World-renowned Faculty

Oleksiy Osiyevskyy

Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Professional Graduate Programs
Director, DBA Program

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, Professional Graduate Programs. Oleksiy leads the Global Business Futures Initiative, an emerging thought leadership center aimed at preparing established businesses to thrive on disruption in the global marketplace. In his scholarship, he concentrates on the problem of achieving and sustaining firm growth and prosperous longevity through successful engagement in entrepreneurial strategies. Oleksiy has published over 60 academic papers, including the articles in appearing in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management and Journal of World Business. He actively supervises doctoral students, including 5 DBAs.

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.

Giovani Caetano da Silveira

MGST 703: Philosophy of Science for Business Administration

Giovani da Silveira is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Director of the Canadian Centre for Advanced Supply Chain Management and Logistics (CASL) 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 more than 4400 citations to his work in Google Scholar.

Dr. da Silveira serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Operations Management and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and in the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Production Economics. He has 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.

Päivi Eriksson

MGST 709: Qualitative Research Methods

Päivi Eriksson (Doctor of Science, Bus.Adm. and Economics) is Professor of Management in the area Innovation Management at the University of Eastern Finland Business School, Finland. She holds the title of a Docent at the Aalto University Business School and the School of Management at the University of Tampere in Finland. Her teaching, consulting and research focus on the social processes of innovation and change in different contexts. She has worked with a number private and public organizations, research and consulting companies and innovative startups with a special interest in health and wellbeing business.

She teaches qualitative research methods to PhD students internationally, and her book on case research for the Finnish audience is well-cited. Her book on Qualitative Methods in Business Research with Sage Publications (2nd edition in 2016) covers all major qualitative approaches used in business research. She works as an associate editor for the Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal published by Emerald. Her research has been published widely in international peer reviewed journals.

Jo-Louise Huq

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/).

Peter Sherer

MGST 705: Critical Research Assessment

Peter D. Sherer is an associate 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.

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.

Alain Verbeke

SGMA: 707: Advanced Strategic Management Tools

Dr. Alain Verbeke is a Professor of International Business Strategy and holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management at the Haskayne School of Business (HSB), University of Calgary. He has also been the Chair of the Strategy and Global Management Area at the HSB.  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 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies - JIBS (2017 – 2022)

Dr. Verbeke's academic research agenda consists of revisiting, rethinking and augmenting the core paradigms in strategic management and international business, especially internalization theory, which is a joint transaction cost economics and resource-based view of the firm, focused on the governance of new resource combinations. He has particular expertise in the management of headquarters - subsidiary relationships and broader governance challenges in large multinational enterprises.

Dr. Verbeke has authored or edited 40 books and more than 200 refereed publications, including many articles in leading scholarly journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Management Studies.

Dr. Verbeke is an Elected Fellow of both the Academy of International Business – AIB and the European International Business Academy – EIBA.  He is the recipient of the double Gold Medal for scholarly contributions and scholarly service to JIBS.

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

Seok-Woo Kwon

MGST 711: Quantitative Design and Analysis

Seok-Woo Kwon is an associate professor with tenure and holds the Robson Professorship in Entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining the Haskayne School in 2016, Seok-Woo has taught at Temple University, University of California at Riverside, University of Kentucky, and University of Southern California.

His research has been published in Academy of Management Review, American Sociological Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, and Social Forces. He has won multiple awards including W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2014; Academy of Management Review Decade Award, 2012; Best AMR Paper of 2002 Award.

He has a Google Scholar profile and reviews journal articles regularly as shown on Publons.