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Award-winning Faculty Team
A Faculty That Works as a Team
At Queen's School of Business, you'll be learning from a team of professors who work together to integrate knowledge across functional disciplines.
An Integrated Academic Plan
Queen's School of Business faculty members work together as teachers, researchers, and consultants, and their joint efforts have resulted in a tightly integrated academic plan. Our faculty teach in North America's most popular executive programs, consult for the world's leading organizations, and have earned the respect of the business media and business leaders.
Outstanding Educators
The Queen's faculty have outstanding academic credentials; they are best-selling authors, award-winning teachers and editors of leading academic journals.
Canadian Business, BusinessWeek (USA) and Financial Times (UK) have recognized Queen's faculty members as among the top management educators in the world. Several Queen's School of Business professors have earned recognition for teaching excellence from leading international academic and business organizations, as well as from the Canadian media including the Financial Post and Maclean's.
In Touch With the Business Community
Queen's MBA professors have frequent contact with the business community. Many have extensive rosters of private- and public-sector clients in Canada and around the world. The faculty includes: experts in the fields of corporate turnarounds, tax planning, leadership, and alliances; best-selling business authors; and groundbreaking researchers. Years of working with senior-level executives have given our faculty the ability to bring modern management practices into the classroom.
Committed to Your Success
Queen's School of Business professors are committed to your success, both academically and professionally. The excellent student-to-professor ratio means you will have unparalleled access to your professors both in and outside of class, and you will find them very responsive to your needs. And through Queen's By Your Side;, you can continue to consult with your professors long after graduation.
Faculty Members
Dr. Bill Blake - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Bill Blake is Associate Dean, MBA programs, at Queen’s School of Business. His research and teaching interests are leadership and the relationship between cultural adaptability and international effectiveness and he is actively involved in executive development. He has served on the board of directors of Fishery Products International, Homestead Land Holdings and the Network of International Business Schools. From 1992 to 2002 he was Dean of Business at Memorial University of Newfoundland and from 2000 to 2002 served as Chair of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans.
Dr. Kathryn Brohman - MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Kathryn Brohman joined Queen’s from Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia where she taught Project Management and Information Resource Management. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM and MIS Q Executive and presented at leading conferences in her field. She has been very active in her professional career and has participated as a reviewer for several leading journals.
Dr. William Cannon - FINANCE
Bill Cannon is an award-winning teacher and an authority on banking and financial markets, corporate finance, and regulatory economics. His research has focused on the design of financial instruments, the management of financial intermediaries, and the regulation of natural gas pipelines and gas and electricity distributors. He has provided consulting services to Royal Trust, Empire Life, TDWaterhouse, Bank of Montreal, the Ontario Government, and the Ontario Energy Board.
Dr. Scott Carson - BUSINESS STRATEGY
Scott Carson is the Director of Queen’s MBA, and is past Dean of the School of Business at Wilfrid Laurier University. In business, he was Vice-President and Head of Corporate Finance for CIBC in Toronto and also worked as an executive at Chemical Bank of Canada (J.P. Morgan Chase) and the Mercantile Bank (National Bank). While on leave from Wilfrid Laurier, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Government’s Privatization Secretariat. He has also been a member of numerous boards of directors in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors.
Dr. Peter Dacin - MARKETING
Peter Dacin is an authority on branding, consumer behaviour and advanced marketing research techniques. The primary focus of his research is consumer judgement formation, and his work appears in the leading marketing journals. Prior to joining Queen’s, he was on the faculties of Texas A&M University and the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he received several awards and recognitions for his research and teaching.
Dr. Tina Dacin - LEADERSHIP AND HUMAN RESOURCES
Tina Dacin, a Queen’s School of Business Distinguished Faculty Fellow, specializes in the areas of management of strategic alliances and business networks, specifically on the topics of partner selection and partner collaboration. Prior to joining Queen’s, she spent nine years at Texas A&M University, where she was recognized for both research and teaching excellence. She has consulted with companies in many industries, and has published in and serves on the editorial boards of leading journals.
Dr. David Detomasi - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
David Detomasi has taught international business and country analysis at Queen’s University and a variety of courses at the Royal Military College of Canada, focusing on international relations and strategic planning.He is also active in casewriting, having produced cases currently in use at Queen’s University and the Royal Military College. In the private sector, he has consulted with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and The World Economic Forum in examining the strategic and governance practices of the world’smost influential companies.
Dr. Clinton Free - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Clinton Free is an expert on financialmanagement, particularly in the areas of performance measurement, capital budgeting, strategic management control systems and supply chainmanagement. He is a Rhodes Scholar and prior to joining Queen’s he spent several years teaching undergraduate and executive courses at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and the University of New SouthWales. He has consulted with firms including BMWGroup Canada, Clarity Systems, Safeway, and Kingfisher.
Dr. Louis Gagnon - FINANCIAL STRATEGY
Louis Gagnon is an expert onmarket and credit riskmanagement. In addition to his extensive teaching experience at Queen’s, he worked as a senior manager at Royal Bank Financial Group,where he oversaw the bank’s global interest rate risk exposures and developed derivative risk managementmet hodologies and policies. He is a strategic consultant to leading organizations in the financial andnon-financial sectors, andiswidelypublishedin leading academic and applied finance journals, including Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Futures Markets, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, and Canadian Investment Review.
Ms. Shannon Goodspeed - SALES AND MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Shannon Goodspeed is Director of the Queen’s Bachelor of Commerce programand past-Director of the Queen’s MBA program. She holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Queen’s. An award winning teacher, she has taught Sales and Marketing courses at Mount Royal College, University of Calgary, Royal Military College and Queen’s. Prior to her teaching career, she enjoyed a successful career in Sales and Marketing with Sperry Univac and Hewlett Packard, both in Canada and Europe.
Mr. Rick Jackson - NEGOTIATIONS AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Rick Jackson is an outstanding educator and one of Canada’s leading experts on dispute resolution. He is in high demand as a consultant and third-party neutral. He has served as an arbitrator under the Ontario Labour Relations Act and Canada Labour Code, and as an arbitrator and mediator in business disputes. He is a frequent guest speaker on labour relations, arbitration issues, and dispute resolution.
Dr. Lewis Johnson - FINANCE
Lewis Johnson has served as Acting Dean of Queen’s School of Business, Academic Director of the International Study Centre, and Chairman of the Queen’s MBA program. He currently teaches investment courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and his research focuses on the valuation of technology stocks and mutual fund performance. A prolific writer, his work is published in numerous academic journals and he is the author of several books on the stock market.
Dr. Yuri Levin - MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Yuri Levin is an authority on business modeling, mathematical programming, and location analysis. He is frequently published in top OR and Applied Mathematics journals and he is currently writing a research monograph, Directional Newton Methods: Theory and Applications, co-authored with Adi Ben-Israel from Rutgers School of Business. The major results of his research have been presented at several international conferences including INFORMS and ISMP meetings.
Dr. Jeff McGill - BUSINESS STATISTICS
Jeff McGill is former Director of Queen’s Full-time MBA. He specializes in the areas of management science and operations management. Prior to completing his PhD, he worked for eight years in industry, first in new product development with Domtar Limited Research Centre (Montréal), and later in operations research at CN. He maintains an active research program with a focus on yield management and statistical methods.
Dr. John McHale - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
John McHale joined the School from the economics department at Harvard University. His published research has focused on the economics of post-communist transition, reformof health care and pensions systems, the Irish economy,open economy macroeconomics, and most recently, the economics of international talent markets.He is writing a sequence of research papers that examine the economic impacts of the “brain drain” on developing countries, and the policy instruments that developing countries can use to tap the potential of skilled emigrants. John has been a consultant to the World Bank on various post-communist projects, and to the National Bureau of Economic Research on its currency crisis program.
Mr. John Moore - FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
John Moore is an experienced executive educator who is highly regarded in the accounting profession. He is the author of five accounting textbooks. He has conducted executive development seminars on financial tools for senior managers at Alcan, DuPont, Canon, Mitel, Shoppers Drug Mart, New Brunswick Power Corporation, Mountain Equipment Co-op, and Canada Post. He also works with members of senior management teams to integrate financial accounting concepts into strategic planning. A four-time winner of the MBA Teaching Excellence Award from Queen’s University, he is also the recipient of the Silver Medal from CMA Canada and was made a Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada in 2004.
Mr. Salman Mufti - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salman Mufti has extensive teaching experience in both degree and non-degree executive education at Queen’s School of Business, and with other national and international institutes. He is a former Director of Queen’s National Executive MBA and of Queen’s Full-time MBA. He regularly advises senior managers in corporations and the federal government, and is frequently featured in the press on matters relating to information technology strategy and management. He is the 2005 winner of both the Queen’s MBA and Queen’s Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Awards.
Dr. Elspeth Murray - MANAGING NEW VENTURES
Elspeth Murray leads the new venture related activities at the business school. The latest of these activities has been the launch of Tricolour Venture Fund, a student-led early stage investment fund. She teaches on many programs at Queen’s, and the course she developed on new venture management has been recognized by Business Week as one of the world’s top ten Executive MBA courses. In 2002,she co-authored Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, with Dr.Peter Richardson. She is an active consultant to organizations such as the Auditor General of Canada, BMW Canada, Glaxo Smith Kline, Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, Mosaid, Bank of Canada, and Acklands-Grainger.She is also a Director for Parteq, the commercialization organization for Queen’s University.
Dr. Shawna O’Grady - HUMAN RESOURCES AND TEAM BUILDING
Shawna O’Grady is an authority on team building, human resource management, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. A past Director of Team Facilitation for Queen’s MBA programs, she is an experienced team facilitator who is in high demand for her original approach to team building. She is also the author of Border Crossings – Doing Business in the U.S., an award-winning book on international business. Her clients include Microsoft, MDS, Mattel, Shoppers Drug Mart, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Industry Canada, BMW, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Xerox, Bell Canada, Glaxo Smith Kline, Ministry of Finance, Canada Post Corporation, and TD Canada Trust.
Dr. Kelley Packalen - STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION
Kelley Packalen is an authority on strategy and organizations with a particular interest in high-technology firms. Prior to coming to Queen’s she was at Stanford University. Her work is frequently presented at conferences. She is widely published, having authored several important cases for Harvard Business School, and her cases have been among those translated into other languages and included in the HBS Press Premier Case Series.
Dr. Bo Pazderka - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
Bo Pazderka is an economist with expertise in the economics of research and development, the multinational pharmaceutical industry, health economics, and the transition of the former centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe to free-market systems. He has worked at universities around the world, including France, Australia, the U.K., and Slovakia. He served on the Board of Directors of Hôtel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, and was for many years a member of its Ethics Committee. He is co-author of several books, including It’s No Gamble: The Economic and Social Benefits of Stock Markets; Approaches to an International Comparison of R&D Expenditures; and Microeconomics: The Canadian Context.
Dr. Lynnette Purda - FINANCE
Lynnette Purda completed her PhD in finance at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Prior to beginning her PhD studies, she worked in investment banking as part of the oil and gas team at Nesbitt Burns. While at Nesbitt, she assisted with mergers and acquisitions, seasoned equity offerings and royalty trust issues. She has been at Queen’s since 2002 and also teaches in the Commerce and MBA for Business Graduates programs. Her current research interests draw on her past experience in investment banking and focus on factors influencing corporate debt policy. She has presented this research at the Bank of Canada and to numerous academic conferences across Canada and the U.S.
Dr. Jana Raver - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Jana Raver is an authority on interpersonal relations and group processes at work. One area of her work examines how employees support each other (e.g., citizenship behaviours) versus engage in actions that undermine each other (e.g., aggression, harassment, relationship conflicts). A second area focuses on the integration of diverse or dissimilar employees into work groups and organizations. Her work has been widely published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, and Organizational Dynamics.
Dr. Douglas Reid - BUSINESS STRATEGY
Douglas Reid is an authority on corporate alliances and partnerships. His research focuses on how companies stabilize their alliances by providing network resources to partners. Formerly, he was vice president of an international consulting firm, handling corporate issues management in their Toronto and Ottawa offices. He has also worked for a former premier of Ontario and as chief of staff to a cabinet minister. He has written several op-ed columns for The Globe and Mail and the National Post, and been quoted extensively in the media on corporate alliances and other strategic management issues. Dr. Reid holds an MBA (University of Toronto), an MPA (Queen’s University), and a PhD (University of Western Ontario).
Dr. Peter Richardson - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Peter Richardson teaches strategy courses in the Executive MBA programs and in a number of the School’s executive development programs. During his years at Queen’s, Peter has authored over 75 papers and case studies on strategic management. With Elspeth Murray, he has written Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days. A previous book, Cost Containment: The Ultimate Strategic Advantage, remains one of the few books to be written on cost improvement. He consults widely for many organizations including BHP Billiton, Alcoa, CIBC Mellon, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Auditor General of Canada, and Natural Resources Canada, working closely with senior executives on strategy development and deployment.
Dr. Paul Roman - OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Paul Roman is an expert in operations strategy andmanagement. He is also a Professional Engineer with a successful consulting practice, applying his skills in business process re-engineering to projects ranging fromthe development of a combat development process for the Canadian Army to enhancing the relationship between operations and maintenance at Syncrude Canada Ltd. He is currently assisting the Canadian Forces in developing policies and processes that will maximize the effectiveness of modeling and simulation tools in support of acquisition, training and operations. His paper “Garbage In, Hollywood Out!” received the best paper award at SimTect 2005 in Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Selim Topaloglu - INSTITUTIONAL TRADING
Selim Topaloglu’s research focuses on the trading behaviour of individuals and institutions, analyst behaviour, insider trading and initial public offerings. Current research topics include: the effects of regulation fair disclosure on institutional and insider trading, the secondary market activity for NASDAQ IPOs, and investor behaviour over the rise and fall of the NASDAQ stock market. Selim’s research is published in the Journal of Finance.
Mr. Ken Wong - MARKETING STRATEGY
Ken Wong is one of Canada’s most respected marketing professors. He has worked with the Strategic Planning Institute at Harvard University and the Conference Board of Canada, writes a monthly column for Marketing, frequently contributes to the National Post and is co-author of a top-selling marketing textbook. He is a 2006 inductee into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends and the 1998 Financial Post Leaders in Management Education award winner. He regularly judges both the “Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Canada’s 50 Best Managed” competitions. He is Chair of the Board, Everest Asset Management AG, and sits on a number of other advisory/directorship boards.
Mr. Rob Woyzbun - MARKETING STRATEGY
Rob Woyzbun, Director of Queen’s Business Consulting (QBC), is known for his wealth of experience as a marketing strategist and business planner in the high technology and public sectors.His initial career was spent in brand management with multi-national packaged goods giants,Warner Lambert, and the H.J. Heinz Co. He then moved to the advertising side and was the Vice President/Director of Client Services and Strategic Planning for international and national full service agencies. Mr. Woyzbun is founding partner of The | Marketing | Works. TMW current clients include: Cognos Inc., Export Development Canada, Zip.ca, ACNielsen Company of Canada and the Lone Star Group of Restaurants.