
The Sauder School of Business is one of the world’s leading academic business schools. Located in Vancouver, Canada’s gateway to the Pacific Rim, Sauder provides a global business perspective at a dynamic crossroads of the international marketplace.
At the Robert H. Lee Graduate School at the Sauder School of Business, we define and teach the future of management thinking. We nurture creativity and help our students develop this skills and resourcefulness to adapt concepts and ideas to new and emerging challenges. Our faculty are at the forefront of management thinking. They are recognized internationally as leaders in business research and highly respected both within and outside the academic community.
Research Centres
With 15 specialized research centres working with leading international companies, Sauder is bringing creative management practices to the marketplace.
- Business Families Centre
- Centre for Operations Excellence
- Centre for Operations Research & Analytics in Health
- Centre for Transportation Studies
- Centre for Urban Economics & Real Estate
- Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing
- Gender and Diversity in Leadership Initiative
- KPMG Research Bureau in Financial Reporting
- Phelps Centre for the Study of Government and Business
- Phillips, Hager & North Centre for Financial Research
- W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Centre
Research Facilities
The Sauder building houses a dedicated graduate school facility for the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, innovative and interactive learning spaces, a trading lab, and communication technologies that can deliver international business leaders into classrooms at the click of a mouse.
Built to inspire a new generation of business leaders, a recent $70-million expansion of the modern, high-tech Sauder building added 55,000 square feet to the original 216,000 square foot structure. The redevelopment included a host of features and facilities that help establish Sauder as global hub for business education.
Research Highlights
With over 100 leading academics from more than 24 countries, our faculty enjoys worldwide recognition for its excellence in research, innovative teaching and active business outreach. Faculty members collaborate across our divisions, sharing their ideas, experience and expertise.
Schools / Departments
Research and teaching at the Sauder School of Business is organized into seven administrative units. Faculty members are affiliated with one primary division, but collaboration across divisions is common and encouraged.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
Name | Research Interests |
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Alviarez, Vanessa | International trade; Foreign direct investment; International finance |
Antweiler, Werner | high-tech businesses; innovation; international trade; exchange rates; currency unions; environmental economics; e-business; international environmental issues; trade and the environment; Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI); public policy and the economics of cannabis prohibition., International Trade and Business, Environmental Economics and Management, Energy and Electricity Economics, Applied Econometrics and Panel Data, Applied Empirical Finance, Prediction Markets |
Aquino, Karl | Organizational behavior |
Baldauf, Markus | Financial Markets; Information Economics; Industrial Organization; Regulation; Market Microstructure |
Begley, Joy | Finance and Accounting, Empirical financial accounting, Defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, Use of accounting information to control agency problems, Equity Valuation |
Bemmels, Brian | Organizational behavior |
Bena, Jan | Finance and Accounting, Financial Assets Evaluation, R&D and Innovation, Technological Innovations, Investments, Stock Market, International Capital and Products Markets, Finance and innovation, Finance and product markets, Corporate innovation, Corporate ownership structure, Access to external finance, Financial constraints |
Berdahl, Jennifer | Ostracism, Harassment and Bullying, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Power and Status in Groups, Harassment, Work-Family Interface |
Bleck, Alexander | Boundary of the firm, the market and regulation |
Brander, James | international trade; government; economic policy; budgets; international and environmental economics, International trade policy, Renewable resource management, Venture capital finance and the entrepreneurial sector, The role of renewable resource management in economic growth and decline |
Brown, Jennifer | Personnel economics; Industrial organization; Economics of digitization |
Carlson, Murray | Introduction to capital markets, corporate finance, principles of finance, asset pricing |
Cavanaugh, Lisa | Emotions, Relationships, Self and Identity, Social Influence, Prosocial Consumption |
Cavusoglu, Hasan | IT investment, information security, value of information technology, online product differentiation, information system security, Economics & sustainability, Management Information Systems |
Cenfetelli, Ronald Timothy | Human computer interaction, E-Business, IT-mediated customer service, Negative aspects of technology, Structural equation modeling, Survey research techniques, Multi-level modeling |
Chamberlain, Sandra | Accounting and the economics of, Valuation of publicly traded firms using accounting information, Accounting and contracting, Earnings quality, Accounting for Financial Institutions |
Chandrashekaran, Murali | Management education, customer satisfaction, mergers and acquisition, innovation, international collaborations in education, Integration and professional development, strategic management of customer relationships, shareholder value, subsidiary performance, satisfaction strength, customer loyalty |
Clough, David | Social Networks, Technological Innovations, Technological change, Organizational learning, Interorganizational networks, Entrepreneurship, Innovation management, Organization theory |
Cornil, Yann | Food Marketing; Hedonic Consumption; Sensory Perception |
Dahl, Darren | Consumer behaviour, new product development, social marketing, affect and emotion, creativity in business, Marketing |
Daniels, Michael | Emotions in organizations; Emotional Labor; Workplace mistreatment; Leadership; Cultural values |
Davidoff, Thomas | Housing, Real Estate, Annuities, Mortgages |
Ding, Yichuan | Optimization, Control and Operations Research, Stochastic Processes, Computer Science and Statistics, Health Care Analytics, Health Care Operations Management , Operations Research |
Donaldson, R Glen | Risk management, Volatility forecasting, Asset valuation, Financial econometrics, Financial markets and price behavior |
Favilukis, Jack | Consumption and Production Based Asset Pricing; Heterogeneity and Inequality; Incomplete Markets; Real Estate |
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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To have or to do? Two essays on material and experiential purchases (Marketing - PHD)
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Keep calm and carry on : charting the effects of mindfulness on work performance (Organizational Behavior - PHD)
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Essays on politically connected firms (Accounting - PHD)
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Essays on entrepreneurship and closely-held firms (Finance - PHD)
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Essays on structural models in corporate finance (Finance - PHD)
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Essays in information economics (Finance - PHD)
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Government intervention in financial markets (Finance - PHD)
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Three essays in operations management (Management Science - PHD)
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Ontological and cognitive principles on information systems modelling (Management Information Systems - PHD)
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Optimal treatment planning under consideration of patient heterogeneity and preparation lead-time (Management Science - PHD)
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Essays on capital markets (Accounting - PHD)
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Oil, inflation, and financial markets (Finance - PHD)
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Three essays in Macro Finance (Finance - PHD)
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A moral virtue theory of status attainment (Organizational Behavior - PHD)