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A Faculty That Works As A Team
At Queen's School of Business, you will learn from a team of exceptional professors. This team is consistently recognized for both excellent teaching skills and significant experience with senior-level managers in major organizations across Canada and around the world.
Integrated Academic Plan
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.
Respected Management Educators
Both BusinessWeek (USA) and Financial Times (UK) have recognized Queen's faculty as being among the top executive educators in the world. Queen's School of Business professors have earned recognition from the Canadian media – including Financial Post and Maclean's – for teaching excellence.
In Touch With The Business Community
Queen's Executive MBA professors have frequent contact with the business community. Most have extensive rosters of private- and public-sector clients located in Canada and around the world. The faculty includes some of Canada's leading experts in the fields of marketing, accounting, strategy, leadership, corporate turnarounds and alliances. They are also best-selling business authors and groundbreaking researchers, able to bring modern management practices into the classroom.
Faculty Members
Dr. Julian Barling - Leadership of People at Work
Julian Barling, Associate Dean, is responsible for the PhD, MSc,and research programs. An authority on transformational leadership, he received the National Leaders in Management Education award (National Post, 2001), and Maclean's has recognized him as one of Canada's most popular professors. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada (2002), and named a Queen's Research Chair. He was previously the Chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Workplace Violence, and editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. He is the author of over 160 articles and numerous books, the most recent of which are Handbook of Work Stress, Handbook of Workplace Violence, and the forthcoming Handbook of Organizational Behavior.
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. Bill 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 - Project Management
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. She has consulted with numerous leading organizations including Bank of Montreal, UPS, Delta Airlines, NCR Teradata, Canadian Football League, and the New Brunswick Government
Dr. Sean Cleary - Finance
Sean Cleary is a Professor of Finance and Director of the Master of Management in Finance program at Queen’s School of Business. He is an authority on capital markets, investments, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chair of Awards for the Toronto CFA Society. He is a widely published author of finance text books and journal articles, and he regularly serves as a reviewer for many of the top finance journals. Sean frequently appears in the media on issues relating to finance.
Dr. Tina Dacin - Strategy & Operations
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.
Mr. Michael Darling - Marketing, Strategy and International Business
Michael Darling has an extensive corporate and academic background focused on marketing, strategy and international business. His career includes marketing research at Gillette, brand management at Schering-Plough, worldwide marketing at Max Factor and senior executive positions at Kellogg’s in Canada, Europe and the U.S. Prior to joining Queen’s, he taught at NYU for eighteen years, receiving the Citibank Excellence in Teaching Award and appearing repeatedly in BusinessWeek’s outstanding faculty list. His consulting clients have included AT&T, Lever Best Foods, Microsoft, Seiko, Sony and Wachovia Bank.
Mr. Shai Dubey - Business Law
Shai Dubey is Director of Cornell – Queen's Executive MBA and a corporate commercial lawyer. Shai began his career as a commercial pilot and has been an aviation consultant. A graduate of Queen's Faculty of Law, Shai practiced law at several major Toronto Bay Street firms. He left private practice to become the Chief Operating Officer of Quicklaw Inc., a world leader in electronic legal research. He returned to private practice after Quicklaw was sold. He has been retained by many organizations to advise on corporate governance issues. Shai is also a lawyer with the legal branch (JAG) of the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve.
Dr. Clinton Free - Financial Management
Clinton Free is an expert on financial management, particularly in the areas of performance measurement, capital budgeting, strategic management control systems and supply chain management. 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 South Wales. He has consulted with firms including BMW Group Canada, Clarity Systems, Safeway, and Kingfisher.
Dr. Jay Handelman - Marketing
Jay Handelman is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility. He has conducted extensive research into the ways in which marketers integrate emotional, cultural, and social responsibility dimensions into their traditional marketing strategies, and the ways in which these strategies benefit the organization. He has also examined tactics used by consumer activists and boycotters as they target the marketing efforts of corporations. His work has been published in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Retailing, and the Journal of Business Research, among others.
Dr. Jeff McGill - Business Statistics
Jeff McGill is former Director of Queen’s 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.
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 - Management Information Systems
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 MBA for Science & Technology. In addition to his teaching and management roles at Queen's School of Business, he regularly advises senior managers in corporations and the public sector, and is frequently featured in the press on matters relating to information technology strategy and management. He is the recipient of the Queen's MBA 2004, Queen's MBA 2005, and Queen's Executive MBA 2005 Teaching Excellence Awards.
Dr. Elspeth Murray - Strategy & 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 BusinessWeek 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, GlaxoSmithKline, Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, Mosaid, Bank of Canada, and Acklands-Grainger. She is also a Director for Parteq, the commercialization organization for Queen's University, and an advisor to several start-ups and CEOs.
Dr. Shawna O'Grady - Strategic HR Management & International Business
Shawna O'Grady is an authority on team building, human resource management, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. The former 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, GlaxoSmithKline, Ministry of Finance, Canada Post Corporation and TD Canada Trust.
Dr. John Pliniussen - Innovation and Marketing
John Pliniussen is an authority on innovation, sales management and e-marketing. He has worked or consulted for several For tune 100 companies, some of Canada’s fastest growing SMEs, many federal and provincial ministries, and numerous agencies and NPOs. He has published numerous books and articles. He was Director of Strategy for cgkTechnologies Inc., a Program Director with Shad International, and until recently, Chairman of Bayway Community Investment Corporation.
Dr. Douglas Reid - Alliances & Strategic Management
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 has been quoted extensively in the media regarding corporate alliances and other strategic management issues. Dr. Reid holds a BSc and MBA from the University of Toronto, an MPA from Queen's University, and a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Peter Richardson - Strategic Management
Peter Richardson teaches strategy courses on the Executive MBA programs and on a number of the School's one- and three-week executive development programs. During his 20 years at Queen's, Peter has authored over 75 papers and case studies on strategic management. Together with Elspeth Murray, Peter has written Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, along with an accompanying practitioner guide. A previous book, Cost Containment: The Ultimate Strategic Advantage, remains one of the few books to be written on cost improvement. Peter consults widely with both public- and private-sector 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 and management. He is also a Professional Engineer with a successful consulting practice, applying his skills in business process re-engineering to projects ranging from the 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. Paul's research tends to be applied, stemming from consulting projects, and includes publications in The Engineering Economist, The Canadian Institute of Mining and Manufacturing Bulletin, and The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin. His paper “Garbage In, Hollywood Out!” received the best paper award at SimTect 2005 in Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Peter Sephton - Economics
Peter Sephton is an economist with expertise in monetary policy and applied economic modeling, with over 40 publications in academic journals. He has held visiting appointments at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His consulting experience includes cost-benefit studies as well as the estimation of economic damages in personal injury and fatal accident cases. Dr. Sephton earned a BA from McMaster University and an MA and a PhD from Queen's University. An award-winning teacher and researcher, he is co-author of several editions of popular textbooks. Dr. Sephton is a Professor of Managerial Economics and a former Director of Queen’s National Executive MBA.
Dr. Ken Wong - Marketing
Ken Wong is one of Canada's most respected marketing professors, featured throughout the Canadian press. 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. His extensive client list includes Microsoft, Equifax, Manulife, Hoffman-La Roche, Bell, TD Canada Trust, Tim Hortons, and federal/provincial governments. He is Chair of the Board, Everest Asset Management AG, and sits on a number of other advisory/directorship boards.
Consultants to Leading Organizations
A list of some of the companies with which Queen's faculty have worked in the past.
- 3M Canada Inc.
- Acklands-Grainger Inc.
- Air Canada
- Alcan International Limited
- Alcatel Networks
- AT&T Canada
- Bank of Montreal
- Baxter Corporation
- Bayer Inc.
- BC Hydro
- Bell Canada
- Bombardier Inc.
- Business Development Bank of Canada
- Cameco Corporation
- Canadian National
- Cara Foods
- CBC
- Celanese Canada Inc.
- CIBC
- Cirque du Soleil
- Dupont
- Empire Financial Group
- Falconbridge
- General Motors
- GlaxoKlineSmith
- Good Year Tire & Rubber Company
- Hummingbird
- IBM
- Imasco
- Industry Canada
- Interac Association
- International Monetary Fund
- Manulife Financial
- MDS Inc
- Microsoft
- Midas Canada Inc.
- Mitel Networks Corporation
- National Defence
- Ontario Power Generation
- Ontario Lottery Corporation
- Ontario Management
- Board Secretariat
- Ontario Ministry of Finance
- Oracle Corporation Canada
- Parks Canada
- Placer Dome Inc.
- Public Works and Government Services Canada
- Royal Sun & Alliance Insurance Company of Canada
- Royal Bank
- Sasktek
- Sobeys Inc.
- Sprint Canada
- Starbucks
- Suncor Energy LLC.
- Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- TD Canada Trust
- TELUS
- Torstar
- UPI
- Xerox