Economics

Vincent Chandler – July 2014 (Left 2017)

Joniada Milla – July 2017

Marie-Claire Robitaille – July 2018

Finance, Information Systems and Management Science

Nader Azad – July 2016 (Left 2018) - MGSC

Hamdi Driss – July 2014

Rahman Khokar – July 2014

Florian Meunkel – July 2014

Bahareh Mansouri – July 2017 - MGSC

Marketing

Ethan Pancer – September 2013

Dr. Wendy Carroll

Dr. Wendy R. Carroll is an Assistant Professor in the Management Department at Saint Mary’s University, and the Program Director for the Sobey EMBA. Wendy’s research program focuses on human resource management, workforce strategies, employee and industrial relations, labour force dynamics, and evidence-based management. She has a number of peer-reviewed publications in HRM and employee relations journals, several book chapters, and numerous papers presented at leading management conferences. She has also been the Faculty Director of the Workforce Strategies Research Group.

Dr. Feng Liu

Dr. Feng Liu ’s research interests focus on board team and top management team strategizing activities and emotion in organisations. She uses qualitative research methods such as video ethnography and interview to examine how strategies are formed, changed, and implemented in organizations. She is a knowledge philanthropist specialising in leadership development for non-profit boards.

Dr. Ethan Pancer

An Assistant Professor of Marketing, Dr. Pancer started his career as a marketing analyst with IBM, Magna Automotive, and Rogers Communications. He completed his Ph.D. in Management, concentrating in marketing, at Queen’s School of Business. His research interests include consumer judgment formation and decision making, social and interpersonal influences on consumption, consumer identity, branding, and consumer well-being. His research has appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, as well as national and international conferences. He has also been recognized with national (SSHRC) and provincial (OGS) fellowships for his work.

The Sobey MBA is now cohort-based, to facilitate stronger relationships and support peer retention efforts. It is characterized by immersive experiences, both locally via a service learning component, and internationally in the form of a mandatory intercultural travel experience. The idea of these immersive experiences will soon include an entrepreneurial mindset component and is also reflected in a new set of supports for students engaging in case competitions. The program structural elements were redeployed to give appropriate weight to ethics and responsible leadership, a reflection of the school’s overall commitment to the UN initiative, PRME. There is a robust career services component to ensure students are prepared to manage their careers to meet their personal goals.

In late autumn, 2017, the Sobey School announced it would re-examine how it does executive education.

“The Sobey School aims to make an impact with purpose and to mobilize our research and knowledge into the business community,” said Sobey School Dean Patricia Bradshaw, who acknowledges the key role that senior business leaders play in this knowledge transference.

This year, the executive and professional development department of Saint Mary’s was moved under the Sobey School umbrella, providing the school an opportunity to align its offerings and ensure market needs are being met. “It’s a time when we can line the offerings up with what we know about the current state of the executive development market and think about where the gaps are,” says Dr. Bradshaw.

Therefore, coming out of a year of being recognized by Ivy Exec as the 5th ranked EMBA program in Canada, the AACSB-Accredited Sobey EMBA is getting a renovation.

“We recognize we are in a time of market upheaval,” notes EMBA Director Dr. Wendy Carroll. “At the same time, we know there are key things we are doing remarkably well. It’s an opportune time to deploy our resources to transform the program, and ensure we are addressing relevant needs of the business community with rigour and excellence.”

The program celebrated a 25-year anniversary in April, 2017. “We have been reviewing our curriculum for a few years now. This anniversary gave us a chance to connect with an even wider field of alumni to really identify our strengths and determine how best to continue offering top-notch executive education in today’s environment.”

Over 2018, the school will focus on crafting a transformed iteration of the successful program, to build a solid foundation for the next 25 years. Student intake has been paused until the process is complete in 2019.

Atlantic Research Group on Economics of Immigration, Aging and Diversity

With the 2014 launch of the Atlantic Research Group on Economics of Immigration, Aging and Diversity, the opportunity for students to take part in relevant, active research expanded. The Atlantic Research Group built on the work of a previous research centre, the Atlantic Metropolis Centre (AMC). Dr. Ather Akbari, who was a principal with AMC, is the chair of the group, which includes researchers from across the region. The activities of the Centre have focused on engaging practitioners and researchers throughout the Atlantic Provinces. In October of 2014, author and demographer David Foot was the keynote speaker at a Demographics of Change event, which attracted more than 120 registrants. Subsequent events have included community education sessions on the new Immigration policy, a four-site conference on the Future of Work and a regular research newsletter that brings its 130+ subscribers fresh data and analysis. Dr. Akbari has presented his work to the Citizenship and Immigration Committee in Ottawa, had a blog published on the International Observatory of Mayors’ site, and been interviewed by news media on immigration topics as recently as June 2018.