PRIORITY #3: Research Excellence

Our scholarship and research aim to have impact on the world around us by leveraging our unique disciplinary and interdisciplinary strengths. Our scholars and researchers contribute to the development of business as a force for good® through our partnerships, knowledge mobilization/ translation, and our student-centred research training. Our research mission is to generate and mobilize excellent research that has a positive impact on business as a force for good.

Goal: Elevate excellence.

Rank among the top 15 Canadian research-intensive business schools.

Goal: Amplify the Positive Impact of our Research.

Be a Canadian business school leader in the mobilization of knowledge by increasing engagement with industry, communities, not-for-profit partners and policymakers throughout the research process and pursue inclusive and open scholarship that creates a positive impact on society.

Goal: Embed Research in All We Do.

Keep research at the forefront in Lang by ensuring that it is embedded in all activities, including teaching, research support, administration, governance, and community engagement.

Goal: Develop the Research Leaders of Tomorrow.

Increase our capacity to support the success of the next generation of research leaders by providing high-quality and meaningful training opportunities to a diverse and inclusive population of researchers across a variety of disciplines and approaches to research.

Goal: Promote partnership and collaboration.

Be recognized globally as a Canadian business school research partner of choice for industry, government, and not-for-profit organizations and leverage strong internal and external academic collaborations to enhance our creation and mobilization of academic research knowledge.

STRATEGIC PRIORITY #4: