The following are PhD and Masters Students focusing on topics of sustainability for their research. Each student also contributes to the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise in helping with forwarding the Centre’s research goals or assisting with the Centre’s programs and activities.
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Stephanie Berger
Management Department, PhD Program
Stephanie Berger received her BA (Honours) in Geography from Queen's
University (Kingston, Ontario) and spent a decade on Wall Street, in
London, and in Paris facilitating Initial Public Offerings and
compliance filings in Financial Printing before returning to Montreal to
complete her MBA at McGill. During her MBA, Berger specialized in
Marketing and CSR, and she led a research team for Christine Arena's
2007 business book on corporate health, The High-Purpose Company. Berger is also a past Co-President of Net Impact McGill, and a
founding organizer for McGill's Social Responsibility Career Fair.
Currently, Berger is working toward her PhD in Management at Concordia's John
Molson School of Business (JMSB). Her research areas include corporate
social responsibility and sustainable development, middle management
leadership, and organizational change.
Berger has presented
her conceptual work at the Academy of Management (ODC Division) and her
empirical work at the Decision Sciences Institute.
Berger is a
Board Member for the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
(DOCSE) and for VisibleGovernment.ca, she is a career and business
consultant for CSR and Sustainability, and also publishes a bi-weekly
CSR/SD newsletter for MBA students.
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Bilal Abdul Kader
Finance Department, PhD Program
Bilal Abdul Kader, a PhD candidate at the John Molson School of Business, earned his MBA from JMSB in 2006. His main research interests are: asset pricing, corporate cash management, micro-finance, and sustainability in finance.
He has taught and assisted in various undergraduate courses in the department of Finance and MIS. He is committed to integrate an active learning experience into his classroom in order to empower and engage students using recent methods, technologies, and activities.
At the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Abdul Kader is working on financial data sonification to explore the explanatory power of acoustic display and whether sonification can uncover some otherwise unobservable trends in organizational data. |
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Andrea Kim
Management Department, PhD Program
Andrea Kim completed her MSc in marketing and is currently a PhD student at the John Molson School of Business in Management. Her MSc research thesis focused on identifying factors that mitigate consumer scepticism associated to corporate social responsibility activities. At the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, she is currently working on a project on integrating art and aesthetic practices to build a sustainable enterprise. She is Teaching Assistant for an Undergraduate course in Sustainable Management taught by Dr. Paul Shrivastava and coordinates the social media activities for the Centre.
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Guillaume Pain
Management Department, PhD Program
Guillaume Pain has been working in the field of international sustainable development for the past 11 years as a trade facilitator and project management consultant. His MBA research focused on organizational learning (OL) theories and practices within overseas development assistance institutions. His current research interests include organizational learning, knowledge management, sustainable development, institutionalism, and stakeholder theory. |
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