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Schulich Achievements 2020 – 2021 YEAR-END REPORT
WHAT’S INSIDE
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Teaching & Learning
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World-Class Research
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Student Success
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Alumni Success
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School Success
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Strengthening
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Schulich Community
Thank You!
A Message from Schulich Dean Detlev Zwick
Dear Members of the Schulich Community,
I am very pleased to present the first ever year-end report highlighting the many
achievements of Schulich’s faculty, staff and students for the past academic year.
As Dean, it gives me great pride to see so many of your accomplishments reflected
in the pages of this report. These accomplishments are a great and enduring testament to
the spirit of togetherness, hard work and perseverance of the entire Schulich community
in the face of the unprecedented challenges brought about by the pandemic.
From first-place finishes at case competitions and winning prestigious research awards
to teaching innovations and community outreach that made an impact, our wonderful
community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters excelled in a most
remarkable fashion.
To the entire Schulich community — when it was needed more than ever, you came together
to make this academic year a year to be proud of. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Detlev Zwick, PhD
Interim Dean
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 1
Teaching & Learning Since the pandemic, we’ve invested heavily in new teaching technologies that enhance the remote learning experience. Our long-term goal: to become a leader in delivering hybrid formats of learning and more flexible programming for a world that is increasingly digital. 2 Schulich Achievements
We migrated all Schulich We created the Office of We launched
courses to an online format Curriculum Innovation and exclusive career
and piloted a hybrid format for Teaching Excellence to workshops for
the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA. support the technology needs alumni in
of Schulich’s faculty and added collaboration
2 academic technologists. with SEEC.
We rolled out a new software We launched a new microsite
platform and mobile app profiling our student case
branded OneSchulich to competition achievements.
support our 54 undergraduate
and graduate student clubs and
virtual student networking.
SCHULICH CREATES ONLINE
OPEN COURSE ABOUT THE PANDEMIC
Schulich created a first-of-its-kind,
inter-disciplinary online course on
leadership lessons from the pandemic.
Titled “Leading Through the Pandemic:
Insights from Individuals, Organizations,
Governments and Societies”, the
course brought together the expertise
of 11 Schulich faculty members from a
wide range of disciplines — everything
from strategy and marketing to real estate
and sustainability — to provide students
with important business insights about
the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 3
TEACHING & LEARNING
We conducted an More than 70% of Schulich’s
environmental scan on the graduate and undergraduate
We designed and
future of business education courses are using asynchronous
delivered a four-part
to enrich the collected content to support teaching
Teaching Online series
data and inform a series of and learning.
combining lessons learned
discussions at Faculty Council.
from Schulich’s most
innovative instructors
and training on learning
technology tools.
+
We delivered bi-weekly
Teaching Online drop-in
sessions for faculty and
more than 20 teaching
excellence workshops
with an average of 40
participants per session.
+
We produced a monthly
A large percentage of graduate students (66%) in a Curriculum Innovation
survey reported “high satisfacation” with the delivery & Teaching Excellence
of remote teaching during a year marked by pandemic (CITE) newsletter
lockdowns and a completely new learning environment. addressing emerging
The student survey also showed that teaching evaluations concerns and sharing best
were as good or better than before the introduction of practices in teaching and
director-led ZOOM instruction and asynchronous learning. course design.
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Experiential Learning
INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
During the 2020-2021 academic year, we established
the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship to lead
the development of accelerator/incubator services for the
School and its various programs, build new partnerships throughout
the wider innovation ecosystem and continue its work designing
innovation-centric Work Integrated Learning programs. Chris Carder, Executive Director
of the Office of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship at Schulich
WORK PLACEMENTS CONSULTING PROJECTS
SCHULICH PARTNERS
• Over 200 innovation/ • Schulich’s graduate students
WITH STARTUP INDIA
startup work placements for in programs such as the Master
TO LAUNCH VIRTUAL
our students and more than of Business Analytics and the
500 coaching sessions. Master of Management in ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Artificial Intelligence took VENTURE COMPETITION
part in a wide range of
CASE COMPETITIONS Schulich partnered
real-world consulting projects
• A total of 14 different Schulich during the year. with Startup India to
graduate teams participated
create a seven-day
• Corporate clients included
in 9 case competitions, 6 of companies such as Cineplex, virtual Entrepreneurship
which were global. Loblaw, OMERS, Ontario Power Bootcamp and Venture
Generation, L’Oréal and CIBC. Competition in January
• The graduate teams placed
2021.
in the finals at 6 of the 9
competitions. STRATEGY FIELD STUDY Backed by global
• Largest ever MBA Case Team,
organizations, leading
• During the past year, a total entrepreneurs, and top
with 25 graduate-level team
of 55 teams comprised of venture capitalists,
members.
327 graduate students started 250 student entrepreneurs
a Strategy Field Study (601) from India and Canada
INTERNSHIPS project. formed teams and were
• Schulich’s Career • 10 Faculty Chairs guided the challenged to come up
Development Centre 55 teams and 110 Schulich with potential solutions
posted 1,440 undergraduate faculty members were involved that aligned with the
internships and 1,248 as advisors. values of self-reliability,
graduate internships. • The 601 Office secured 40+ sustainability, and social
client sites — the highest number purpose. Throughout the
• Companies that recruited
ever — through the alumni week, the 50 teams had
Schulich students for
network, active outreach, and the opportunity to consult
internships included Amazon,
our own professional networks. with various mentors from
Deloitte, CIBC, KPMG, Royal
Canada and India to refine
Bank, Nestlé and Labatts.
their ideas before the
• All 23 IMBA students secured judging round. Through
internships at companies three judging rounds,
that included Panasonic, leading venture capitalists
BlackBerry, Michael Kors and and investors chose the
Cognizant. top three venture ideas.
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 5
World-Class Research We transformed our School’s research efforts during the past year by implementing a dual strategy built around research intensification and knowledge mobilization. 6 Schulich Achievements
Research Highlights
MINISTER’S AWARD
PRESIDENT’S EMERGING RESEARCH OF EXCELLENCE
LEADERSHIP AWARD Schulich professor
Theodore Noseworthy was named a Murat Kristal received
recipient of the York Research Award a Minister’s Award of
for “his extraordinary leadership and Excellence from the
contribution to the fields of marketing Ontario Ministry of
and consumer studies”. Colleges and Universities
for his leadership role in
developing an analytics
dashboard to provide
daily insights into the
spread of COVID-19.
BEST INDUSTRY STUDIES PAPER AWARD
A research paper on early-stage drug
development co-authored by Moren Lévesque
was named the runner-up in this year’s Ralph
Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award
for excellence in industry studies research.
The research paper found that scientific teams
in biopharma companies might be allocating
too much time to early-stage drug discovery
projects that are doomed to fail.
NEWLY APPOINTED RESEARCH CHAIRS
Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam, Professor
of Accounting and Associate Dean,
Students, was appointed the Ron Binns
Chair in Financial Reporting, Banking and
Governance.
David Johnston, Professor of Operations
Management and Information Systems
and Director of the Master of Supply Chain
Management Program, was appointed as
the inaugural George Weston Ltd Chair in
Sustainable Supply Chains.
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 7
WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH
Honours & Accolades
SCHULICH RESEARCH
EXCELLENCE FELLOWS Charles Cho, Professor of Yelena Larkin, Associate
Accounting, is listed as the Professor of Finance, was
We established the new most-cited academic in invited to attend a meeting
Schulich Research Excellence Canada in the Accounting of the House of Commons of
Fellow as a means of retaining, subfield for 2019. Canada’s Standing Committee
incentivizing, and recognizing on Industry, Science and
non-chaired tenured faculty Technology as an expert witness
members who are achieving
to share the implications
research excellence.
of her research regarding
The following 13 faculty competitiveness in Canada.
members qualified for the
inaugural launch of the Schulich
Research Excellence Fellow:
Adam Diamant
Associate Professor of OMIS
Irene Henriques Matthias Kipping, Professor
Professor of Economics of Policy, released a new
Yelena Larkin book, History in Management
Associate Professor and Organization Studies:
of Finance From Margin to Mainstream, Maxim Voronov, Professor
Moshe Arye Milevsky providing a historical roadmap of Organization Studies,
Professor of Finance on management research. was appointed Senior Editor,
Grant Packard Organization Studies.
Associate Professor
of Marketing
Perry Sadorsky
Professor of Economics
Gregory Saxton
Associate Professor
of Accounting
Ruodan Shao
Associate Professor of
Organization Studies
Ela Veresiu, Associate
Winny Shen Professor of Marketing,
Associate Professor of served as a Reviewer for the
Organization Studies Marketing Science Institute’s
Linda Thorne Alden G. Clayton Dissertation
Professor of Accounting Proposal Award.
Maxim Voronov
Professor of Organization
Studies
Julian Scott Yeomans
Professor of OMIS
Luke Zhu
Associate Professor of
Organization Studies
8 Schulich AchievementsSCHULICH RESEARCHERS AMONG WORLD’S MOST CITED
23%:
the year-over-
The following is a list of Schulich faculty members who were among year increase in
the top 2% most cited researchers in their the number of
research articles
field and/or subfield in the world:
authored by Schulich’s
• Russell Belk • Dean Neu faculty members
that were published
• Charles Cho • Robert Phillips in the Financial Times
• Eileen Fischer • Perry Sadorsky Top 50 journals.
• Matthias Kipping • Gregory Saxton
• Dirk Matten
SCHULICH LAUNCHES TWO NEW Developing the Next Generation of
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE HEALTH LEADERS
Thank you to Robert Krembil and the
We established two new Centres of Excellence during Krembil Foundation for your $5-million gift to
the Schulich School of Business at York University
the past academic year: the Krembil Centre for Health
– a significant contribution that will change
the lives of our students for decades to come.
Management and Leadership, made possible by
This gift will go toward the establishment of the
Centre of Excellence in Health Management and Leadership
designed to become a leading global hub of industry
outreach, education and research at Schulich and expansion
of the Krembil Scholars Program.
a generous $5 million donation from the Krembil Through the Krembil Foundation, the family has generously
donated more than $12 million to the Schulich School of
Business and York University since 2001, including the Krembil
Scholars Program, a groundbreaking scholarship program
Foundation and Schulich graduate Robert Krembil
that set the gold standard for financial aid support in Canada.
The Centre of Excellence in Health Management and Leadership
will be located in Schulich’s Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate
Study & Research Building, opened in January 2019.
(MBA ’71, Hon LLD ’00), and the George Weston Ltd Today’s gift is part of Schulich’s Leading Change Campaign,
the School’s most comprehensive and ambitious fundraising
Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains.
and alumni engagement campaign to date. Under the leadership
of Dean Dezsö J. Horváth, C.M., and the Leading Change
Campaign Cabinet, the School has raised more than $65 million.
The newly established Centre for Health Management Robert Krembil, C.M.
(MBA ’71, Hon LLD ’00)
President, Chiefswood Holdings
Chair, Krembil Foundation
Member, Dean’s Advisory Council, Schulich School of Business
Recipient, Schulich Alumni Recognition Award for Outstanding Executive Leadership, 2005
and Leadership will become a leading global hub of
Recipient, York University Bryden Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution, 2019
Leading Change is an initiative of: IMPACT: THE CAMPAIGN FOR YORK UNIVERSITY
industry outreach, education and research at Schulich.
The Centre will combine academic excellence in degree
programs and executive training together with substantial
scholarship support and collaborative research on
The Schulich School of Business launches the George Weston Ltd Centre
leadership opportunities in the health sector. for Sustainable Supply Chains and Research Chair
Strong, sustainable supply chains have never been more critical the Centre’s inaugural Research Forum “Supply Chain Problems:
than they are now. That is why the Schulich School of Business and Practical Insights from Emerging Research.” The Forum brought
George Weston Ltd have joined forces to establish a new Centre management researchers and industry together to find practical
of Excellence and Research Chair. solutions and explore new opportunities.
The new George Weston Ltd Centre for Sustainable Building on Schulich’s unique Master of Supply Chain Management
(MSCM) program, its deep relationships with industry and George
Weston Ltd’s world-class expertise in supply chain management, the
new Centre is poised to be a global leader in supply chain education.
Thank you to George Weston Ltd for this transformative partnership
— one that will help develop the next generation of sustainable
supply chain leaders.
Supply Chains will become a global leader in management On May 28, Schulich officially launched the George Weston Ltd Centre
for Sustainable Supply Chains and announced the Research Chair at
For more information, please visit: schulich.yorku.ca/supplychains
education and research related to supply chain management,
and a hub for industry outreach and collaboration.
“ Our goal is to harness the desire for change emerging in a post-pandemic economy and
engage industry, academics, NGOs and government in a dialogue, one that leads to an
actionable agenda that modernizes critical infrastructure, lowers greenhouse gas emissions,
From top: Krembil Centre for Health Management and Leadership announcement and provides environments where people can thrive.”
DAVID JOHNSTON, PhD
Program Director, MSCM; Director & Research Chair, George Weston Ltd Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains
in the Globe & Mail, June 2020; George Weston Ltd Centre for Sustainable Supply
Chains announcement in the Globe & Mail, May 2021
Global Reach. Innovative Programs. Diverse Perspectives. schulich.yorku.ca
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 9WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH
Research Awards
RECIPIENT AWARDS/HONOURS
Charles Cho • 2020 Honorable Knight Award, University of Central Florida’s Hall of Fame
• The most-cited academic in Canada in the Accounting subfield for 2019
Ivona Hideg • 2020 Kauffman Foundation Best Student Paper Award from the Gender and
Diversity Division (GDO) of the Academy of Management for a paper co-authored
with a former MSc student
Ambrus Kesckes • Best Paper Award for Corporate Finance, Academy of Finance Conference, 2020
Murat Kristal • 2020 Recipient, Ontario Minister of College’s and Universities’ Award of
Excellence for contributions to the province during the pandemic
Yelena Larkin • First prize in the Pagano-Zechner award for the Best Non-Investments Paper in
the Review of Finance in 2019 –2020
Brent Lyons • 2020 York Research Leader
Nicole Mead
• 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Consumer Research
• Commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological
Science (SIPS), 2021
Lilian Ng • 2020 AFAANZ Best Paper Award in Corporate Governance; “Labor Voice in
Corporate Governance: Evidence from Opportunistic Insider Trading”
• 2020 AJFS Best Paper Award (Sponsored by Mirae Asset Global Investments);
“Insider Trading, Informativeness, and Price Efficiency Around the World”
Theodore J. • 2020 York University “Research Leader” Designation
Noseworthy • 2020 Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) Outstanding Reviewer Award
Grant Packard • Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2020
M. Johnny • 2020 10th Most Cited Paper in the 50-year history of Decision Sciences for
Rungtusanatham article titled “The Severity of Supply Chain Disruptions: Design Characteristics
and Mitigation Capabilities”
• 2019 Best Paper Finalist, Decision Sciences, 2020
Perry Sadorsky • 2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Economics
and Business
Linda Thorne • The Lazaridis Institute Prize for Paper on Accounting Issues Relevant to
Technology Firms for “A Study of Technological Adoption in the Audit Industry:
The Theory of Disruption Applied to a Regulated Industry”, 2020
(With Krista Fiolleau, Carolyn MacTavish, Errol Osecki)
Ela Veresiu • 2020 York University Research Leader Award
Maxim Voronov • Mike Wright Prize for Best Journal of Management Studies Reviewer, August 2020
• Best Developmental Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Review, August 2020
• Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal, August 2020
• OMT Research Committee Service Award, August 2020
10 Schulich AchievementsSSHRC Insight Grants Results
Pouyan Foroughi Mark Kamstra Lilian Ng Amin Mawami Burkard Eberlein
Assistant Professor of Professor of Professor of Associate Professor Professor of
Finance Finance Finance of Accounting Strategic
Management/
“When do acquirers “Investor attention, “How firms combat “Evaluation of
Public Policy
overpay for target mood, and price climate change: wage subsidies for
firms? Evidence persistence” International public corporations “Global sustainability
from M&A target evidence” during COVID-19 standards in national
valuation analyses” using legislative context: Comparing
and accounting business-government
disclosures” interactions in
Argentina, Brazil
and Canada”
SCHULICH REVAMPS FACULTY & RESEARCH WEB PAGE
The Faculty & Research section on the Schulich website was completely
revamped with new modules that include:
• Spotlight on Research
• Faculty Impact
• Research Funding
• Publication Database
• Schulich’s Centres of
Excellence and other
Research Institutes
and Labs
• A breakdown of
Schulich faculty by
research area
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 11Student Success Schulich’s students won top prizes and excelled in various national and international competitions, while the School raised a record amount of funding for new student scholarships. 12 Schulich Achievements
#1 – Yale Case #1 in the world + Top 10 –
Competition $50,000 US cash prize ICC Global Mediation
in the annual Urban Competition in Paris
Land Institute (ULI)/ 42 schools from 30 countries
competed over 6 consecutive
Hines Global Case days.
Competition
Yanlin (Lynn) Zhou, a student in
Schulich’s Master of Real Estate
& Infrastructure Program, was
part of an all-Toronto team that
captured top spot in the case
competition.
20 schools participated, including Yanlin (Lynn) Zhou, MBA Case Competition coach Joe Fayt
Harvard, Yale and Berkeley MREI Candidate ’21 with the team in Paris, February 2020
#1 at the 2021 National MBA Games
#1 in Academics #1 in Athletics #2 in Spirit
250 students from 16 MBA Programs across Canada competed
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 13STUDENT SUCCESS
Top 20 – Global Case #3 – Global HEC Final Round at
Competition at Harvard CSR Challenge the 2021 Net Impact
Close to 200 teams from all Case Competition
over the world took part.
Two teams from Schulich made
Schulich is one of only two
it all the way to the final round
schools who have made it to
of the leading sustainability-
the Top 10 three times.
focused case competition for
graduate students.
Congratulations to our MBA Team on
finishing in the Top 3 at the 2021 HEC
CSR Challenge
#2 – John Molson
Final Four at the 2021 International
Canadian Marketing Undergraduate
Team Schulich, Global Case Competition,
League National Case Case Competition
Harvard, April 2020 Competition A team of 3rd and 4th year
Schulich Master of Marketing Schulich undergraduate
students Julianna Akindele students placed 2nd overall
#2 – L’Oréal and Maggie Chen made it within their division at the
Brandstorm, Canadian to the final four in a case largest undergraduate case
competition formerly known as competition in the world with
National Finals “Canada’s Next Top Ad Exec”. 150 participants from 28
Three Schulich teams made it business schools in 13 countries.
to the Top 10.
Top 3 – University of
Toronto LIVE Case
Competition
Top row: Yusuf Khan and Monica Xie
Two Schulich teams placed Julianna Akindele, Maggie Chen, Bottom row: Rachel Aarons and
2nd and 3rd at Canada’s leading MMKG MMKG Nour Nassif
undergraduate strategy case Candidate ’21 Candidate ’21
competition.
#2 – Ted Rogers
#3 – UNB Data Ethical Leadership
Challenge Case Competition
Thirty teams from 8 countries
Canada’s largest undergraduate
competed in the sustainability
business ethics case competition.
challenge.
The winning undergraduate teams with
coach Mona Afrouz
14 Schulich AchievementsStudent Entrepreneurial Success Stories
Amy Ge (MBA ’21), founder of Heartcade, an alternative game-based
dating app, was chosen as the winner in the Student category at the
Fall 2020 Startup Night session.
Bansee Dave (MBA ’21), founder of Myoga, a company that brings
advanced Indian yoga masters into people’s homes for personalized
wellness classes, was declared the winner in the Student category at
the Spring 2021 Startup Night session.
Daniyal Dehleh (iBBA ’21), founder of BeTimeFul, a browser
extension that makes social media usage less addictive, won the
Peterson Family Gold Medal in Entrepreneurship and his company
won the BEST Lassonde Impactful Tech Award.
Dimash Kunayev (MBA ’21) launched Engamio, an easy-to-use
platform that helps event professionals boost audience engagement
at virtual and hybrid events through gamification. Dimash raised over
$500,000 in angel funding and has been accepted into the York
Entrepreneurship Development Institute (YEDI) Accelerator Program.
1,241
Schulich graduated one of
the highest number of students
in the School’s history:
1,241, of which 465 were
undergraduate students and
776 were graduate students.
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 15Alumni Success Schulich’s alumni continued to make a mark in the world of business by winning top honours, launching new ventures, rising through the ranks of companies and organizations, and giving back to their alma mater. 16 Schulich Achievements
Governor General’s Schulich 83 Events Involving
Gold Medal Engage Series Participants from
Schulich graduate Michelle Per We launched the Schulich 40 Countries
(BBA ’18) won the prestigious Engage Series, featuring
Our Alumni Relations office
Governor General’s Gold Medal alumni in eight countries who
carried out 83 events
at the 2020 Common Final delivered 10 dynamic fireside
involving participants from
Examination (CFE) — the top chats to Schulich students
40 countries.
result in the country. in partnership with Student
Services & International
Relations and faculty advisors.
Alumni Professional
Development
Schulich Workshops
Engage Schulich’s Alumni Relations
CONNECT WITH office launched Alumni
YOUR COMMUNITY Professional Development
workshops in partnership
with the Schulich Executive
Education Centre (SEEC)
to meet the career needs of
alumni from around the world.
Michelle Per (BBA ’18)
Our Alumni
Mentorship Program
engaged more than
2,000 Schulich alumni
and over 600 students.
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 17ALUMNI SUCCESS
C-Suite Appointments
James P. O’Sullivan Susan E. Hutchison Jack Fraser
(MBA/LLB ’90) (MBA ’97) (EMBA ’13)
Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman of the Board,
IGM Financial Equifax Canada Hill Street Beverage
(Sept. 2020) (Dec. 2020) Company Inc. (Jan. 2021)
Lori Kerr John H. Kousinioris François L. Poirier
(IMBA ’99) (MBA/LLB ’90) (MBA ’91)
Chief Executive Officer, President and CEO, President and CEO,
FinDev Canada TransAlta Utilities Corporation TC Energy Corporation
(April 2021) (April 2021) (Jan. 2021)
CONNECT Online ’20
Leadership and Resilience
Schulich’s CONNECT 2020
Alumni Forum:
• 400+ attendees
• 32 speakers
• 9 sessions
18 Schulich AchievementsAlumni Entrepreneurs SCHULICH ALUMNI
GUEST SPEAKERS
Swyft, a logistics technology company Prominent and successful
co-founded and led by former Schulich Schulich alumni participated
Startup champion Aadil Kazmi (BBA ’15), in the School’s Launch
raised $22 million in venture capital Week Leader Panels and
financing, the largest amount ever for other conferences and
a Schulich Startups Founder. events, including:
Schulich Startups company ALT TEX,
co-founded by Myra Arshad (BBA ’18),
raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Dennis Mitchell (MBA ’03),
ALT TEX is working on the development of CEO & CIO, Starlight Capital
a polyester replacement fibre for clothing
that can be re-engineered from food waste.
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield and
Chris Carder, Executive Director of the
Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
at Schulich, also invested in the business.
Katie Taylor (MBA/JD ’84),
Chair of the Board, RBC
Schulich Startups company Skygauge
Robotics, co-founded by Schulich graduate
Nikita Iliushkin (BBA ’16), received a
$3.3 Million seed investment round in
October 2020. Vito Paladino
(BBA ’99, MBA ’11),
President, Audi Canada
Treasured, a virtual museum platform
co-founded by Vito Giovannetti (BBA ’14)
was featured in The New York Times and on
CBS Evening News. Reetu Gupta (MBA ’08),
President and CEO,
Easton’s Group of Companies;
President and Co-Chair,
The Gupta Family Foundation
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 19School Success
Our School was rated among the very best in various business school
rankings, our newest facility was recognized for its sustainable design, we
saw year-over-year growth in student enrolment, and we raised record
amounts of funding to support teaching and learning at Schulich.
20 20
Schulich
Schulich
Achievements
Achievements#1 in Canada $8.8 million Our Career Development
Centre completed over:
2021 Economist During the pandemic year,
MBA Ranking
Schulich provided a record level • 2,600 one-on-one
of student support through
#21 in the world & 8th overall scholarships, awards, bursaries
student coaching
among non-US business schools. and other funding totaling appointments
approximately $8.8 million.
• 88 virtual workshops
• 341 corporate
recruiting events
Kellogg-Schulich
Executive MBA GMR Innovex
Ranked #1 in Canada Schulich teamed up with
GMR Group, our Schulich MBA
and #9 in the World in India partners, on a new
2020 Economist EMBA Ranking innovation hub called GMR
Innovex. The hub’s mission is to
foster and drive innovation with
start-ups, academia, research
$3 million institutions and other platforms.
We raised more than
$3 million to create
30 new student awards
& scholarships.
Schulich rated one of the
world’s top business schools
for careers in Finance, Marketing
and Operations Management*
17th in the world for careers in Finance
21st in the world for careers in Operations Management
22nd in the world for careers in Marketing
*QS MBA by Career Specialization Ranking, October 2020
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 21SCHOOL SUCCESS
Enrolment & Applications
Despite the challenges brought about by the pandemic,
Schulich saw substantial growth in applications and
enrolment at both the undergraduate and graduate levels
and across almost all programs.
Graduate applications were Our School’s
up 18% programs continue
year-over-year. to attract high-calibre
students from
MBA applications were around the world.
up 37% over the
prior year.
McEwen Building
Undergraduate Achieves Gold
applications were
Standard in
up 13% over the
Sustainable Design
prior year.
Schulich’s Rob and Cheryl
McEwen Graduate Study &
Research Building received
LEED Gold certification
in March 2021 — one of
the highest standards of
sustainability for a building.
TOTAL RAISED: 700
$65 M Schulich Startup
Night registrations
Our Leading Change Campaign,
at the 15th edition
Schulich’s most comprehensive and
in March 2021 – the
ambitious fundraising campaign to date,
highest amount ever
exceeded its $50-million
fundraising goal by an additional
$15 million
22 Schulich AchievementsSchulich Executive Education Centre
New SEEC Executive
Launches New Programs & Wins
Director Rami Mayer
New Clients Rami Mayer became the
new Executive Director
Despite the enormous challenges brought about by the
of the Schulich Executive
COVID-19 pandemic, the Schulich Executive Education
Education Centre this past
Centre (SEEC) converted over 60 executive development
year and is leading Schulich’s
programs to digital learning and launched 20 new programs.
executive education division
SEEC not only retained all of its clients, which included companies in a new direction,
such as Walmart, FedEx, Sun Life and Loblaw, but won many new having refreshed
high-profile clients. New programs launched by SEEC during the their portfolio
past year include “Building Back Better: A Leadership Bootcamp with innovative
for a Strategic and Sustainable Recovery”, “Strategic Foresight”, new programs.
and “Digital Fluency”.
The following are some of the other highlights from
the past year for SEEC:
• Expanded the popular Mini-MBA Program by targeting it at
various professions, including engineers, dentists and physicians
• Acquired more than $2 Million in funding from Ontario’s
Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development for
community-based programs
• Introduced new leadership programs
• Moved to micro-credentialing and digital badging for
short course programs
SEEC won more than 20 new, high-profile clients this year, including:
Schulich’s inaugural
Giving Day raised
more than $62,000
Participants from a SEEC global leadership program in Athens
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 23Strengthening Our Community From support programs for our students to initiatives designed to improve the well-being of individuals here at home and around the world, the people of Schulich made our community and the community around us stronger, better, and more inclusive. 24 Schulich Achievements
We launched wellness support We created 8 new Equity,
initiatives for undergraduate Diversity & Inclusion
and graduate students. scholarships to remove SCHULICH STUDENTS
financial barriers for students HELP TORONTO-AREA
from Black, Indigenous and RETAIL BUSINESSES
other under-represented DURING THE PANDEMIC
communities.
Schulich played a key role
in the Digital Main Street
ShopHERE Initiative
when the City of Toronto
partnered with our School
and leading e-commerce
We developed the Culture of companies such as Shopify,
Integrity webinar to reinforce Google and Facebook to
values of honesty, good launch online stores virtually
conduct, respect and fairness. overnight at thousands of
retail companies throughout
We provided the GTA.
We introduced the Fostering vital support to
The Digital Main Street
the Spirit of Entrepreneurship international
initiative helped main street
Among Black Youth online students
retailers survive the COVID-19
course co-taught by Schulich significantly
crisis by harnessing the
instructors, Black entrepreneurs impacted by
marketing and IT skills of
and Black community leaders. COVID-19.
Schulich’s business students
as well as the digital expertise
of some the world’s leading
tech companies. As part
of the project, 100 Schulich
INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS students received work
placements to help small
We recognize that many Indigenous Nations have businesses move their
longstanding relationships with the territories upon businesses online at no cost.
which York University campuses are located that precede
the establishment of York University. York University
acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of
many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto
has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the
Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat.
It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis
communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders,
the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory
is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt
Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care @digital_mainst
for the Great Lakes region.
@digitalmainstreet
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 25STRENGTHENING OUR COMMUNITY
Schulich Launches Business Excellence Academy
We launched the Schulich Business Excellence Academy,
a business education and mentorship program supporting The program ran for
60 Black and Indigenous Ontario high school students. two hours a day in the
The program was conceived by four Schulich undergraduate evening, four days a week
students, Rebecca Jodhan (BBA ’21), Brittany Rossi (BBA ’21), (Monday to Thursday) during
Joy Zhang (BBA ’21), and Kim Tram (BBA ’21), and supported the month of July. Sessions
by Schulich instructor Ushnish Sengupta, Michelle Hughes, were a combination of guest
Recruitment & Communication Coordinator at Schulich, and speaker discussions, followed
Ruodan Shao, Associate Professor of Organization Studies. by interactive activities led
The program aims to help high school students discover the by undergraduate Schulich
many career options tied to the world of business. students.
“ What I love about the Business Excellence Academy
is that it is a student-led initiative supported by
our faculty and staff, all working together toward
the shared goal of greater Black and Indigenous
representation at our School.”
DETLEV ZWICK, INTERIM DEAN
SEEC Community Impact Initiatives
BLACK STUDENTS
Focused on Diversity, Equity & BUSINESS COLLECTIVE
Inclusion Schulich entered into a
collaboration with the Ivey
The Schulich Executive Education Centre launched more Business School at Western
than 20 community impact initiatives focused on Diversity, University, the Smith School
Equity & Inclusion, including the following: of Business at Queen’s, and
the Toronto District School
• Talent and Inclusion Champion Program and Board’s Centre of Excellence
360 Assessment for senior leaders for Black Student Achievement
• Unconscious Bias: Virtual Classroom Programs to develop a program called
• Anti-Black Racism Short Program “Black Students in Business
• Program for Ontario Native Women’s Association Collective”. The multi-year
• Custom program for the Bimose Tribal Council, program is aimed at Grade 10
a First Nations educational institution & 11 students and is designed
to create a pathway for
• Custom Program for Black Entrepreneurs
careers in business
• A version of the Mini-MBA program specifically tailored
following
for Indigenous Leaders and other leaders who work with
graduation.
Indigenous communities
• Overcoming Unconscious Bias to Achieve Diversity
and Inclusion Webinar
• Canadian Aboriginal Management Program
• Diversity & Inclusion program for Kids Help Phone
26 Schulich AchievementsSchulich Creates Business
CREATING GREATER
Certificate Program for Toronto’s DIVERSITY, EQUITY &
Black Community INCLUSION
Schulich’s Diversity,
We partnered with A Different Booklist Cultural Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
Centre (ADBCC) — The People’s Residence to Working Group
create an Introduction to Business webinar series
for members of Toronto’s Black community. We established a Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
The eight-week business certificate program, which was free Working Group with
of charge, covered topics ranging from marketing to human representatives from
resources management and concluded with a session on how to the School’s student,
develop a business plan. Each webinar included a lecture from staff, faculty and alumni
a Schulich professor and a discussion with a Black entrepreneur. communities.
Ashwin Joshi, Associate Professor of Marketing and Director The Working Group’s
of Schulich’s MBA Program, described the webinar series as mission:
“part of a more sustained and purposeful engagement between
Schulich and the Black community in Toronto”.
1
identify ways to create
greater Black and
“ We’re delighted to be able to Indigenous representation;
partner with ADBCC to create
community-based learning
that will help people grow their
2
integrate Black and
businesses and turn ideas into Indigenous perspectives
new business ventures.” into our curriculum and
ASHWIN JOSHI learning; and
3
strengthen Schulich’s
engagement with
COMFORTING SENIORS external stakeholders to
DURING THE PANDEMIC create greater career and
business opportunities
Schulich graduate Mahad Shahzad
for Black and Indigenous
(BBA ’20) created a non-profit called
people.
Chatting to Wellness to combat senior
isolation and loneliness during the pandemic.
The organization carries out weekly visits to retirement
homes conducted by a student team of more than
30 volunteers to talk with lonely, isolated, and
abandoned seniors. Mahad’s non-profit was selected
as an Ownr’s Grant Recipient, a $25,000 fund sponsored
by RBC Ventures for entrepreneurs in Canada, and was
a recipient of the Jordan James Pickell Mental Health
Achievement Recognition Award.
2020 – 2021 Year-End Report 27A Remarkable Year Like No Other
You could call it “the power of community”.
It was the first time in our School’s We continued to produce research
history that we had to deliver all of our that is making an impact on academic
courses virtually. fields, on business practice, and in the
classroom. And when the year was over,
From the moment we had to pivot to we graduated one of the largest classes
online courses more than a year ago, in our School’s history.
the Schulich community came together,
embraced the unprecedented challenge As the pandemic begins to ease, we
before us with determination and recognize with pride that in the face
dedication, and successfully transitioned of this historical challenge the Schulich
to remote learning. community has continued to thrive. The
School’s success over the past twelve
It was a year of transition in so many months is the result of faculty, staff
ways, one that saw the end of an era with and students working together, learning
the close of Dezsö Horváth’s remarkable from one another, struggling together
32-year tenure as Dean, and the start of and supporting each other.
a new chapter in Schulich’s history led
by a new leadership team under Interim It was a year where we were tested
Dean Detlev Zwick. like never before, and we responded
with resilience and fortitude, kindness
Through it all, we came together as a and generosity. It was a year where
community. We supported our students we saw the very best of Schulich.
and our executive learning clients. We
re-invented the way we teach and how Thank you!
we deliver learning, creating innovative
new courses along the way.
28 Schulich AchievementsTo the entire Schulich community — when it was needed
more than ever, you came together to make this academic year
a year to be proud of. Thank you!
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