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Manulife Financial Chair in Financial Services Appointed at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
Toronto, ON – An expert in corporate governance and finance has been recognized for his achievements in teaching and research with a new appointment as the Manulife Financial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Alexander Dyck is a professor of finance and business economics who has been at the Rotman School since 2004. He is an Academic Director of the Director’s Education Program, jointly developed by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and…
1,400 students and teachers to participate in Canada’s largest STEM event for kids
Toronto, ON – More than 1,400 students from Grades 3-8 will descend on the University of Toronto on Friday, May 13 for Innovate U, a massive day of hands-on activities celebrating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and the power of innovation. The one-day event is a first-of-its-kind partnership between U of T Engineering, Google Canada and Actua, Canada’s largest STEM outreach charity. Innovate U will engage youth in activities where they are engineering, building and inventing their own innovations…
U of T researchers create first Canadian guidelines for optimal internships
Toronto, ON – In today’s ruthless job market internships often give students a competitive edge. But what makes for a valuable experience? And how do you measure success? Researchers from U of T’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education have addressed these long overdue questions with Canada’s first post-secondary internship guidelines. It’s a development that could help thousands of students get the most out of their experience – an estimated 300,000 interns hit Canada’s job market each year. Under the…
NeXus Consulting Group: Helping Non-Profit Organizations and Social Enterprises Maximize Their Social Impact
Toronto, ON – Since 2005, non-profit organizations and social enterprises have reached out to a team of MBA students at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management to help maximize their social impact. NeXus offers affordable, fee-based consulting services to support a broad range of business needs, including business planning and start-up, marketing, growth and expansion, development of long-term financial sustainability, identifying operational efficiencies and measuring social impact. The consultants, who are entering the second year of the Rotman Full Time…
JLABS gives U of T startups a place to call home
Nanovista is one of the first 22 up-and-coming companies selected to be part of JLABS @ Toronto, an innovative research centre designed to advance bio/pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer and digital health programs. “Being a part of JLABS brings us one step closer to commercializing and delivering this product to market to help patients,” said Jinzi Zheng of her company’s injectable imaging agent that helps surgeons see where tumours are located and remove them more precisely, while leaving healthy tissue intact. “They’ll give…
Toronto chemist wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prize
Dwayne is Director of the Atomically Resolved Dynamics Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Toronto. Dwayne works to track chemical reactions on the atomic level using ‘atomic movies’, a method of observing the movements of atoms in real time. By doing so he has shown that chemistry can be distilled down to a handful of…
New Book by Rotman School Professor Examines How Firms Manage Disruption
Toronto, ON – Almost twenty years ago Clayton Christensen popularized the term disruption in his book The Innovator's Dilemma, writing of disruption as a set of risks that established firms face. Since then, few have closely examined his account. A new book by Joshua Gans, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, takes a timely closer look at disruption. In The Disruption Dilemma, he looks at companies that have proven resilient and those that have fallen, and…
Understanding and Improving Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Toronto, ON – The University of Toronto and the World Health Organization are proud to launch the WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability and Transparency for the Pharmaceutical Sector with a policy workshop and celebration at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy on April 29, 2016 from 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm. This event will tackle all of the pressing questions impacting good governance, accountability, and transparency in the pharmaceutical sector, including: How do we reconcile the need for innovative medicines…
Rotman Professor Wins a 2016 Killam Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Toronto, ON – An economist at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management is the recipient of a prestigious award from the Canada Council for the Arts. Dan Trefler, a professor of business economics who holds the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Canada Research Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity, will receive a Killam Prize for his exceptional career achievement in the field of social sciences. This awards program is funded by a private endowment from the Killam Trust, which supports…
Rotman Professors Win 2016 Fellowship and Governor’s Awards from the Bank of Canada
Toronto, ON – Two professors at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have been named as the recipients of prestigious research awards from the Bank of Canada today. Dan Trefler, a professor of business economics who holds the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Canada Research Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity, is the recipient of the Bank’s Fellowship Award. Liyan Yang, an associate professor of finance, is the recipient of the Bank’s Governor’s Award. The Bank of Canada’s Fellowship…