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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Cheryl Gladu
Management Department, PhD Program
Cheryl Gladu received her degree in International Business from Carleton University, and her MBA from Simon Fraser University. She is currently pursuing a full-time Special Individualized Program PhD at Concordia University and studies at both the John Molson School of Business and Concordia’s Department of Design and Computation Arts. She’s also slowly chipping away at a part-time degree in painting and drawing at the same institution. Cheryl has created and delivered numerous presentations and workshops and has taught at both the John Molson School of Business and at the Desautels Faculty of Management (McGill University). Cheryl is currently studying the role and design of eco-feedback tools in the facilitation of proenvironmental behaviour in the organizational setting. She is doing research with Dr. Shrivastava on measuring the impact of art activism in the environmental movement. |
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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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