Asper Research News Archive

May 12, 2025 — 
On April 25, 2025, the David Dreman Behavioural Management Lab was officially launched, ushering in a new era of management research at the Asper School of Business.

December 20, 2024 — 
What if scholars could capture how a country collectively feels and thinks about a subject, even in an age of information overload? Wenxi Pu (Associate Dean, Assistant Professor, The Associates Fellow in Innovation) has spent about eight years working to do just that in a piece now published in the FT50-ranked Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

November 19, 2024 — 
Kiran Pedada (Assistant Professor of Marketing and The Associates Fellow in Marketing and Inclusive Business), has published a study in the FT50-ranked Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. The paper, “Rural women microentrepreneurs, consumer acquisition, and value delivery,” examines how recruiting women entrepreneurs living in rural India can aid in consumer acquisition and value delivery.

November 15, 2024 — 
Asper School of Business researchers successfully secured Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grants to fund a diverse selection of projects. In 2024, six researchers secured over $390,000 in funding from SSHRC.

November 6, 2024 — 
Each year, the Associates Achievement Awards Celebration brings together community members and members of The Associates and Young Associates to celebrate excellence in research and teaching at the Asper School of Business. This year, four new Associates Fellows were named, and two outstanding educators were honoured with Associates Teaching Awards.

November 4, 2024 — 
In his latest research publication, Asper Assistant Professor and F. Ross Johnson Fellow of Marketing Harsha Kamatham focuses on the impact of a single hour.

October 9, 2024 — 
At the Rod Senft Family Business Conference, success is measured less in individual achievement and more in the communities of support, shared missions, value systems, collective contributions, and connections established in the family and beyond. An annual event that brings together industry and academic expertise, the 2024 Rod Senft Family Business Conference took place on Wednesday, September 25, attended by leaders in the Manitoba family business ecosystem and presented by the Asper School of Business in partnership with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship.

September 17, 2024 — 
Since 2018, Suzanne Gagnon has served Canada Life Chair of Leadership Education and director of the James W. Burns Leadership Institute, UM’s centre for leadership knowledge and education, housed at the Asper School of Business. In July 2024, Gagnon's role as Canada Life Chair in Leadership Education was unanimously renewed. 

September 13, 2024 — 
Instructor and newly appointed director of Indigenous business relations, Katherine Davis [MBA/20] has spent the last 10 years working in cross-cultural settings building relationships with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. She is the first Métis faculty member at the Asper School of Business as well as an alum of the Asper MBA and President’s Student Leadership Program.

September 11, 2024 — 
Associate professor of business administration and newly appointed director of EDI, Jieying Chen has conducted and published research on topics such as cross-cultural interactions, mindfulness, judgment and decision making, and strategic human resource management. She is currently conducting a project on immigrant adaptation, and some of her recent research examines factors that affect individuals’ adaptation in a new environment and gender issues in the workplace.