Lazaridis School of Business and Economics

Coordinates: 43°28′31.21″N 80°31′38.08″W / 43.4753361°N 80.5272444°W / 43.4753361; -80.5272444

The Lazaridis School of Business and Economics is a business school of Wilfrid Laurier University located in Waterloo, Ontario. Originally the Laurier School of Business and Economics, it was renamed in September 2015 to recognize Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of Research In Motion. The re-branding followed a 2014 announcement of his pledge of $20-million for a new technology-focused management institute at the business school.^[2] In 2016, the School and the new institute will move to a new facility, the Lazaridis Hall^[3] building (still under construction),^[4] at 200 University Avenue West in Waterloo.

Dean Micheál Kelly said the prominence of the Lazaridis name "provides us with a great opportunity now to tell the story on a much wider level of what a great school this is."^[5] Laurier president Max Blouw told Lazaridis that the renaming "reinforces our commitment to embody your pioneering vision and sense of innovation in our programs and in our students." With more than 4,500 students overall, and more than 108 full-time and 65 part-time faculty in 2014,^[6] the School^[7] is the largest faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University.

The main campus^[8] is located 100 km (62 mi) west of Toronto and offers full-time and part-time PhD, MBA, Master's, Economics and Honours BBA; the Brantford, Ontario campus offers a Bachelor of Business Technology Management program (administered by the business school). Diploma programs in Accounting and Business Administration are also offered by the School of Business and Economics.^[9] A program in association with the University of Waterloo confers double degrees.^[10] The Lazaridis School also offers a part-time MBA program in downtown Toronto at the St. Andrew’s Club and Conference Centre.

The Lazaridis School has more than 108 full-time and 65 part-time faculty.^[11] As of 2011, the School had over 20,000 alumni (16,700 undergraduate and 3,300 masters/graduate/phd) working in Canada, the United States and around the world.^[12][13] In 2010, the (then) Laurier School of Business and Economics 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”.^[14] The School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) for all of its Undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D programs.^[15][16]

Centres and organizations

The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics is host to a number of student and professional organizations:

• School of Business & Economics Student Society
• Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship
• Laurier Economics Club
• DECA Laurier
• E-Business Laurier
• Laurier Cooperative Education (Co-op)
• Laurier Career Development Centre
• Laurier Accounting Association
• Laurier Marketing Association
• AdHawk Association
• Laurier Sales Association
• Laurier Investment and Finance Association
• Laurier Executive Development Centre
• Women in Leadership Laurier
• WLU Debating Society
• Atrium Media Group
• Laurier Marketing Association
• The Link
• Laurier Alumni

Alumni

As of 2011, the School had over 20,000 alumni (16,700 undergraduate and 3,300 masters/graduate/phd) working in Canada, the United States and around the world.^[12][13] This is partial list of notable Laurier/Lazaridis School alumni.

• Andrew Abouchar, Co-Founder and Partner, Tech Capital Partners
• Dean Allison, Member of Parliament, Canadian House of Commons^[17]
• Real Bergevin, Co-Founder and CEO, NuComm International^[18]
• Robert Boyce, Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics, UK^[19]
• Bryan Dare, Co-Chairman, Dare Foods^[20]
• Greg Dean, Principal & Portfolio Manager Cambridge Global Asset Management ^[21]
• Bill Downe, President and CEO, Bank of Montreal^[22]
• Jason Whiting, Vice President of Invesco Ltd.
• Lindsay Duffield, President, Jaguar Land Rover Canada^[23]
• Dan Einwechter, President and CEO, Challenger Motor Freight
• Rick Endrulat, Co-Founder and President, Virtual Causeway
• Brock Furlong, CEO, Optimum Food Group^[24]
• Jim Gabel, President Reebok North America^[25]
• David Hayter, COO, Liberty Mutual Investments^[26]
• Bruce Hodges, COO, Sun Life Financial Asia, Hong Kong^[27]
• Ralph Hyatt, President and CEO, Toshiba Canada^[28]
• Stephen Groff, Principal & Portfolio Manager Cambridge Global Asset Management ^[21]
• Ron Jutras, President and CEO, ATS Automation Tooling Systems^[29]
• Brad Katsuyama, CEO and co-founder of the IEX, the Investors Exchange ^[30]
• Dennis Kavelman, COO, Desire2Learn (D2L),^[31] former CFO/COO, Research In Motion (RIM)^[32]
• Lynda Kitamura, CFO, Electronic Products Recycling Association
• Pat Krajewski, Senior Vice President HR, Scotiabank International Banking^[33]
• Dave Lacey, Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management Properties^[34]
• Dan Latendre, Founder and CEO, IGLOO Software
• Marc Morin, Co-Founder and CTO, Sandvine^[35]
• Dennis Mitchell, Senior Vice-President, Senior Portfolio Manager Sprott Asset Management ^[36]
• Bruce Morrison, Senior Vice President, Disney Consumer Products^[37]
• Stacey Mowbray, President and CEO, Second Cup^[38]
• Lynn Oldfield, President, Chartis Insurance Canada^[39]
• Tim Penner, President, Procter & Gamble Canada^[40]
• Brandon Snow, Principal & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Cambridge Global Asset Management - CI Investments ^[21]
• David Strucke, President and CEO, Navtech^[41]
• Razor Suleman, Founder and CEO, I Love Rewards^[42]
• Ray Tanguay, Chairman, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Senior Managing Officer Toyota Motor Corp, Japan^[43]
• Ian Troop, CEO, 2015 Pan American Games^[44]
• Robert Tong, Vice President, ON Semiconductor^[45]

References

External links

• Official website