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Getting a green building certification is only half the battle when it comes to making commercial buildings more sustainable and energy-efficient. In a newly published paper in the journal Energy Economics titled, “Beyond building certification: The impact of environmental interventions on commercial real estate operations”, researchers show that behaviour-focused “soft interventions” can be as effective […]
Posted onHigh-profile Healthcare Facility a Success due to People and Vision
Schulich Sessional Instructor Sherena Hussain and Professor James McKellar recently conducted a case study of Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, a 464-bed rehabilitation and complex care hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, which re-opened its doors in April 2013. Now part of the Sinai Health System, Bridgepoint is the single largest organization in Canada to focus exclusively on research, […]
Posted onHow Corporations Use Voyeurism to Create Entertainment Value
A growing number of businesses across a wide range of industries are successfully commercializing voyeurism, the practice of providing a glimpse into the private life of another person, to give audiences a revealing and entertaining experience. A new paper forthcoming in the journal Academy of Management Review titled “Commercializing the practice of voyeurism: How organizations […]
Posted onProfessor Serves on International WELL Building Institute Advisory Board
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) recently released its Global Research Agenda. Schulich Associate Professor Avis Devine from the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate & Infrastructure serves on the Advisory amongst a variety of researchers as the sole business school representative. Devine has been on the board since the group’s inception. Professor Devine teaches courses […]
Posted onStudy Shows Female CEO Board Directors Paid Less Than Male Counterparts
Do organizations truly value a more diverse board of directors? A new study suggests many firms may only be paying lip service to the importance of diversity and increasing board diversity in superficial ways. A new paper forthcoming in Human Resource Management explores whether external pressures to diversify boards lead organizations to devalue the board […]
Posted onTimely Research on Personal Savings published in Journal of Marketing
Schulich Associate Professor of Marketing Nicole Mead recently had a paper chosen over 300 other submissions for publication in the Journal of Marketing’s special issue on Better Marketing for a Better World. “This research has the potential to improve people’s lives in these challenging times. My co-authors and I have developed a simple, inexpensive, and […]
Posted onThe Secret to Superior Customer Service? Be Concrete.
Imagine shopping for a shirt in a store. A salesperson that stops by may refer to that object concretely (e.g., “shirt” or “blouse”), abstractly (e.g., “that”) or somewhere in between (e.g., “item”, “top”, or “clothing”). While these may seem like trivial variations, new studies published in the February 2021 issue of the Journal of Consumer […]
Posted onSchulich Prof Accepts Senior Editor Position at FT50 Journal
Schulich Professor Maxim Voronov has accepted the prestigious Senior Editor position at Organization Studies, commencing April 15th, 2021. Organization Studies (OS) publishes top quality theoretical and empirical research with the aim of promoting the understanding of organizations. OS is a monthly, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal with global reach that is rooted in the social sciences. It is included […]
Posted onDoes CSR Matter in Times of Crisis?
CSR is not effective at shielding shareholder wealth from the adverse effects of a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting a potential disconnect between a company’s CSR orientation (what it believes) and its actual actions (what it does), according to a forthcoming study in the Journal of Corporate Finance. The research paper, which examined […]
Posted onAre biopharmas pulling the plug fast enough on drug projects?
A new study published in the journal Production and Operations Management shows that scientific teams in biopharma companies might allocate too much time to early-stage drug discovery projects that are doomed to fail. “A central feature of drug discovery projects is whether the drug is more of a follower- type or first of its kind,” […]
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