Male-dominated startups have more difficulty hiring female talent, and their company鈥檚 gender dynamics play a role. An article in Forbes.com cites research from Desautels Prof. Elena Obukhova, which has shown that female job-seekers give consideration to how women are treated in their prospective workplaces. Women MBA job-seekers do the same networking that their male counterparts do, but also use the networking process to assess a company鈥檚 gender dynamics and support for parenting.
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Published on: 3 Feb 2023
Beneath the spectre of a looming recession, Microsoft announced that it would lay off 12,000 people in January 2023. Just a few days later, Amazon announced it would lay off more than 18,000. These measures could help the tech giants reduce costs and weather the downturn, but they also carry risk. "A layoff can be an information signal," said Elena Obukhova in an interview with Business Insider.
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Published on: 25 Jan 2023
When things went downhill for Southwest Airlines, they went downhill fast. During the 2022 winter holiday travel period, the Dallas-headquartered airline cancelled 6,500 flights in just three days. Winter weather played a role, but the low-cost carrier was disrupted far more than other airlines. Reports from within Southwest suggest that an outdated employee scheduling system contributed, says Prof. Karl Moore. 鈥淚t may well be that Southwest relies on a system that very much needs to be brought up to date.
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Published on: 12 Jan 2023
Even if executives solicit employee feedback, they don鈥檛 necessarily have the skills to enter into a dialogue about it. Being able to think on your feet is an important skill in a leader, and Prof. Saku Mantere says that music is one way to develop it. 鈥淛azz teaches us communication in the moment,鈥� says Mantere, who recently released his debut album, called Upon First Impression. 鈥淎nd the creativity is, to an extent, always collective because you鈥檙e creating on the spot between people.鈥�
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Published on: 12 Jan 2023
How would definitions of business growth and success change if entrepreneurship ventures decided that instead of scaling up, they would 鈥渟cale deep鈥�? While scaling up allows an organization to pursue fast expansion with goals of going national or global, scaling deep lets an organization pursue enduring growth and sustainability anchored to its original location.
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Published on: 24 Nov 2022
RBC has positioned itself as a champion of clean economic growth 鈥� but has continued to finance fossil fuel industry, according to a complaint filed with Canada鈥檚 Competition Bureau. The Bureau has opened an inquiry into greenwashing at Canada鈥檚 largest bank, but that鈥檚 only the first step according to Dror Etzion, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at Desautels.
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Published on: 31 Oct 2022
MBAs have their advocates 鈥� and their detractors. Over the years, the MBA has suffered from comparisons with professional degrees that have more defined outcomes, like medicine and law. But management is part art and part science, and an overemphasis on the science side is partly to blame for this perception. As evidence of this, MBA News cites the work of Desautels Prof. Henry Mintzberg, who argued that successful business leaders need to exercise both analysis and intuition.
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
Congratulations to Anna Kim,听Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization, and Sustainability, who was awarded a听2022 SSHRC Insight Grant
鈥淩esilience and Impact of Social Enterprises鈥�
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Published on: 13 Oct 2022
What does the word 鈥渆ntrepreneurship鈥� immediately bring to mind? Risk and reward, innovation and hard work, funding and financial growth, filling gaps in the market? In truth, that answer looks different around the world, in both formal and informal economies, depending on how the local, state, and national economies function and on how the culture views business ownership.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2022
How has management thinking changed in the past 50 years and where might management be headed today? In his research and writing, Desautels Faculty of Management Professor Henry Mintzberg covers not only the past 50 years but looks toward the future of managing organizations, developing managers, and rebalancing society, from business to politics to higher education.
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Published on: 31 Aug 2022
Congratulations to Samer Faraj,听Professor in Strategy and Organization, who has been听named CTO 2022 Distinguished Scholar by the Communication, Digital Technology and Organization - CTO听(A Division of the Academy of Management - AOM).
Professor Samer Faraj was named the 2022 Distinguished Scholar for the Communications Digital Technology and Organization (CTO) Division at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting which took place August 5th to 9th in Seattle, Washington.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2022
Congratulations to听Paolo V. Leone, Saku Mantere and Samer Faraj, whose paper听鈥淥pen Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies鈥� has been named Best Article Finalist听by the听Academy of Management (AOM).
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Published on: 29 Aug 2022
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Published on: 11 Aug 2022
Congratulations to Anna Kim,听Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization, whose paper听"No time like the present: How a present time perspective can foster sustainable development鈥� is the winner of the听2022 鈥淩esponsible Research in Management鈥� Award, sponsored by the Academy of Management (AOM) Fellows and co-sponsored by Responsible Research in Business and Management.听
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Published on: 12 Jul 2022
Congratulations to听Daphne Demetry,听Assistant Professor of Strategy & Organization, whose paper "The New Food Truck In Town: Geographic Communities and Authenticity-Based Entrepreneurship" won the听2022 Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award by the Industry Studies Association (ISA).
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Published on: 11 Jul 2022
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