Rotman School

Rotman students bring home MBA world trophy

Sub-title: 
Winners of inaugural event in Dublin, Ireland
Author: 
Ken McGuffin
Picture: 
photo of World MBA winners

A team from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has won the inaugural event of the MBA World Trophy held in Dublin over the past weekend.

The event brought entrepreneurs from seventeen different universities around the world to compete against each other with their start-up businesses in front of venture capitalists and other business leaders.

Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A Practitioner's Guide to Nudging

Sub-title: 
Rotman School offers some tips
Author: 
Ken McGuffin
Picture: 
photo of Professor Dilip Soman

A new guide from a team of behaviour economists at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management aims to help practitioners develop effective "nudges".

Drawing on research on this area of behaviour economics, the guide demonstrates how nudging influences behaviour by changing the way choices are presented in the environment.

Posted Wednesday, April 3, 2013

How spirituality induces liberal attitudes

Author: 
Jessica Lewis
Picture: 
Two women meditating.

People become more politically liberal immediately after practising a spiritual exercise such as meditation, researchers at the University of Toronto have found.

"There's great overlap between religious beliefs and political orientations," says one of the study authors, Jordan Peterson of U of T's Department of Psychology. "We found that religious individuals tend to be more conservative and spiritual people tend to be more liberal.

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2013

When winter doldrums and stock markets collide

Author: 
Dominic Ali
Picture: 
photo of Lisa Kramer

Suffering from winter blahs? You’re not alone. The lack of sunlight that characterizes the quiet time between New Year’s and St. Patrick’s Day has important effects on investors and the economy.

Lisa Kramer, an associate professor of finance with the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Rotman School of Management, talked with U of T News about her research into just how the environment affects economic decisions. 

Posted Monday, February 25, 2013

University of Toronto joins Harvard, MIT online learning platform

Author: 
Laurie Stephens
Picture: 
photo of Dilip Soman

The University of Toronto is joining edX, a US-based platform for massive open online courses that is accessible to students of all ages and means around the world.

“The University of Toronto is extremely pleased to join edX,” said Cheryl Misak, U of T vice-president and provost. “This is the latest move in our ongoing efforts to provide an opportunity for people worldwide to have access to outstanding educational materials and to enhance the learning experiences of our own students.”

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2013

Refocusing important on and off the court

Sub-title: 
NBA player stats used to study on-the-job adaptability
Author: 
Ken McGuffin
Picture: 
Two players in an NBA game

Employees aren't necessarily slacking off when their performance drops in one area, according to a study led by a researcher at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Rose Patten joins U of T's Rotman School of Management

Author: 
Ken McGuffin
Picture: 
photo of Rose Patten

Rose Patten, a leader in the banking industry with strong ties to the University of Toronto has joined the university's Rotman School of Management as an Executive-in-Residence.

"My decision to join Rotman was a very thoughtful and deliberate choice," said Patten. "The opportunity to have real impact from sharing broad and deep knowledge and experience will be greater here than any other situation I know. I love the students and their wonderful minds. I will continue to learn a great deal."

Posted Thursday, February 7, 2013

Investing in mutual funds? Beware broker fees, study says

Author: 
Ken McGuffin
Picture: 
photo of Wall Street's statue of bull

Brokers are supposed to recommend investments that are in the best interests of their clients.

But a new study from University of Toronto professor Susan Christoffersen sheds light on which is more important to a broker: the performance of the fund or the fee it pays the broker?

The study, published in the February 2013 issue of the Journal of Finance, found that mutual funds offering higher broker fees attract the most investments, especially when the broker is not affiliated with the mutual fund company.

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Global rise in life expectancy not equal

Author: 
Terry Lavender
Picture: 
photo Maud Menten

A 100-year-old chemical formula co-developed by one of the University of Toronto's first female medical graduates has helped U of T researchers determine that the global rise in life expectancy is not benefitting everybody equally.

Posted Friday, December 14, 2012

Ontario businesses carry too much “dead cash”, report finds

Sub-title: 
Invest in training and innovation now, task force urges
Author: 
Ken McGuffin
Picture: 
Bigstock photo of business people walking

The prosperity gap between Ontario and its peers will widen unless businesses start spending, says Professor Roger Martin of the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress.

Businesses need to start investing in people and technology, improving management and pushing for growth, said Martin, Dean of U of T’s Rotman School of Management and Chair of the task force.

Posted Friday, November 30, 2012
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