Our Students
The PhD Program in Business at the University of Alberta has a vibrant cohort of students across all disciplines. Designed to prepare students for a research-oriented career, the program provides opportunities for each student to work closely with faculty to develop her/his own research portfolio.
Students Enrolled in 2024-2025
Accounting
- Qi An
- Ke Feng
- Ming Gao
- Leixing Jiang
- Zhaoyang (Irene) Qin
- Alireza Tariverdi
- Kieran Taylor-Neu
- Qingning (Nancy) Wang
- Xin Yang
- Yulong Zhang
Finance
- Ailin Chen
- He (Emma) Fang
- Arkadiy Lenchak
- Bowen Lin
- Usama Malik
- Golnoush Omidali
- Linfeng Tian
- Wenqi Wan
- Huijun (Janice) Yan
- Weisu Yu
Marketing
- Turan Bayramli
- Natalie Bolen
- Timothy Derksen
- Seyyed (Ardalan) Eyni
- Amirreza Faghihinia
- Bijit Ghosh
- Cindy Grappe
- Lance Gregory
- Feyzan Karabulut
- Qiao Liu
- Arjang Nikbakht
- Erika Polishchuk
- Roghayeh Teimourfamian Asl
- Rory Waisman
- Yi Wei
- Shuhan Yang
Operations and Information Systems
- Arash Asgari
- Mohammadreza (Roham) Bahri
- Mehrnaz Behrooz
- Bo Han
- Chunzhen Huang
- Erfan Rafieikia
- Soroush Sadeghi
- Masoumeh Talebi
- Maryam Zakeri Hosseinabadi
- Yasser Zeinali
Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
- Teddy Carter
- Maggie Cascadden
- Logan Crace
- Chelsea Dufresne
- Sepideh Eivazi
- Mehri E. Baloochi
- Natalie Eng
- Julian Faid
- Samira Jafari
- Yunjung Pak
- Yufei Ren
- Jennifer Sloan
- Conroy Smith
- Leyuan Xie
- Wenqiang (Jack) Yin
- Shuo Yuan
Student Publications
2025
Natalie Eng, PhD Candidate: Eng, N., Block, E., Greenwood, R., & Lounsbury, M. (forthcoming). Legitimacy dynamics. In R. Younger & A. Zavyalova (Eds.), Oxford handbook of organizational social evaluations. Oxford University Press.
Natalie Eng, PhD Candidate: Eng, N., Fey, L., & Schupfer, H. (forthcoming). The practical significance of history: When and how history can be used for institutional change. In N. Eng, K. Heales, E. Block, & A. Slade Shantz (Eds.), Research on the sociology of organizations: Putting institutional theory to work during times of crisis (Vol. xx). Emerald Publishing.
Natalie Eng, PhD Candidate: Heales, K., Eng, N., Block, E., & Shantz, A. S. (forthcoming). Putting institutional theory to work during times of crisis (Introduction). In N. Eng, K. Heales, E. Block, & A. Slade Shantz (Eds.), Research on the sociology of organizations: Putting institutional theory to work during times of crisis (Vol. xx). Emerald Publishing.
Jennifer Sloan, PhD Candidate: Glaser, V., & Sloan, J. (forthcoming). “Deleuze and Guattari and Assemblage Theory”. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice: Theorists. Edward Elgar Publishing.
2024
Maggie Cascadden, PhD Candidate: Cascadden, M., Heales, K., Kingston, M., Heidak, P. & Jennings, P.D. (2024). Hybridizing sustainability metric applications with local stakeholder inputs: A life cycle assessment (LCA) with a co-design demonstration. Organization Studies, 0(ja).
Omima El Kailani, PhD Student: Jennings, J. E., & Elkailani, O. (2024). Women entrepreneurs in violent conflict zones. Open Access Government.
Cindy Grappe, PhD Student: Lombart, Cindy, Cindy G. Grappe, Didier Louis, Fabien Durif, Florence Charton-Vachet, and Olga Untilov. (2024, March 27). Produits « éthiques » : promettre ne suffit pas pour convaincre les consommateurs. The Conversation.
Lance Gregory, PhD Student: Lei, C., Zhang, P., Gregory, L., Wang, H., Wang, G., & Häubl, G. (2024). Preference for quicker offers: The critical roles of temporal reference points and evaluation mode. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 37(1), e2361.
Shuhan Yang, PhD Candidate: Tito L.H. Grillo, Shuhan Yang, Adrian F. Ward. Fairness revisionism: Reducing discrimination for the future reduces perceived unfairness in the past. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 115, November 2024, 104671.
Yasser Zeinali, PhD Candidate: Hashemian, F., Maleki, N., & Zeinali, Y. (2024). From User Behavior to Subscription Sales: An Insight Into E-Book Platform Leveraging Customer Segmentation and A/B Testing. Services Marketing Quarterly, 45(2), 153–181.
News for Celebration!
Tim Derksen, PhD candidate in Marketing, is part of research group studying loneliness and consumer spending. See "Loneliness Can Sell Dog Food," in Chicago Booth Review, September 9, 2024.
Marketing PhD student Cindy Grappe has been awarded the 2024-25 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship. This is the most prestigious graduate award administered by the University of Alberta: Cindy is one of only 18 students across campus to receive the award this year! It was Dorothy Killam's desire that those who receive awards in her husband’s memory should contribute to the advancement of learning and win distinction in their profession. Killam recipients are multi-faceted scholars whose intellect is complemented by a sound character. Congratulations, Cindy!
Congratulations to PhD Candidates, Arkadiy Lenchak (Finance) and Jennifer Sloan (SEM) who are the 2024 Graduate Student Teaching Award recipients, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to teaching.
Omima El Kailani, SEM 2nd year PhD student, has her paper "Coping with indeterminate dangers in a violent conflict zone: A study of Libyan women entrepreneurs" accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management conference this summer and has been invited for inclusion in the Best Paper Proceedings.
SEM 2nd year PhD student, Samira Jafari's paper "Does the masculinity and femininity of entrepreneurs influence the strategic aspects of their firms? Insight from a three-country study" was accepted to present at the Stockholm 2024 Diana International Conference on Women's Entrepreneurship Research.
The 2024 Recipient of the Eric Geddes PhD Scholarship in Healthcare Research is Arash Asgari, OIS PhD Candidate, for his project "Optimizing exam room assignments to physicians in the surgical clinic at Stollery Children's Hospital."
Our Graduates
Our graduates have obtained positions in prestigious universities throughout the world, including California (Berkeley), Imperial College (London), Emory, Iowa, Pennsylvania (Wharton School), Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology, McGill, and Western Ontario.
View a listing of our graduates, and their current institutions dating back to 1989.