Business Research

The Alberta School of Business is home to world renowned scholars who continually advance our understanding of important issues facing business here in Canada and around the globe.

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Society and Culture, Business, Employees

Why a distant real estate slump can silently change what’s on your local grocery shelf

Your favourite organic product didn't vanish from store shelves because of poor local sales — it likely got pulled because homeowners thousands of miles away stopped spending.

Deanna Hoffman and Jay Hyun

Health And Wellness, Business

Faster drug recalls, safer patients: How diverse corporate boards protect public health and stock prices

Diverse corporate boards act significantly faster on dangerous drug warnings, shielding patients from health risks and protecting firms from severe stock drops, new research shows.

Deanna Hoffman

Employees, Research, Business

Transparency, regulation and unintended consequences: Meet assistant professor Lulin Song

What happens when regulation works, but not quite in the way anyone expected? Lulin Song studies how firms respond to rules around transparency, uncovering the surprising ways policies can shape health care, environmental outcomes and lending.

Selin Simsek

Employees, Business

The Human Element

Michael Lounsbury redefines organizational theory by anchoring research in culture, storytelling and community

Donna McKinnon

Business, Employees, Research

Modern markets and the future of trading: Meet assistant professor Saad Khan

What really happens after you place a trade on an app? Saad Khan studies how market design, order routing and trading technology shape the prices investors receive and the way modern financial markets work.

Selin Simsek

Business PHD Spotlight

Business, Research

Business PhD Spotlight: Xin Yang

Investigating how corporate disclosures directly shape real-world consumer behaviour beyond stock market prices.

Xin Yang

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