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Located in the west coast Canadian city of Vancouver, UBC Sauder is strategically placed at the economic gateway to the Pacific Rim. The school provides a global business perspective at a dynamic crossroads of the international marketplace.
The Robert H. Lee Graduate School at UBC Sauder defines and teaches the future of management thinking. We take pride in delivering high-impact research that advances academic knowledge, facilitates business excellence, informs public policy, and promotes student learning. Our faculty are among the highest calibre researchers in their fields, bringing with them fresh perspectives and international connections.
Mission
Research Centres
With 11 specialized research and outreach centres working with leading international companies, UBC Sauder is bringing creative management practices to the marketplace.
- Business Families Centre
- Centre for Operations Excellence
- Centre for Transportation Studies
- Centre for Urban Economics & Real Estate
- Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing
- Montalbano Centre for Responsible Leadership Development
- Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics
- Creative Destruction Lab West
- 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 UBC 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.
Completed in 2012, the UBC Sauder School of Business building (Henry Angus building) has been recognized with a 2011 Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Award in Architecture, 2010 Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Award, 2010 Sustainable Architecture & Building Canadian Green Building Award and a 2010 Vancouver Regional Construction Association Award of Excellence.
Research Highlights
Our faculty publish in the very best academic journals in the foundational business disciplines and collaborate with academic, government and community partners to solve problems confronting business and society. Our research guides business innovation and contributes to tools and principles that underpin a sustainable and just society.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Favilukis, Jack | Consumption and Production Based Asset Pricing; Heterogeneity and Inequality; Incomplete Markets; Real Estate |
| Fisher, Adlai | Asset pricing, financial econometrics, volatility modelling, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions |
| Garlappi, Lorenzo | Economics and business administration; Financial Economics; Asset pricing; Macro-Finance; Decision Theory |
| Giammarino, Ronald | Financial management; corporate theory; bank regulation; real options |
| Gornall, Will | Corporate finance ; Venture capital; Banking |
| Granot, Daniel | Game Theory and Application, Discrete Optimization, Operations Management |
| Griffin, Dale | Consumer decision making, risk assessment and risk communication, managerial decision making, behavioural finance, forecasting, branding and consumer satisfaction, research methods and statisitcs |
| Hardisty, David | Social sciences; consumer behaviour; sustainability; decisions about the future; product attribute framing; pricing |
| Head, C Keith | Strategy/economics |
| Heinkel, Robert Lee | Stock markets; Corporate Finance |
| Helsley, Robert | Growth and development of urban areas, the operation of private land markets, and the economic impacts of government tax, spending and regulatory policies |
| Hoegg, Jo Andrea | Social influence, consumer-brand relationships, consumer response to product design, sensory marketing |
| Huh, Tim | Inventory control, supply chain management, capacity planning, operations research |
| Khmelnitskaya, Ekaterina | Competition, market structure and innovation with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry |
| Kikkawa, Ayumu | International economics and international finance; Industry economics and industrial organization; international trade; Industrial Organization |
| Kim, Baek Jung | Economics and business administration; Marketing; applied econometrics; Causal inference; New Technology/Product Adoption; Peer/Network Effects; Public Policy; Structural Models |
| Kim, Michael | Dynamic Programming, Statistical Learning, Robust Optimization, Exploration vs Exploitation Trade-offs |
| Krishnan, Harish | Economics and business administration; Inventory and distribution logistics; Contracts and supply chains; Incentive distortions in supply chains; Management; Operations management; Supply chain management |
| Lazrak, Ali | Finance and Accounting; Economic Phenomena on an Individual or Organizational Level; Asset pricing, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Household portfolio choice |
| Lee, Sanghoon | Urban economics; Real estate economics; Public economics; Labor economics; Industrial organization |
| Lee, Kevin | Industrial relations and work relations; Future of Work & Organizing; Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship; Social Inequality, Worth, & Evaluation; Lived Experience of Organizations & Institutions |
| Lee, Gene | Economics and business administration; Management information systems; Applied Machine Learning; Business Analytics; Computer Science and Statistics; Cybersecurity; Information Systems; Mobile Ecosystem; Social Media Analysis; Text Mining |
| Li, Kai | corporate governance, CEO compensation, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, gender in corporate decision making, board of directors, national culture, innovation, Finance |
| Li, J. Frank | |
| Lindsey, Charles | Transport economics; Urban, rural and regional economics; Advanced traveler information systems; climate change; Economic Policies; Financing transportation infrastructure; Parking policy; Public transit; Queuing; Road pricing; Traffic congestion; Transportation Systems; Advanced Air Mobility |
Pages
Recent Publications
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration.
Recent Thesis Submissions
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Three essays on AI strategies and innovation (MGIS - PHD)
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Sales impact of live streaming (MBS - PHD)
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Essays in healthcare operations research (MGSC - PHD)
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Essays in empirical corporate finance (FINC - PHD)
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Essays on environmental and social issues (FINC - PHD)
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Essays in asset pricing and labor economics (FINC - PHD)
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Essays on disclosure of intangible assets (ACCT - PHD)