Awards and Accolades - July and August 2022

The start of a new academic year feels like the perfect time to revive the monthly Alberta School of Business Awards and Accolades where we celebrate the achievements of business faculty, staff, students and alumni. This edition highlights the achievements of July and August.

Faculty Excellence

Congratulations to Vern Glaser, associate professor and academic director for the University of Alberta's Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, and his co-authors Neil Pollock and Luciana D’Adderio. They were awarded the 2021 James G. March Prize for their paper “The Biography of an Algorithm: Performing algorithmic technologies in organizations.” 


A big congratulations to the following faculty members on their SSHRC success:
  • Efstathios Avdis: Financial markets, information extraction, and artificial intelligence
  • Adelina Barbalau: Financing the transition to a sustainable economy: theory and evidence
  • Timothy Hannigan: The emerging blockchain entrepreneurship field
  • Barry Scholnick: Banks and their debtors

School News

The just released 2022 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, which is based on research productivity, has placed us #30 in the world and #1 in Canada in Business Administration!


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