Wilfrid Laurier University Graduate Calendar - 2012/2013
Canadian Excellence
School of Business and Economics  Department of Business 

Department of Business

Contact information:

MBA Program
Dr Hugh Munro, MBA Program Director
hmunro@wlu.ca
519-884-0710, ext 2556

MSc and PhD in Management / MFin
Dr Hamid Noori, Program Director
hnoori@wlu.ca
519-884-0710, ext. 2571

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Faculty/Staff

Graduate Faculty
  • Ben Amoako-Adu†, PhD (Toronto), Professor of Business
  • John C. Banks, PhD (York), Associate Professor of Business
  • William J. Banks, PhD (McMaster), Associate Professor of Business
  • Harvir Bansal†, PhD (Queen's), Associate Professor of Business
  • Laurie Barclay†, PhD (British Columbia), Assistant Professor of Business
  • David L. Blenkhorn, PhD (Bradford), Professor of Business
  • Phelim Boyle, PhD (Trinity College), Professor of Business
  • Peter Carayannopoulos†, PhD (York), Associate Professor of Business
  • Sofy Carayannopoulos†, PhD (York), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Ignacio Castillo†, PhD (Texas A & M University), Associate Professor of Business
  • Ling Chu, MTax (Waterloo), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Barry Colbert, PhD, Assistant Professor of Business
  • Nicole Coviello, PhD (Auckland), Professor of Business
  • Ruth A. Cruikshank, PhD (York), Associate Professor of Business
  • Mitali De†, PhD (Waterloo), Professor of Business
  • Gene Deszca†, PhD (York), Professor of Business
  • Prescott Ensign, PhD (Montreal), Associate Professor of Business
  • Tripat Gill, PhD (McGill), Associate Professor of Business; Canada Research Chair
  • Lan Guo, PhD (Washington), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Michael Haughton†, PhD (Pennsylvania State), Associate Professor of Business
  • Kevin Hendricks†, PhD (Cornell), Professor of Business
  • Gregory Irving, PhD (Western), Professor of Business
  • Sapna Isotupa†, PhD (Indian University of Technology), Associate Professor of Business
  • Madhu Kalimipalli†, PhD (Houston), Associate Professor of Business
  • Lisa Keeping†, PhD (Akron), Associate Professor of Business
  • Mary Kelly†, PhD (British Columbia), Associate Professor of Business
  • Hae Joo Kim, PhD (Toronto), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Si Li†, PhD (York), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Laura MacDonald†, PhD (Queen's), Associate Professor of Business
  • Robert Mathieu†, PhD (Waterloo), Associate Professor of Business
  • Chima Mbagwu, PhD (Saskatchewan), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Bruce McConomy†, PhD (Queen's), Professor of Business
  • John C. McCutcheon, MBA (Washington State); FCMA, Associate Professor of Business
  • William McNally†, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Business
  • Kalyani Menon†, PhD (McGill), Associate Professor of Business
  • Kim Morouney, PhD (Alberta), Associate Professor of Business
  • Hugh J. Munro, PhD (Western), Professor of Business
  • Subhankar Nayak†, PhD (Yale), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Detlev Nitsch†, PhD (Western), Associate Professor of Business
  • Flora Niu, PhD (Waterloo), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Hamid Noori†, PhD (Western), Professor of Business; WLU Research Professor - 1993
  • Marcos Fabricio Perez, PhD (Arizona State), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Stephen B. Preece†, PhD (Ohio State), Associate Professor of Business
  • Chatura Ranaweera†, PhD (Cambridge), Associate Professor of Business
  • Peruvemba Ravi†, PhD (Washington), Associate Professor of Business
  • Chet Robie†, PhD (Bowling Green), Associate Professor of Business
  • Jack A. Schnabel†, PhD (New South Wales), Professor of Business
  • Chunming Shi, PhD (Washington State), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Andriy Shkilko, PhD (Mississippi), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Brian F. Smith†, PhD (Western), Professor of Business
  • Simon Taggar†, PhD (McMaster), Professor of Business
  • Ning Tang†, PhD (Hawaii), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Fang Wang, PhD (McMaster), Associate Professor of Business
  • Sarah Wilner, PhD (York), Assistant Professor of Business
  • Bixia Xu†, PhD (Concordia), Associate Professor of Business
† = this person is eligible to supervise doctoral students.

 
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Program Information

 
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Note on Courses Contained in Graduate Calendar

As far as possible, each program attempts to provide a full range of core courses and electives. However, every course listed in this Calendar is not available in every session or every year.

Students are encouraged to consult the program/department to inquire about course offerings each year.

Courses with the discipline code TM are open only to students registered in the MSc in management (technology management) field (EMTM).

 
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Approved Fields for the PhD Program

  • accounting
  • financial economics
  • organizational behaviour and human resource management
  • marketing
  • operations and chain management

 
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Course Offerings
Course #TitleCredits
BU600 Management Accounting and Strategic Leadership 0.5
BU601 Strategic Management 0.5
BU602 Marketing 0.5
BU603 Financial Management 0.5
BU604 Organizational Behaviour 0.5
BU605 Operations Management 0.5
BU606 Economics 0.5
BU607 Accounting 0.5
BU609 Business Analytics 0.5
BU610 Applied Business Research 1.0
BU611 Entrepreneurship 0.5
BU612 International Marketing and Entrepreneurship 0.5
BU613 Entrepreneurial Finance 0.5
BU615 Environmental Management 0.5
BU617 Financial Accounting I 0.5
BU620 Management Controls 0.5
BU621 Managing Competitive Intelligence 0.5
BU622 Services Marketing Management 0.5
BU623 Derivatives and Financial Risk Management 0.5
BU625 Management of Information Systems 0.5
BU627 Financial Accounting II 0.5
BU628 Leadership 0.5
BU632 Marketing and Technology 0.5
BU633 Management of Financial Institutions 0.5
BU635 Global Operations and Logistics 0.5
BU637 Financial Information Systems 0.5
BU640 Integrative Strategic Thinking and Action 0.5
BU641 Mergers and Acquisitions Strategy 0.5
BU642 Marketing Strategy 0.5
BU643 International Financial Management 0.5
BU645 Supply Chain Management 0.5
BU647 Managerial Tax Planning 0.5
BU648 Communication in a Managerial Context 0.5
BU650 Ethics and the Conduct of Business 0.5
BU651 The Canadian Legal Environment for Managers 0.5
BU652 Consumer Behaviour 0.5
BU653 Short-Term Financial Management 0.5
BU655 Managing Innovation and Technology Transfer 0.5
BU657 Financial Statements 0.5
BU658 Organizational Dynamics and Change 0.5
BU661 International Strategy 0.5
BU662 Marketing Research 0.5
BU663 Advanced Corporate Finance 0.5
BU665 Statistical Analysis 0.5
BU667 Accounting Theory and Advanced Financial Reporting 0.5
BU668 Organizational Design and Structure 0.5
BU669 International Business 0.5
BU670 Business Research Methodology 0.5
BU671 General Managers in Action 0.5
BU672 Integrated Marketing Communications 0.5
BU673 Investment Management 0.5
BU678 Human Resources Management 0.5
BU680 Research Project 1.5
BU681 Strategic Management of the Socio-Political Environment 0.5
BU682 Business-to-Business Marketing 0.5
BU683 Investment Ethics and Professional Standards 0.5
BU687 Advanced Management Accounting 0.5
BU690 Directed Studies 0.5
BU691 Seminar in Policy 0.5
BU692 Seminar in Marketing 0.5
BU693 Seminar in Finance 0.5
BU694 Seminar in Economics 0.5
BU695 Seminar in Operations and Decision Science 0.5
BU696 Seminar in International Business Management 0.5
BU697 Seminar in Accounting 0.5
BU698 Seminar in Organizational Behaviour 0.5
BU699 Design Thinking 0.5
BU700 Univariate and Multivariate Statistics 0.5
BU701 Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable World 0.5
BU703 Seminar in Corporate Finance 0.5
BU704 Major Research Paper I 0.5
BU707 Accounting in the US Environment 0.5
BU711 Creativity in Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Environments 0.5
BU713 Fixed Income Analysis 0.5
BU714 Major Research Paper II 0.5
BU715 Simulation and IT Topics 0.5
BU723 Advanced Investment Management 0.5
BU731 Corporate Governance and Integrated Risk Management 0.5
BU732 Strategic Brand Management 0.5
BU743 Market Microstructure, Trading and Investment Strategies 0.5
BU753 Empirical Studies in Fixed Income 0.5
BU763 Econometrics for Finance 0.5
BU800 Fundamentals of Behavioural Research 0.5
BU801 Management Foundations 0.5
BU802 Research Methodology 0.5
BU803 Theory of Asset Pricing 0.5
BU804 Organizational Behaviour 0.5
BU805 Deterministic Quantitative Analysis 0.5
BU807 Accounting for Securities 0.5
BU808 Organizational Theory 0.5
BU812 Marketing Philosophy and Theory 0.5
BU813 Empirical Studies in Derivatives 0.5
BU814 Human Resource Management 0.5
BU815 Stochastic Quantitative Analysis 0.5
BU817 Survey of Accounting Research 0.5
BU818 Qualitative Research Process 0.5
BU822 Marketing Strategy 0.5
BU823 Seminar in Financial Economics 0.5
BU824 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management I 0.5
BU825 Foundations of Supply Chain Management 0.5
BU827 Seminar in Financial Accounting 0.5
BU828 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management II 0.5
BU829 Systems Modeling and Analysis 0.5
BU832 Seminar in Marketing and Supply Chain Interface 0.5
BU833 Empirical Asset Pricing 0.5
BU834 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management III 0.5
BU837 Seminar in Management Accounting 0.5
BU838 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management IV 0.5
BU839 Advanced Modeling and Analysis 0.5
BU842 Consumer Behavior 0.5
BU843 Seminar in Advanced Financial Econometrics 0.5
BU845 Seminar in Facilities and Transportation 0.5
BU847 Seminar in Archival Research in Accounting 0.5
BU849 Advanced Empirical Research Methods 0.5
BU852 Service and Relationship Marketing 0.5
BU855 Seminar in Inventory and Procurement 0.5
BU857 Seminar in Behavioral Rsearch in Accounting 0.5
BU859 Foundations of Operations Management 0.5
BU862 Brand and Brand Communication 0.5
BU865 Seminar in Technology Innovation and New Product Development 0.5
BU872 Special Topics in Marketing 0.5
BU875 Advanced Topics in Supply Chain Management 0.5
BU885 Advanced Topics in Operations Management 0.5
BU890 Directed Studies 0.5
BU891 Comprehensive Examination 0.0
BU899 Doctoral Dissertation 0.0
MS603 Research Paper 0.0
MS604 Major Research Paper 0.0
MS605 Major Research Paper 0.0
TM701 Strategic Management and Technology 0.5
TM702 Commercialization and Marketing Technological Innovations 0.5
TM703 Finance for Technology Firms 0.5
TM704 Designing and Leading the Innovative Organization 0.5
TM705 Technology, Design and Innovation 0.5
TM706 Economics, Technology and Intellectual Capital 0.5
TM707 Measurements, Analysis and Control 0.5
TM715 Technology Assessment and Roadmapping 0.5
TM725 Advanced Topics in Technology and Innovation 0.5
TM789 Major Research Paper (MRP) 0.0
 
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