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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 |
|---|---|
| Li, J. Frank | |
| Li, Jiajin | Continuous Optimization; Design and Analysis of Optimization Algorithms; Machine Learning |
| Lo, Kin | Social sciences; Financial reporting; Conference calls; Earnings management; Computational Linguistics |
| Lundholm, Russell | Financial statement analysis |
| Marshall, Guillermo | Industrial Organization; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Competition policy |
| Mokak Teguia, Alberto | Behavioral Finance; Institutional Investors; Liquidity; Heterogeneous Beliefs; Disclosure; OTC Markets |
| Nagarajan, Mahesh | Supply chain management, applied game theory, inventory management |
| Nan, Ning | Economics and business administration; Management information systems; blockchain governance; complex adaptive systems; digital business; evolvable information systems; Information Systems; Management; online community |
| Ning, Eddie | Information Acquisition; Consumer Search; Dynamic Pricing; Bargaining; Continuous-time Games; Emerging Technologies |
| Oblander, Shin | Marketing; quantitative marketing; Causal inference; customer relationship management; probabilistic machine learning; bounded rationality; representation learning |
| Orr, Patrick Scott | International Economics; Industrial Organization; applied microeconomics; applied econometrics; Economics of Crime |
| Ortiz Molina, Hernan | Finance; Corporate finance and governance, executive compensations, industrial organization, interactions bet |
| Paat, Joseph | Mathematical optimization; Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming); Mixed integer programming; Combinatorial optimization; Polyhedral Geometry; Convex optimization |
| Paluch, Rebecca | Non-Traditional Employment Relationships; Corporate Alumni Programs; Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations; Work-Life Practices and Policies; Human Resource Management |
| Park, Jen | Marketing; Judgment and Decision-Making; Framing & Context Effects; Digital Interfaces & Information Processing; Prosocial & Pro-environmental Behavior |
| Pikulina, Elena | Institutional investors; Corporate finance; Experimental and behavioral finance |
| Qian, Yi | Economics of Intellectual Property Rights; Counterfeiting and Brand Management; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Marketing Analytics |
| Rachapalli, Swapnika | Management and trade; international trade; Innovation; Growth & Development |
| Raynard, Mia | Industrial relations and work relations; Management and trade; Organization theory; Disruptive Change Processes; Emerging Economies; Family Enterprises; Societal Grand Challenges |
| Reilly, Patrick | |
| Ries, John | Economics and business administration; applied microeconomics; Economic Phenomena on a National or International Level; international business; international trade |
| Robinson, Sandra | Industrial relations and work relations |
| Ryan, Christopher | Operations & Logistics; Optimization (discrete and infinite-dimensional); Design (contract, market, information); Learning (statistical, organizational) |
| Sajjadiani, Sima | Economics and business administration; Organizational behavior; Compensation and Incentives; Employee Selection; Employee Turnover; HR Analytics; Human Resources; Incentives Design; Machine Learning Applications in HRM; Organizational Behaviour; Strategic HR |
| Schulz, Martin | Economics and business administration; Organizational behavior; Bureaucracies; Change and Persistence; decision making; Knowledge Relevance; Logics of Appropriateness and Consequences; Military Institutions; Obsolescence; Organizational Knowledge; Organizational learning; Organizational Routines; Organizational Rules; Rule Networks; Social Order |
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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Financial intermediation in private equity markets (FINC - PHD)
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Essays on entrepreneurial finance and labor markets (FINC - PHD)
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Essays on healthcare delivery analytics (MGSC - PHD)
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Climate-linked pay and supply chain management (ACCT - PHD)
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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)