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Michelle Hunter – Welcome to a Fall 2021

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Michelle Hunter
Acting Director
CEGE, Dalhousie University

On behalf of the Centre for Executive and Graduate Education (CEGE) Team, welcome to a new year of academic excellence.  Whether you are a new or returning student, we look forward to your contribution within our community.  You will be joining other like-minded individuals who share our vision of inspiring transformative solutions for society.

We are delighted for the opportunity to reconnect with our students, faculty, and the Dalhousie community.  A new school year always brings an excitement and enthusiasm of things to come whether it be taking a new course, exploring a new way of teaching and learning, to new connections, and new opportunities.

This past year and a half have taught us about the importance of kindness, hope, compassion, empathy, understanding and adaptation.   Thank you for your commitment to carry forward these things into the new year.

During the coming year, watch for our posts on these topics and much more on CEGE Connection, our platform to share, inform and most of all CONNECT.  These past five years, graduates, students, and professors have discussed themes ranging from virtual teams, and information management to scholarship and deeper learning. This demonstrates a values-based approach to management education and research. We are excited that Denise Hinds will be joining us at the incoming Blog Coordinator for CEGE Connection.

Thank you to our engaged alumni. You make us proud. As the leaders and managers in the business sector, public sector, and civil society, your influence within a complex global environment has been extraordinary.

We encourage you to reach out to us if you have any questions, ideas, stories you wish to share, or just to say hello.

We wish you all the best for the coming year!

Stay well,

Michelle Hunter
Acting Director, Centre for Executive and Graduate Education
Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University

 

 

 

 

Dr. Binod Sundararajan: Welcome to Dalhousie University Fall 2021

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Interim Director, Rowe School of Business; Associate Professor of Management; Academic/Research Director, CeLNET

 

A very warm welcome to all the MBA Financial Services and MBA Leadership students, new and returning. Each of you has been in the program or has arrived into this program, because each of you envisioned what you would be doing in the coming years, the roles you would be performing in the organizations you work for, and the impact you will be having in your communities in particular and the society in general. Each of you has embraced Volatility, stared Uncertainty in the eye, patiently peeled layers of Complexity to unravel complex issues, and used deliberate and clear communication to drive away the fog of Ambiguity, as you have navigated COVID19 and its direct and indirect effects on your lives.

As VUCA Navigators, you have all actively engaged in the process of improvisation of human behaviour (bricolage) and as managers and leaders in your chosen fields, you have demonstrated the willingness to adapt, be agile, imbibe input from all corners, embraced and celebrated diversity and diverse perspectives, and made decisions for the betterment of your organizations, your family and friends, and yourselves.

While the MBA program will provide additional challenges, we are confident that each of you will be very successful as your return to taking courses (regardless of how long the break was between the last time you were taking classes/courses). As some wise person said, “it is not perfection, but progress” that one needs to work for, and Michael John Bobak says, “All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone”. I end with a quote from Swami Vivekananda – “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached”, with a caveat that goal clarity is important. We wish you all tremendous success in the program.

Dr. Binod Sundararajan
Interim Director
Rowe School of Business
Associate Professor of Management
Academic/Research Director, CeLNET
Dalhousie University
September 2021

 

Dean Kim Brooks – Welcome to a New Academic Term

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Kim Brooks
Dean, Faculty of Management
Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law

As we approach the start of a new academic term, I am always filled with enthusiasm.  I love the idea of fresh starts: the promises we make to try harder, study more, go to the gym, and be a better academic peer and colleague.

I’m filled with that same enthusiasm this September.  I’m excited to meet some of you in person, to hear about your aspirations and hopes, and to watch how our programs press you in unexpected ways and challenge you to rise to the best versions of yourselves.

But I want to temper that September message a little this year.  For all kinds of global and local reasons, it’s been a year of realizations and change; a year of challenges and new possibilities.  Maybe go a little easy on your expectations for yourselves and for others in the face of that.  September brings promise and hope and new commitments, but you don’t have to be perfect.  Find some time to drink coffee and to enjoy the changing colours of the leaves (if you are in Canada, at least!).

I always love hearing how things are going.  So, find me – whether in person or by email (kim.brooks@dal.ca) – and let me know.  Until that happens, embrace the start of a new semester and know that we are rooting for you.

Best,

Kim

Kim Brooks (she/her)
Dean, Faculty of Management
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
Dalhousie University
6100 University Ave, PO BOX 15000,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4R2

Touring Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building with Kim Brooks, Dean of the Faculty of Management

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Kim Brooks
Dean, Faculty of Management
Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law

September 1, 2020 Kim Brooks, Dean, Faculty of Management and Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law, welcomed students to new year of academic excellence.  Dalhousie’s 2020-21 academic year has been different, with the majority of courses for Winter 2021 being offered online, with a limited number of courses with accreditation requirements, experiential learning components, or tutorial or lab components being delivered safely in-person.

Over the past months, Dean Brooks has been grateful to have heard regularly from students about their challenges and successes.  Like all of us in the Faculty of Management, we want the best possible experience for students.  Our staff and faculty have worked hard in this era to create an environment that welcomes exploration and discussion.

Dean Brooks statement on September 1, 2020, “You will be joining other like-minded individuals who share our vision of inspiring transformative solutions for society,” reflects the spirit of Dalhousie Faculty of Management’s vibrant and engaged community.

CEGE Connection invites you to join Dean Brooks on a tour of the Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, Dalhousie University.

Dr. Binod Sundararajan: Welcome to Fall 2020 Courage is Destiny

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Interim Director, Rowe School of Business; Associate Professor of Management; Academic/Research Director, CeLNET

Courage is Destiny

May all we learn here in our school
By thought and deed be shown,
Let living truth within us rule,
And seeds of love be sown :
That Men in all our deeds may see
Courage is Destiny!
Courage is Destiny!

We pray for grace, serenity,
To keep a humble mind,
That we may learn true charity
To love all human kind :
That Men in all our deeds may see
Courage is Destiny!
Courage is Destiny!

Undaunted, though alone we stand,
Upholding what is right :
Proud children of our Motherland,
With truth, our stay and might,
That Men in all our deeds may see
Courage is Destiny!
Courage is Destiny!

All that is good may we retain
When scattered far and wide;
May we our destiny attain
With courage as our guide :
To show that by our constancy
Courage is Destiny!
Courage is Destiny!

John Stafford Smith

 

These were the words of my School Song, Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore, India. I grew up singing this song every morning during School Assembly, along with my class and school mates. I mouthed the words, the tune was wonderful, but not until later in life, did I realize the true meaning of these words. “Courage is Destiny” and these words are more true now than ever before.

During these current, uncertain times, when it is easy to despair, I urge all our new and returning students to hold true to what brought you to Dalhousie and our programs, what riding these troubled waters with grace and confidence will do for your own evolution and careers, and what amazing stories you will be able to tell the next generation about how you rose to the challenge of navigating online classes and relationships and overcame them with fortitude.

At Dalhousie, we are ready to welcome you back to our classes, with as much preparedness as possible and help you through your fall classes and Dalhousie experience. Even though we maybe scattered far and wide, may we keep a humble mind, show with our thoughts and deeds our love for human kind and with courage, uphold what is right as we attain our destiny!

Dr. Binod Sundararajan
Interim Director
Rowe School of Business
Associate Professor of Management
Academic/Research Director, CeLNET

Dalhousie University
September 2020

Kim Brooks: Welcome to a New Year of Learning

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Kim Brooks
Dean, Faculty of Management
Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law

 

Welcome to a new year of academic excellence.  Whether you are a new or returning student, we look forward to your contribution within our community.  You will be joining other like-minded individuals who share our vision of inspiring transformative solutions for society.

In February 2020, our world changed with the Covid19 pandemic.  As a global community, we have come together to face this unprecedented disruption.  Dalhousie University  has responded by investing in our students and in our student experiences. We are working closely with our public health partners and are diligently monitoring the impact of the pandemic going forward.  As with the 2020 Spring/Summer terms, this Fall term will be predominantly online, with limited exceptions.  Our commitment to facilitate opportunities for our students is unwavering.  Our goal is to foster an environment of teaching and learning excellence, built on innovation, collaboration, and respect.

Dalhousie’s Faculty of Management has a unique approach to education. We integrate four disciplines which encourages and promotes knowledge exchange: the Rowe School of Business, the School of Information Management, the School of Public Administration and the School for Resources and Environmental Studies.  We believe that offering transformative solutions demands all of our students to step beyond conventional boundaries.

CEGE Connection outreach modality connects our students, alumni, and stakeholders. These past four years, graduates, students, and professors have discussed themes ranging from virtual teams, and information management to scholarship and deeper learning. This demonstrates a values-based approach to management education and research.

Thank you to our engaged alumni. You make us proud. As the leaders and managers in the business sector, public sector, and civil society, your influence within a complex global environment has been extraordinary.

We look forward to the ongoing conversations on CEGE Connection.

Kim Brooks
Dean, Faculty of Management
Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law

Dalhousie University
September 2020

Welcome Kim Brooks, Dean of the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University

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“I love the Faculty’s mandate to inspire solutions.  When you think about the function of a Faculty of Management in the University, no other Faculty has quite that same mandate – we take ideas from inspiration to realization.  That is our talent set and intellectual project.  It is exciting to be in a place that is so actively engaged in making the world a better place one organizational or individual decision at a time.”
Kim Brooks
Dean, Faculty of Management
Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law

Kim Brooks
Dean, Faculty of Management
Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law

 

Dalhousie Faculty of Management’s incoming dean, Kim Brooks is excited to connect with alumni and friends across the country.   In a recent virtual interview with CEGE Connection, Kim shared her thoughts on embracing a new adventure and her plans for the coming year.

Tell us a little about yourself: 

I was born in Saskatchewan and I have lived in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.  If you track back a couple of generations, one strand of my family came from Freeport, Nova Scotia.  The great thing about that is that no matter who I meet from Canada, I usually have some connection to where they live!

I went to University of Toronto for my undergraduate degree, where I had a double major in English and Economics.  From there, I studied law at UBC and then completed a Masters in Taxation at Osgoode (York University).  I practiced tax law for a while in Toronto at Stikeman Elliott.  But I missed the varied discussions that you find at the University – I love talking to people about everything from astronomy to psychology to engineering.

What attached you to the FoM Deanship position?

I love the Faculty’s mandate to inspire solutions.  When you think about the function of a Faculty of Management in the University, no other Faculty has quite that same mandate – we take ideas from inspiration to realization.  That is our talent set and intellectual project.  It is exciting to be in a place that is so actively engaged in making the world a better place one organizational or individual decision at a time.

What are your goals and vision for the faculty?

I do not think I personally have any goals or vision: I think our project is to work together to elevate our game.  We have this fantastic vision already – where will it take us in the next three to five years?

Top priority over the next year?

Survival?  No!  More seriously, I think we have lots of experience with online teaching and learning in our Faculty, so we are so much more prepared for this moment than lots of other institutions.  A major priority internally is to support colleagues as we try to make this year great for students in the face of some substantial challenges.  But I also think we have room to move strategically as a Faculty.  I would like us to be the faculty of choice for students, staff, faculty members, policy makers, organizations and communities who want to generate real world solutions.

What message would you like to convey to students starting their academic career with Dal’s FoM?

This year is going to be different: see if there are differences that are appealing to you.  Think about how you learn and whether there are ways that virtual and online options might enable you to structure your life in ways that you would not have expected.  Do not be reluctant to reach out to your profs and fellow students and build community.  We are here to support you and make your time at Dal extraordinary.

Kim Brooks
Dean, Faculty of Management
Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law