Awards and Accolades - October to December 2025
Celebrating the outstanding achievements of our Alberta School of Business faculty, students, staff and alumni from October to December 2025
Business News Archive 2025
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How information asymmetry shapes market behaviour: meet new assistant professor Jonathan Craske
Joining the Department of Accounting and Business Analytics is Jonathan Craske, whose research looks at how differences in access to information affect the way people behave in financial markets, and how policy and new data sources can help create fairer, more transparent decisions.
Get to know...Zofia Lee
Learn about Zofia Lee's favourite way to spend her weekends, her favourite travel destination, and more!
Best Poster award winners at the 2025 Business PhD Research Conference
From operating-room scheduling to organizational identity and global currency risk, this year’s Best Poster Award winners showcase the depth, rigour and real-world relevance of Business PhD research at the Alberta School of Business
3MT award winners at the 2025 Business PhD Research Conference
These exceptional PhD students effectively communicated their research to a multidisciplinary audience — using just one slide and three minutes of time.
2025: Most-read stories at ASB
We pulled the numbers, and the results are in: The most-read ASB stories of 2025 offer a glimpse into the people, ideas and discoveries driving curiosity and conversation across our community.
New research sheds light on the value of group purchasing organizations in the healthcare industry
New research from the Alberta School of Business provides rare evidence that larger group purchasing organizations help hospitals cut supply costs, without reducing patient care quality.
First Nations communities weave their own paths: new study redefines Indigenous entrepreneurship
New research from the Alberta School of Business shows how First Nations communities blend cultural traditions and Western institutions to define their own entrepreneurial paths.
Get to know...Megan Slifka
Learn about Megan Slifka's favorite way to spend her weekends, her dream travel destination, and more!
How technologies and algorithms shape real-world decisions: Meet new assistant professor Chenghuai Li
Joining the Department of Accounting and Business Analytics is Chenghuai Li, whose work uses analytical and data-driven methods to study how innovative technologies and algorithmic decision-making impact areas spanning supply chains, platforms and social challenges such as food waste and electric vehicle adoption among ride-hailing drivers.
Cenovus enters into the business of impact
Business students get a new partner in their pursuit of solutions to Edmonton’s urban challenges.
Optimizing for people, purpose and progress
New faculty member Ruijiu Mao studies how analytics and optimization can make operations more sustainable, efficient and fair, connecting theory with impact.
From wasted power to green wheels: paving the way for a sustainable hydrogen future
New research from the Alberta School of Business tackles the complex challenges — from consumer acceptance to infrastructure — that are constraining the promising, long-range, zero-emission hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles from large-scale adoption.
How place shapes markets: Meet new associate professor Nathan Schiff
Urban economist Nathan Schiff has built his career studying how geography influences markets, cities and communities. Now, he’s bringing that perspective to the Alberta School of Business.
Get to know...Lauren Ong
Learn about Lauren Ong's favourite show, hobbies and her best advice for new colleagues!
New faculty member explores the economics behind housing affordability
Joining the marketing, business economics and law department in the Alberta School of Business, James Macek discusses his path to academia, his research on housing affordability and his approach to connecting economic theory with real-world impact.
How multinational companies can help fight climate change
New research from Alberta School of Business researcher Adelina Barbalau highlights the powerful — and often overlooked — role that global businesses play in curbing emissions and supporting green innovation.
Get to know...Vanessa Bonner
Learn about Vanessa Bonner's favorite way to spend her weekends, her favorite travel destination, and more!
Alberta School of Business launches cutting-edge business analytics lab
Facility provides hands-on learning for future business leaders
Making sense of money in a political, tech-driven world — with one of our newest faculty members
Yang Yi is the Alberta School of Business’ newest assistant professor in the Department of Finance
What breakdancing taught a business scholar about work
New SEM faculty member Curtis Chan studies meaning, autonomy and inclusion — translating real-world stories into insights that help people thrive at work.
Get to know...Tyler Lockyer
Learn about Tyler's favorite way to spend his weekends, his favorite travel destination, and more!
New faculty member brings expertise in analytical accounting
Rahul Menon joins the Alberta School of Business accounting and business analytics department as an assistant professor
Get to know...Stacy MacKinnon
Learn about Stacy MacKinnon's favorite travel destination, comfort foods and more!
Discounts on stigmatized-identity products may backfire, study finds
Think twice before slashing prices on products symbolically linked to stigmatized identities, according to new research from Alberta School of Business professor Jennifer Argo.
Expert in consumer behaviour and choice architecture joins Business faculty
Shannon Duncan, new assistant professor in the Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, uses psychology and marketing to study how small nudges can improve well-being
Bogging down investors
A new study from Alberta School of Business researcher Ke Wang highlights the effect of litigation risk on the readability of corporate financial reports
Awards and Accolades - April to June 2025
Celebrating the outstanding achievements of our Alberta School of Business faculty, students, staff and alumni from April to June 2025
The optimal ad mix discovered
New research from Alberta School of Business researcher Yonghua Ji sheds light on how businesses can best combine online and traditional advertising for maximum impact.
Business student Ishan Arora looks back on his degree
After four extremely busy years, the bachelor of commerce grad thinks fondly about travel, extracurriculars and friendships
Two Alberta School of Business grads celebrate their degrees with an epic trek
Before convocation, Luke Talman and Olivier Haley biked across New Zealand, covering 1,850 kilometres of rough terrain and facing challenges along the way
Rory Waisman, ‘25 PhD, put on a large-scale study on how consumers make decisions, and how to influence them
Waisman is set to graduate from the Alberta School of Business this summer
Kathryn Byron: From burnout to breakthrough
Kathryn Byron shares how her MBA helped rekindle her passion for work and life
Case closed, future open: Marlow Pfeifer, BCom ‘25
A Futures Fund Scholar and case competition standout, Marlow Pfeifer helped reignite student life at the Alberta School of Business after the pandemic, making a lasting impact along the way.
Get to know...Colin Trepanier
Learn about Colin Trepanier's favorite way to spend his weekends, his favourite TV shows, and more!
UAAC Students File 1,600 Free Tax Returns for the Community
This year, UAAC’s student-run Tax Clinic filed over 1,600 returns. It’s a hands-on way for students to build skills while making a real difference.
PhD Program 40th Anniversary Alumni Profile: Evelyn R. Micelotta, ‘15
Evelyn R. Micelotta, PhD ’15, brings an academic lens to the legacy and identity dynamics at play in family businesses — territory made famous by HBO’s Succession — as well as various phenomena of organizational life, from corporate social irresponsibility to innovation post succession.
Building models and algorithms for enhanced emergency medical services
Alberta School of Business Dean, Vikas Mehrotra sits down with Winspear Chair Armann Ingolfsson to talk about how his research addresses our society’s grand challenges.
Cameo Hanlon: From athlete to entrepreneur
Business grad and varsity athlete shares her path to entrepreneurship
From window shopping to global store design: how one BCom grad found his lane in retail marketing
After nearly 12 years at Nike and now leading global visual merchandising at lululemon, Nick Nemish, BCom '09, shares how intuition, agility and a love of fashion shaped his career — including designing a Team Canada pop-up for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Awards and Accolades - January to March 2025
Celebrating the outstanding achievements of our Alberta School of Business faculty, students, staff and alumni from January to March 2025
PhD Program 40th Anniversary Alumni Profile: Meet Vaughan Radcliffe, '95
From auditing to AI, Vaughan Radcliffe, PhD ’95, has spent his career pushing the boundaries of accounting research. Now a professor at Ivey Business School, he reflects on the role of expertise in an increasingly automated world — and why curiosity and originality still matter.
How cities grow (or not)
Alberta School of Business professor Guozhong Zhu and his colleague have developed a model that describes how a suite of factors determine volatility in the housing market
Get to know...Anna Martyniak
Learn about Anna Martyniak's favorite way to spend her weekends, her favorite travel destination, and more!
Trade deals, tariffs, and trade wars: Research sheds light on currency risks and vulnerable economies
Business researcher Colin Ward investigates the economic forces at play amidst current trade tensions
From classroom to custom bras: How one alumna is reshaping lingerie to put women first
This International Women’s Day, we celebrate Ruhee Dhillon, BCom ’04 and founder of Rubies Bras, who made it her mission to support women — not just by creating bras that truly fit, but by challenging the idea that women should conform to what’s available, rather than demand what they deserve.
Everyone starts as a beginner
U of A MBA grad shares how she made the leap from English literature major to tech CEO
Pretrial detention increases rate of household insolvency, U of A study finds
Financial burdens fall on family members of defendants
PhD Program 40th Anniversary Alumni Profile: Meet Ujwal Kayande, ‘98
Ujwal Kayande’s PhD scholarship to the Alberta School of Business in 1998 set the stage for a career spanning top universities worldwide, leadership roles in business education, and advisory positions with major global brands like L’Oréal and T2 Tea.
Bringing EPIC Market to Life: Meet Jennifer Keith, ‘11
Jennifer Keith, co-founder of EPIC Market, took inspiration from her global travels and love for variety to create something entirely new for Edmonton. EPIC Market — a five-concept food hall combining elevated dining, innovative drinks, and a sense of community — represents a bold leap from her corporate career into entrepreneurship.