Faculty Areas

Accounting & Financial Management Services

Chair: Lilian Chan, DSB-325, ext. 23974, ylchan@mcmaster.ca
Faculty: Yee-Ching Lilian Chan | Horng-Tzu Hao | Justin Y. Jin | Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam | Yvonne Kwok | Sue McCracken | Emad Mohammad | Khalid Nainar | Mohamed Shehata | John Siam | Sara Stonehouse

The accounting program emphasizes the fundamental theories and current issues in corporate governance and financial reporting, including the measurement, reporting, and analysis of financial information to both internal and external users. Accounting courses in both DeGroote’s Honours Commerce and MBA programs are recognized by the three professional accounting organizations in Canada: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO), the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario (CMA Ontario), and the Association of Certified General Accountants of Ontario (CGA Ontario).  Most students obtain professional accounting accreditation and pursue careers in public accounting, forensic accounting, consulting, merger and acquisition, valuation, corporate finance, and strategic management in both for-profit and not-for-profit businesses.

Finance & Business Economics

Chair: Trevor Chamberlain, DSB-304, ext. 23980, chambert@mcmaster.ca
Faculty: Trevor Chamberlain | M. W. Luke Chan | Narat Charupat | Sherman Cheung | Anna Danielova | Richard Deaves | Clarence Kwan | Guo Ying Luo | Peter Miu | Dean Mountain | Jiaping Qiu | Sudipto Sarkar
| John Siam

Finance consistently ranks as the top choice for specialization among DeGroote MBA students. Finance is an integral business activity - financial markets define, value, and allow the exchange of claims over all business assets, both tangible and intangible. Corporate financial officers manage working capital, assess acquisitions and divestitures, and determine the least expensive sources of capital. Finance quantifies and analyzes all aspects of business in order to maximize investor wealth.

Human Resources & Management

Acting Chair: Dr. Naresh Agarwal, DSB-420, ext. 23953, agarwal@mcmaster.ca
Faculty: Roy Adams | Naresh Agarwal | Vishwanath Baba | Catherine Connelly | Rick Hackett | Ying Hong |
Benson Honig | Harish Jain | Teal McAteer | John Medcof | Joseph Rose | Aaron Schat | Willi Wiesner | Isik Zeytinoglu

The Human Resources & Management area encompasses the broad disciplines of organizational behavior, human resource management, and industrial relations. Most faculty in the area hold external research grants (totalling almost $2 million) and all have ongoing programs of research.
Recent publications by area members have appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Relations, Industrial Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal.

Information Systems

Chair: Khaled Hassanein, DSB-A202, ext. 23956, hassank@mcmaster.ca
Faculty: Norm Archer | Brian Detlor | Khaled Hassanein | Milena Head | Ali Montazemi | Joseph Tan | Yufei Yuan

Companies of all sizes must consider the effective use of information systems (IS) including eBusiness and mobile business to find new markets, improve market share, and reduce costs or to satisfy the requirements of their customers and business partners. This is critical for business firms to prosper and even to survive in today’s emerging global marketplace.  At the DeGroote School of Business, IS courses are focused on equipping students with a solid understanding of the gamut of information systems that exist in today’s business environment and the critical role they play in achieving a sustained competitive advantage for any organization.

Operations Management

Chair: Elkafi Hassini, DSB-414, ext. 27467, hassini@mcmaster.ca
Faculty: Prakash Abad | Elkafi Hassini | Kai Huang | Mahmut Parlar | George Steiner

This area gives students a rigorous, analytical understanding of business statistics, forecasting, inventory management, purchasing, manufacturing strategy, production planning and scheduling, supply chain design, distribution and management science. The Operations Management Area offers specialization in supply chain management.  Supply chain management integrates a company’s internal operations with the operations of its external partners. The specialization entails using statistical analysis, computer simulation and mathematical modeling and optimization methods to analyze problems in operations and supply chain management as well as in other functional areas of business. Students also use ERP system SAP in some of their course work. Courses taken from the Operations Management Area help students to succeed in careers in supply chain management, purchasing, inventory management, consulting, production planning, scheduling, quality assurance and business process analysis.

Strategic Market Leadership & Health Services Management*

Chair: Devashish Pujari, DSB-205, ext. 27635, pujarid@mcmaster.ca
Faculty: Chris Bart | Nick Bontis | Robert Cooper | Rita Cossa | Ken Deal | Maureen Hupfer | Manish Kacker | Elko Kleinschmidt | Christopher Longo | Mandeep Malik | Devashish Pujari | Glen Randall | Sourav Ray | Marvin Ryder | Linda Stockton | D. Wayne Taylor | Peter Vilks | Patricia Wakefield | Ruhai Wu | Hongjin Zhu

The area’s portfolio research and teaching activities focus primarily within marketing and strategy. The faculty expertise in the area includes new product and service development, pricing, distribution channels, consumer behavior, policy, knowledge management and corporate governance. Health services management is one key context in which these diverse expertise and skills are applied. The faculty publishes in top rated journals such as Marketing Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management and others. The faculty in the Area has also attracted significant research income from prestigious external research funding sources such as SSHRC, CHIR and ORDCF as well as industry funding sources such as Sears Canada. ( * Currently, only Devashish Pujari andSourav Ray will be supervising PhD students in Marketing.)