Zoï Coucopoulos

Zoï Coucopoulos previously held the position of Coordinator of Strategic Initiatives, where she supported the growth of the Telfer School of Management’s research quality and intensity by assisting researchers and research groups in developing interdisciplinary research programs and outreach activities. She also facilitated the development of strategic research groups and helped faculty members and research-based graduate students contribute to the development of a strong research culture.

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Analyzing the differences between idealized and “real-world” workflows

Professor William Van Woensel has received a NSERC Discovery grant to study the differences between idealized, unrealistic workflows, and real-world workflows.

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Combining data-drivenness and robustness in machine learning

Professor Jonathan Li has received a NSERC Discovery grant to establish a data-driven distributionally robust optimization (DD-DRO) framework.

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The Canadian Regulatory Context and Space Entrepreneurship

Professor Wadid Lamine has received a SSHRC Insight Grant to study the Canadian regulatory context and space entrepreneurship.

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Who are you? What do you do? Professor to study impact of identity on behaviour

Professor Keri Kettle has received a SMRG grant to study the way association with an identity will become stronger or weaker, depending on the engagement with that identity.

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Finding solutions to artificial intelligence data challenges

Rafid Mahmood, a Telfer assistant professor, has received a Discovery grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

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Professor to Study Impact of Scarcity on Financial Decisions

Professor Miwako Nitani received a SSHRC Insight Grant to study impact of scarcity on financial decisions.

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Are Share Repurchases in the Best Interest, or at the Expense, of Labour?

Telfer Professor Ali Akyol has received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant to study the strategic use of share repurchases.

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Inclusive innovation: Finding ways to consider everyone

Telfer professor Tyler Chamberlin has received a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for a research project titled “Enabling Systems Transitions towards Inclusive Innovation.”

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Relational human resource management in health-care institutions: Meet new professor Qian Zhang

Qian Zhang joined the Telfer School of Management as an assistant professor in July 2022. She earned a PhD in industrial relations and human resources from the University of Toronto.

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A new look at the impact of firms’ governance on investor returns

Telfer professor Adelphe Ekponon has received an SMRG grant for a project titled “Governance Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns: Can Business Cycles Help Solve the Puzzle?”

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Fostering Indigenous research “in a good way”

Ana Maria Peredo, Telfer professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, has received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection grant.

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Using AI to improve business processes

Telfer professor William Van Woensel - SMRG grant for a BPM project titled “Studying the Use of State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing Models for Extracting Process Models from Natural Text.”

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A study to examine the influence of family and non-family CEOs’ compensation on family firm performance

Peter Jaskiewicz has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant, enabling him to study the incentives offered to non-family CEOs of family businesses.

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Innovation, Risk Tolerance and Failure

Telfer professor Imed Chkir has received a SMRG Research grant for a research project titled “Non-granted patents, tolerance to failure and innovation success".

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Improving Supply Chain Resilience through Information Systems

Telfer professor Pavel Andreev has received an SMRG grant for a project titled “Designing Robust Information Systems to Facilitate the Resilience of Supply Chains During Crisis.”

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Democratizing the deployment and use of artificial intelligence: Meet new professor Rafid Mahmood

Professor Rafid Mahmood joined the Telfer School of Management in summer 2022. He’s an assistant professor in business analytics and information systems.

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Using global production chains to secure investments in sustainability

Telfer professor Tommaso Ferretti has received a SMRG Research Grant to identify policies and governance mechanisms that use firms’ participation in GVCs to foster access to “impact investments".

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Social enterprises: It takes an ecosystem to succeed

Professor Madeline Toubiana has received a SMRG Research Grant to study, with PhD student Natalie Eng, the role of ecosystems and the ways they can be constructed by a collective of actors.

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Unlocking financial innovation to enable economic development and sustainability in agribusiness: Meet new professor Tommaso Ferretti

Professor Tommaso Ferretti joined the Telfer School of Management in summer 2022. He’s an assistant professor in management whose research focuses on international strategy, sustainability innovation.

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PhD Spotlight : Boushra El-Haj Hassan

Boushra El-Haj Hassan joined the Telfer School of Management in 2016 to pursue a PhD in management, specializing in finance.

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PhD Spotlight - Alison Coates

In 2018, Alison Coates joined the PhD in Management program to specialize in health systems.

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