World-renowned Faculty

Mohammad Keyhani

Director, DBA Program 

Mohammad Keyhani is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. His expertise lies in the areas of digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial strategy and applications of generative AI in businesses and organizations. Mohammad's research has been published in top tier peer-reviewed journals and presented in international conferences where he has received multiple best paper and best reviewer awards. His course offering titled “Generative AI and Prompting” has been a pioneer among Canadian business schools. Mohammad is also an experimental entrepreneur and founder of DigitVibe.com as well as an OnDeck No Code Fellow. His other experiences include roles such as business advisor to multiple startups, Lab Strategist at the Creative Destruction Lab Rockies, and a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. He received his doctorate in strategic management from the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada, and has a M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship and B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of Tehran, Iran.

Roy Suddaby

Reading and Writing Workshop

Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Carson College of Business at Washington State University, USA and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada.  Professor Suddaby is an internationally regarded scholar of organizational theory and institutional change. His work has contributed to our understanding of the critical role of symbolic resources – legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history – in processes of entrepreneurial change and innovation. His current research examines the rhetorical use of the past to mobilize resources for entrepreneurial change.

Roy is a past editor of the Academy of Management Review and is a current associate editor of Academy of Management Perspectives.  He is or has been an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Business Venturing. He has won best-paper awards from the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada as well as the Greif Research Impact Award from the Academy of Management. 

Roy was recently named a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a JMI Scholar and an Ascendent Scholar by the Western Academy of Management and a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. Thompson Reuters identified Roy as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers in business and economics in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Peter Sherer

MGST 705: Critical Research Assessment

Peter D. Sherer is a professor at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the Haskayne School, he was a faculty member at the University of Illinois, the University of Oregon, and the Wharton School.

He teaches MBA, Ph.D., and executive MBA courses. His teaching interests include strategic human resource management, organizational theory, business strategy, and research methods. He has been the recipient of six teaching awards during his years at the Haskayne School of Business, the University of Oregon, and the Wharton School. He was recognized in 2005 as one of the top MBA professors in Canada by Canadian Business.

He has published a number of articles in leading journals and his work has appeared in major research volumes. Professor Sherer (along with K. Lee) was awarded the Best Paper of 2002 in the Academy of Management Journal by the Academy of Management for his paper on institutional change in law firms. The paper was also recognized by the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal (February, 2006) as one of the most interesting academic journal articles in management over the last 100 years.

Giovani Caetano da Silveira

MGST 703: Philosophy of Science for Business Administration

Giovani da Silveira is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Haskayne School of Business. He teaches operations management, service operations, and theory building in the PhD, DBA, MBA and Bachelor of Commerce programs.

He is a researcher in the areas of operations strategy, mass customization, servitization and supply chain management. He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Technovation, and European Journal of Operational Research, among other journals. He has co-edited (with F. Fogliatto) the book Mass Customization: Engineering and Managing Global Operations published by Springer-Verlag. He has about 6000 citations to his work in Google Scholar.

Dr. da Silveira is past Associate Editor of the Journal of Operations Management and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and in the Editor of the International Journal of Production Economics. He has also served in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as Adjudication Committee Member, and as External Reviewer for graduate program proposals by universities in Alberta, Ontario, and Manitoba in Canada.

He has won professional awards including a Finalist paper in the 2020 Operational Excellence College’s Best Paper competition (Production and Operations Management Society) with R. Sousa, A. Camanho, C. Silva and B. Arabi, the 2010 Outstanding Paper Award from the International Journal of Operations and Production Management with B. Snider and J. Balakrishnan, the 2008 Chris Voss Highly Commended Award with R. Sousa at the 15th International Annual EurOMA Conference in Groningen, and a 2007 Best Reviewers Award with the Journal of Operations Management.

Pablo Moran

MGST 711: Quantitative Design and Analysis

Dr. Pablo Moran is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia in 2013.

Since joining the Haskayne School, Pablo has taught various finance courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the areas of corporate finance and quantitative empirical methods. Pablo currently teaches Mergers and Acquisitions in the MBA and B.Comm programs and Empirical Methods in Corporate Finance in the Ph.D. program.

Pablo’s research interests include theoretical and empirical questions in corporate finance and governance. His research examines macro- and micro-level aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and the pricing of public securities offerings. Pablo’s work has been presented at various academic conferences and published in the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Pablo currently serves on the board of the Northern Finance Association. He regularly serves as journal referee for academic journals and as a committee member and paper discussant for the annual meetings of the Northern Finance Association and the Financial Management Association. 

Alain Verbeke

SGMA: 707: Advanced Strategic Management Tools

Dr. Alain Verbeke holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management and is a Professor of International Business Strategy at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He has been both the Research Director and the Area Chair of the Strategy and Global Management Area at the Haskayne School of Business.  In 2014, Dr. Verbeke was elected as the Inaugural Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK).  He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Solvay Business School, University of Brussels (VUB).  He is the immediate past  Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies - JIBS (2017 – 2022)

Earlier in his career, Dr. Verbeke served as the Director of the MBA programme, Solvay Business School, University of Brussels (VUB). He has been a Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University, the University of Toronto and the Université Catholique de Louvain, as well as an Associate Fellow of Templeton College, University of Oxford (now Green Templeton College). He has also been an Academic Associate of the Centre for International Business and Management, Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) and was associated with the Skolkovo Institute for Emerging Market Studies (SIEMS), as an affiliated researcher. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Non-Resident Fellow with the Center for Emerging Market Studies, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China. He presently serves as Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the College of Business (Nanyang Business School), Singapore. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and has served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Fellows. He is also an elected Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA).

Dr. Verbeke has been a member of the European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA), the highest advisory body to the European Commission on the future of European scientific and innovation policy and has served on the board of directors of various educational and scientific research institutions. He is a leading thinker on the strategic management of multinational enterprises.

His academic research agenda consists of revisiting, rethinking and augmenting the core paradigms in strategic management and international business, especially internalization theory, which is focused on the governance of new resource combinations in multinational enterprises. He has particular expertise in the management of headquarters - subsidiary relationships and broader governance challenges of internationally operating firms.

Dr. Verbeke has authored or edited over 30 international business books and numerous refereed publications, including many articles in leading scholarly journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal and The Journal of Management Studies.

In the realm of managerial practice, Dr. Verbeke has personally directed approximately 150 advisory projects, many of these related to the economic and strategic evaluation of large-scale capital investments.

Piers Steel 

MGST 707: Research Development and Design

Piers Steel is a professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources area and is the Brookfield Research Chair at the Haskayne School of Business. He is a recognized authority on the science of motivation and is known internationally for his productivity research, receiving widespread media coverage.

Piers’ particular areas of research interest include culture, motivation and decision-making. He is also currently driving a systematic review of ethical research with the goal of identifying what is known and where knowledge gaps lie and sharing the knowledge in a practical and accessible format. He has expertise in systematic review and meta-analysis, having published over 25 scholarly articles on the topic, and is a member of the Society of Research Synthesis and Methodology (http://www.srsm.org/). He has published several methodology papers on how to improve meta-analysis.

With over 60 publications, Piers’ work has appeared in the premier journals in the social sciences, including, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and Personality and Social Psychology Review, and business specifically, such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology and Academy of Management Review. He has also presented his work as a keynote or featured speaker at several national and international academic conferences, including International Society for Performance Improvement, Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Society.

In addition to his commendable scholarly contributions, Piers has been recognized for his excellence in teaching, having received numerous teaching awards including the Dean's Award for Outstanding Leadership in Teaching and Learning and the Academy of Management Best Paper in Management Education.

Piers joined the Haskayne School of Business in 2002. He holds a BA from University of Toronto, a Masters from University of Guelph, and a PhD from University of Minnesota. Prior to joining Haskayne, Piers taught at the University of Minnesota.

Jo-Louise Huq

MGST 709: Qualitative Research Methods
MGST 714: Engaged Scholarship and the Use of Evidence

Jo-Louise Huq received her Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Organization from the University of Alberta School of Business in 2015. She completed her postdoctoral studies at Haskayne School of Business with a focus on innovation in health care. 

Currently, Jo-Louise is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) with a cross appointment at Cumming School of Medicine, Community Health Sciences and Haskayne School of Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She teaches in the Cumming School of Medicine, Precision Health Program and is leading the program’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship specialization. At Haskayne School of Business, Jo-Louise teaches in the Doctor of Business Administration program and will be teaching in the MBA and PhD programs.

Jo-Louise’s research interests are related to wicked problems, innovation and change in established, mature industries and sectors, and the professions. She is an organizational and management theory (OMT) scholar and a qualitative researcher. Jo-Louise’s peer-reviewed research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Business & Society, BMJ Quality & Safety, BMJ Leader, and Leadership.

Denise M. Rousseau

MGST 714: Engaged Scholarship and the use of Evidence

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Tepper School of Business. She is the chair of Health Care Policy and Management program as well as a scholar and educator on positive organizational practices. She was the 2004‐2005 President of the Academy of Management and served as Editor‐in‐chief, Journal of Organizational Behavior. She co-founded the Center for Evidence-Based Management and is President of its Academic Board.

Rousseau is a two-time winner of the Academy of Management’s George Terry Award for best management book in 1996 for Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreement (Sage) and in 2006 for I‐Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves (ME Sharpe). In 2016, she won the Distinguished Scholarly Contributions Award for lifetime achievement from the Academy of Management, and other lifetime achievement awards from AOM’s Careers Division, Organizational Behavior Division, and the Practitioner Theme Committee. She also holds several honorary doctorates from international universities.

Rousseau’s research has two streams; one, focusing on the use of evidence in organizational decision making and the teaching of evidence-based management, and the other, on the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. She is recognized for developing the theory of the psychological contract (Great Minds in Management, Oxford University Press (Smith & Hitt, eds). Her publications include over a dozen books and 220 articles and monographs in management and psychology journals. Her most recent book with Eric Barends is Evidence-Based Management (Kogan Page) and its chapters are available in on-line modules (https://oli.cmu.edu/).

Liena Kano

MGST 748: Qualitative Research in Action

Liena Kano is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Global Management and the McCaig Family Future Fund Professor of International Family Business at the Haskayne School of Business. She holds a PhD and an MBA from the University of Calgary and a BA (Honours) in Linguistics and Intercultural Communications from the University of Russia's Academy of Education.

Liena teaches courses in strategic management, international business, and research methodology in the DBA, EMBA, MBA, and B.Comm. programs. Her research interests lie at the intersection of international business, strategic management, and entrepreneurship. Liena studies business phenomena such as family firm governance, internationalization, and global value chains, with a particular focus on micro-level dynamics of managerial behaviour that underlie complex international governance decisions. Liena’s work has been published in such premier journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, California Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, and other high-quality academic outlets. Liena serves on editorial review boards of multiple journals, where her work has been recognized by several Best Reviewer awards. Liena plays an active leadership role in the international scholarly community. She is a former Chair of Strategic Management Society’s Global Strategy Interest Group and a current board member of the Academy of International Business Canada Chapter, among other activities.

Prior to earning her PhD, Liena enjoyed a dynamic career in strategy in a range of Canadian and international industry sectors, including Oil & Gas, technology, and banking. Her significant management experience has influenced her current research interests.

Oleksiy Osiyevskyy

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Associate Dean, Policy and Program Development, Faculty of Graduate Studies 

MGST 746: Quantitative Research in Action

Oleksiy Osiyevskyy is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, where he also serves as an Associate Dean, Policy and Program Development, Faculty of Graduate Studies. In his scholarship, Oleksiy concentrates on the problem of achieving and sustaining firm growth and longevity through engagement in entrepreneurial strategies. Oleksiy has published over 75 academic papers, including the articles appearing in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management and Journal of World Business. He successfully supervised to graduation two DBA students, including the first Haskayne’s DBA graduate, Dr. Mark Ward.

Oleksiy founded his first Internet startup back in 2003, during his undergraduate studies. Since that time, he has been actively engaged in real-world business practice across the globe as an entrepreneur, manager within large companies, consultant and educator. Oleksiy has mentored, co-founded, invested in, and served on the boards of numerous startups within a broad range of industries (education, food, medical devices, transportation, e-commerce, among others), and engaged in strategic innovation projects within large organizations.