Sunday 18 May, 2025
Come say hi to your fellow conference attendees and enjoy our hot breakfast with a wide selection of sweet, salty and healthy options.
Pushkala Prasad is the Arthur Zankel Chair Professor of Management and Liberal Arts at Skidmore College where she teaches in the Management & Business Department and the International Affairs Program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Management with a specialization in Organization Studies. Prior to coming to Skidmore College, she held an endowed Chair Professorship at Lund University in Sweden and was an associate professor at the University of Calg...
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Charlene Zietsma is a highly accomplished and renowned Canadian organizational researcher. She is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at SEAS and at the Ross School of Business. She previously held appointments at Pennsylvania State University, York University (Toronto), Western University and the University of Victoria. She is an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and earned her doctorate at the University of British Columbia...
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All attendees are invited for this sit down hot lunch indigenous buffet, sponsored by the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, during which we will announce the award recipients for this year's conference.
Generously sponsored by the Dalhousie University, Faculty of Management, please join us for the Spark Tank Pitch Competition! At this competition, authors selected for their excellent work will present their research projects in just a few minutes! Give your opinion and vote for the best paper and the best student who will each get a scholarship!
Come have a look at our best work-in-progress, network with fellow academics following the Pitch competition!
The meeting will be followed by a divisional dinner (outside campus). Location of the diner TBD
FinanceDivision ChairLaleh Samarbakhsh lsamarbakhsh@torontomu.caToronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)FinanceDivision ChairYi Feng yi.feng@torontomu.caToronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)FinanceDivisional Co-EditorCarene Boucher
Each division can organize their own gathering, you should reach out to your divisional officers to learn more!
Sponsored by ACC divisional officersDivision Co-ChairSuresh KalagnanamDivisional Co-EditorGajindra MaharajDivisional Co-EditorAnamika JayendranProgram CoordinatorEve Lamargot