Smith School of Business at Queen's University

🎉🇨🇦 What an incredible moment! Earlier today, Team Canada shone brightly on the Seine at the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony. We’re thrilled to celebrate Smith’s partnership with the Canadian Olympic Committee, as the Official Business Education Partner of the Canadian Olympic Team.

Let the Games begin!

Join us in cheering on the 18 Smith Certificate in Business students and alumni who are competing for Team Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games!

The Smith Certificate in Business is designed for Queen's University students who want to gain fundamental knowledge in the key areas of business to broaden their career options upon graduation. For Game Plan Award students, the certificate is open to those who have already completed an undergraduate degree or are currently enrolled in an undergraduate program at any school, offering them an opportunity to expand their business knowledge while continuing to train at a high level.

Smith is the Official National Business Education Partner of the Canadian Olympic Committee and a Founding Partner of Game Plan Plan de Match, Canada’s total athlete wellness program.

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Eighteen Smith students and alumni set to compete for Team Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Kingston, Ont. – Today marks the beginning of the 2024 Summer Olympics, with 14 students and four alumni from Smith School of Business’ Certificate in Business program proudly representing Team Canada on the world stage.

How do gender stereotypes shape investor perceptions?

New research conducted by Smith Professor Blake Steenhoven, Scott Jackson of the University of Nevada and Kristina Rennekamp of Cornell University, sheds light on the role that gender stereotypes play in influencing corporate governance and shareholder activism.

Read more from Smith Business Insight:

The Gender Stereotypes Behind Investor Uprisings | Smith Business Insight Shareholder activists count on a more receptive welcome when company CEOs are women

Did you know that Smith School of Business is the Official National Business Education Partner of the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee, and a Founding Partner of Game Plan Plan de Match, Canada’s total athlete wellness program?

Learn more about these exclusive partnerships and what it's like to have a Team Canada athlete in your class:

Smith School of Business | Team Canada Partnership Smith is the Official National Business Education Partner of the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee.

How does Team Canada turn pressure into performance? Find out in our new article from Smith Business Insight. https://smith.queensu.ca/insight/content/Team-Canada-Harness-Pressure.php

To celebrate this summer’s Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Smith Business Insight contributor Deborah Aarts spoke with eight former members of Team Canada and Smith alumni Dominique Bosshart, EMBA'24; Greg Douglas, MBA'19; Matt Hallat, MBA'24; Miah-Marie Langlois, MMIE'21; Mirela Rahneva, MMIE'21; Oluseyi Smith, EMBAA'23; Benoît Huot, EMBA'20; and Meaghan Mikkelson Reid, MBA'24, on succeeding under challenging conditions, whether you’re in the pool or the boardroom.

Smith is the Official National Business Education Partner of the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, and a Founding Partner of Game Plan, Canada’s total athlete wellness program.

Team Canada Athletes on How to Harness Pressure | Smith Business Insight Eight elite athletes share lessons on managing high-stakes situations, whether you're on a ball court or in a boardroom

Corporate diversity efforts rely too much on minority workers. How can companies ease 'cultural taxation' and still make progress on their EDI objectives? Professor Eddy Ng has ideas.

For many readers, the term 'cultural taxation' might be new. However, it was coined in 1994 to describe the expectation for people of minority groups to serve as ethnic representatives and unofficial diversity consultants. Its prevalence has only increased as equity, diversity and inclusion efforts have become table stakes for companies.

Learn more in Smith Magazine:

Paying the cultural tax | Smith Magazine Corporate diversity efforts rely too much on minority workers. Professor Eddy Ng has ideas to help change that

Smith EMBA grad Aisha Yang took the leap into entrepreneurship with her husband, Musharaf, in 2009. Today, their company, Herbaland Naturals, is the largest gummy vitamin manufacturer in Canada. Read more:
https://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2024/07/16/this-entrepreneur-started-her-business-on-maternity-leave-now-she-runs-canadas-largest-vitamin-gummy-manufacturer/

“When you have the mindset to give it a try and find the right timing, right industry, and right product, I think everybody has a chance to be an entrepreneur,” she tells Women of Influence+.

Tackling a super-ambitious target can be a great way to build your career. Learn how to set yourself (and your team) up for success when taking on a stretch goal!

This Smith Business Insight article features advice from Emma Sutherland,
Manager of Career Education and Coaching at Smith's Career Advancement Centre.

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How About Taking on a Stretch Goal? | Smith Business Insight Tackling a super-ambitious target can be a great way to build your career and, well, “stretch” your abilities

See you back at Goodes Hall in September!

Over the weekend, incoming Smith Commerce students had the opportunity to explore Goodes Hall and the wider Queen's University campus, learn about support resources, and make connections with staff, faculty and upper-year students during Summer Orientation to Academics and Resources (SOAR), organized by the Queen's University Student Experience Office.

Missed out on SOAR? Find more First-Year Foundation programming here: https://www.queensu.ca/studentexperience/first-year-foundation

Consumers can’t help but take it personally when “flexible” prices seem unfair.

Marketing professor Laurence Ashworth, who has long studied consumers’ perceptions of fairness, says these feelings are often a side effect of dynamic or surge pricing. This revenue management strategy involves setting flexible prices based on current market conditions. In a recent study with Lindsay McShane of Carleton University and Peter Darke of York University, he found that feelings of unfairness can get deeply personal for consumers.

Read at Smith Business Insight:

Why We Are Triggered by Dynamic Pricing | Smith Business Insight Consumers can't help but take it personally when “flexible” prices seem unfair

Sam Effah, MMIE'21, was an explosive sprinter who wowed crowds and broke records. Now, he is helping the next generation of Canadian athletes through RBC’s Training Ground program. https://smith.queensu.ca/magazine/issues/spring-2024/features/speed-of-sam.php

In the latest issue of Smith Magazine, Sam talks about his career on the track and life after sports as a brand manager at RBC in Calgary.

The speed of Sam | Smith Magazine Sam Effah, MMIE'21, was an explosive sprinter who wowed crowds and broke records. Now he's helping to grow the next generation of Canadian athletes

This year's 2024 National Magazine Awards B2B Gold winner for Best Profile of a Company is Smith Magazine's "How to Build a Better Playground"!

Written by contributor Brian Banks, this feature takes a look at Smith EMBA grad Adam Bienenstock's company Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds, Canada’s foremost dedicated designer and builder of natural playgrounds, green schoolyards and outdoor classrooms.

Read the article in the 2023 fall issues of Smith Magazine.

How to build a better playground | Smith Magazine Adam Bienenstock, EMBA'01, creates outdoor spaces that let kids be kids. His real goal: help children spend more time outdoors – feeling, climbing, jumping, running and discovering nature. Yes, there will be mud

Joining a board can seriously boost your career. But how do you land a seat? And what should you know first? https://smith.queensu.ca/magazine/issues/spring-2024/features/getting-on-board.php

The process of securing a meaningful board gig can seem vague and confusing, so we spoke to accomplished Smith alumni with a rich range of board experiences to demystify the process.

Read in Smith Magazine.

Getting on board | Smith Magazine Joining a board can seriously boost your career. But how do you land a seat? And what should you know first? We asked Smith experts for advice

Every little bit helps! Last week, staff at SmithToronto stepped outside the office to engage in some environmental stewardship to help keep our parks beautiful. Armed with garbage bags, gloves and trash pickers, they cleared refuse from a portion of trail in Rosedale Ravine Lands Park, leaving a small part of the city better than they found it.

What can a beloved summer pastime tell us about sustainably enjoying the natural world?

Dive into an exploration of fly fishing and its surprising parallels to consumer behaviour. "As a consumer researcher, I'm deeply curious about questions not only about consumption but especially now, in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, how consumption impacts that," says Annetta Grant, a professor at Bucknell University who holds a PhD from Smith.

Read at Smith Business Insight:

A Marketer's Meditation on Fly Fishing | Smith Business Insight What can a beloved summer pastime tell us about sustainably enjoying the natural world?

After 50 years with Smith, Professor Bill Cannon has retired.

At one time or another, Professor Cannon taught almost all of the finance courses offered to Commerce and MBA students. This past year, he taught COMM 329 - Management of Financial Institutions for the 47th year in a row!

In addition to serving on many Smith School of Business committees and as Chair of the Smith School of Business Faculty Board, Prof. Cannon also served as Chair of the Pension Committee of Queen’s Board of Trustees from 2000 through 2012, and as Chair of its investment sub-committee from 2000 to 2021. He has also been Chair of the Senate’s Ban Righ (Residences) Board and Budget Review Committees and served on the Investment Committee of the Community Foundation of Greater Kingston. For these and other contributions, he received the Queen’s University Distinguished Service Award in 2008.

If you had Professor Cannon for COMM 329 (or any other Smith course), join us in wishing him the very best in his retirement!

Smith Magazine's spring 2023 feature "Building Ways to Be There" has earned Gold for Best Profile of a Person in the 2024 National Magazine Awards: B2B.

Written by contributor Deborah Aarts, the profile of Jack.org founder Eric Windeler, BCom’82, explores how he turned tragedy into a transformative force for youth mental health.

Read now:

Building ways to be there | Smith Magazine How Jack.org founder Eric Windeler, BCom'82, LLD'15, turned tragedy into a transformative force for youth mental health

The Smith Commerce Society's longest-running business Oil Thigh Designs (OTD) is celebrating 30 years of apparel awesomeness and charitable impact. https://smith.queensu.ca/magazine/issues/spring-2024/smith_hq/wearing-it-well.php

Established in 1994, the student-run retailer designs and supplies custom Queen’s apparel for more than 180 student groups and the wider Queen’s community. Each year, the team create new designs for shirts, hoodies, hats and more. But a few iconic items – like the Commerce leather jacket – continue to be offered year after year.

Read more in the latest issue of Smith Magazine.

Wearing it well | Smith Magazine Oil Thigh Designs celebrates 30 years of apparel awesomeness

Despite ample evidence for the benefits of unplugging, most of us have a hard time truly going out-of-office.

We asked experts Shamel Addas, Distinguished Research Fellow of Digital Technology; Ann Gomez, founding president of productivity and collaboration consultancy Clear Concept Inc.; and Mira Dineen, clinical director and founder of Juniper Wellness to help explain what’s behind our impulse to refresh our inboxes when we’re supposed to be refreshing our minds, bodies and souls.

Read more from Smith Business Insight:

Why We Keep Checking Our Email on Holidays | Smith Business Insight Despite ample evidence for the benefits of unplugging, most of us have a hard time going out-of-office

A firm’s environmental performance rises with board member expertise and strong governance.

Discover how green-savvy board members can make their mark in this Smith Business Insight article featuring research co-authored by Steven Salterio,
Professor of Accounting:

Green-Savvy Board Members Make Their Mark | Smith Business Insight A firm's environmental performance rises with board member expertise and strong governance

Join us in congratulating Chancellor Emeritus Jim Leech, MBA'73, received an honourary degree during Spring Convocation 2024.

Best known for his leadership of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Leech was appointed President and CEO in 2007. Upon his retirement in 2014, he co-authored The Third Rail, Confronting our Pension Failures, which won the Best Canadian Business Book Award, and has dedicated his working life to voluntary philanthropic leadership and non-partisan public service. He served as Chancellor of Queen's University from 2014 to 2021.

Helen Vasilevski’s career has given her the opportunity to experience life in 80 over countries, but the Hamilton, Ont. native has put down roots in Lausanne, Switzerland.

What are the hidden gems, restaurants and tourist traps you can't miss on a trip to the region of sport, wine and natural beauty? Vasilevski takes us on a tour in Smith Magazine. Read now:

If you're ever in Lausanne, Switzerland | Smith Magazine A BCom'92 grad gives us a tour of the region of sport, wine and natural beauty

May your long weekend ahead be filled with relaxation and fun!

Smith School of Business is taking a mini break on Friday, June 28 and Monday, July 1, 2024. We'll be back to business on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.

Attention incoming first-year Smith Commerce students! Join us July 12-13 for SOAR and come get a feel for campus before the fall.

Interested in touring campus, seeing inside lecture halls and classrooms, eating in the dining hall, and visiting residence rooms this summer before September move-in? All incoming first-year students and their parents, families and supporters are welcome. Register:

Summer Orientation (SOAR) | Student Experience Office Summer Orientation to Academics and Resources (SOAR) is a summer orientation program for incoming first year students and their parents and supporters, run by the Student Experience Office.

Summer is here! Smith professors offer up some of their favourite reads for the cottage (or anywhere else). Get the list: https://smith.queensu.ca/insight/content/Eight-Books-to-Read-This-Summer.php

Registration for this year's Homecoming is officially open! Mark your calendars and join us on Oct. 18-20 to reconnect with friends, former classmates and the vibrant campus community. Register now: https://secureca.imodules.com/s/1922/20/interior.aspx?sid=1922&gid=2&pgid=3188&cid=5277