Faculty


Since the MSc in Business program is thesis-based, you are required to identify (a) potential research supervisor(s) in your application (to be included in your statement of research interests) and justify why you would like to work with the selected faculty member(s). You do not need to receive faculty member’s approval to include their name in your application. Please note that contacting and receiving any answers from the potential supervisor(s) does not guarantee the acceptance of your admission. The decision for admission to our program will be based on your completed application with all supporting documents.

Finance concentration

Najah Attig
najah.attig@dal.ca
Empirical corporate finance; Corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility; ESG; Greenwashing; Corporate sustainability; Textual analysis
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Iraj Fooladi
iraj.fooladi@dal.ca
Bond portfolio strategies; Corporate social responsibilities; Sustainable finance; Issues in corporate finance
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Gregory Hebb
gregory.hebb@dal.ca
Financial institutions; Mutual funds; Sustainable finance
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Rick Nason
richard.nason@dal.ca
Applications of complexity science; Entropy measures of asset prices
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Maria Pacurar
maria.pacurar@dal.ca
FinTech, Market microstructure; High-frequency data; Asset pricing
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Oumar Sy
oumar.sy@dal.ca
Efficiency tests; International finance; International diversification; Asset allocation and portfolio management; Corporate finance and event studies; Corporate governance; Political economy and financial markets; Derivative pricing; Financial econometrics
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Yonggan Zhao
yonggan.zhao@dal.ca
Optimal portfolio investment and management; Derivatives pricing models; Optimal capital structure; Credit rating and derivatives
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Jun Zhou
j.zhou@dal.ca
Corporate payout policy; Corporate cash holdings; Investments
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Management concentration

Anika Cloutier
anika.cloutier@dal.ca
Understanding antecedentts to leadership behaviours and leader emergence; Work-family interface; Mental health; Gender and work
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Scott Comber
scott.comber@dal.ca
Leadership development in healthcare and academia; Applying complexity science approaches to healthcare systems; The scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Dana Kabat-Farr
kabatfarr@dal.ca
Understanding workplace social experiences: Workplace incivility, sexual harassment, gender harassment; Interpersonal citizenship behaviour; Diversity and inclusion in organizations
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Catherine Loughlin
cloughlin@dal.ca
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Binod Sundararajan
binod@dal.ca
Diversity and organizational effectiveness (development of the TAEC model); Social constructivist approaches to teaching business ethics; Evolutionary perspectives for strategic communication and public relations; Organizational mediocrity and the local maxima trap; Organizational leadership education; Cross-cultural practices in business and finance
Available to supervise in 2024/2025

Heidi Weigand
heidi.weigand@dal.ca
Leadership development in healthcare; Motivating inter-generational and inter-cultural workplace dynamics; Developing leader and follower resiliency
Available to supervise in 2024/2025

Marketing concentration

Hamed Aghakhani
aghakhani@dal.ca
Advertising; Consumer behaviour; Creativity; Cause-related marketing; Health marketing
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Sergio Carvalho
scarvalho@dal.ca
Consumer behaviour; Pro-social behavour; Corporate social responsibility; Social identity; Risk behaviour; Moral emotions; Cause-related marketing; Country of origin effect; Brand concepts
Available to supervise in 2023/2024

Peggy Cunningham
peggyc@dal.ca
Marketing strategy; Fast growth companies, branding, marketing ethics; Corporate social responsibility 
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Hélène Deval
hdeval@dal.ca
Advertising; Consumer behaviour and information processing; Naive theories
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Mohammed El Hazzouri
melhazzouri@dal.ca
Diversity in advertising; Public health advertising; Social identity; Consumer debt; Evolutionary basis of consumption
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Justin McManus
mcmanus@dal.ca
Self-related attitudes, beliefs, and motivations; Organizational trustworthiness and brand trust; Consumption signals (e.g., status, competence, morality); Antecedents of new product evaluation
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Valerie Trifts
valerie.trifts@dal.ca
Advertising; Consumer behaviour
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

MIS concentration

Jing (Jenny) Chen
jchen@dal.ca
Supply chain management; Retail operations; Consumer behavioUr analysis; Decision support analytics
Available to supervise in 2024/2025, 2025/2026

Colin Conrad
colin.conrad@dal.ca
Educational technology; Social media; Neuro-information systems; Human-computer interaction
Available to supervise in 2024/2025, 2025/2026

Alexander Engau
alexander.engau@dal.ca
Business analytics, Artificial intelligence; Statistical machine learning; Data-driven decision making; Decision support systems, operations research, mathematical modeling
Available to supervise in 2024/2025, 2025/2026

Paola Gonzalez
paola.gonzalez@dal.ca
Information system leadership and the IT profession; Health information systems (e.g. design, user experience, adoption, implementation); Design and leverage information systems to provide equity, accessibility and inclusiveness
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Kyung Young Lee
kyunglee@dal.ca
Online product reviews; Text-mining; Smart tourism; Smart tools and applications; Corporate use of social media; Human-AI interactions
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

Armağan Özbilge
ozbilgea@dal.ca
Sustainable operations; Charitable giving; Food loss and waste; Perishable inventory management; Omnichannel retailing
Available to supervise in 2024/2025, 2025/2026

Ali Ülkü
ulku@dal.ca
Supply chain analytics; Community-based operations research; Business sustainability metrics; Decision support systems

Bo Yu
bo.yu@dal.ca
Technological agency; Information systems use, design and assessment; Negotiation and auction online; Healthcare analytics
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025