Department of Business
Contact information:
MBA Program
Dr Ruth Cruikshank, MBA Program Director
rcruikshank@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
Department Information on this page
Graduate Faculty
- Ben Amoako-Adu†, PhD (Toronto), Professor of Business
- Mark C. Baetz, PhD (Western), 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
- Greg Berberich, PhD (Waterloo), Assistant 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
- Ron Craig, PhD (Waterloo), Professor of Business
- Ruth A. Cruikshank, PhD (York), Associate Professor of Business
- J. Brad Davis, PhD (York), Associate Professor of Business
- Mitali De†, PhD (Waterloo), Professor of Business
- Gene Deszca†, PhD (York), Professor of Business
- Kenneth F. Harling, PhD (Purdue), Professor of Business
- C. Ruth Harris, PhD (Waterloo), Associate 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
- Paul O. Iyogun†, PhD (British Columbia), Professor of Business
- Shailendra Jha†, PhD (Iowa), 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
- Si Li†, PhD (York), Assistant Professor of Business
- Theresa Libby†, PhD (Waterloo), 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
- Stephen B. Preece†, PhD (Ohio State), Associate Professor of Business
- H. Franklin Ramsoomair, PhD (Toronto), 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
- William K. Salatka, PhD (Iowa), Associate Professor of Business
- Jack A. Schnabel†, PhD (New South Wales), Professor of Business
- F.H. Rolf Seringhaus, PhD (York), Professor of Business
- Chunming Shi, PhD (Washington State), 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
- Bixia Xu†, PhD (Concordia), Associate Professor of Business
- Tao Zeng†, PhD (Queen's), Associate Professor of Business
- Xuan Zhao†, PhD (British Columbia), Assistant Professor of Business
† = this person is eligible to supervise doctoral students.
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).
Approved Fields for the PhD Program
- accounting
- financial economics
- organizational behaviour and human resource management
- marketing
- operations and chain management
Course Offerings
| Course # | Title | Credits |
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| 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 |
Innovative Design |
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 [1] |
0.5 |
| BU707 |
Accounting in the US Environment |
0.5 |
| BU713 |
Fixed Income Analysis |
0.5 |
| BU714 |
Major Research Paper II [2] |
0.5 |
| BU715 |
Simulation and IT Topics |
0.5 |
| BU723 |
Advanced Investment Management |
0.5 |
| BU732 |
Strategic Brand Management |
0.5 |
| BU733 |
Corporate Governance |
0.5 |
| BU738 |
Creativity in Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Environments |
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 |
Senate/Editorial Changes
Senate approval for course deletion as of September 1, 2011 Senate approval for course deletion as of September 1, 2011
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Academic & Related Dates 2011/2012
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