Welcome to the 2020 & 2021 Research Newsletter of the Schulich School of Business
We proudly present the 12th edition of Schulich’s Spotlight on Research. It is testimony to what Schulich really is: a research leader, dedicated to training a new generation of management professionals, built around a faculty that passes on their groundbreaking research every day in the classroom to the next generation. After almost two years of the pandemic, most organizations have faced unusual challenges. We were no exception. With most of our ‘customers’ gone, we had to invent a completely new model of delivery of our service. On top of that, we had a change in leadership. This report then is a testimony to one great strength that has put Schulich always in the top echelons of business schools globally. Our exceptional faculty managed to keep us at the forefront of academic research in many contemporary subjects. As you sift through this report, you will find that the school has taken head-on many of the contemporary challenges. The obvious challenge, healthcare, and the management of healthcare is a predominant feature of this report. Our faculty, most notably around our Krembil Centre for Health Management & Leadership, has excelled in putting us on the map in many of the issues that the pandemic raised over the last three years. Enjoy reading these pages within this report. One of the surprising discoveries of the pandemic has been the vulnerability of global supply chains. Symbolized by the accident of the Evergreen container vessel in the
Suez Canal, we are now very astutely aware of the fact that the world in which consumers enjoy affordable products, brought to us from all over the world, is indeed a rather fragile setup. Our George Weston Ltd Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains has done formidable work addressing these challenges. The pandemic also has given rise to a new, still insufficiently understood, area of financial management. The rise of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain economy are phenomena that came up recently and are still in the phase where their emergent nature cloaks some of the real features of this new arena of business. Enjoy reading how Schulich faculty have taken on this challenge. Our colleague Henry Kim and his Blockchain Lab have done impressive work, most notably embedding Schulich research into the wider York University community. A particular challenge for research in a business school is to make it relevant for wider society. It is an ongoing challenge. One of our proudest achievements, then, is that one of our professors actually made it onto the Hollywood circuit! Moshe A. Milevsky is featured in a 2021 released movie called
The Baby Boomer Dilemma, produced and directed by Doug Orchard. For a mostly perceived dry matter such as finance and retirement instruments, this is an amazing achievement that makes all of us here in the School very proud. It points to a wider challenge of making our work as researchers relevant to broader, public audiences. There are many more achievements to celebrate. As leaders in their respective fields, our faculty’s research enjoys widespread interest not only in the academic community, but also in the corporate community and in the public at large. In that regard, Schulich faculty have continued to launch successful partnerships and research collaborations that provide not only financial support for faculty research, but an important training ground for many of our doctoral students as well. Much of the School’s faculty research is published in top-tier journals, has important public policy implications, and continues to receive extensive coverage and attention in the media. Our faculty have achieved world acclaim for their long-term impact through their research excellence and through the quality of their contributions and their ability to inspire. Spotlight on Research 2020 & 2021 5
