MRU hosts 2019 Sports Business Roundtable
After the failed Olympic bid, Mount Royal University professors, Dr. David Finch and Dr. David Legg , recognizing that the “business of sports is not just a business unto itself but rather a critical driver of the future vision of our city”, determined that an in-depth discussion and a critical analysis of the regional sports environment was warranted. This was the impetus behind the inaugural and hugely successful, Sports Business Round-table held at Mount Royal University on March 20, 2019.
The event was comprised of over 40 regional sport business leaders from a variety of private and public organizations representing a diverse cross-section of sports. The purpose of the round-table was to measure interest in establishing a collective approach to furthering the vision and purpose of sport in the region and using this as the “catalyst” to position the City of Calgary and the Bow Valley Corridor into “Canada’s most livable region”.
Vigorous discussion ensued, a massive amount of comments were collected and a plan of action was formed! The information collected along with the post event feedback has helped Dr. David Finch and Dr. David Legg determine the necessity of a strategic plan that will encompass collaboration, community engagement and targeted evidence based research initiatives.
Going forward, an independent working group, [Sport Business Working Group] will continue to “examine the role of sport business ecosystem as a catalyst for delivering the larger community priorities in our region.” The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will continue to host, facilitate and administer the group. A community board will be recruited by Dr. Finch and Dr. Legg. This community board will provide guidance, offer support to ensure alignment across the “ecosystem” and aid in building formal and informal partnerships to drive public engagement.
For further information, contact Dr. David Finch at dfinch@mtroyal.ca or Dr. David Legg at dlegg@mtoyal.ca
Bissett Case club team wins prestigious CPA Business Challenge Competition!
Congratulations to our Bissett case club team for their incredible win in the CPA Business Challenge Case Competition this past March. Competing teams were from universities across the province including the University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Lethbridge, MacEwan University, SAIT, NAIT and Athabasca University.
The winning team, comprised of Bissett students Mia Bains, Lyra Mae Cosare, Lucas Mardones and Katherine Martens, won the first place cash prize of $10,000 which is wholly sponsored by the Chartered Professional Accountants Education Foundation (CPAEF).
The judges’s comments referenced the winning teams “ability to organize and articulate their analysis in a poised, confident and competent manner.”
The second Bissett team of Shane Cuckow, Dea Devolli, Mishal Ira Ordonez and Jan Santiago also showed well with a strong presentation, narrowly missing qualifying for the final presentation round.
The success of our students is not only indicative of their talent and hard work but also of the accounting program and mentor-ship of our dedicated professors, that continues to produce students of high caliber.
A special thanks to the faculty for their continued support and guidance to the teams through the Accounting Case Club. They include Nicole Edge, Assistant Professor, Accounting and Finance; Rafik Kurji, Associate Professor, Accounting and Finance, and Simon Magennis, Associate Professor, Accounting and Finance.
Thanks to all and congratulations!
Bissett Assistant Professor, Rachael Pettigrew keynote speaker at International Women’s Day event hosted by Schlumberger
Bissett School of Business congratulates Rachael Pettigrew on her most recent keynote speaking engagement at an International Women’s Day event hosted by Schlumberger Canada. The title of Rachael’s presentation was: “Challenging Assumptions: Gender in the workplace.”
Bissett Finance Professor Osama El-Temtamy has paper accepted to conference in Greece
Bissett School of Business would like to congratulate Osama El-Temtamy on having his paper accepted for presentation at the the 7th Spring Conference of the Multinational Finance Society in Chania, Crete, Greece in April 2019. Osama’s paper is entitled: Oil Price Plunge: Are Conventional and Islamic banks equally vulnerable?
Abstract:
“Oil Price Plunge: Are Conventional and Islamic Banks Equally Vulnerable?”
Ghulame Rubbaniy – Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Osama El-Temtamy – Mount Royal University, Canada
A. W. Khan – University of Evansville, USA
Abida Perveen – Comsats University Islamabad, Pakistan
In response to the recent debate on the vulnerability of the banking industry to oil price plunge, this article investigates the effect of oil price plunge on credit and insolvency risks of banking industry at aggregate level, across banks’ specializations and at country level. Our findings show that falling oil prices significantly increase the credit risk for the banking industry in the GCC region and particularly for banks operating in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates; however, falling oil prices do not affect credit risk of Islamic banks. Our analysis shows that black gold’s price plunge does not increase the insolvency risk of GCC banking industry nor across bank specializations and across Gulf countries using both accounting-based and market-based proxies of insolvency risk. We argue that bailout packages by the wealth funds to the GCC banks is a probable reason for counter intuitive protection against solvency risk due to negative oil price shocks.
International Business professor to present paper at conference in Denmark
Bissett School of business congratulates Associate Professor, Abdulrahman Chikhouni on the presentation of his paper at the Academy of International business Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in June. The paper is titled: The Influence of Societal Collectivism on the Collectivistic behavior of organizations.
Bissett CFA Ethics Team has won again!
For the second year in a row, the Bissett School of Business team has won the CFA Societies of Canada Ethics Challenge regional round! The Bissett team beat out teams from the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge and SAIT.
The Bisset team will advance to Nationals which are to be held in Calgary this coming May. Representing the Prairies Region, they will compete against the top schools from the other Canadian regions: BC, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.
The Bissett team is comprised of Aliza Carrol (BBA – Financial Services 2020, Houston Higgins (BBA – Financial Analysis 20190, Gurdit Khatra (BBA – Financial Analysis 2019), Alaina Magnusson (BBA -Financial Analysis 2020) and Allana White (BBA – Finacial Analysis 2020).
As faculty advisor, Bissett Professor Cathy Roy-Heaton would like to mention how proud she is of their efforts and the quality of their analysis of a very complex governance -ethical scenario.
Their success is a direct reflection of the quality of our Finance program! Congratulations Team!
Professor Stephen Sit and the Supply Chain Club tour Canadian Vinyl Record Inc.
Bissett Professor Melanie Peacock has new edition of textbook published
Bissett would like to congratulate Associate Professor Melanie Peacock (et al.) on the release of her latest edition: Understanding Human Resources Management. A Canadian Perspective. 1st Canadian Edition.
Melanie is a Human Resources professor and the current President of the Mount Royal Faculty Association.
Bissett Professor Tashfeen Hussain has two papers accepted for presentation at Houston conference
Bissett Assistant Professor, Tahsfeen Hussain, has had two papers accepted for presentation in the South Western Finance Association Conference to be held in Houston in March. The papers to be presented are: “Do Credit Default Swaps Impact Lenders’ Monitoring on Loans?” and “Board Interlock and Fraud Restatement Spillover”. The SWFA Conference is a highly reputed finance conference.
Bissett Professor Rachael Pettigrew to present at conferences in Ottawa and Malta
Bissett School of Business Assistant Professor Rachael Pettigrew is presenting research on how employers are adapting to the new parental leave policy extension on a panel discussing Work and Family Issues at the Vanier Institute of the Family, Families in Canada Conference. The Conference takes place in Ottawa on March 27-28, 2019.
Rachael will also present a paper titled “Transition to Parenthood: Time Off Work and Informal Leave Strategies for Employed Canadian Fathers” at 8th International Community, Work and Family (CWF) Conference, Community, Work and Family in Diverse Contexts and Changing Times in Malta 23rd-25th May 2019