New Faculty Join the School

2000-08-04 - The start of this school year is especially exciting as we welcome a number of outstanding new faculty to Queen's School of Business – all top-notch thinkers and teachers.

Ajay Agrawal BSc’93 (UBC), MEng’95 (UBC), MBA’95 (UBC), PhD’00 (UBC)
Currently a visiting scholar at MIT, Ajay Agrawal will be joining the School as an assistant professor, specializing in technology management, industrial organization and entrepreneurship. His research interests include the characteristics of incubators and their relationship with performance.

Nadia Bhuiyan BSc’95 (Concordia), MEng’96 (McGill), PhD (expected ‘00) (McGill)
Joining the School in January 2001 for a two-year term, Nadia Bhuiyan will be teaching production and operations management. Her thesis work analyzes the impact of concurrent engineering – where phases of the new product development process are overlapped.

Marc Busch BA’88 (Queen’s), MA’89, M.Phil’93, PhD’94 (Columbia)
Associate Professor Marc Busch was recruited through the prestigious Queen’s National Scholars program from Harvard University, where he was an associate professor of Government and Social Studies. Author of the book, Trade Warriors, Busch’s research and teaching focus on the political economy of trade in the advanced industrial states.

David Detomasi BA’92 (Queen’s), MA’94, PhD ’99 (Queen’s)
Having previously taught at Queen’s, the Royal Military College and the National Defence College, Term Assistant Professor David Detomasi is the author of several journal articles, and is currently writing a book on government-business relations in Canada. His major research interests include international political economy and international business, public sector management, government-business relations, and international security.

Daniel Gallagher BA’72 (University of Massachusetts-Boston), MA’74 (University of Illinois), PhD’77 (University of Illinois)
Professor Daniel Gallagher has published in virtually every major journal in the field of human resource management and industrial relations. He joins the School from James Madison University in Virginia, where he was the CSX Corporation Professor of Management and Human Resources. His current research interests lie in nontraditional work schedule issues (i.e. contingent worker and part-time work attitudes).

Wulin Suo BSc’82 (Hebei University, China), MSc’85 (Hebei), PhD’94 (UBC-Applied Mathematics), PhD (expected ’00, University of Toronto)
Assistant Professor Wulin Suo has taught corporate finance and managerial finance to Commerce students at the University of Toronto, calculus at UBC and various undergraduate courses at Hebei University in China. His research interests include consumption and portfolio theory, asset pricing, valuation and hedging of derivative securities, term structure modeling, credit risk and risk management.

Mihkel Tombak BASc’81, MBA’84, PhD’88 (Pennsylvania)
Professor Mihkel Tombak has served on the faculty at INSEAD in France, UBC (also as director of UBC’s Technology Management program) and the Helsinki School of Economics. Tombak has developed programs in technology management for several institutions and been a consultant to a number of private and government organizations. He is currently on the executive committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

John-Kurt Pliniussen HBA’76, MA’80, PhD’85 (Bath), MPA’92 (Queen’s)
Joining the School as a visiting professor, John Pliniussen is an expert in Internet- and intranet-based teaching applications, with more than 20 years of undergraduate and graduate teaching experience and 15 years conducting management training. In addition, for the past 10 years he has been co-director of an elite one-month science, technology and entrepreneurship program based at the University of Calgary for Canada’s 55 most gifted high school graduates.

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