Laurier School of Business & Economics
Coordinates: 43°28′31.21″N 80°31′38.08″W / 43.4753361°N 80.5272444°W
| Laurier School of Business & Economics | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1966 |
| Type | Public School of business |
| Dean | Micheál Kelly |
Academic staff |
100 full-time 65 part-time faculty |
| Undergraduates | 3642 students[1] |
| Postgraduates | 1550 students[1] |
| Location | Waterloo and Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | Laurier SBE |
| Affiliations | AACSB, AUCC |
| Website |
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The Laurier School of Business & Economics is one of Canada's largest business schools. With more than 5,000 students overall, it is the largest faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University. The main campus is located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle, 100 km (62 mi) west of Toronto - and offers full-time and part-time PhD, MBA, Master's, Economics, BBA, Bachelor's and Diploma programs. Laurier business also has a second, part-time MBA campus located in the St. Andrew’s Club and Conference Centre in the core of downtown Toronto. The School has more than 100 full-time and 65 part-time faculty.
As of 2011, the Laurier School of Business & Economics has over 20,000 alumni (16,700 undergraduate and 3,300 masters/graduate/phd) working in Canada, the United States and around the world.[2][3] Recently the school was named an "outstanding business school" by The Princeton Review, which acknowledged that “We are pleased to recommend Laurier as one of the best institutions students could attend to earn an MBA”.[4] The Laurier School of Business & Economics is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) for all of its Undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D programs.[5][6]
Centres and organizations
The Laurier School of Business & Economics is host to a number of student and professional organizations:
- Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship
- School of Business & Economics Student Society
- Laurier Cooperative Education (Co-op)
- Laurier Career Development Centre
- Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE)
- Laurier Accounting Association
- Laurier MBA
- Laurier Executive Development Centre
- Women in Leadership - Laurier
- Net Impact - Laurier MBA
- WLU Debating Society
- School of Business & Economics - Atrium Media Organization
- Laurier Alumni
- UW/WLU Double Degree Club
- Toronto Path - Laurier MBA Toronto
- Laurier Marketing Association
Alumni
As of 2011, the Laurier School of Business & Economics has over 20,000 alumni (16,700 undergraduate and 3,300 masters/graduate/phd) working in Canada, the United States and around the world.[2][3] This is partial list of notable Laurier School of Business & Economics alumni. Entries on this list should either have an existing article link which verifies they are an alumnus, or reliable sources cited for each name.
- Andrew Abouchar, Co-Founder and Partner, Tech Capital Partners
- Dean Allison, Member of Parliament, Canadian House of Commons[7]
- Real Bergevin, Co-Founder and CEO, NuComm International[8]
- Robert Boyce, Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics, UK[9]
- Bryan Dare, Co-Chairman, Dare Foods[10]
- Bill Downe, President and CEO, Bank of Montreal[11]
- Jason Whiting, Vice President of Invesco Ltd.
- Lindsay Duffield, President, Jaguar Land Rover Canada[12]
- Dan Einwechter, President and CEO, Challenger Motor Freight
- Rick Endrulat, Co-Founder and President, Virtual Causeway
- Brock Furlong, CEO, Optimum Food Group[13]
- Jim Gabel, President Reebok North America[14]
- David Hayter, COO, Liberty Mutual Investments[15]
- Bruce Hodges, COO, Sun Life Financial Asia, Hong Kong[16]
- Ralph Hyatt, President and CEO, Toshiba Canada[17]
- Ron Jutras, President and CEO, ATS Automation Tooling Systems[18]
- Dennis Kavelman, COO, Desire2Learn (D2L),[19] former CFO/COO, Research In Motion (RIM)[20]
- Lynda Kitamura, CFO, Electronic Products Recycling Association
- Pat Krajewski, Senior Vice President HR, Scotiabank International Banking[21]
- Dave Lacey, Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management Properties[22]
- Dan Latendre, Founder and CEO, IGLOO Software
- Marc Morin, Co-Founder and CTO, Sandvine[23]
- Dennis Mitchell, Executive Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer, Sentry Investments [24]
- Bruce Morrison, Senior Vice President, Disney Consumer Products[25]
- Stacey Mowbray, President and CEO, Second Cup[26]
- Lynn Oldfield, President, Chartis Insurance Canada[27]
- Tim Penner, President, Procter & Gamble Canada[28]
- Brandon Snow, Principal & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Cambridge Global Asset Management - CI Investments [29]
- David Strucke, President and CEO, Navtech[30]
- Razor Suleman, Founder and CEO, I Love Rewards[31]
- Ray Tanguay, Chairman, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Senior Managing Officer Toyota Motor Corp, Japan[32]
- Ian Troop, CEO, 2015 Pan American Games[33]
- Robert Tong, Vice President, ON Semiconductor[34]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "WLU AACSB DataDirect". www.aacsb.edu.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "WLU Alumni Association - Annual Report 2009-2010". www.wlu.ca/sbe. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Wilfrid Laurier University - Businessweek". www.businessweek.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics - Headlines". www.wlu.ca/sbe. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "AACSB General - Wilfrid Laurier University - Laurier School of Business & Economics". www.www.aacsb.edu. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics - Achievements & Successes". www.wlu.ca/sbe. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Dean Allison, Meet Dean". www.deanallison.ca. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Real Bergevin, NuComm International Inc". www.spoke.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Dr. Robert Boyce". www.lse.ac.uk. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Dare Foods Limited - Special Collections - University of Waterloo". www.uwaterloo.ca. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "William Downe: Executive Profile". www.businessweek.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Jaguar Land Rover Canada - Lindsay Duffield". www.newswire.ca. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Optimum Food Group, Northbrook, Illinois". www.optimumfoodgroup.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Executive Biography of Jim Gabel". www.reebok.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Community Servings". www.servings.org. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Sun Life Financial Asia Appoints New COO". www.sunlife.com.hk. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Toshiba Canada - Press Release". www.toshiba.ca. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Factory Automation Systems Integrator ATS - Press Release". www.atsautomation.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Latest on Desire2Learn".
- ↑ "Blackberry - Executive Team". www.rim.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Globeinvestor.com - Appointment Notice - Pat Krajewski". www.globeinvestor.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "David Lacey's Public Profile". www.plaxo.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Sandvine Management". www.sandvine.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ http://www.sentry.ca/en/portfolio-team/portfolio-managers/Dennis_Mitchell.html
- ↑ "Bruce Morrison Senior VP". www.zoominfo.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Stacey Mowbray: Executive". www.businessweek.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Lynn Oldfield". www.wlu.ca. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "PG.com - Canada - Who We Are". www.pg.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ http://ci.com/web/portfolio_mgmt/cambridge/team.jsp?lang=ENG&menu=
- ↑ "Navtech - Corporate Governance". www.navtech.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Leadership Team". www.iloverewards.com. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Ray Tanguay - Laurier". www.wlu.ca. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "Ian Troop Pan American Games". www.toronto2015.org. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ↑ "ON Semiconductor - Complete Profile". www.ic.gc.ca. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
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