TORONTO, July 24, 2001 -- The University of Toronto’s Joseph L. Rotman School of Management has concluded one of the most successful faculty recruitment drives in recent memory, despite fierce international competition for research and teaching talent. Twelve professors, including three senior economists and a professor of strategy from Harvard Business School have joined the School, effective July 1st.

“As we strive to be one of the leading business schools in the world, we are creating an atmosphere at Rotman that is attractive to leading researchers and teachers,” says Prof. Peter Pauly, associate dean, research and academic resources. “Top talent is attracted by the School’s strong existing network of professors for collaboration on research. There is also a sense of excitement about Rotman’s future direction.”

Prof. Pauly also cites the excellent reputation that the University of Toronto has in academic circles and the quality of life in Toronto for professors and their families as contributing factors to Rotman’s recruiting success.

Brian Silverman, an associate professor of strategy, rejoins the Rotman School, after a three-year appointment to the Harvard Business School where he taught courses in competition and strategy in the MBA program. Prof. Silverman, who holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, was a member of the Rotman faculty from 1995 to 1998.

William Strange joins the Rotman School as a professor of economics. An economist with over 12 years of teaching experience, he was previously a professor of urban land economics in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia.

Ignatius Horstmann is a professor of economics and a leading researcher in the international trade of multinational enterprises. Previously, he was a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario.

Dan Trefler, a professor in U of T’s Department of Economics, has accepted a partial appointment to the Rotman School as a professor of economics. Prof. Trefler’s primary research interests are in international economics. He is one of Canada’s foremost experts in productivity and will take a lead role in Rotman’s proposed Centre for Competitiveness.

Jia Lin Xie joins Rotman on a full-time basis as an associate professor of organizational behaviour after a two-year research visit in Hong Kong. Prof. Xie’s research includes job design, job stress and cross-cultural management. She has taught at the University of Toronto since 1992.

Jennifer Berdahl is an assistant professor of organizational beaviour. She comes to Rotman from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was an assistant professor of organizational behaviour & industrial relations.

Stéphane Côté, joins the Rotman School as an assistant professor of organizational behaviour. Prof. Côté, a Canadian, is completing his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Ole-Kristian Hope, is an assistant professor of accounting. Prof. Hope, a Norwegian, is completing a PhD in accounting at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

Mengze Shi joins the Rotman School as an assistant professor of marketing. Previously, Prof. Shi was an assistant professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Lisa Kramer has joined the University of Toronto at Mississauga as an assistant professor of finance. Prof. Kramer is cross-appointed to the downtown campus. Previously, she taught at Simon Fraser University.

As announced earlier this year by Prof. Sandford Borins, Pankaj Aggarwal, an assistant professor of marketing, and David Zweig, an assistant professor of organizational behaviour, have joined the Division of Management at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Both are cross-appointed to the Rotman School.

The University of Toronto’s Rotman School offers leading-edge research and degree programs, including the prestigious Rotman MBA, the newly redesigned Part-Time MBA, the Executive MBA, a first-rate Doctoral Program, the distinctive Master of Management & Professional Accounting program, the undergraduate Commerce program in partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Science, combined programs with the University of Toronto faculties of Law, Engineering and Nursing, and an innovative series of Executive Programs tailored to the current needs of businesses and individual managers.

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Ken McGuffin
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Rotman School of Management
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E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

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