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Rotman School opens its doors for programs Open House

January 26, 2012

TORONTO, ON – The doors will be wide open at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment for an Open House on Feb­ru­ary 4 giv­ing prospec­tive can­di­dates for Rot­man pro­grams a chance to sit in on sam­ple class­es, speak with cur­rent stu­dents, staff and alum­ni, and learn about Inte­gra­tive Think­ing, the school’s inno­v­a­tive approach to busi­ness edu­ca­tion.

The day, with events from 10 am to 3 pm, will kick off with a keynote address from Dean Roger Mar­tin fol­lowed by hour-long con­cur­rent ses­sions.

The open house will include infor­ma­tion ses­sions on the var­i­ous Rot­man pro­grams designed for stu­dents at var­i­ous points of their careers includ­ing:

• Full-Time MBA;
• Morn­ing MBA;
• Evening MBA;
• Exec­u­tive Pro­grams;
• One-Year Exec­u­tive MBA;
• OMNIUM Glob­al EMBA ; and,
• Mas­ter of Finance.

Fac­ul­ty from the Rot­man School will lead sam­ple class­es and also show case inter­na­tion­al­ly-rec­og­nized research. Some of the par­tic­i­pat­ing fac­ul­ty include:

• Mih­nea Moldoveanu, asso­ciate dean and pro­fes­sor of strate­gic man­age­ment;
• Beat­rix Dart, asso­ciate dean and adjunct pro­fes­sor of strate­gic man­age­ment;
• Walid Hejazi, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of inter­na­tion­al busi­ness;
• Jan Mahrt-Smith, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of finance;
• Tiziana Cas­cia­ro, assis­tant pro­fes­sor of orga­ni­za­tion­al behav­ior;
• Stéphane Côté, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of orga­ni­za­tion­al behav­iour and psy­chol­o­gy;
• Nina Mazar, assis­tant pro­fes­sor of mar­ket­ing; and,
• Chen-bo Zhong, assis­tant pro­fes­sor of orga­ni­za­tion­al behav­ior and human resource man­age­ment.
• Richard Pow­ers,  Nation­al Aca­d­e­m­ic Direc­tor, Direc­tors Edu­ca­tion and Gov­er­nance Essen­tials pro­grams;
• Dan Richards, Ses­sion­al Instruc­tor, Mar­ket­ing Finan­cial Ser­vices.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion and reg­is­tra­tion is avail­able online at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/Openhouse.

The Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is redesign­ing busi­ness edu­ca­tion for the 21st cen­tu­ry with a cur­ricu­lum based on Inte­gra­tive Think­ing. Locat­ed in the world’s most diverse city, the Rot­man School fos­ters a new way to think that enables the design of cre­ative busi­ness solu­tions.  The School is cur­rent­ly rais­ing $200 mil­lion to ensure Cana­da has the world-class busi­ness school it deserves. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.rotman.utoronto.ca.

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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Ken McGuf­fin
Man­ag­er, Media Rela­tions
Rot­man School of Man­age­ment
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
Office: 416–946-3818
mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca
Fol­low Rot­man on Twit­ter @rotmanschool