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Faculty of Management
Okanagan Campus
EME4145 – 1137 Alumni Ave
Kelowna, BC Canada
V1V 1V7
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Fax 250.807.8533
Email fom.reception@ubc.ca
Student Development Office:
Tel 250.807.9644
Bachelor of Commerce & Bachelor of Management: fom.bcom@ubc.ca
Master of Management: fom.mm@ubc.ca
Dual Degree Master of Management: dualdegree.mm@ubc.ca
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Amin Ahmadi Digehsara | Assistant Professor without review | Faculty of Management | amin.ahmadidigehsara@ubc.ca | EME 4107
Research Interests: Network Optimization, Public transportation planning, Optimization under Uncertainty, Operational research methodologies
Niloofar Akbarian-Saravi | Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | Niloofar.Akbarian@ubc.ca | EME 2131
Research Interests: Operations Research; Biocomposites & Bioenergy Supply Chains; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA); Mathematical Modeling and Optimization; Sustainable Manufacturing; Business Analytics and Risk Assessment; AI-based Decision Support Tool
Courses & Teaching: COMM 190 Introduction to Quantitative Decision Making; MGMT 355 Operations Management; taught APSC 254 Instrumentation and Data Analysis in the School of Engineering; led program-based industry level course "Pathways to Sustainability: Circular Economy".
Kelly Allen | Engagement Assistant | Faculty of Management | kelly.allen@ubc.ca | EME 4145B
Amir Ardestani-Jaafari | Associate Professor | Faculty of Management, Sustainability (IGS) | amir.ardestani@ubc.ca | 250.807.8108 | EME 4111
Research Interests: Healthcare Operations, Supply Chain, Business Analytics
Nathan Beloud | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Management | nathan.beloud@ubc.ca | EME 4119
Morgan Brummet | Operations and Faculty Coordinator | Faculty of Management | morgan.brummet@ubc.ca | EME 4159
Mike Chiasson | Professor | Faculty of Management, Power, Conflict and Ideas | mike.chiasson@ubc.ca | 250.807.8248 | EME 4103
Joanna Cockerline, MA | Lecturer | Creative Writing, English and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Management | joanna.cockerline@ubc.ca | CCS 332
Research Interests: Communications; Creative writing; Contemporary Canadian fiction and memoir; Contemporary East African writing; Intersectional feminisms; Survivor narratives; and writing that inspires social change.
Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112 Studies in Composition; MGMT 240 Introduction to Management Communications; CORH 321 Personal and Professional Identity and Interpersonal Communication; CRWR 217 Intermediate Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction
Adrienne Cook | Faculty Programs Assistant | Faculty of Management | adrienne.cook@ubc.ca | 250.807.8678 | EME 4145B
Allyssa Costerton-Grant, MM, BAPC | Director, Strategic Initiatives and Administration | Faculty of Management | allyssa.costerton-grant@ubc.ca | EME 4129
Keith Culver (On Leave) | Professor; Director, UBC STAR | Faculty of Management, Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) | keith.culver@ubc.ca | 250.807.9875 | EME 4153
Jennifer Davis | Associate Professor | Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Faculty of Management | jennifer.davis@ubc.ca | EME 4123
Graduate student supervisor
Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: Topic coverage includes operations management, health economics, clinically applied economic evaluation, multiple imputation of missing data, research methods, and biostatistics.
Graduate Courses: Topics taught include epidemiological methods (led problem-based learning groups), research methods in rehabilitation: taught multiple imputation of missing data, conducting systematic reviews and instructor for a web-based course – Quality of Life Program: A CIHR Training Program in Rehabilitation Research.
Julia Dick | Academic Advisor | Faculty of Management | julia.dick@ubc.ca | EME 2121
Tamara Ebl, CPA,CA | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | tamara.ebl@ubc.ca | EME 4157
Courses & Teaching: UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
MGMT 201 / 301 Introduction to Financial Accounting
MGMT 202 / 302 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
MGMT 330 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis
MGMT 401 Intermediate Managerial Accounting
MGMT 403 Auditing and Assurance Services
MGMT 405 Advanced Managerial Accounting
MGMT 419H Special Topics in Management: Corporate Governance
MGMT 481 Strategy and Change Management
GRADUATE COURSES:
MGMT 531 Leadership
Grace Fan | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Management, Sustainability (IGS) | grace.fan@ubc.ca | 250.807.9717 | EME 4109
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Organization theory;
Institutional logics, agency, and emotions;
Grand challenges of sustainability, Inequality, community-based entrepreneurship, AI and ethics;
Ethics of care (feminism philosophy);
Decolonization and Indigenous resurgence;
Indigenous theoretical frameworks (the Peoplehood model and Two-Eyed Seeing)
Courses & Teaching: MGMT 100 Introduction to Business
MGMT 450 Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Russ Fields | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | russ.fields@ubc.ca
Catherine Fitzgerald | Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | catherine.fitzgerald@ubc.ca
Lucas Glenn | 12Twenty Implementation Project Manager | Faculty of Management | lucas.glenn@ubc.ca | EME 2121
Dayl Hancock | Associate Director, Programs and Curriculum | Faculty of Management | dayl.hancock@ubc.ca | 250.807.9167 | EME 4125
Ross Hickey | Associate Professor | Economics, Faculty of Management | ross.hickey@ubc.ca | 250.807.8653 | EME 4155
Research Interests: Public finance and political economy; fiscal policy (government expenditure and taxation) and how it is influenced by interactions within a hierarchy of governments (municipal, provincial and federal); elections; lobbying activity.
Courses & Teaching: Public finance; empirical economics; macroeconomics
Sandy Hilton | Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning; Associate Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Management | sandy.hilton@ubc.ca | EME 4137
Gady Jacoby | Faculty of Management | gady.jacoby@ubc.ca | EME 4139
Jennie Jones-Hawkes | Operations and Faculty Assistant | Faculty of Management | jennie.joneshawkes@ubc.ca | EME 4159
Annamma Joy | Associate Dean, Research; Professor | Faculty of Management, Sustainability (IGS) | annamma.joy@ubc.ca | 250.807.8606 | EME 4133
Research Interests: Sustainability in Art, Fashion, and Wine; Wine Tourism, Artification Process; Luxury Brand Marketing and Management; Gender, Levinas and the Ethics of recognition.
Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses:
MGMT 440 Brands, Culture and Marketing
MGMT 442 Consumer Behavior
MGMT 441-Marketing Strategy
MGMT 220-Introductory marketing
Graduate Courses:
Brand Management (Ph.D.)
Consumer Culture Theory (Ph.D.)
Andrea Klassen | Manager, Academic Advising | Faculty of Management | andrea.klassen@ubc.ca | 250.807.8566 | EME 2121
Kelli Lethbridge | Academic Programs Coordinator | Faculty of Management | kelli.lethbridge@ubc.ca | EME 2121
Eric Li, PhD | Associate Dean, Professor | Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Faculty of Management, Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER), Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP), Interdisciplinary Co-op Education, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS), Sustainability (IGS), Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR), Sustainability | eric.li@ubc.ca | 250.807.8853 | EME 4135
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Consumer culture; Social Innovation and social enterprise, Healthy living and well-being; Food consumption and food security; Digital economy, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of People (IoP); Digital marketing and consumption, Ethical consumerism and prosocial behaviour, Corporate philanthropy, Circular and sustainable Fashion.
Courses & Teaching: MGMT220/320 Introduction to Marketing (undergraduate)
MGMT441 Marketing Strategy (undergraduate)
MGMT444 Marketing Research (undergraduate)
MGMT445/MGMT449A Digital and Social Media Marketing (undergraduate)
MGMT495 Directed Studies on Fashion Advertising (2012), Digital Consumption and Marketing (2013), Fashion and Cultural Heritage (2014), Family Identity and Consumption (2018)
MGMT536B – Enterprise and Innovation (Marketing module)
MGMT541 – Applied Research Methods
MGMT544A – Applied Project
IGS509 Directed Studies in Interdisciplinary Research Methods (graduate)
IGS515 Qualitative Methods for Management Research (graduate)
IGS520A Special Topics on Digital Marketing and Consumption (graduate)
IGS524 Applied Research Methods (graduate)
Katelyn Lohr | Coordinator, Professional Graduate Programs | Faculty of Management | katelyn.lohr@ubc.ca
Candice Loring, MBA | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | candice.loring@ubc.ca
Barb Marcolin | Associate Professor | Faculty of Management | barb.marcolin@ubc.ca | 250.807.9637 | EME 4113
Graduate student supervisor
Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses:
MGMT 250 Introduction to IT Management
MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis
MGMT 425 Strategic Entrepreneurial Technology
Jana Martin | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | jana.martin@ubc.ca | EME 4119
Myles Mattila | Academic Programs Coordinator | Faculty of Management | myles.mattila@ubc.ca | 250.807.8678 | EME 2121
Colin McDougall | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | colin.mcdougall@ubc.ca
Graeme McLean | Business Development Manager | graeme.mclean@ubc.ca | EME 2121
Kim Pham | Co-op and Career Strategist | Faculty of Management | kim.pham@ubc.ca | EME 2121
Monic Pratch | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | monic.pratch@ubc.ca |
Courses & Teaching: MGMT 480 Law and Business
Greg Pratch | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | greg.pratch@ubc.ca
Cayla Reeve | Manager, Student Success and Engagement | Faculty of Management | cayla.reeve@ubc.ca | EME 4145B
Meghan Reid | Manager, Co-op and Careers | Faculty of Management | meghan.reid@ubc.ca | 250.807.8235 | EME 2121
Chase Rooney | Digital Engagement and Content Strategist | Faculty of Management | chase.rooney@ubc.ca | EME 4145
Adam Saifer | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Management, Community Engagement, Social Change, and Equity (IGS), Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) | adam.saifer@ubc.ca | EME 4151
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: critical philanthropy studies; nonprofit organizations; sustainable community development; critical management studies; national identity; “the arts” and cultural production; racial capitalism; critical discourse analysis
Courses & Teaching: COMM_O 394 - Environment, Society, and Government
MGMT 380 - Sustainability and Business
Samaneh Salimian (On Leave) | Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | samaneh.salimian@ubc.ca
Stacey Sandison | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | stacey.sandison@ubc.ca
Alexander Slezak | Academic Advisor | Faculty of Management | alexander.slezak@ubc.ca | EME 2121
Jamie Snow | Director, Interdisciplinary Co-op & Experiential Education | Faculty of Management | jamie.snow@ubc.ca | EME 2173
Roger Sugden | Professor | Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Faculty of Management | roger.sugden@ubc.ca
Mackenzie Tait | Manager, Dean's Office | Faculty of Management | mackenzie.tait@ubc.ca | 250.807.9831 | EME 4131
Marcela Valania | Honorary Research Associate, Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | marcela.valania@ubc.ca |
David Walker, PhD | Assistant Professor (Tenure) | Faculty of Management | david.walker@ubc.ca | 250.807.9801 | EME 4105
Graduate student supervisor
Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses:
MGMT 230 Organizational Behaviour
MGMT 411 Human Resource Management
MGMT 419k Special Topics in Management – Service Human Resource Management
Graduate Courses:
MGMT 530 Organizational Behaviour
MGMT 533 Human Resources
Fang Wan | Associate Professor, without review | Faculty of Management | fang.wan@ubc.ca | EME 4121
Sheila Westwell | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | sheila.westwell@ubc.ca | EME 4119
Elise Wiley | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Management | elise.wiley@ubc.ca
Chuqiao Zhou, PhD | Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track | Faculty of Management | chuqiao.zhou@ubc.ca | EME 4149
Research Interests: Qualitative Study; Institutional Theory; Organization Studies; Strategic Management; Social Evaluation; Emotions; Social Inequality
Courses & Teaching: MGMT_O 411 – Human Resource Management
COMM_O 491 – Strategic Management
Ying Zhu, PhD | Associate Professor | Faculty of Management | ying.zhu@ubc.ca | 250.807.9836 | EME 4147
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Dr. Zhu’s primary research interests include digital marketing, branding, consumer behavior, business analytics, and social networks. She has two streams of research: 1) investigating the impact of technology on consumers and the antecedents and consequences of consumer use of technology (e.g., AI, Metaverse) and 2) examining the effectiveness of different marketing strategies (e.g., digital marketing, business networks) and the importance of branding (e.g., brand extension).
Courses & Teaching: MGMT 319 Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Business
MGMT 441 Marketing Strategy
MGMT 442 Consumer Behavior
MGMT 461 Service Marketing
MGMT 100 Introduction to Business
Nikki Zwaagstra | Administrative Coordinator | Faculty of Management | nikki.zwaagstra@ubc.ca | EME 4159