evan Feigen

Anna Bogolidova Jing Fu

Brendan Brink Sarmad Jaffar

Saili Chisanga Wardah Naim

A list of MABE students’ MRP topics can be found on the

program website at http://wlu.ca/page.php?

grp_id=491&p=20524

The John R. Finlay Memorial Scholarship Award

This award is granted to the student who achieves the

highest overall GPA at the end of the second semester.

Ms. Zainab Khan who is currently on a four-month coop

placement at PepsiCo Beverages in Mississauga, will

receive this year’s award.

Students on Coop placement

Zainab Khan PepsiCo Beverages

Andriy Kourinnyi Ontario Teachers' Pension

Plan

James Pyett Ministry of Training, Colleges

& Universities

David Smerd Suncor Energy

Vinoth Vykunthanathan BMO Financial Group

Ariic Aguto Reng Ministry of Agriculture, Food

& Rural Affairs

Yang Gao Morgan Stanley

This newsletter is published twice per year

(Fall & Spring terms).

Phone: (519) 884-0710 x 2745

Email: sbephdmasters@wlu.ca

Web: www.wlu.ca/sbe/phd