Awards and Accolades - July to September 2023

Faculty Excellence

Congratulations Jennifer Sloan for receiving the Community Service Award. This award recognizes Jennifer's role in coordinating the Early Career Program within the Strategy as Practice (SAP) community. The Early Career Program offers invaluable mentorship by pairing new scholars with seasoned academics: by facilitating meaningful dialogue and providing a holistic overview of key SAP topics, the program aims to equip participants with career support and theoretical depth.

Kylie Heales and Angelique Slade Shantz won the 2023 Best OMT Entrepreneurship Paper with their paper How Institutional Logics Influence Growth: A Field Experiment with Tunisian Women Entrepreneurs. Congratulations! 
The Best OMT Entrepreneurship Paper recognizes a paper in the scholarly program that advances understanding of entrepreneurship drawing on organization and management theory.

Student Success

Congratulations to Ishan Arora for being the recipient of the University of Alberta International Student Association Award for Global Connection 2022/23

Alumni News

Alberta School of Business alumnus Scott Pfeifer (BSc 2000 and MBA 2004) will enter Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and receive the Order of Sport, Canada’s highest honour for athletes, this October with his curling team Ferbey Four. Congratulations to Scott!

Alberta School of Business Alumnus Robert Bertram was selected to be one of the Distinguished Alumni Award recipients for 2023.  This recognizes the outstanding lifetime accomplishments of alumni who have earned national or international regard or have had significant local impact as a result of their outstanding professional achievements and/or service to society. Congratulations Robert!

A huge shoutout to alum Cameron Linke, ‘07 BCom, for being recognized as one of this year’s Horizon award winners! Cameron is the CEO of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), co-founder of Startup Edmonton and a longtime leader in Edmonton's tech and start up community.