MScB Faculty Available for Thesis Supervision
The MSc in Business program is thesis-based. You are required to identify one or more thesis supervisors in your聽application (to be included in your聽statement of research interests) and justify why you would like to work with the selected faculty member(s).
You do not need to receive faculty member鈥檚 approval to include their name in your application. Contacting and receiving any answers from the potential supervisor(s) does not guarantee the acceptance of your admission. The decision for admission to our program will be based on your completed application with all supporting documents.
Finance concentration
Najah Attig
najah.attig@dal.ca
Empirical corporate finance; Corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility; ESG; Greenwashing; Corporate sustainability; Textual analysis
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Iraj Fooladi
iraj.fooladi@dal.ca
Bond portfolio strategies; Corporate social responsibilities; Sustainable finance; Issues in corporate finance
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Gregory Hebb
gregory.hebb@dal.ca
Financial institutions; Mutual funds; Sustainable finance
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Rick Nason
richard.nason@dal.ca
Applications of complexity science; Entropy measures of asset prices
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Maria Pacurar
maria.pacurar@dal.ca
FinTech, Market microstructure; High-frequency data; Asset pricing
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Oumar Sy
oumar.sy@dal.ca
Efficiency tests; International finance; International diversification; Asset allocation and portfolio management; Corporate finance and event studies; Corporate governance; Political economy and financial markets; Derivative pricing; Financial econometrics
Available to supervise 2026/2027
Yonggan Zhao
yonggan.zhao@dal.ca
Optimal portfolio investment and management; Derivatives pricing models; Optimal capital structure; Credit rating and derivatives
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Jun Zhou
j.zhou@dal.ca
Corporate payout policy; Corporate cash holdings; Investments
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Management concentration
Isabelle Caron
Isabelle.caron@dal.ca
Human resource management (especially in the public sector); employee retention and loyalty; organizational toxicity; employee motivation and commitment; workplace wellbeing; nudging strategies in HR
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Anika Cloutier
anika.cloutier@dal.ca
Understanding antecedentts to leadership behaviours and leader emergence; Work-family interface; Mental health; Gender and work
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Dana Kabat-Farr
kabatfarr@dal.ca
Understanding workplace social experiences: Workplace incivility, sexual harassment, gender harassment; Interpersonal citizenship behaviour; Diversity and inclusion in organizations
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Catherine Loughlin
cloughlin@dal.ca
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Binod Sundararajan
binod@dal.ca
Diversity and organizational effectiveness (development of the TAEC model); Social constructivist approaches to teaching business ethics; Evolutionary perspectives for strategic communication and public relations; Organizational mediocrity and the local maxima trap; Organizational leadership education; Cross-cultural practices in business and finance
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Heidi Weigand
heidi.weigand@dal.ca
Leadership development in healthcare; Motivating inter-generational and inter-cultural workplace dynamics; Developing leader and follower resiliency
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
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DWL@Dal.Ca
Career attraction or selection;聽public service motivation;聽not for profit sector career choice;聽private versus public sector career choice;聽organizational influences on employee motivation
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Marketing concentration
Hamed Aghakhani
aghakhani@dal.ca
Advertising; Consumer behaviour; Creativity; Cause-related marketing; Health marketing
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Sergio Carvalho
scarvalho@dal.ca
Consumer behaviour; Pro-social behavour; Corporate social responsibility; Social identity; Risk behaviour; Moral emotions; Cause-related marketing; Country of origin effect; Brand concepts
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Peggy Cunningham
peggyc@dal.ca
Marketing strategy; Fast growth companies, branding, marketing ethics; Corporate social responsibility聽
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
H茅l猫ne Deval
hdeval@dal.ca
Advertising; Consumer behaviour and information processing; Naive theories
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Mohammed El Hazzouri
melhazzouri@dal.ca
Diversity in advertising; Public health advertising; Social identity; Consumer debt; Evolutionary basis of consumption
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Tom Koo
tom.kb.koo@dal.ca
Consumer behaviour; Customer experience; Language; Digital communication; Technology; Artificial intelligence; Well-being
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Justin McManus
mcmanus@dal.ca
Self-related attitudes, beliefs, and motivations; Organizational trustworthiness and brand trust; Consumption signals (e.g., status, competence, morality); Antecedents of new product evaluation
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Valerie Trifts
valerie.trifts@dal.ca
Advertising; Consumer behaviour
Available to supervise in 2025/2026. On sabbatical in 2026/2027.
Alexandria West
alexandria.west@dal.ca
How cultural beliefs shape consumer behaviour, influencing evaluations of brands and other consumers, while also examining the reciprocal dynamic in which marketing practices can reinforce or reshape cultural norms and social structures. Two specific lines of research focus on authenticity and social hierarchy beliefs as key domains. Newest work explores the rapidly growing yet understudied consumer segments of multicultural individuals and intercultural couples, whose unique experiences reveal how brands can adapt effectively across multiple cultures and evolve into authentically multicultural entities.
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
MIS concentration
Fanny-Eve Bordeleau
fe.bordeleau@dal.ca
Digital innovation;聽process improvement; process analytics; change management.
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Jing (Jenny) Chen
jchen@dal.ca
Supply chain management; Retail operations; Consumer behavioUr analysis; Decision support analytics
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Colin Conrad
colin.conrad@dal.ca
Educational technology; Social media; Neuro-information systems; Human-computer interaction
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Alexander Engau
alexander.engau@dal.ca
Business analytics, Artificial intelligence; Statistical machine learning; Data-driven decision making; Decision support systems, operations research, mathematical modeling
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Paola Gonzalez
paola.gonzalez@dal.ca
Information system leadership and the IT profession; Health information systems (e.g. design, user experience, adoption, implementation); Design and leverage information systems to provide equity, accessibility and inclusiveness
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Kyung Young Lee
kyunglee@dal.ca
Online product reviews; Text-mining; Smart tourism; Smart tools and applications; Corporate use of social media; Human-AI interactions
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Arma臒an 脰zbilge
ozbilgea@dal.ca
Sustainable operations; Charitable giving; Food loss and waste; Perishable inventory management; Omnichannel retailing
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Ali 脺lk眉
ulku@dal.ca
Supply chain analytics; Community-based operations research; Business sustainability metrics; Decision support systems.
Available to supervise in 2026/2027
Bo Yu
bo.yu@dal.ca
Technological agency; Information systems use, design and assessment; Negotiation and auction online; Healthcare analytics
Available to supervise in 2026/2027