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Inside the Schulich School of Business at York University

“Research excellence is foundational to Schulich’s mission and central to our vision of shaping business education and practice through bold ideas and rigorous scholarship”

– Dean Detlev Zwick, speaking in this year’s edition of the Spotlight on Research annual report. 

After a very long (and very hot) summer, the halls of the Schulich School of Business are once again filled with enthusiastic students  – and equally enthusiastic faculty. The start of this school year not only signals the beginning of classes, but also marks an extraordinary milestone: the 60th anniversary of the Schulich School of Business. As the school year begins, it’s worth taking some time to reflect on the achievements of the Schulich School of Business over the past 60 years, and the impactful research that has been produced by our faculty.

Our tradition of impactful research within the school has, unsurprisingly, continued to the present day. This summer, we published 2024 Spotlight On Research Annual Report. Highlighting the research achievements of Schulich School of Business faculty members from 2024, the 15th annual Spotlight on Research covers a banner year for Schulich, its faculty, and its Research Office. We’re proud of our faculty’s achievements over the past year. It’s hard to choose one thing that we’re most excited about our faculty achieving over the last year, but, if we *had* to choose:

  • Our faculty secured a record $1.67 million in research funding – the highest amount in our School’s history – and submitted a record number of grant applications.
  • Our faculty’s dynamic research continues to be published widely in leading journals and is advancing knowledge in fields as diverse as climate finance and consumer behaviour to AI and equity in organizations. In fact, our school is #1 rated in Canada for both field-weighted citation impact and top-tier journal impact.
  • Our biennial Research Day brought together faculty from across disciplines to share their research in a series of lively academic panels and saw two faculty members recognized for their efforts with the Dean’s Research Impact Awards.
  • Our research office explored new avenues to promote and communicate our research to wider audiences, both in and out of academia, through the development of a quarterly research newsletter, promotion of academic publications via media releases and social posts and our new Research @ Schulich podcast (download it today!)

Interested in finding out more? You’re in luck, as this edition of the newsletter has you covered with in-depth stories from this year’s Spotlight on Research…and more.

What’s in this edition of the newsletter? Well:

  • An interview with Amin Malwani about his recent award from the CAAA  and his research on tax policy;
  • Details about SSHRC Insight Development, SSHRC Partnership Development Grants (PDG), SSHRC Insight Grants and NSERC grants received by our faculty between July 1 2024 – June 30, 2025;
  • Information about upcoming funding opportunities, as well as recently published faculty research and faculty awards and honors, and last (but definitely not least), this year’s Spotlight on Research Report.

Highlighting the research achievements of Schulich School of Business faculty members from 2024, the 15th annual Spotlight on Research covers a banner year for Schulich, its faculty, and its Research Office. This year’s Spotlight on Research contains several long-form pieces which illustrate why Schulich stands out as a globally respected academic research centre, which have been included in this edition of the newsletter. Features include:

    • An overview of work being done by faculty from Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business (COERB) , and their efforts to redefine the relationship between people, planet, and profit through ground-breaking sustainability work championed by professors like Olaf Weber, Geoffrey Kistruck, and James McKellar;
    • A look at how forward-thinking accounting research overseen by Accounting Professors Dean Neu and Gregory Saxton has successfully combined Big Data analytics, AI and qualitative methods to conduct cutting-edge social and environmental accountability-based research, and;
    • A deep-dive into Finance Professor Yelena Larkin’s unique “product first” approach to financial research has “flipped the script” in the field of finance research.

All this (and more) in this edition of the Schulich newsletter!