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 ) 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, 2024/2025, and 2025/2026
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, 2024/2025, and 2025/2026
Catherine Loughlin
cloughlin@dal.ca
Available to supervise in 2023/2024, 2024/2025, and 2025/2026
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 and 2025/2026
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 2025/2026
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 2025/2026
Peggy Cunningham
peggyc@dal.ca
Marketing strategy; Fast growth companies, branding, marketing ethics; Corporate social responsibilityÂ
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 2025/2026
Mohammed El Hazzouri
melhazzouri@dal.ca
Diversity in advertising; Public health advertising; Social identity; Consumer debt; Evolutionary basis of consumption
Available to supervise in 2025/2026
Tom Koo
tom.kb.koo@dal.ca
Consumer behaviour; Customer experience; Language; Digital communication; Technology; Artificial intelligence; Well-being
Available to supervise in 2025/2026
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 2025/2026
Valerie Trifts
valerie.trifts@dal.ca
Advertising; Consumer behaviour
Available to supervise in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025; Planning to take sabbatical 2025/2026
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