Rotman Commerce Annual Report 2011-12

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Thinking Globally

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FROM OUR DIRECTOR

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Our Program

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International Connections

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International Study

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Student Life

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Student Leadership

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scholarships

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Career Services

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CORPORATE partners

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Our Alumni Advantage

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OUR DONORs

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FROM OUR DIRECTOR

It is with great pleasure that I present Rotman Commerce’s 2011-2012 Annual Report: Thinking Globally.

Our focus this year has been to expand the reach of our program in terms of recruitment and admissions, curriculum, extra- and co-curricular programming, student leadership opportunities, alumni engagement, and corporate relations. We are a community of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and corporate partners with ties to countries around the world; our diversity strengthens us in an economy that increasingly requires a keen understanding of the international nature of modern commerce.

But simply being international is not enough. At Rotman Commerce, we encourage our students and graduates to think internationally as well. From the beginning of our recruitment cycle, we actively seek out talented students from around the world, and international and domestic students alike benefit from the learning opportunities available with such diverse classmates. In the classroom, our new concentration in International Business helps those studying in our Management Specialist program to gain an in-depth understanding of the international context of business. In addition, we are continually expanding our international exchange and summer abroad programs – this year saw the introduction of a new Rotman Commerce course offered in the UAE – to give Rotman Commerce students the opportunity to pursue their studies while experiencing life in a different culture. Outside the classroom, we actively look for international competitions and conferences and other learning opportunities that are suitable for our students – and then we help ensure that they have the financial backing to attend. This year, over 70 of our students participated in international co-curricular opportunities in countries as varied as Turkey, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and China, and 10 of our top students travelled to New York with Rotman Commerce faculty and staff to meet with alumni and corporate partners at major financial institutions there.

Of course, thinking globally also means thinking about our program as a whole – how we work together as a community. I am happy to say that I think we have done this exceedingly well. Hundreds of volunteers from our alumni and corporate partner communities came to campus to contribute to the vitality of the Rotman Commerce student experience this year and worked with us to create a vibrant and productive learning community.

This report details our efforts to think globally in all of these respects. I hope you will take as much pride in our accomplishments as I do.

Sincerely,

Professor Kenneth S. Corts Director, Rotman Commerce

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Our Program Our faculty are a major strength of our program: many teach either in the Rotman School of Management or in UofT’s famed Department of Economics, or are industry professionals eager to share their knowledge with Rotman Commerce students.

J.C. Bourque, an industry professional, brought his expertise to the classroom to teach Globalization and Capital Markets: Political Economy and Investment Strategy

With faculty from the internationally renowned Rotman School of Management and UofT’s top-ranked economics department, the Rotman Commerce program offers our students one of the finest undergraduate business educations available worldwide. We ensure that our students develop advanced management skills and acquire a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences so that our graduates will have the advantage of broad interdisciplinary knowledge – knowledge that will help them become the creative innovators of tomorrow’s business world.

Our three-stream curriculum, in which students specialize in accounting, finance and economics, or management, is recognized by professional associations such as the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, and the CFA Institute. And we continue to develop new study programs that will enable our students to make the most out of their learning when it comes time to pursue their careers and further education. This year, International Business joins Leadership in Organizations, Marketing, and Strategy as an optional area of concentration available to students in our management specialist.

Rotman Commerce continues to attract the very finest students from Canada and around the world. Our student population boasts representatives from more than 35 countries – testament to the strong reputation that our program enjoys globally.

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TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS

2,509

723

NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENTERING THE PROGAM IN SEPTEMBER 2011

NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN SPECIALIST PROGRAMS (years 2-4)

42.6% Male

57.4% Female

6,436

NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

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NUMBER OF COUNTRIES REPRESENTED BY FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS

13.3% Management

36.9% Accounting 49.8% Finance & Economics

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International Connections

Students in Michael Khan’s International Management and Managerial Accounting class take in a desert tour in the United Arab Emirates.

Bringing the Rotman Commerce program to the world – and the world to our program – means reaching out to colleagues and students across the globe. While our recruitment and alumni communications are always international in nature, this year we made special efforts to cultivate relationships in some of the key countries from which our students come.

In January, Professor Kenneth Corts, the Program’s director, travelled to Asia to meet with representatives from business programs at a number of universities in China and Japan, where he facilitated arrangements that will enable our students to more easily study at those schools as part of our exchange program.

On the Recruitment and Admissions side, we focused on two regions from which we have started to see more students applying to our program. In early 2012, we hosted information sessions in the United Arab Emirates, where we made personal contact with students in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. In April, Rotman Commerce travelled to India, where Deanne Saunders, Director of Academic Services, visited prospective students from Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai. Both of these trips provided high-school students in those countries with valuable opportunities to meet our representatives face-to-face. We are looking forward to continuing with our recruitment efforts in these countries, and to welcoming more talented students from those areas to Rotman Commerce in the near future.

Rotman Commerce Director Kenneth Corts meets with Hongbin Cai, Dean of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University.

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International Study

Michael Khan and his students at the Sheikh Zayed mosque in Dubai, UAE.

As part of our commitment to ensuring that our students have ample opportunity to gain international experience during their studies, Rotman Commerce and the University of Toronto have several partnership agreements with universities around the world. To date, our program has official ties to 25 universities; these relationships enable our students to study abroad for one or two semesters while gaining credit towards their degrees, and paying UofT tuition. This year, we were pleased to add the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, to our list of recognized Rotman Commerce partner schools.

Rather than committing to a full semester or year of exchange, many of our students choose instead to take advantage of our Summer Abroad courses. In Summer 2012, we offered a new course at the American University of Sharjah: International Management and Managerial Accounting. Eighteen students participated in this course, taught by Rotman Commerce and Rotman School of Management lecturer, Michael Khan. International management courses for Rotman Commerce students were also taught by Rotman faculty in Hong Kong at the University of Hong Kong, while an international marketing course, focusing on the wine and automotive industries, was offered at the University of Siena in Italy.

Professor David Dunne takes students in his International Marketing class to the Duomo of Pisa in Italy.

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Student Life Student life at Rotman Commerce is a key part of how our students learn. While making friends and attending social functions are important to all students regardless of their program, Rotman Commerce student life also encompasses a wealth of unique hands-on learning opportunities. From attending international conferences and competitions, to participating in professional development programming, to organizing and attending industryspecific symposia, our students have numerous opportunities to build both career skills and social connections in our ever-active student community.

Rotman Commerce has ten program-supported student organizations: the Rotman Commerce Students’ Association (RCSA), Rotman Commerce Accounting Society (RCAS), Rotman Commerce Beyond Business (RCBB), Rotman Commerce Consulting Association (RCCA), Rotman Commerce Finance Association (RCFA), Rotman Commerce Law Association (RCLA), Rotman Commerce Marketing Association (RCMA), Rotman Commerce Pride Alliance (RCPA), Rotman Commerce Toastmasters (RCT), and Rotman Commerce Women in Business (RCWIB). Last year, 118 of our students served in leadership positions in these groups, which organized 75 events. Many of these events were largescale conferences and symposia, where keynote speakers and presenters included such accomplished professionals as CIBC Senior Executive Vice President, Victor Dodig (BCom ’88); Capco partner, John Armstrong (BCom ’82); Rotman School of Management Dean, Roger Martin; and venture capitalist and Dragons’ Den personality, Arlene Dickinson. New student group events this year included RCBB’s Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and the RCFA’s Rotman Commerce Finance Conference, two successful initiatives that will continue in 2012-2013.

Venture capitalist Arlene Dickinson is interviewed by Rachel Teoh (BCom ’13) at the 2012 Rotman Commerce Women in Business 2012 Leadership Symposium.

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Rotman Commerce’s “Flying Dutchmen” with faculty advisor Ajaz Hussain at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

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Members of the Rotman Commerce Finance Association in the Rotman Financial Research and Trading Lab.

A continuously popular resource in our student life programming is the Conferences and Competitions Subsidy Fund, which contributes a portion of travel and registration costs for students attending conferences and case competitions. This year, we funded 98 students to participate in 118 events. Among these were four fourth-year students – Philip Duong, Omid Fattahi, P. David Gilmour, and Pedram Shayegan, calling themselves “The Flying Dutchmen” – who placed third in the prestigious International Case Competition at Maastricht (ICC@M), held at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Accompanied by faculty member Ajaz Hussain, the Flying Dutchmen were the highest ranking North American team, prevailing over competitors from the Haas School of Business (Berkeley), the McDonough School of Business (Georgetown), and Simon Fraser University, among others.

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ince 2010, Rotman Commerce has been providing seed money through our Good Ideas Fund to help support our students’ activities in projects that will have a positive impact in the community. This year, fourth-year accounting specialist Avish Sood traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to help under-privileged children gain personal development through sport.

“Cape Town is easily one of the most beautiful cities in the world with the gorgeous backdrop of Table Mountain and the vast array of wildlife that is abundant in the Cape Floral region. Upon entering the city, I was welcomed by my volunteer coordinators who drove me to my volunteer house for the next month – a building that housed twenty girls, six guys, and had only one bathroom. I wondered what I had gotten myself into, but as soon as I arrived at the primary school I would be working at, my outlook on things changed.

On a typical day at the school, I coordinated physical education classes for the students during the morning, helped with teaching in the afternoon, and took several of the students to the beach for surf lessons. These children, although incredibly mischievous, appreciated every little thing you did with them. To be honest, I went there expecting to change some of these kids’ mindsets; instead, they changed mine. I learned that no matter what life throws at you, there will always be reasons to have a positive outlook.

After nearly a month of volunteer work with the primary school, I regrettably had to say goodbye to the city of Cape Town. The children definitely made a mark on me, as did the country itself, with its warm hospitality. I appreciate Rotman Commerce giving me the opportunity to travel to this wonderful place and helping me learn important life lessons – for myself and for the children I worked with.”

“I appreciate Rotman Commerce giving me the opportunity to travel to this wonderful place and helping me learn important life lessons – for myself and for the children I worked with.”

– Avish Sood, BCom ’12 Recipient of Rotman Commerce Good Ideas funding

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Student Leadership

2011-2012 Director’s Awards Recipients with Rotman Commerce Director Kenneth Corts. From left to right: Anum Khawar, Sally Woo, Donna Huang, Hannah Zhang,Yihua Eva Liu, Erik Sarkisyan, Lily Shao Wai Jin, Kenneth Corts, Eva Teresa Luk, Dawoon Chung, Francis Dominic Laset, and Shane Das.

The student body at Rotman Commerce is composed of exceptional students from all over the world. Already outstanding among their peers when they arrive here, they continue to shine in our community as they excel in leadership, spirit, innovation, and academic achievement.

At every year’s graduation reception, we present the Director’s Awards to recognize significant contribution to the Rotman Commerce program. The 2011-2012 recipients of these awards were:

Award for Academic Excellence: Melissa Gregoire Lily Shao Wai Jin Erik Sarkisyan I Kio Wong Weihua Zheng

Award for Innovation: Donna Huang Erik Sarkisyan Sally Woo

Award for Leadership: Dawoon Chung Anum Khawar Yihua Eva Liu Eva Teresa Luk Hannah Zhang

Award for Spirit: Shane Das Francis Dominic Laset

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On June 15, the Rotman Commerce Class of 2012 received their BCom degrees at Convocation Hall, and 463 Rotman Commerce students became Rotman Commerce’s newest alumni. Many of these students have now begun careers at some of the world’s leading firms in accounting, investment management, financial services, consulting, manufacturing, retail, and technology, among many others. Some are working with government organizations and non-profits. Others have chosen to pursue higher education in such fields as law, economics, finance, and business. Whatever path our grads have chosen, we know they will succeed and we look forward to their continued presence at our alumni events.

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scholarships Hailey Vasyliw, the recipient of the inaugural HSBC Women in Business Leadership Award, has been an active contributor to Rotman Commerce student life as the Director of Corporate Relations for the Rotman Commerce Finance Association, and co-chair of the Rotman Commerce Student Association’s enVision conference.

Our program is fortunate to have the support of several generous benefactors who provide our students with scholarships that help them to complete their studies and recognize their outstanding performance. New this year was the HSBC Women in Business Leadership Award, given to one Rotman Commerce student annually in recognition of exemplary academic achievement and leadership potential. This year’s recipient was Hailey Vasyliw, who was the Director of Corporate Relations for the Rotman Commerce Finance Association in 2011-2012, and co-chair of the Rotman Commerce Student Association’s annual enVision conference. As part of the scholarship, Hailey was awarded a summer internship at HSBC Canada, and will receive $10,000 per year for the last two years of her studies.

Generous donations by members of our alumni community created two new scholarships. The Lawrason Foundation Prize for Undergraduate Students recognizes academic excellence and is awarded to a second- or third-year student enrolled in our program. This year’s recipient was third-year finance and economics specialist, Nina Bakhtina. The McManus Family Scholarship, which will be given for the first time in 2012-2013, will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and financial need to students of any year attending Rotman Commerce.

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Rotman Commerce Scholarships and Recipients 2011-2012 Anthony Scilipoti Undergraduate Scholarship in Commerce Sonya Digenova Bank of Montreal National Scholar Shipra Roy Certified General Accountants Association of Ontario Award for Excellence Yao Liu Commerce and Finance Class of ’64 Scholarship Jae Hyun Cao Congress Canada Scholarship Byung Keun Park Conrad M. Siegel FSA Award in Commerce Erik Sarkisyan David Quirin Memorial Scholarship Nina Bakhtina Donna Zielinski Memorial Scholarship Lily Shao Wai Jin Ernst & Young Scholarship in Commerce (3rd Year) Xueying Liu Latisha A. Walter Chen Zou Ernst & Young Scholarship in Commerce (4th Year) Sergei Babinets Faculty of Arts and Science Alumni Scholarship Erik Sarkisyan FEDNAV Scholarship Patrick Fox Fung Yiu King Memorial Scholarship Hay Yan Wong Honourable Ray Lawson Scholarship Miranda Geng

HSBC Women in Business Leadership Award Hailey Vasyliw Lawrason Foundation Prize for Undergraduate Students Nina Bakhtina Lew Shoskes Memorial Scholarship Erik Sarkisyan Man Chow Poon Scholarship Zhe Huang Martin R. Lindsay Memorial Scholarship Melissa Gregoire Minto Foundation Scholarship in Commerce Xueying Liu Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Bursary Lu Qiu Peter E. McQuillan Taxation Scholarship Kathleen Roe Cogliano Philip and Irving Granovsky Scholarship Grace Chan Robert Dart Award in Commerce and Finance Lily Shao Wai Jin Rotman Commerce Alumni Scholarship Nirvani Sookdeo Rotman Commerce GRADitude Scholarship Noor El Masri Society of Management Accountants of Ontario Award of Merit Talha Najam University of Toronto Deloitte & Touche Scholarship Xueying Liu William T. Jackman Scholarship in Corporate Finance or in Transportation Economics Lok Yee Jessica Leung

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Career Services

As part of the Finance Street Smarts program, participants toured CIBC’s Bay Street Trading Floors.

Every year, we develop new and innovative ways to help our students succeed in their careers and communities while building on the skills they acquire throughout their studies at Rotman Commerce. This year, our projects included programs for our finance specialists, a new management consulting alumni collaboration, and a professional experience program designed especially for our international students.

Our FinanceNYC, Finance Street Smarts, and Simplify the Street initiatives offered upper-year finance and economics students valuable opportunities to experience the workings of the finance industry first-hand, and to network with professionals from some of the most prestigious firms worldwide. FinanceNYC took ten of our most accomplished third- and fourth-year finance students along with faculty advisor Maureen Stapleton to Wall Street, where they met with representatives from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, TD Securities, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, RBC, UBS, Société Génerale, Nomura, and BMO Capital Markets. Similarly, the Finance Street Smarts and Simplify the Street programs offered our fourth- and third-year participants the chance to meet and learn from working finance professionals, while gaining insight on how best to prepare themselves for a career in the industry. As part of these programs, students were given tours of CIBC’s Bay Street Trading Floors, and invited to be part of an alumni networking reception.

Our Management Consulting Alumni Program (MCAP) helped students gain insider understanding of management consulting. By collaborating with alumni mentors at a number of Toronto-area consulting firms, MCAP offered presentations and workshops that prepared students for careers in the competitive and vibrant management consulting sector. In addition, MCAP gave students ongoing opportunities to practice case skills, access one-onone coaching, and take advantage of specialized consulting resources.

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For our international students, particularly those whose first language is not English, we developed the Canadian Professional Experience Program (CPEP), an initiative designed to aid these students transition to and succeed in the Canadian job market. Limited to twenty second-year students, the program focuses on the skills most needed by international students to build their professional profiles. CPEP participants are assisted by the Career Centre in securing unpaid placement experience that allows them to gain valuable professional experience in a workplace environment.

The FinanceNYC team outside the New York Stock Exchange.

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CORPORATE partners

Students in Ibrahim Ibrahim’s MARS Canada-supported workshop learned how to develop and make use of their own personal brand.

Our students and alumni benefit in many ways from the strong relationships that we enjoy with our corporate partners. Recruiters and talent managers from companies and organizations across Canada and internationally work with our Career Centre throughout the year to make sure that our students are aware of the many different professional opportunities that are open to them as members of the Rotman Commerce community.

Increasingly, we have collaborated with our corporate partners to develop programs that help students learn important skills that will help them throughout their careers – skills like personal branding, preparing for interviews, writing professional resumes and cover letters, giving presentations, and preparing for professional examinations.

These programs introduce company representatives to promising and capable students, while allowing those students to gain a unique understanding of the job market and establish personal connections with professionals working in their areas of interest.

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Corporate Partner Profile: MARS Canada, Inc. Ibrahim Ibrahim, Talent Manager at MARS Canada, is a professionally trained executive coach. He is also a specialist in corporate leadership development and employee engagement and well-being. At a meeting with Career Centre Relationship Manager, Robert Ste-Croix, Ibrahim suggested holding a workshop to help students develop their personal brand. With his experience in leadership development, Ibrahim knew that the personal story is a powerful way for students to “market� themselves to prospective employers, as well as to gain better insight into their own motivations, strengths, and challenges.

In March, Ibrahim hosted a two-day workshop for a small group of second- and third-year Rotman Commerce students in which he introduced them to the concept of leveraging their personal brand. The program helped students to raise their awareness of their personal brand and its impact on others, allowed them to practise giving voice to that brand, assisted them in developing an action plan to strengthen their brand, and coached them on using their existing skill sets and experiences to help sell themselves in job interviews and networking opportunities.

In addition, Ibrahim met individually with each student who completed the workshop in an hour-long, one-on-one coaching session, and invited them to meet with him at the MARS offices, where they could tour the facilities.

Our Career Centre is always eager to work with corporate partners to develop unique learning opportunities for our students, such as the one developed by Ibrahim and MARS Canada. Our strong ties to corporate recruiters and talent managers allow us to offer enhanced career services, and we are grateful to the many excellent companies we work with who help us to continually improve.

Our corporate partners enrich the learning environment at Rotman Commerce immensely through their ongoing presence on campus, their efforts in recruiting and mentoring our students, their willingness to participate in and host student and alumni events, and their overall support of our program, our students, and our graduates.

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Corporate Partners 3XCD 3M A.I.M. Group Canada Ltd. A.T. Kearney Ltd. Abrahamse Berkis Pinto & Associates LLP Accenture Algorithmics American Express Canada AquaMobile Inc. Armstrong & Quaile Associates Armstrong Partnership Asherleaf Consulting Ashoka Canada Aston Hill Financial Inc. AVIVA Canada Avon B2B Trust Bain & Company Canada Inc. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank of Canada Barrick Bay Street HR BBDO BCG BDO Dunwoody LLP Beacon Brokerage Beacon Securities Ltd. Bell Canada Blackhawk Network Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP Blair Franklin Capital Partners Inc. Blinds To Go BlueSky BMO Capital Markets BMO Financial Group BMW Group Canada Boardseat Inc. Boston Consulting Group Brendan Wood International Bridgeport Asset Management Inc. BroadGrain Commodities Inc. Brookfield Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. Business Development Bank of Canada CAA Caesarstone Canada

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Canaccord Genuity Corp.

Canadian Cancer Society Canadian Film Centre Canadian Tire Corporation Canerector Inc. Canon Canada Capco Capgemini Canada Inc. Capital One Canada Carly Rian Group Catlin Canada CCC Investment Banking Celestica CGI Chartered Business Valuators Chubb Insurance CI Financial CIBC Citco Inc. Citigroup Claymore Investments Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. Colliers International Corus Entertainment Inc. CPP Investment Board Cranson Capitial Credit Suisse Davies Wards Philips & Vineberg LLP D&H Deloitte Deloitte Consulting Deutsche Bank - New York Deutsche Post DHL DHL Express Ltd. Direct Energy DundeeWealth Equity Financial Trust Electronic Arts Elizabeth Arden Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. Enterprise Holdings Ernst & Young ETFInsight Ethical Coffee Company Evergreen Export Development Canada ExxonMobil

Fairmont Raffles Hotels International Fidelity Investments Financial Planning Standards Council First Sovereign Investment Management Fogler Rubinoff LLP Forbes & Manhattan Ford Motor Company of Canada Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Fusion Retail Analytics Garrison Hill Capital Management Inc. GE Gerdau Ameristeel Global Golf Advisors Go Bee Inc. Goldman Sachs & Co. Goodmans LLP Google Grant Thornton LLP Greenhill & Co. Canada Ltd. Guilfoyle Financial Hay Group Haywood Securities Henkaa Hewlett Packard Hillsdale Investment Management HomeSav Inc. HR Transformations HSBC Hudson’s Bay Company HydroOne IBM Canada Ltd. IBM Global Business Services iGan Partners Imperial Oil Imperial Tobacco Canada Infrastructure Ontario Invesco Trimark Invest Toronto Investeam Canada Investor Economics J.P. Morgan Jacob Securities Jantzi Sustainalytics Johnson & Johnson Junior Achievement Kaplan’s Test Prep

Kiva Kobo KPMG LLP Kraft Canada Inc. L & L Real Estate Investments Labatt Lakeridge Capital Inc. Laurentian Bank Securities LEVEL5 Loblaw Companies Ltd. Lombard Canada Longview Asset Management Loose Button L’Oreal Canada Louis Vuitton Lululemon Athletica Macquarie North America Ltd. Managing Matters Inc. Manulife Financial Maple Leaf Foods Inc. MARS Canada MasterCard Canada Mattamy Homes Ltd. Mawer Investment Management Ltd. McCain Foods Ltd. McKinsey & Company Inc. MediaCom Canada Mercer LLC Meyers Norris Penney MGBIS Holdings Ltd. Microsoft Corporation Millward Brown Modelo Molson Imports Monitor Group Moody’s Investors Service Canada Moosehead Breweries Ltd. Morgan Stanley Canada Ltd. National Bank Financial Nativest Inc. Naylor Group Inc. Newad NexJ Systems Nomura Norstone Financial Corporation OMERS OnResearch Inc. Ontario Power Generation

Ontario Public Service Ontario Securities Commission Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board Ontario Trillium Foundation Optimus SBR Orbis Asset Management Orbis Mutual Funds Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Passmax Penfund PepsiCo Canada Podium Strategic Partners Inc. Policy Medical PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Procter & Gamble Inc. Protiviti Public Service Commission of Canada PwC Management Services Quadrivium Advisors Raymond James Ltd. RBC Real Tech Research In Motion ResMor Trust Company Rogers Communications Inc. Ross Smith Asset Management Inc. Rosterware Inc. Rothschild SalesSpider Media Samsung Securities SAPA Sapient Canada Inc. Satov Consultants Inc. SciVest Capital Management Scotiabank Sears Canada Inc. Setter Capital Inc. SGGG Fund Services Inc. Shell Canada Inc. ShopMyClothes.com Signal Hill Equity Partners Inc. Simpro Solutions Soberman LLP Summerhill Capital Management Sun Life Financial Sustainalytics Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.

Tandem Expansion Fund Target Canada TD Bank Group TD Securities TELUS Temperance Capital Advisors Ltd. The Kingbridge Centre The Mason Group The Mike Publications Inc. The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation TheRedPin Toronto Argonauts Toronto Hydro Corporation Toronto Public Space Initiative Torstar Digital Towers Watson Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Tridel Homes TrojanOne U.S. Steel Canada United Nations Association in Canada Up Inc. Vigilant Global Walmart Canada Inc. Wardell Professional Development Inc. Wave Accounting Well.ca Winners Merchants International Women of Excellence Support and Relief Organization Workopolis WWF Xerox Canada Zimmer ZS Associates

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Our Alumni Advantage Entrepreneur Brian Luborsky (BCom ’80), Chairman and CEO of Premier Salons International, shares his experiences and expertise with students and faculty during the 2012 Rotman Commerce Leadership in Business symposium.

With over 11,000 graduates, Rotman Commerce’s extensive alumni network spans the globe. We are fortunate that many of these alumni choose to volunteer their time and expertise with our students every year as mentors, volunteers, and guest speakers.

Our Alumni Mentorship Program – a consistently popular program – pairs third- and fourth-year students with alumni mentors who advise mentees in planning their career paths and networking with other professionals. In 2011-2012, 98 mentor-mentee pairs participated in the program, making it our largest group to date.

Alumni also return to campus as judges in case competitions, as presenters in student conferences, and as guest speakers in a number of events. This year, alumni participated in nearly all of the student-run conferences and competitions, generously giving their time to inspire, educate, and support our students in all realms of business.

Students also learned from the experiences of our graduates through our Inside the Alumni Network speaker series, in which five accomplished alumni from a variety of different industries – David Looi (BCom ’04), Mansoor Mahmood (BCom ’08), John McManus (BCom ’82), David Lint (BCom ’64), and James Robinson (BCom ’80) – participated in intimate small-group discussions with current students. A highlight of our year is always the Leadership in Business symposium, which features a keynote speech by a prominent graduate. This year’s speaker, entrepreneur Brian Luborsky (BCom ’80), Chairman and CEO of Premier Salons International, graciously shared his experiences with an attentive crowd of students and faculty at Innis Town Hall, where he was interviewed by Rotman Commerce Director, Kenneth Corts.

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The commitment of our alumni isn’t limited to helping out current students, however. Toronto-area graduates can count on the enthusiastic efforts of our Alumni Steering Committee, a group of dedicated volunteers who provide support and feedback to our Alumni Relations Office and contribute to the strategic direction of the alumni network.

One of the highlights of our alumni activities from last year was attending a Toronto Argos game, which included a pre-game, field-level tour with Rotman Commerce alum and Argonauts CEO Bob Nicholson (BCom ’78).

The experience of our community as a whole – both current and former students – is greatly enhanced by the active contributions of our alumni network. It is a testament to the strong sense of leadership and community service of our graduates that every year literally hundreds of alumni offer their support to make Rotman Commerce the excellent program it is.

Above: The Rotman Commerce Alumni Network Steering Committee.

From left to right: Vlad Tasevski, Shoeb Hosein, Jatinder Chera, Luigi Trentadue, William Ma, Bryn Knox, Frank Yong, Cristina Barillari, Jennifer Schillaci, Nick Rogov, and Randy Sa’d.

Not pictured: Agnes Mak and Flore Gimello.

Above: Toronto Argonauts CEO Bob Nicholson (BCom ’78) leads a field-level tour for Rotman Commerce staff and alumni.

Above: Rotman Commerce alumni connect with friends and former classmates at an alumni network event at the Spoke Club in Toronto.

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Our donors Rotman Commerce students benefit every year from the generosity of our many donors to our scholarships and to the Rotman Commerce Annual Fund. The monies raised through the Annual Fund go directly towards some of our most popular programs, such as the Conferences and Competitions Subsidy Fund, our student organization funding, and our numerous professional development opportunities. In supporting the program financially, our donors help ensure that our graduates will be among the most sought-after and successful leaders in business – today and in the future.

If you are interested in renewing your support, or giving for the first time, please visit us online at www.rotmancommerce.utoronto.ca/support. $20,000+ Fednav Ltd. HSBC Bank of Canada The Lawrason Foundation Robert D. and Joan McKeracher $5,000 - $19,999 John McManus $1,000 - $4,999 Cynthia Anne J. Bishop Kenneth Corts and Anna-Marie Castrodale Ernst & Young Matching Gifts Program for Higher Education Raymond Kan Marnie Kinsley Stephens B. Lowden Manulife Financial Allan W. Mark James Mossman Alan and Louise Redway Deanne Saunders Gary P. Selke Kenneth A. Valvur Anonymous (1) $500 - $999 William J. Biggar Ron Bull Paul M. Casey Rosa M. Del Campo Gail and Bob Farquharson Sherry G. Firestone Maureen Stapleton Michael A. Tambosso Bruce Winter

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$250 - $499 Joanne P. Blake J. Winston Bow Mark A. Caranci Peter Hamilton and Marlene Cepparo Freda M. Eickmeyer Albert H. Fast David W. Finlay Meyer Florence Michael H. Goldstein Howard W. Honickman George Kosmas Dorian Munk David C. Naiman Carmela Pallotto Nick Pantaleo, FCA George P. Petropoulos Derek A. Smith Stephen Stewart Edward Truant Velan Inc. John W. L. Winder Anonymous (1) $100 - $249 Diana Addeo Edward Earl Agnew Terry Amburgey Caterina Ardito-Toffolo Harry Arjoon Lyne Arseneau Sheila M. Baird Mark Bank Aubrey Kumar Basdeo Beryl Brazier Arnold Cader Glenn A. Castellarin Paul Chan

Derek Koon Yee Chau Chee On Cho Grace S. M. Chow Austin Cooper Jeffrey L. Cummings Anthony M. Cusimano K. Allan Cuzen Nina DeLuca-Ford Tom Elek Thomas Flanagan John A. Foulds Robert Cameron Fox Betsie (Ewing) Gerber E. Philip Giroday Donald W. Hall Silvana Ho Monica Hofmann Sally Holton and Stephen Ireland William James Hosken Aneeq Khalid Bill Kilfoyle Kirby M. Kumagai Brian La Cameron C. Laird Yin Kwan Lau Nancy B. Lee Catherine Y. MacKinnon Sean William Maclure Kenneth Scott Alexander MacMillan Kevin Chung Pui Mak Andy Mark Nicholas Martin-Sperry Elena Mascarenhas Robert Michaud Jordi Mondria Warren Moysey Ken Murton Saverio S. Nardi Donald R. Newman Aleksander Oleszkowicz Frederick Pamenter

J. Clair Peacock Lynn S. Posluns W. John Rae Donald L. Richmond Joseph D. and Gloria Sheard Darren J. Slind Michael N. Tam Irving H. Teper Christopher W. C. Thomson James L. Thomson Jeffery David Trapp Ismene Panayiota Tsaconakos William Waldron Christine Wilhelm Bernice Pui-Yu Wong Samuel Yen Rey McNally Yu Dilshod Zakhidov Richard J. Zurawski Anonymous (16)

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