Spotlight on Research

Sixty years ago, the Schulich School of Business was founded with the belief that a business school could be different. Instead of following in the footsteps of their peer schools, Schulich was to be a business school that was more connected to the real world, promoted social responsibility, and would pioneer new frontiers in the management knowledge space.  

While students received a world-class business education, the School’s faculty was encouraged to boldly push the boundaries of their research, challenging conventional thinking and reshaping how organizations, industries, and society can come to understand the most pressing issues of our time.  

Today, Schulich’s faculty are proud inheritors of that legacy.  

Schulich’s faculty have established themselves as global research leaders in diverse fields, such as accounting, entrepreneurship, operations management & information systems, finance, marketing, organizational studies, strategy and sustainability. Our faculty are also blazing trails in new fields such as sustainable business, digital markets, AI, sustainable finance and what the workplace of the future may look like.  

Schulich’s faculty—charged with creating research that is visionary, impactful and forward-looking—have gladly taken up that challenge with gusto. 

Since 2009, our faculty has produced 173 books and 2697 journal articles. This year alone, our faculty produced 7 books, 18 book chapters, and 130 refereed journal articles, and they have regularly featured as subject material experts in newspapers, industry conferences, podcasts, news broadcasts and even in documentaries.  

It should come as no surprise that this proud legacy of boundary-pushing research has seen Schulich become the #1 rated school in Canada for both field-weighted citation impact and top-tier journal impact.