Six Rotman Faculty Honoured for Excellence in Research and Teaching.
Toronto, Mar. 6, 2019Six faculty members at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management were honoured with awards for their success in research and teaching.
Four faculty members were awarded with the 2018 Roger Martin Awards for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Established by Prof. Roger Martin, a former Dean of the Rotman School, the awards are presented annually to faculty members who have achieved distinction for their teaching or research activities. The co-winners of the Roger Martin Excellence in Research Award are Profs. Alexander Edwards and Redouane Elkamhi. The co-winners of the Roger Martin Excellence in Teaching Award are Profs. Catherine Barrette and Geoffrey J. Leonardelli.
Prof. Sarah Kaplan is the recipient of the Outstanding Research Impact Award, which recognizes research, and intellectual activities, which have a significant impact on external non-academic audiences including the business and public policy communities both locally and internationally.
Prof. William Strange is the winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award, which recognizes and encourages research and research-related service that contribute to the development of a robust and dynamic research environment within and beyond the Rotman community.
Alexander Edwards is an associate professor of accounting and Director of CPA Ontario Centre for Accounting Innovation Research. His research is focused on taxation and capital markets and has been accepted for publication in the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of the American Taxation Association, and Tax Notes.
Redouane Elkamhi is an associate professor of finance. His research is focused on theoretical and empirical asset pricing with special interests in credit and option markets. His recent work has been published in leading finance journals. He teaches derivatives and fixed income courses at the undergraduate and MBA-level and a PhD theoretical asset pricing course.
Catherine Barrette is an assistant professor, teaching stream in the accounting area and she teaches courses on various topics in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Governance. She is actively involved in the Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting program at the Rotman School and she also worked closely with CPA Canada over the years to develop content for their PEP programs and mark the professional exams.
Geoffrey Leonardelli is an associate professor of organizational behavior and human resource management and is also cross-appointed to UofT’s Department of Psychology. His research targets how people can harness knowledge about themselves to enhance their leadership, team dynamics and negotiator effectiveness, with some emphasis on international relations. He has published in the Journal of World Business, Psychological Science, and Advances in Experimental Social Psychology and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Sarah Kaplan is Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman. She is a co-author of the bestselling business book, Creative Destruction as well as Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business. Her next book, The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation will appear in 2019. Her research has covered how organizations participate in and respond to the emergence of new fields and technologies in biotechnology, fiber optics, financial services, nanotechnology and most recently, the field emerging at the nexus of gender and finance.
William Strange is the SmartCentres Chair of Real Estate and a Professor of Economic Analysis & Policy at the Rotman School. He works in the areas of urban economics and real estate. His research looks at agglomeration, industry clusters, labor market pooling, skills, private government, real estate development and real estate investment. He is currently Editor of Journal of Urban Economics (with Stuart Rosenthal), and he served in 2011 as President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
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