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Frosty morning outside the Drake Building. The sky is a light blue, no leaves on trees, the rust building has frost covered trees.

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Asper School of Business announces prestigious professorship appointments, funded by CN, BMO

January 24, 2024 — 
The Asper School of Business has appointed its latest distinguished professorships to two faculty members. Dr. Paul D. Larson now holds the CN Professorship in Supply Chain Management, and Dr. Gady Jacoby now holds the Bank of Montreal (BMO) Professorship in Finance.

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Associates Fellows demonstrate excellence in entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability

December 11, 2023 — 
Nathan Greidanus has been named the Associates Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Wenxi Pu has been named the Associates Fellow in Innovation, and Raj Manchanda has been named the Associates Fellow in Sustainability. The new Associates Fellows were honoured at a celebration in the Drake Centre last week.

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Asper assistant professor of finance investigates fraud deterrence in underexamined markets

November 10, 2023 — 
Asper School of Business assistant professor of finance Jianning Huang has published a paper in Review of Accounting Studies, a Financial Times 50 journal.

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Dean Bruno Silvestre and Alexa Harwood-Jones, Asper Green Office Team lead holding the Green Office certification

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Asper School of Business marks sustainability month reflecting on a year of progress

October 24, 2023 — 
The Asper School of Business is championing sustainability with a series of initiatives engaging staff, faculty, students and alumni. In light of UM’s Sustainability Month, Dean Bruno Silvestre is excited to highlight Asper’s commitment to sustainability in business education.

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Asper PhD candidate explores how businesses can contribute to creating a better world

October 13, 2023 — 
Asper School of Business researcher, instructor and PhD candidate Mojtaba M. Shourkaei explores how businesses can advance sustainability. He recently completed research on Patagonia, an outdoor apparel brand, and published his findings this year in Business Strategy and the Environment, a leading academic journal in the field of business sustainability.

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Asper associate professor’s work named best paper by top management journal

September 12, 2023 — 
Buchanan’s work, whether he is studying reality TV or standards of sustainable forestry, takes our capacity for change seriously, approaching business as a dynamic and responsive field and pursuing individual phenomena with curiosity and a willingness to acknowledge, critique and learn.

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Ji Hyun Ko

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Replacing profit with purpose

August 8, 2023 — 
Asper researchers are publishing work that rethinks traditional business models and prioritizes sustainability. Despite the lingering, outdated sentiment that sustain-centric business is an alternative perspective, they demonstrate how and why sustainability is the future—and the now—of business.

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Artificial intelligence in and beyond the classroom

July 6, 2023 — 
Asper assistant professor Wenxi Pu explores artificial intelligence (AI) in his teaching and research, curious about the implications of this evolving, sometimes disruptive, technology.

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Succession and family enterprise

June 23, 2023 — 
On June 9-10, 2023, the Asper School of Business welcomed family business leaders, advisors and academics to the 2023 Rod Senft Family Business Conference.

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Asper supply chain professor collaborates to secure government grant

June 16, 2023 — 
Paul D. Larson, Professor in Supply Chain Management secured $893,000 in funding from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for their “Fast-Track to Supply Chains” project.

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