Principles for Responsible Management Education

SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION 2018/19-2019/20

OUR CALLING We develop innovative and socially responsible business leaders with a global perspective through education, inspired by research and grounded in practice.

CONTENTS Introduction 4 UN Sustainable Development Goals 5 Young Innovators Showcase Ventures at OppFest 27 SFU Beedie Students Create Internal Matrix 28 Reflection on the past two years 6 to Identify Socially-Conscious Investments Goals for the next two years 7 Principle 4: Research 30 Principle 1: Purpose 8 Highlights 31 Highlights 9 SFU Beedie Assistant Professor Honoured 33 for Work in Indigenous Business Building Business and Supporting Community 11 SFU Beedie Prof Leads the Way in in the Fight Against Food Waste Revitalization Project for a Once Vibrant Vancouver Neighbourhood 34 SFU Beedie Alumnus Takes Healthy Eating to the Great Outdoors 12 Greener Futures: SFU Faculty Examine Stranded Fossil Fuel Reserves and Firm Value Labora Aids Workers, Simplifies the 35 Cross-Border Labour Experience 15 Ionomr Taps the Potential Selected Journal Publications 36 of a Green Hydrogen Economy 16 Principle 5: Partnership 48 Principle 2: Values 18 Highlights 49 Highlights 19 Balancing Act: BBA Alum Catherine Heath Champions Diversity and Equality in the SIAS and BEAM Student Leaders 21 World of Finance 50 Embrace Responsible Investing SFU Students to Create Solutions for 22 Leadership and Learning: MBA Alum Zabeen Hirji 51 a More Sustainable, Local Textile Industry joins SFU Beedie as Executive-in-Residence Principle 3: Method 24 Principle 6: Dialogue 52 Highlights 25 Highlights 53 Digital Health Solution and Pioneering 26 Medical Treatment Win SFU Beedie Science and Tech Venture Competition PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 3

INTRODUCTION We have challenged ourselves at Simon Fraser within the context of equitable and beneficial University’s Beedie School of Business (SFU partnerships. The PRME and the United Beedie) through our calling to develop innovative Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide and socially responsible business leaders who frameworks and areas in which to concentrate our demonstrate global perspectives. Our experience efforts to facilitate this renewal. has shown that innovation, global perspectives, and social responsibility are inextricably linked It is important during periods of significant with the ideas behind the six Principles of change to re-examine achievements and reflect Responsible Management Education (PRME). on coming changes to the status quo. Over the These principles have helped guide the activities past two years, the SFU Beedie community of of the business school since we became a faculty, staff, students, alumni, and industry signatory in 2009. partners, have made progress towards our calling and we appreciate the opportunity to hear from More than ever, the world is calling on your organization about our progress. organizations to act with integrity and purpose. SFU Beedie empowers students to reimagine On behalf of the Beedie School of Business, I am their roles in creating and contributing to proud to share our progress and successes as we socially, environmentally, and economically renew our PRME commitment. sustainable enterprises. Sincerely, We submit this report during challenging times. The unprecedented combination of global health, Andrew C. Gemino social and financial crises illuminates not only the Dean pro tem, SFU Beedie deep connection and interdependent relationship of all economies and countries but also our School’s important role in shaping graduates who are prepared to navigate the challenges that lay in front of us. Our collective recovery should be approached in the spirit of collaboration and 4 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (UN SDGS) The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 7. A ffordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access 16. P eace, Justice and Strong Institutions: adopted by all United Nations Member States in to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and energy for all sustainable development, provide access to prosperity for people and the planet, now and justice for all and build effective, accountable into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable 8. D ecent Work and Economic Growth: Promote and inclusive institutions at all levels Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic call for action by all countries – developed growth, full and productive employment and 17. Partnerships for the Goals: Strengthen and developing – in a global partnership. decent work for all the means of implementation and They recognize that ending poverty and other revitalize the global partnership for deprivations must go hand-in-hand with 9. I ndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure: sustainable development strategies that improve health and education, Build resilient infrastructure, promote reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all inclusive and sustainable industrialization and while tackling climate change and working to foster innovation preserve our oceans and forests. 10. R educed Inequalities: Reduce inequality 1. No Poverty: End poverty in all its within and among countries forms everywhere 11. S ustainable Cities and Communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, 2. Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food resilient and sustainable security and improved nutrition and promote 12. R esponsible Consumption and Production: sustainable agriculture Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 3. Good Health and Well-being: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages 13. C limate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts 4. Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong 14. L ife Below Water: Conserve and sustainably learning opportunities for all use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development 5. Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality  and empower all women and girls 15. L ife on Land: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, 6. Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure availability sustainably manage forests, combat and sustainable management of water and desertification, and halt and reverse land sanitation for all degradation and halt biodiversity loss PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 5

REFLECTION ON THE PAST TWO YEARS Outcomes • We continue to expand co-curricular activities and develop a Over the past two years, SFU Beedie has managed to move initiatives forward across Principles 2 through 6. culture of pride, presence and responsibility, with awareness of international and Indigenous contexts and issues. Transfer Principle 2: Values: Launch is a 3-day orientation experience created in 2019 that equips undergraduate transfer students with resources • Align curriculum and pedagogy with the strategic and community to support their curricular and co-curricular priorities, values, and themes identified (innovation, social goals. Students engage with a variety of topics including responsibility, global perspective). intercultural communication, Indigeneity and reconciliation, and the value of interdisciplinary studies. • Redesign undergraduate and graduate program-level learning goals and review current assessment practices. Principle 4: Research: Outcomes • We seek to hire individuals who share our commitment to • The school has engaged in a re-examination of its Assurance diversity and who demonstrate an affinity with our vision. of Learning (AoL) activities. Work has progressed on • Increase the percentage of faculty engaged in social articulating school-level goals (SLGs) that reflect mission responsibility, innovation, and global business research. priorities, allowing programs to re-evaluate existing program- level learning goals (PLGs) and the existing curriculum. Outcomes • In hiring at SFU Beedie, we prioritize candidates who have an Principle 3: Method: affinity with our vision and who have experience teaching or • Develop a core culture among the undergraduates of pride conducting research in our core areas of social responsibility, in the School, presence through deeper engagement in innovation and global business. In support of these aims, sponsored activities, and responsibility by owning their we have two newly created Area groups, Business & actions and showing commitment to our values. Society, which focuses on issues of social responsibility, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Over the last two years, we • Expand co-curricular opportunities to support student have successfully recruited 16 faculty members, including an leadership initiatives that demonstrate innovation; that Assistant Professor in Business & Society, a Senior Lecturer create positive impact; and, that bridge connections between in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, as well as filling the Keith students, alumni, and industry. Beedie Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. • Continue integrating international and Indigenous content and contexts in curriculum and programs. 6 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Principle 5: Partnership: GOALS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS • Continue to develop and manage RADIUS to ensure Over the next two years, SFU Beedie intends to concentrate efforts engagement with students and faculty at SFU to further on Principles 2, 3, and 4. its community development and social initiatives, explore the social innovation opportunities in SFU’s Principle 2: Values: designation as an Ashoka U Changemaker campus. • Grow Indigenous education through an expanded EMBA in Outcomes Indigenous Business Leadership and development of new • In the last five years, RADIUS and SFU Beedie raised management education programs in B.C. and Canada. $3.5M in donations and service contracts for programs • Increase engagement around topics of Justice, Equity, with organizations such as the Public Health Agency Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI). of Canada, Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction and Ecotrust Canada. Every year, hundreds Principle 3: Method: of social innovators, entrepreneurs and cross-sector partners engage in either RADIUS Labs or RADIUS • Continue building a strong organizational culture at SFU Education and Training. Beedie, move forward with new faculty/staff hires, establish new orientation programs for incoming students, and Principle 6: Dialogue: implement Vision 2022 strategic priorities. • Beedie will work to strengthen our Research Centres • Design and enact program changes to align with the by focusing attention on supporting internal and school’s vision and calling: BBA program revamp; enhance external connections between students, scholars, and Business Minors program; a redesign of graduate programs practitioners. and the portfolio; and move forward a new unique cross- disciplinary Masters in Management program in 2021. Outcomes • Our Research Centres have enhanced virtual outreach Principle 4: Research: during the COVID-19 pandemic and have offered a • Develop strategy for enhancing research culture, faculty growing range of global seminars, speaker series, and engagement with research centres. Grow resources to virtual conferences. Alongside the growth of the PhD support and the size of our doctoral program. program at SFU Beedie is an increase in doctoral student involvement in Centre activities. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 7

PRINCIPLE 1: PURPOSE We will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy. 8 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

2018/19-2019/20 HIGHLIGHTS SFU Beedie Alumni Consistently Honoured SFU Beedie School of Business students and • Ravneet Randhawa, BBA 2017. Project manager, • Graham Collings, BBA 2002. Executive Vice- alumni consistently rank among the Surrey Enactus SFU initiative Count on Me. President, Investments, and Partner, ACM Board of Trade’s annual Top 25 Under 25 Awards Advisors Ltd. lists - chosen based upon their business • Tanraj Sohal, BBA 2019. Ambassador with or community achievements, leadership Canadian Eyesight Global. • Matias Marquez, BBA 2012 and Venture ability, community involvement, professional Connections Alumnus. President, CEO, and co- achievements, and uniqueness of their business • Branden Sorbo, BBA Honours student. VP founder, Buyatab Online Inc. or community projects - and the Business in external relations and finance with Enactus SFU. Vancouver (BIV) magazine’s Forty under 40 • Kylie Dickson, BBA 2002. VP business, Equinox Awards which honour recipients who demonstrate • Peyton Winslade, BBA Honours 2020. External Gold Corp. excellence in business, judgment, leadership, and manager of Media Minds at Enactus SFU. community contribution. • Kylie McMullan, MBA 2008. Principal, 2020 Finch Media. Surrey Board of Trade • Jasdeep Gill, BBA 2020. VP External relations of Top 25 Under 25 recipients • Dianne Sparrow, EMBA 2015. Intergovernmental Simon Fraser Student Society. affairs manager, Musqueam First Nation. 2019 • Samad Raza, Business Minor student. Founder • Denise Williams, MBA 2015. CEO, First Nations • Khayla Almonte-Davila, BBA 2018. Co-founder and director of Emerge SFU. Technology Council. Member, SFU Board of REACH, recipient of the honorary Health & of Governors. Safety in the Workplace Award. • Peter Tivy, BBA 2020. Founder and managing partner of Teifi Digital. 2019 • Hajira Khan, BBA student. Founder of Creatorly • Robert Coard, BBA 2004. Partner, PwC Canada. and EmpowHer, lead organizer of BeautyCon • Jonathan To, BBA student. Project manager, SFU in partnership with Shoppers Drug Enactus SFU initiative Count on Me, Health • Derrick Li, BBA 2006. CEO, Lawson Lundell LLP. Mart Canada. Change Lab, TEDxSFU. • Reshma Chaskar Mehta, BBA 2005. Program • Summin Dinsa, BBA 2017. Co-founder of the BIV Forty under 40 recipients. director, partnerships and business development, LUMEN Society. consumer health, Telus Health. 2018 • Shilpa Lakshmy, BBA 2020. President, Enactus • Benjamin Britton, PhD Chemistry 2018 and i2I 2020 SFU, Team lead for Coast Cards. • Sean Tyson, BBA 2007. CEO, Quietly Media. Alumnus 2016. Chief Strategy Officer VP business development, Ionomr Innovations Inc. • Josh Carr-Hilton, BBA 2009. Founder and CEO, The District. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 9

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Building Business and Supporting Community in the Fight Against Food Waste Bruised, bumpy or blemished—every year, a vast The idea for Luv the Grub was first seeded With the help of food and operations consultants amount of food waste ends up in landfills. Canada during Sunderji’s first term teaching Sustainable and Sunderji’s marketing savvy and previous alone produces 56.6 million tonnes of carbon Innovation. Students approached her with experience as an Associate Brand Manager for dioxide-equivalent emissions from this waste, research about the global environmental impacts Tim Horton’s, the business is thriving. Luv the Metro Vancouver residents throw out over 100,000 of food waste and Sunderji saw an opportunity to Grub chutneys and spreads are found available tonnes of food each year. affect meaningful change. in 55 stores across Canada and through online retailers. Plans are underway to sell on Amazon. SFU Beedie lecturer, social entrepreneur and “I learned about initiatives in the UK and ca by mid-March 2021, and Luv the Grub was sustainability advocate Alia Sunderji (BBA Australia that were turning food waste into value- recently shortlisted to participate in Amazon’s 2009) knows that rescuing food waste, in turn, added products,” says Sunderji. She was also Launchpad program to launch in the U.S. market. helps save the planet. To pursue this mission, inspired by her mother, a refugee from Uganda, she founded Luv the Grub, a social enterprise to offer job opportunities and paid training for Since launching in 2016, Luv the Grub has kept that partners with local farmers and markets to individuals with barriers to employment. Luv the over 100,000 lbs of food waste out of landfills transform produce seconds into gourmet spreads Grub currently hires newcomer refugee youth and proven that imperfect foods can be perfectly and chutneys. to create delicious and marketable products like delicious. “So many people love our product even Pear Walnut Chutney and Chai Apple Spread. before they find out about the environmental In the past, Luv the Grub also employed young impacts,” she says. “And hiring different people single mothers, low-income seniors, youth with who come from very different backgrounds and mental illness and youth between foster homes seeing them build community amongst each other and shelters. makes me really proud.” The City of Surrey helped incubate Luv the For more information visit www.luvthegrub.com Grub, and the company has received support from numerous organizations including the United Way, the Surrey Community Foundation, and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). In 2020 Luv the Grub received the Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize, Top Local Impact Award. They also secured an Investment Readiness Grant from the Vancouver Foundation, an initiative supporting social enterprises preparing for social finance investment. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 11

SFU Beedie Alumnus Takes Healthy Eating to the Great Outdoors From tree planting in remote British Columbia The founders’ pitch impressed the judges, and “... there was a gap in the market to pitching his start-up on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, three of the six established entrepreneurs made for healthy, whole-food made MBA 2013 alum Denis Mikhailov’s career path is investment offers. They eventually accepted a dehydrated meals that don’t have anything but orthodox. $100,000 investment for a 12% stake, valuing the any preservatives or chemicals,...\" business at more than $830,000. Mikhailov says Mikhailov, a graduate of SFU Beedie’s Full-Time they experienced a noticeable uptick in sales Mikhailov credits the program—particularly MBA program, is the founder and CEO of Nomad and enquiries following the show’s broadcast in financial modelling, and writing and presenting a Nutrition Ltd, a venture that creates healthy November 2019. business case—for providing the skills needed to dehydrated meals for outdoor enthusiasts. A build Nomad Nutrition. climber and adventurer, Mikhailov was inspired Mikhailov has the energy and spirit of a natural to start Nomad Nutrition by the poor quality of entrepreneur, but starting a business was not “When you’re starting a business, the first thing the dehydrated meals he ate on his hiking trips, always his goal. His undergraduate degree is in you do is write a business case, and you use that which left him feeling sluggish and unsatisfied. political science, and he aspired to a career in to go and find funding,” he says. “That initial diplomatic service. He quickly realized that public document, that strategy, is imperative to get “I realized that there was a gap in the market service was not his passion and pivoted to the people to listen to you.” for healthy, whole-food made dehydrated meals private sector. He paid for school by tree planting, that don’t have any preservatives or chemicals, and the company offered him a management For more information visit www.nomadnutrition.co that are not laden with salts, and are geared position, which he held for two years. towards the organic and vegan communities,” says Mikhailov. Seeking to advance his career, Mikhailov decided to strengthen his skillset with an MBA, landing on Founded in 2017, Nomad Nutrition boasts a loyal SFU Beedie’s full-time program for its location in following. Nomad Nutrition retails in over 65 the heart of Vancouver’s business district. During retail locations across North America and online the year-long program, he served as President through Amazon and the company’s website. The of the Graduate Business Student Association business garnered attention when Mikhailov and and participated in several case competitions, his business partner Polina Slepukhina appeared including captaining the school’s team at the BC on CBC’s TV show Dragon’s Den, which showcases MBA Games. entrepreneurs and their ventures. 12 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

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Labora Aids Workers, Simplifies the Cross-Border Labour Experience By simplifying remittance and record-keeping group.” These transactions are time-consuming Capital Savings Venture Prize Top Idea Prize and procedures, Vancouver-based Labora Consulting and cut into a worker’s labour hours. They also were named a Top 100 finalist in the Telus Pitch Services Corp. is improving the financial require them to leave their accommodations—a contest. In 2020 they accepted the Coast Capital conditions of seasonal agricultural workers risky endeavour during a global pandemic. Savings Venture Prize Alumni Founder Award, in Canada. made the Ready to Rocket recognition program’s Instead, Labora’s digital payroll eliminates Emerging Rocket Agri-Food List and were as a Rene Blanco, Jaspal Brar and Ryan Klatt founded multiple transaction fees, and streamlines Top 100 Recovery Project by Future of Good. Most Labora in 2018 while students in the SFU Beedie remittance record-keeping processes. Farmers recently, Labora was a finalist for the Rising Star Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Today, Labora send wages to Labora, and Labora directly Award in the Foresight 2021 BC Cleantech Awards. is a thriving social enterprise that provides deposits a lump payment into beneficiary bank farmers with a digital payroll service that enables accounts in Mexico. Once they have traction in Canada, Blanco says workers to send money home in a single safe and they plan to crossover into the US. Further down affordable transaction. While convenience is central to Labora’s mission, the road, they envision helping even more workers it is the seasonal workers’ financial future by expanding into the global marketplace. According to Blanco, modernizing a time- that drives its founders. According to Blanco, consuming and costly process saves time and remittances through Labora help workers begin to For more information visit www.labora.ca helps workers retain their hard-earned wages. build a critical relationship with their bank back home. Labora also collects and archives financial “In the past, seasonal workers would receive a data for tax returns, helping workers claim cheque from their employer, which they cashed at Canadian pensions owed them upon retirement. a bank or community store,” explains Blanco. “Our main goal is to establish their credit records “They would then wire the cash to Mexico, often with banks in Mexico, so when they retire relying on a third party to collect the funds on from seasonal work, they can perform another behalf of their family. In some parts of Canada, the activity, perhaps open a business and serve their maximum transfer allowed is $1000, resulting in communities,” says Blanco. multiple transaction fees. Relying on third parties and multiple transaction points means additional Labora’s social impact is attracting attention. costs and risk factors for an already vulnerable In 2019 they attended the Startup World Championships in Montreal, received the Coast PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 15

Ionomr Taps the Potential of a Green Hydrogen Economy For SFU Beedie alumnus Benjamin Britton (i2I solutions for clean technology solutions, including will help Nouryon meet 10% of the European 2016), a sustainable hydrogen economy is not a fuel cells, hydrogen production and numerous commitment for hydrogen production by 2030. dream for future generations—it is the real-world energy storage applications. work undertaken by Ionomr Innovations Inc. “Nouryon has said that based on our technology, The idea for Ionomr bloomed in 2015-16 when they could save over a billion USD on that Ionomr is the manifestation of Britton’s Britton was a PhD student with SFU’s Department deployment,” says Britton. “Our technology commitment to combating global climate change. of Chemistry. For the tools to launch his enables pulling the cost targets of 2040 and 2050 The Vancouver-based start-up develops and business, Britton also enrolled in the invention to today, enabling carbon neutral hydrogen at a far markets ion-exchange membrane and polymer to Innovation (i2I) graduate program at the SFU greater cost advantage in the energy transition.” Beedie School of Business and received support 16 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS and mentorship from SFU’s Coast Capital Savings Most recently, Ionomr won the top award Venture Connection and later SFU’s Venture at F-Cell 2020, the world’s leading hydrogen Labs. In 2016 Ionomr placed first at the annual and fuel cell conference. They also received a Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize, and that Joule Innovation Grant and secured funding same year netted nearly $30,000 in cash and from the National Research Council of Canada services at the Hong Kong-Canada Investment (NRC) for a collaborative research project. This pitch competition. In 2018 they received a Startup collaboration will develop Ionomr’s technology for Energy Transition (SET) award at the prestigious use in converting carbon dioxide emissions into Berlin Tech Festival. renewable fuels and chemicals. “Through the i2I program, I learned how to talk “We enable the lowest cost hydrogen, and to investors, which was incredibly important,” hydrogen is currently slated to eliminate 30% of says Britton. “It led to the connections to the key greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our goal is to people who helped get us going.” decarbonize the world through the most efficient technologies possible.” Ionomr continues to build momentum. To date, they have raised over $13 million CDN in For more information visit www.ionomr.com investments and grants and consistently bring home awards and accolades. In 2019 they signed a joint development agreement with Nouryon as a winner of the Imagine Chemistry collaborative innovation competition. Ionomr’s technology

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PRINCIPLE 2: VALUES We will incorporate into our academic activities, curricula, and organizational practices the values of global social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact. 18 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

2018/19-2019/20 HIGHLIGHTS Indigenous Student Weaves SFU Students Feed Healthcare SFU Brings International Together Traditional Knowledge Heroes and Boost the Local Economy, Innovators Together to Turn with Business Education One Meal at a Time Science into Solutions As part of her final Executive MBA in Indigenous To address financial hardships facing local On August 4-5, the SFU Beedie School of Business’ Business Leadership (EMBA IBL) capstone project, restaurants while also supporting our healthcare Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship Artist Angela George (qʷənat) created a weaving heroes, four students from SFU and UBC created drew 395 attendees from 38 countries to the using traditional techniques. The project captures Feeding Our Frontlines, an online platform where digital 2020 R & D Management Symposium, her EMBA learnings and represents complex individuals can donate a meal to a worker at a Invention to Innovation: Creating the Conditions governance models in a physical form. local hospital or long-term care home. for Impact. “Our weavings are ways of holding knowledge. Since the first delivery of 25 meals from Sal Y Discussion re-defined how universities, They are documents in a sense,” says George, who Limon on May 8 to workers at Lions Manor, a policymakers and industry can advance research- is from the Squamish Nation and lives and works long-term care home in North Vancouver, Feeding based innovation and respond to societal needs at Tsleil-Waututh. “Our role as weavers is to hold Our Frontlines raised over $4,000 and delivered worldwide. SFU Beedie professor Elicia Maine that knowledge, express that knowledge.” over 400 meals, with 100 per cent of funds going spoke about the entrepreneurial skills scientists directly to local restaurants. can develop to help create greater impact from The weaving contains the four Coast Salish laws their research. Sarah Lubik, executive director of that stem from social systems, structures and Zoey Li, a student at SFU’s School of Interactive the Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship and the traditional ways of ensuring those laws were Arts and Technology and the SFU Beedie symposium co-chair, underscored the importance upheld. According to George, it also represents a School of Business, and her team partnered of entrepreneurial training for scientists way of sustaining that knowledge and passing it with restaurants in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and researchers. down to future generations. and Montreal. They arranged for many health authorities to receive the meals, including The symposium featured a PhD mentoring The weaving, entitled ‘Weaving Governance, is BC Children’s Hospital, BC Women’s Hospital, session, and the Discovery Foundation on display at the Tsleil-Waututh community hall, Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health. Tech4Impact program offered student where George works as Director of Community engagement opportunities. SFU Beedie expects Development. It remains a living document, the symposium outcomes to drive future research connecting the community to its past and future. and collaboration, and a white paper, expected by the end of 2020, will provide a road map for future partnerships and studies. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 19

SFU Beedie Hosts SFU Beedie Partners with University Launch of New Course Indigenous Leadership Courses of Arizona to Host “June in Vancouver” in Corporate Responsibility Indigenous Governance Program Leading figures in Indigenous business and In the fall term of 2020, SFU Beedie launched politics from British Columbia and beyond In June 2018, SFU Beedie partnered with the a new two-credit graduate course in Corporate gathered at the Segal Graduate School in October Native Nations Institute at the University of Responsibility. Part of the Executive MBA and November 2019 for the Indigenous Leadership Arizona to host June in Vancouver (JiV), a new (EMBA) program, BUS 649 offers a holistic view Series, hosted by the EMBA in Indigenous program in Indigenous governance, economic of corporate responsibility that encompasses Business Leadership (EMBA IBL) program development and business. the social, ecological and economic obligations in Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of organizations. of Business. The two-week interactive program offered eight non-credit courses at SFU Beedie’s Segal Graduate Students apply integrative approaches and Two credit courses were offered from October School. Students who completed six courses in explore diverse topics such as the philosophies of 18-20 and delivered in partnership with the either program received a non-credit certificate corporate social responsibility and environmental University of Arizona, and two SFU executive from the Native Nations Institute. sustainability, sustainable business models, courses. Stephen Cornell and Miriam Jorgensen, corporate transparency and reporting, embedding co-founders of the Native Nations Institute at The JiV program benefits both Indigenous and corporate responsibility into organizational the University of Arizona, taught Building Native non-Indigenous leaders. Core curriculum is cultures and responsible leadership. Nations and Making Change Happen. designed to strengthen Indigenous nations concerned with self-determination and self- BUS 649 uses both individual work and team From November 22-25, participants also took governance and help facilitate their nation- projects to build knowledge about sustainability two SFU non-credit courses. Michelle Corfield building objectives as a community. JiV is also concepts, issues, and developments in business presented Indigenous Business Development, intended for non-Indigenous people from all and society. Students develop integrative and Kory Wilson led Moving Beyond the Indian sectors working with Indigenous communities strategies to enhance the environmental, social, Act. Corfield holds a Doctorate in Organizational and who wish to build a renewed and positive and economic performance of organizations. Leadership Management, Masters of Conflict relationship with Indigenous communities. Analysis and Management, and BA in First The course is taught by SFU Beedie Associate Nations Studies, and is a member of the Ucluelet “This [JiV] represents another important step Professor Stephanie Bertels, Director of the Centre First Nation. Kory Wilson is Executive Director towards our school’s goal of developing a world- for Corporate Governance and Sustainability of Indigenous Initiatives and Partnerships class offering in Indigenous business education,” and founder and research lead for the at BCIT and the National Indigenous says Joy Cramer, director, Indigenous Programs at Embedding Project. Education Chair for CICan, and a citizen of the SFU Beedie. Kwakwaka’wakw Nation. 20 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

SIAS and BEAM Student Leaders Embrace Responsible Investing Cassidy Emby almost $20 million CAD. Undergraduates involved Emby. “This summer, certain stakeholders came with BEAM manage $6.6 million CAD in Canadian to us with concerns about some of the companies Environmental, social and governance (ESG) equities, fixed income and cash. In 2019-2020 we were holding, particularly in the oil and gas principles are an invaluable tool to assist students in both funds took significant steps to industry. In response, we contacted TC Energy socially-conscious investors in assessing align their investments according to ESG criteria. and spoke to several people about concerns potential investments. related to the Coastal Gas Link. We gained a better MSc Finance student Gosheealee Sewruttun was understanding of the big picture and we intend to In 2014, as a United Nations Principles for SIAS ESG Manager for the 2019-2020 cohort. do more of this kind of outreach in the future.” Responsible Investment (UN PRI) signatory, She describes ESG as a research-tested, guiding Simon Fraser University (SFU) committed framework that is an integral part of their Moving into 2021, SIAS and BEAM students to applying ESG criteria to its endowment portfolio management. It helped SIAS achieve its continue to examine changing ESG trends and the investments, including its two student-managed investment goals, including the reallocation of impact of their holdings on SFU’s commitments. investment funds—the Student Investment investments to renewable power. Advisory Service (SIAS) Fund and the Beedie “There has been a lot of discussion about ESG Endowment Asset Management (BEAM) Fund. “A SIAS initiative to divest from 50% of all current becoming mainstream in finance, about sustainable oil and gas holdings will reduce the carbon financing bringing about responsible investors in Students from the SFU Beedie Master of Science emissions of the Canadian equity portfolio by the world,” says Sewruttun. “The world needs it, in Finance (MSc Finance) help manage the SIAS about 46%. The proposed new portfolio will have a and I do think that finance is a very valid solution Fund, which boasts a current market value of lower carbon emission by about 40% in relation to to the problems we are facing right now.” the benchmark.” For more information visit Like SIAS, the BEAM team uses ESG as a tool in beedie.sfu.ca/student-life/undergraduates/ portfolio management. The 2020 cohort added student-organizations/beam-fund ESG Analyst roles to add value to equity and fixed or income research and part of their ESG work in beedie.sfu.ca/programs/graduate/ 2020 was a research report on stranded assets. msc-finance/sias-fund Cassidy Emby, BEAM ESG specialist, also sees ESG as a tool for improving shareholder engagement. “ESG is an additional screening tool we use before making a final decision on whether to either divest or invest in a company,” explains PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 21

SFU Students to Create Solutions for a More Sustainable, Local Textile Industry This fall, students beginning SFU’s unique SFU- different problems, and there are so many things “We’re focusing on the problems Emily Carr Sustainable Design Entrepreneurship you can solve. If you want to change the world, of textile sustainability, and textile Program (SDE) focused their critical thinking there are countless ways you can do it.” waste, and also some cultural skills on creating a more sustainable local connections.\" textiles industry. In the first course, students devised a solution to “kickstart” the textile revolution in Vancouver. While most students are from SFU Beedie and The SDE program is a collaboration between They connected with local designers to SIAT, the courses are open to interested SFU SFU’s Beedie School of Business and SFU’s School understand the market. They explored industry students from all faculties. While SDE is not a of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). The issues, examined producers’ and consumers’ certificate program, the courses are also part of program partnered with Emily Carr University of needs, and defined how to balance these with the requirements for the Charles Chang Certificate Art and Design to offer four courses between fall the economy and sustainability. Students then in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, open to all 2019 and summer 2020. conceived and implemented a single intervention students at SFU. to reshape the industry. SDE students worked with two local textiles For more information visit and clothing experts: Emily Smith, co-founder “We’re going to be using a structure based on www.sfu.ca/makechangestudio.html of Vancouver Maker Faire and founder of the wicked problem, design thinking, design, Fibreshed, and Stephanie Ostler, founder and research and bringing in making,” says Smith. CEO of Devil May Wear. With guidance from these “We’re focusing on the problems of textile experts, students examined how to reshape the sustainability, and textile waste, and also some local textile community, bring together local cultural connections. A big part of that is about textile entrepreneurs and create an ecosystem encouraging students to engage with the issue, of local opportunities and environmentally engage with what is actually happening, and to responsible products. meet with real people who are creating solutions.” “Something like one in six people worldwide Students conceptualized and developed prototypes works in fashion and textiles,” says Ostler. “The for ventures that could connect to and form part of industry is the second-largest user of freshwater a local, sustainable textile ecosystem during their in the world, it’s one of the largest-polluting second term. Finally, in the third term, students industries, and everybody engages with textiles took their ventures to market, launching them at every day — whether by standing on a carpet or a local textile fair where they connected with key wearing clothing. There is such a broad scope of industry members. 22 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Emily Smith, left, co-founder of Vancouver Maker Faire and founder of Fibreshed, and Stephanie Ostler, founder and CEO of Devil May Wear, will guide students as they create an ecosystem of local opportunities and environmentally responsible products. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 23

PRINCIPLE 3: METHOD We will create educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for responsible leadership. 24 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

2018/19-2019/20 HIGHLIGHTS Founder of Global Cure Foundation SFU Beedie Students Victorious at Tech e@SFU Start-up Wins Third Place Among 2018 Ryan Beedie Leadership Global Map the System Competition in Global Sustainability Competition Award Recipients For the third consecutive year, a multidisciplinary The SFU founders of technology start-up Novion Global Cure Foundation Founder and CEO team of SFU business and environment won third place in the global Enzen Hackathon, Arman Turna is one of five new SFU Beedie undergraduate students placed in the top an international event that solicits solutions undergraduate students selected for the 2018 three in the finals of the global Map the for worldwide energy, water and environmental Ryan Beedie Leadership Award. System competition. challenges. Novion team pitched their product prototype in-person in Bangalore, India, before A registered not-for-profit, Global Cure Foundation SFU Beedie students Devan Parmar and Michael making a final presentation to water sustainability raises money for healthcare and reflects Turna’s Simoes, political science student Joanne Nellas, professionals in London, UK. passion for finance, economics, innovation, public and UBC alumnus Vanessa Sun rose to the top of speaking and philanthropy. Turna has ambitions SFU’s 14 competitor teams to represent Canada as Work on Novion began in the Technology of working within the investment banking Team Inferno. On June 9, 2019, they placed first in Entrepreneurship@SFU program (Tech e@ industry in the future. the final round at Oxford University. SFU) when John Nguyen (SFU Beedie student) teamed up with Devpreet Bhullar (mechatronic SFU Beedie selects students who demonstrate The Map the System competition challenges systems engineering student) and Refayet Siam remarkable academic and extracurricular students to explore societal and environmental (mechatronic alumnus) Together, they developed achievements and a commitment to leadership change through a research lens. “By taking a an intelligent water-monitoring system that while at high school. The 2018 cohort also learning-first approach to social change, students informs managers and tenants of their water includes a champion kickboxer, a track star, an gain a unique perspective on the complexities usage and improves cost-efficiency, life-cycle accomplished equestrian and a member of the of social and environmental challenges they are planning and asset protection. university football team. keen on addressing,” says Pegah Djamzad, SFU’s changemaker campus manager. The team also developed a partnership with The Ryan Beedie Leadership Award is funded Enzen, a technology firm operating in the energy by a $500,000 gift made by SFU Beedie alumnus With support and coaching from SFU faculty and water sector, to tackle a global environmental Ryan Beedie in 2016, impacting 25 students with and staff, Team inferno tackled the economic, challenge—water sustainability. Novion shares support of $20,000 over four years. Ryan Beedie’s environmental and socio-cultural impacts of the knowledge in data analytics, the internet of donation follows 2011’s $22 million gift from the BC wildfire crisis. things, and facilities management, and Enzen Beedie family to establish the Beedie School shares its global expertise and connections. of Business. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 25

Digital Health Solution and Pioneering Medical Treatment Win SFU Beedie Science and Tech Venture Competition An advanced fuel cell technology, a treatment for worked in the biotechnology and software Sasan Ebrahimi, the founder of MFC Corporation, arthritis and a wearable massage device were industries for several years and has a solid pitched his energy conversion device that converts among the ventures pitched to a panel of industry understanding of the interplay between scientific chemical energy directly into electricity, with judges at SFU Beedie’s annual Venture Pitch discovery and business processes. noticeably higher efficiency than current fuel Competition on October 10, 2018. cells. Sasan has a PhD in Mechatronics System \"I have the entrepreneurship Engineering from SFU. The event brought together scientist- entrepreneurship students in the third cohort mindset to transform my scientific Avid Khamenehfar is the Chief Technology Officer of the invention to Innovation (i2I) program at Extem Bioscience Corp., which produces at SFU Beedie’s Segal Graduate School. This findings into a product that could a medical device to advance personalized graduate certificate program equips scientists regenerative medicine. Avid received her PhD in and engineers with the business skills required to reach the market,” Bioanalytical Chemistry from SFU. From her PhD make their inventions a commercial success. research, she filed a patent based on her research SFU Beedie Professor of Innovation and in microfluidic technology. “Now I am not only able to produce science, but I Entrepreneurship Dr. Elicia Maine, created the i2I have the entrepreneurship mindset to transform program to tap into the latent innovation potential Shahram Pourazadi’s venture, Relaxopeutic, my scientific findings into a product that could of Canadian universities. The goal of i2I is to bring produces an unobtrusive, battery-operated, reach the market,” says Elena Groppa, i2I graduate more breakthrough innovations out of the lab and massaging garment to improve blood circulation and winner in the Emergent Ventures category. into the marketplace. in the lower leg. Shahram has a MASc degree in Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering from Groppa founded Promotus to develop a first-in- In 2018, i2I piloted a ‘Science Commercialization UBC and obtained his PhD from the School of class therapeutic to treat Duchenne Muscular Scholar’ initiative with MITACS, modelled after Mechatronics Systems and Engineering Science Dystrophy. She has a PhD in Vascular Biology the I-Corps funding through the US National at SFU. and Cell and Gene Therapy from the University of Science Foundation. “This funding has enabled Basel, Switzerland, and a Postdoctoral Research five high potential scientists-entrepreneurs to For more information visit Fellow at the International Center for Genetic develop and adapt their innovative ideas through beedie.sfu.ca/programs/graduate/ Engineering and Biotechnology. the i2I program,” says Maine. invention-to-innovation/i2i-venture-pitch In the Product Ready Ventures category, Andrew Although they did not win, three other Venture Park’s won for his venture Coral Health, which Pitch competitors still impressed the judges with offers AI-powered solutions to accelerate care their entries. delivery, automate multiparty administrative processes and improve health outcomes. Park 26 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Young Innovators Showcase Ventures at OppFest Every March, the next generation of young The event usually draws over 250 people to SFU’s conference call command centre to bring those entrepreneurs gather at SFU Surrey for the Surrey campus and was on course to celebrate its students together with over 40 judges and annual Opportunity Fest (OppFest), the largest tenth anniversary in that format. Just weeks out faculty moderators. event hosted by SFU’s Charles Chang Institute for from the event, students and the Charles Chang Entrepreneurship. OppFest brings students from Institute for Entrepreneurship’s team watched The venture that best exemplifies SFU’s all faculties together with industry, academic, as the pandemic grew, and the format shifted commitment to People, Planet and Profit (the and alumni judges to give real-world support and almost hourly. Triple Bottom Line) receives the $1,000 OppFest feedback to student projects and awards over grand prize. The 2019 winner was Foodsavour, a $5,000 in prizes. “Our experience with the event really shows product developed to reduce food waste. In 2020, why we need to cultivate the entrepreneurial a tie meant two ventures shared the award— Teams present their ideas to judges drawn from mindset in all students,” says Dr. Sarah Lubik, Climate Influx and Neighbourhood Clubhouse. business, entrepreneurship, the community Executive Director of the Chang Institute for Climate Influx is a multi-modal awareness and the university. OppFest reflects SFU’s Entrepreneurship, in the SFU Beedie School campaign to engage Metro-Vancouverites in commitment to making a positive global impact, of Business. “Our students, judges, team, and the global climate migration conversation. and participants tackle four critical issues: sponsors all showed exceptional empathy, Neighbourhood Clubhouse focuses on improving Community Health, Future of Work & Networks, adaptability and resourcefulness. It never occurred neighbourhood resiliency through a low barrier Waste Reduction and Social General. The event to us to do anything besides keep going.” and inclusive space to develop connections with also includes the pre-university entrepreneurship like-minded peers. programs YELL and Powerplay, allowing Organizers divided over 170 students into five elementary and high school students to showcase categories defined by their chosen challenges: For more information visit their projects and receive feedback. In 2019, the Education Innovation, Community Resilience, www.sfu.ca/changinstitute/events---outreach/ event also included junior judges. Environmental Impact, Personal Health & Well- opportunity-fest-2021.html being, and Business & Lifestyle. These teams In 2020 OppFest overcame adversity by switching pivoted from their planned in-person pitches to to a remote format to proceed in the face of produce creative video presentations followed COVID-19-related restrictions. Organizers by live Q&A. They showed ingenuity, creativity, drew on their entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving and innovation—critical resourcefulness to overhaul their plans and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. The connect over 200 students and industry experts events team used the university’s classroom via online platforms. remote learning platform, YouTube, and a PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 27

SFU Beedie Students Create Internal Matrix to Identify Socially-Conscious Investments Gosheealee Sewruttun, centre Endowment Asset Management (BEAM) Fund Each framework uses a different methodology re-evaluated the tools used in their responsible which are not easily comparable. These differences Socially-conscious investment decisions investment decision-making. affect how investors interpret data and how they increasingly rely on the ability of investors to generate ESG ratings. According to Sewruttun, measure an organization’s environmental, social Both SIAS and BEAM now utilize an ESG lens to the correlation between data providers is often and governance (ESG) profile. In 2019-2020 the evaluate an investment’s non-financial qualities— low, creating challenges when evaluating the graduate and undergraduate SFU Beedie students metrics like diversity, employee health and safety, sustainability and ethical practices of a company. responsible for managing the Student Investment and environmental impact. These metrics remain Advisory Service (SIAS) Fund and the Beedie challenging to quantify, however, in part because To better align their portfolio decisions using ESG they continually evolve in response to social and criteria, the cohort decided to go straight to the 28 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS environmental factors. Over the years, different source. Sewruttun and her team opted to use the frameworks emerged to help make sense of raw data provided directly from Morgan Stanley the data. Capital International (MSCI), along with sector and industry-specific weights, to build an internal MSc Finance student Gosheealee Sewruttun ESG matrix. served as SIAS ESG Manager for the 2019-2020 cohort. While working to ensure ESG remained “We’ll be creating our own rating based on our an integral part of the fund’s portfolio, Sewruttun understanding of the MSCI data and based on and her cohort identified inconsistencies the ESG reports of the company. We also include between frameworks and data used in their material factors in that sector and to come up decision making. with our own score.” “Standardization of data is definitely an issue,” The new matrix will help the team make more says Sewruttun. “We have the Sustainability consistent data-driven investment decisions Accounting Standards Board (SASB), which while promoting transparency and accountability is the main framework which we use in order in reporting. to assess whether an ESG factor is material to our investment decision or not. But not every For more information visit investment manager looks at SASB. Some of beedie.sfu.ca/student-life/undergraduates/ them will look at different frameworks like the student-organizations/beam-fund Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) or the Task Force or on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).” beedie.sfu.ca/programs/graduate/ msc-finance/sias-fund

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PRINCIPLE 4: RESEARCH We will engage in conceptual and empirical research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental and economic value. 30 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

2018/19-2019/20 HIGHLIGHTS SFU Beedie Sustainability Initiative SFU Beedie Prof Finds Moms Offer More How the business world is changing due Garners International Accolades Emotional Support Than Dads When to COVID-19 Juggling Work and Family In 2018-2019, The Embedding Project, a global According to Rajiv Kozhikode, an associate sustainability initiative founded and led by SFU Research published in the Journal of Applied professor at SFU Beedie, the coronavirus Beedie Associate Professor Stephanie Bertels, Psychology revealed that moms offer more pandemic is a health crisis and an economic received three international awards. emotional support than dads under the dual watershed. pressures of work and family responsibilities. The Embedding Project brings together academic Companies that adjust to changes will keep researchers from six institutions (SFU’s Beedie SFU Beedie professor Lieke ten Brummelhuis led employees working, says Kozhikode, and will School of Business, Cambridge University’s Judge two studies surveying dual-income families. The contribute to fighting COVID-19. Post-pandemic, School, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, first study analyzed how work-life might impact firms that retain employees are positioned Rotterdam School of Business, HEC Montreal the level of emotional support the participants to restart quickly with increased loyalty from and University of Cape Town’s Graduate School provided to their spouses when they arrived stakeholders. of Business). Housed within SFU Beedie’s Centre home. The second study examined how home life for Corporate Governance and Sustainability, might impact how much emotional support the “Business can expect a bailout in the future if it partners with sustainability leaders to help participants provided to their colleagues at work. their good behavior now gets them in the red in companies embed sustainability across their the future,” he says. “But if they neglect society operations and decision-making. Findings from both studies suggest that moms, now, they still might end up in the red, but regardless of work and home demands, do not without any respite from government.” In August 2018, the Academy of Management in reduce the amount of emotional support they offer Chicago, Illinois, presented the project with the those around them. Also, moms tend to pass on Voluntarily producing pandemic supplies is an act inaugural International Impactful Collaboration the emotional support they receive in one role by of social responsibility, explains Kozhikode, and a Award. The Clean50 Project also named The giving more emotional support in another. Their form of corporate political activity. Embedding Project on its annual list of 20 Top findings also suggest that when men are having Projects in September 2018. Finally, in April 2019, a tough day at work or are having problems at Many businesses repurposed to produce supplies the AACSB honored The Embedding Project with home, it negatively impacts their capacity to at the request of the federal government. a spot on its list of Innovations that Inspire as a provide emotional support. Examples include breweries producing hand champion of change in business education. sanitizers, clothing companies sewing masks and hotels repurposed as makeshift hospitals. And while online services blossomed, they have not replaced brick-and-mortar businesses. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 31

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SFU Beedie Assistant Professor Honoured for Work in Indigenous Business The Confederation of University Faculty framework, which historically receives limited “Other than entrepreneurship, Associations of British Columbia (CUFA BC) attention from academia. we have almost no theoretical presented SFU Beedie Assistant Professor Dr. foundation within business Dara Kelly with the Early in Career Award for 2020 “Other than entrepreneurship, we have almost and economics that is for her work focusing on Indigenous business no theoretical foundation within business and Indigenous-focused” theory. This award recognizes contributions economics that is Indigenous-focused,” says Kelly. made to the non-academic community by faculty “The oldest scholarship I’m talking about dates In 2020, Kelly and SFU Beedie PhD candidate members early in their careers. It highlights back to the 1990s, so that’s just three decades Jordyn Hrenyk published “A Call to Decolonize the role academic research plays in addressing worth of very scarce scholarship.” Business Schools,” which calls on business some of the province’s most pressing social, schools to tackle institutionalized racism and both environmental and economic challenges. An avid speaker, Kelly regularly presents at Indigenize existing structures and decolonize conferences and in public spaces to challenge them (www.socialsciencespace.com/2020/10/ The CUFA’s recognition represents a powerful conventional economic practices and inform a-call-to-decolonize-business-schools). validation of her work, says Kelly. She is positive change by drawing on Indigenous committed to using Indigenous research economics knowledge. She addresses gaps in methodologies – largely qualitative research based the literature on the Coast Salish and other on interviews with Indigenous Elders. “I care Indigenous Nations’ economic concepts and very deeply about the impact of my research, and practices. Her efforts to educate the public it’s really important for me to connect with my frequently place her in front of government, community, which I see as being people who can industry, policymakers and the wider community. actually use that knowledge right away.” She is co-chair of the Indigenous Caucus at the Academy of Management and is a board member Kelly joined the SFU Beedie in 2018 and teaches of the Association for Economic Research of in the Executive MBA (EMBA) in Indigenous Indigenous Peoples, an organization focused Business and Leadership Program, and on on economic research related to Indigenous Indigenous business environments within full- peoples worldwide. Kelly is also an advisor to time and part-time MBA programs. Hailing from the Indigenomics Institute, where she advises the Leq’á:mel First Nation, part of the Stó:lō Coast on emergent trends and advances in Indigenous Salish, her work advances the study of Indigenous business and economics research. business by developing the field’s theoretical PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 33

SFU Beedie Prof Leads the Way in Revitalization Project for a Once Vibrant Vancouver Neighbourhood For decades Hogan’s Alley, centered between Prior Located at 258 Union St. on the Hogan’s Alley Society Showcase with Downtown Vancouver. and Union and Main and Jackson, was a cultural block, Nora Hendrix Place meets the needs of A celebration of Vancouver’s Black culture, the hub for Vancouver’s Black community. In the late Vancouver’s Black and Indigenous communities. event featured Hogan’s Alley history, local artwork 1960s, the city demolished Hogan’s Alley to build a As they await permanent housing, residents and music. freeway, only to drop the project after constructing receive healthcare supports, culturally the Georgia Street viaduct. relevant community programming and pre- As part of the 2020 Vancouver Mural Festival, employment training. the society also collaborated with Artist Anthony As the city dismantles the viaduct, SFU Beedie Joseph to create a colourful 45-metre-long mural Associate Professor June Francis can be found “Temporary modular housing on the Hogan’s Alley on the Georgia Viaduct titled Hope Through Ashes: leading a movement to revitalize this once block is the first important step in our alignment A Requiem for Hogan’s Alley. www.instagram. vibrant neighborhood. She currently serves as with the Northeast False Creek Plan, which aims com/adoworks/?hl=en Drawing on the history of co-chair of the Hogan’s Alley Society, a non-profit to help redress the past displacement of Black the community for inspiration, the artwork depicts organization composed of “civil rights activists, citizens in this neighbourhood,” says Francis. prominent Black figures from Hogan’s Alley. business professionals, community organizations, artists, writers and academics committed to Other projects spearheaded by the society include For more information visit daylighting the presence of Black history in a cultural centre at 898 Main Street and the www.hogansalleysociety.org Vancouver and throughout British Columbia.” Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD) Black Experience Project, which aims to map out the In 2019 the society celebrated a significant diverse experiences of people of African descent milestone with the opening of Nora Hendrix (Black) in Metro Vancouver. Place, a temporary modular housing facility created in partnership with the City of Vancouver, In addition to housing and cultural spaces, the PHS Community Services Society and BC Housing. Hogan’s Alley Society also supports initiatives Hendrix helped start the first Black church in the celebrating Black culture and history. In 2020 they area and was a well-loved pillar of the community. launched their Buy Black series, highlighting Black-owned businesses in the Greater Vancouver Area, and co-hosted a Hogan’s Alley 34 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Greener Futures: SFU Faculty Examine Stranded Fossil Fuel Reserves and Firm Value Worldwide, trillions of dollars remain invested in Developments like the 2015 Paris Agreement “If people don’t buy the narrative fossil fuels. It’s money trapped in a carbon bubble confirmed the severity of the climate crisis and many researchers believe will burst, transforming shifted the narrative. Countries committed to that there will be stranded assets, fossil fuel reserves and their means of production emissions targets—targets requiring fuel reserves into stranded assets. remain undeveloped. According to Atanasova, it’s the price isn’t going to go down.” a looming problem oil producers must address. As we transition to greener global economies, two The solution is a combination of government SFU Beedie faculty members examined why some “If we are to adhere to these tight carbon budgets, regulation and innovation. Already, many companies continue to grow, despite the risk of they should stop capital expenditures and stop traditional oil producers like BP and Shell are undeveloped reserves remaining in the ground. investment in either acquisition and development exploring green energy alternatives. And while oil of reserves. The question is, why are these demand may bounce back from 2020 conditions In 2019, Christina Atanasova and Eduardo companies growing? Why are they developing and the COVD-19 pandemic, what that recovery Schwartz published “Stranded Fossil Fuel more reserves? Why are people opening new wells looks like remains unknown. Reserves and Firm Value” with the National and drilling, and what kind of companies grow Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (November the fastest?” “For centuries, we accumulated capital reliant 2019). Their research posits that the growth of on fossil fuel energy. So there has to be a reserves negatively affects an oil company’s value. Part of the problem rests with incentives says substantial shift in terms of having energy that Those with the highest extraction costs, the most Atanasova, citing the Carbon Tracker Initiative doesn’t produce carbon emissions,” explains significant number of reserves and those working and their March 2020 report Fanning the Flames: Atanasova. “That’s going to take time and a lot of in countries with restrictive climate policies fare How executives continue to be rewarded to technological innovation.” the worst. produce more oil and gas at odds with the energy transition (carbontracker.org/reports/ “Ten years ago, climate risk was considered a fanning-the-flames), which found that 90% of pay very long-run risk. It’s difficult to look at financial packages for oil and gas company CEOs remain prices and analyze something that might happen linked to growth metrics. in 50 years because people’s beliefs determine these prices,” explains Atanasova. “If people don’t “If you are paid for growth, you will grow, even buy the narrative that there will be stranded though this is penalized by the market. You get assets, the price isn’t going to go down.” your bonus, and the person who is hurt is the shareholder,” says Atanasova. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 35

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Berthon, P., Pitt, L., & Campbell, C. (2019). Berthon, P. R., & Pitt, L. F. (2019). Types of Boldbaatar, D., Kunz, N. C., & Werker, E. Addictive De-Vices: A Public Policy Analysis mindfulness in an age of digital distraction. (2019). Improved resource governance through of Sources and Solutions to Digital Addiction. Business Horizons, 62(2), 131–137. transparency: Evidence from Mongolia. The Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 38(4), 451– https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2018.10.003 Extractive Industries and Society, 6(3), 775–787. 468. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743915619859852 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2018.12.007 In an age of digital distractions, mindfulness has We spend our days looking at them, talking to become a billion-dollar industry that extends well Transparency and accountability initiatives them, and touching them. We sleep with them, beyond training to include products, services, have emerged as a potential solution to combat work with them, and play with them. They and experiences. Attitudes on mindfulness vary corruption and increase public benefits from increasingly consume our time, attention, and from the cautious to the starry-eyed. However, the extractive sector in resource-abundant money: we are addicted to our digital devices— one thing is certain: mindfulness is here, and it countries. The Extractive Industries Transparency or, more precisely, the digital experiences is here to stay, as the conditions that gave rise to Initiative (EITI) is one such initiative, through they enable. This addiction is both akratic (we its popularity are only likely to intensify. Thus, which 49 resource-rich countries have disclosed are aware of the negative consequences) and it is incumbent upon managers to understand a cumulative 282 fiscal years of government engineered (designed on purpose). Marketers the phenomenon of mindfulness, and this revenues amounting to US$1.9 trillion since 2003. are complicit in this engineering: through presents difficulties. The marketplace meaning This paper explores the potential for promised digital networks and big data, they ubiquitously of mindfulness has become so diffuse as to be benefits of increased disclosure to be realized monitor and experiment on consumers. This almost meaningless, while the mainstream in the form of improved resource governance. knowledge is used to create ever-more addictive psychological definition is at best partial and Building on the social accountability literature, digital experiences enabled by devices, their at worst potentially myopic. In this installation a framework is proposed and then applied to the platforms, and their content. In this article, the of Marketing & Technology, we first explore the Mongolian context to examine which stages of the authors explore marketing’s role in the rise of conditions that gave rise to the surge in interest framework work well, and which fail to perform. the phenomenon: from product design, through in mindfulness. Second, by drawing on original Two types of contracts are analyzed, water usage advertising and big data, to the dynamics of source materials, we guide managers and agreements and community benefit-sharing ubiquitous distribution and “free” pricing. The marketing executives through the dimensions/ agreements. Although Mongolia is recognized as a authors then turn to policy solutions and discuss types of mindfulness and integrate the various leading performer by international EITI standards, how informing, guiding, and restricting can help perspectives into two models. We conclude the analysis concludes that the framework’s ameliorate the problem and promote the public with an exploration of the opportunities and latter stages from disclosure to improved resource good. The article concludes by outlining multiple challenges that mindfulness poses to managers governance are incomplete. The policy implication areas for marketing and public policy research. and marketing. is that greater attention to mobilization and citizen empowerment is needed to ensure that contract transparency can meaningfully contribute towards improved governance. 36 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Burke, K., & Bhalloo, S. (2020). “I Am in Room Calderwood, C., ten Brummelhuis, L. L., Chen, Y., Jermias, J., & Nazari, J. A. (2020). The 523”: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Patel, A. S., Watkins, T., Gabriel, A. S., effects of reporting frameworks and a company’s #MeToo and #timesup. Journal of Business Ethics & Rosen, C. C. (2020). Employee Physical Activity: financial position on managers’ willingness to Education, 17. https://www.neilsonjournals.com/ A Multidisciplinary Integrative Review. Journal invest in corporate social responsibility projects. JBEE/abstractjbee17room523case.html of Management, 014920632094041. Accounting & Finance, acfi.12706. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206320940413 https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12706 Initiatives to encourage more women in STEM- related industries have had mixed results. While physical activity is widely recognized to be This study examines how companies’ voluntary Adding more women to long-standing, male- relevant to employee well-being and organizational adoption of a particular CSR framework affects dominated STEM occupations has highlighted health care costs, the management literature their managers’ decision-making, especially issues in workplace culture that are hostile to has yet to clarify when, how, and why employee when faced with a dilemma whereby maximising women. In this case, the CEO of an engineers’ physical activity influences job performance. environmental benefits means a reduction professional association, NSE, is accused of Therefore, the goal of this review is to provide in financial returns. The results show that making a sexually suggestive remark to two a cross-disciplinary synthesis of evidence investment in CSR projects is significantly higher female engineers at the annual convention. One surrounding the implications of physical activity when companies report under a stand-alone CSR of the women, Claire, lodged a complaint with for job performance. After first conducting an reporting framework, as this framework provides the board. After reviewing the investigation emergent systematic review of the management the opportunity to highlight the benefits of CSR report, the board voted to ask the CEO to quietly literature to verify our assertion that this research investment. In contrast, an integrated reporting apologize to both women. Claire, in the meantime, base has inadequately addressed the relationship framework encourages disclosure of benefits and posted a negative review of the NSE’s handling between physical activity and job performance, we costs, whereas the financial statement framework of her complaint which is getting considerable performed a cross-disciplinary review of six key limits disclosure of CSR activities and both result media attention. The purpose of this case is for disciplines (sports sciences, public environmental in lower investment in CSR projects. students to examine the competing interests occupational health, general medicine internal, NSE faces in promoting the safety of female physiology, neuroscience, and psychology/ members, protecting its reputation for advancing psychiatry) to develop a resource-based framework the profession and women in engineering and that serves to identify how physical activity relates supporting an otherwise “brilliant CEO.” to job performance. This unifying framework is intended to guide future research on employee physical activity. As an initial application of this framework, we provide a set of future research directions centered on empirically evaluating proposed mechanisms, boundary conditions, and temporal factors that can inform physical activity research in organizational contexts. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 37

Dahabieh, M. S., Bröring, S., & Maine, E. (2018). Dello Russo, S., Parry, E., Bosak, J., Andresen, that the negative relationship between age and Overcoming barriers to innovation in food and M., Apospori, E., Bagdadli, S., Chudzikowski, K., perceived external employability was significant agricultural biotechnology. Trends in Food Science Dickmann, M., Ferencikova, S., Gianecchini, M., across all countries. In addition, at the individual & Technology, 79, 204–213. Hall, D. T., Kaše, R., Lazarova, M., & Reichel, A. level, we found that HRDPs acted as a buffer for https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2018.07.004 (2020). Still feeling employable with growing age? this negative relationship, such that the effect Exploring the moderating effects of developmental was less pronounced for individuals who have The food and agricultural biotechnology (FAB) HR practices and country-level unemployment experienced more HRDPs during their working sector is poised to respond to some of society’s rates in the age – employability relationship. life. At the country level, the hypothesized most pressing challenges, including food The International Journal of Human Resource moderating effect of the unemployment rate security, climate change, population growth, Management, 31(9), 1180–1206. was not observed. Limitations, future research and resource limitation. However, to realize https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2020.1737833 directions, as well as practical implications of the this promise, substantial barriers to innovation study, are discussed. must be overcome. Here, we draw upon industry A compelling issue for organizations and societies experience and innovation management literature at large is to ensure external employability of the to analyze FAB innovation challenges, as well workforce across workers’ entire work-life span. as relevant frameworks for their resolution. In Using the frameworks of age norms, stereotyping doing so, we identify two major FAB innovation and age meta-stereotypes, we investigate whether challenges: specialized adoption uncertainty and (a) age is negatively related to perceived external complex product-market fit across convergent employability; and (b) the age-employability link value chains. We propose that these innovation is moderated by HR developmental practices challenges may be overcome by 1) prioritizing (HRDPs) and unemployment rate. We argue the establishment of organizational and the awareness of stereotypes and age norms in social technology legitimacy, and 2) leveraging organizations, and holding also meta-stereotypes technology-market matching methods and open about their group, older workers perceive innovation practices. themselves as less externally employable. However, the context – HRDPs that one has experienced, and the country unemployment rate – would act as buffers. Using data from a large-scale survey from over 9000 individuals in 30 institutionally diverse countries, we found 38 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Francis, J. N. P., Henriksson, K., & Stewart Hagen, L., Krishna, A., & McFerran, B. (2019). Hajro, A., Stahl, G. K., Clegg, C. C., Alonso, J. (2020). Collaborating for transformation: Outsourcing Responsibility for Indulgent Food & Lazarova, M. B. (2019). Acculturation, coping, Applying the Co-Laboratorio approach to bridge Consumption to Prevent Negative Affect. Journal and integration success of international skilled research, pedagogy and practice. Canadian Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 4(2), migrants: An integrative review and multilevel of Development Studies / Revue Canadienne 136–146. https://doi.org/10.1086/701821 framework. Human Resource Management d’études Du Développement, 1–24. Journal, 29(3), 328–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1797650 To many consumers, indulging in unhealthy treats https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12233 is a “vice” and can cause unpleasant feelings, such Intractable issues such as poverty, environmental as guilt. Nonetheless, consumers do not want In this article, we review the limited but growing degradation and economic and social exclusions, to give up indulgences altogether and find ways body of research on international skilled as exemplified in the SDGs, are inherently to allow themselves guilt-free gratification. We migrants and examine to what extent knowledge systemic problems that require multi-actor propose a novel, calculated tactic that consumers generated in adjacent research streams— collaborations. This paper presents the learnings use to avoid unpleasant feelings often associated specifically, work on assigned and self-initiated from Co-Laboratorio Perú – a five-year university- with unhealthy eating. Four studies demonstrate expatriates—can be meaningfully applied to aid driven international development initiative that that consumers proactively and strategically our understanding of the challenges, coping fostered collaborative approaches, spaces and confer responsibility for indulgences to other strategies, and acculturation dynamics of skilled interventions to drive development, linking people to prevent looming negative feelings about migrants. We develop a framework that explains universities’ advantages as neutral conveners and consuming the same item. In laboratory and how variables and processes at multiple levels ethically guided knowledge and innovation hubs field experiments, for unhealthy (compared to (individual, organisational, and societal) influence to practical interventions through collaborations healthy) foods, consumers exhibit a preference migrant acculturation and coping and result in with civil society organisations, communities, for being served a chosen food instead of serving integration-related outcomes in the domains the private sector and policymakers. This paper themselves. Moderation and mediation show of personal/family life and workplace/career. critically examines the conventional development that this preference is driven by anticipated We discuss directions for future research and delivery model and collaborative rationale negative self-conscious affect, which gives rise to implications for practice. between academia and civil society organisations a motivation to avoid responsibility. Across our and argues for adopting a wider conceptualisation studies, people seek to alter the social context more inclusive of other actors in the system to surrounding indulgent food consumption in this address systemic development challenges. We way, despite making their own food choices. propose the Co-Laboratorio model as a novel and complementary approach to achieve these goals. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 39

Hannah, D. R., & Robertson, K. (2020). Emotional that might help veterinarians effectively manage Jordaan, S. M., Davidson, A., Nazari, J. A., regulation in veterinary work: Do you know your the emotional landscape of their work. We are & Herremans, I. M. (2019). The dynamics of comfort zone? The Canadian Veterinary Journal, pleased to share the results of this research, advancing climate policy in federal political 61(2), 178–180. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ which will shortly be published in one of the top systems. Environmental Policy and Governance, pmc/articles/PMC6973202/ journals in our field, Academy of Management 29(3), 220–234. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1849 Discoveries (4). As readers are undoubtedly well-aware, one of the To avoid irreversible climate damages, countries significant challenges of working in the veterinary We learned that veterinary workers’ ability to with different political systems must commit to field is managing the intense emotions that can engage in emotional regulation is critical to doing reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the be elicited by various aspects of the job (1,2): the their jobs well, and may be necessary for them world. The challenge posed to federal countries emotional highs of accurately diagnosing a rare to enjoy long and rewarding careers. Emotional participating in international climate agreements illness or successfully performing a complex regulation involves shaping one’s emotional through the United Nations Framework surgery, contrasted with the emotional lows experience by increasing experienced emotions Convention on Climate Change is that successful of being unable to adequately treat an animal (think of an athlete getting “psyched up” before implementation requires buy-in from their due to owners’ financial constraints or having a big game), decreasing emotions (taking deep subnational governments. However, subnational to euthanize a beloved animal companion. The breaths to stay calm in an anxiety-provoking climate action may not be aligned with the ability to manage emotional ups and downs may situation), or maintaining them (striving to stay political priorities of the national government and be just as crucial to veterinarians’ career longevity “in the moment” during an enjoyable event) (5). could either undermine or support commitments and well-being as the ability to effectively execute More specifically, through our conversations with made through the agreement. To explore these the technical dimensions of their work (3). veterinary workers, we developed the concept of dynamics, we review the incoherence between an emotional comfort zone, which is comprised international commitments, national and As management professors, we are interested of a worker’s personal preferences for feeling and subnational policies of Canada and the United in understanding how workers navigate the expressing emotion. Participants who were able States, relying on case studies of investments challenges posed by their unique work contexts. to stay in their comfort zones while performing in low-carbon energy and emissions outcomes. We had read about the extreme emotional euthanasias appeared to benefit in a number of Political and policy incoherence has flowed demands of veterinary work, discussed them ways, including being able to execute required in both directions. Both countries have seen with acquaintances employed in the field, technical tasks effectively, avoid burnout, and periods of federal government action, which have and experienced some of these challenges enjoy a sense of authenticity from experiencing been undermined by subnational inaction or ourselves as pet owners. We set out to conduct genuine emotion. We also identified common opposition. Similarly, both countries have seen in-depth research with veterinarians, veterinary circumstances that tended to move workers periods of federal government inaction, which technicians, and veterinary assistants, with a outside of their comfort zones, as well as has placed the onus on subnational governments. focus on the emotional dynamics of performing organizational practices that helped workers to Our analysis enables a greater understanding of euthanasia. We suspected that the experiences transition into and remain within their comfort how the dynamics of federalist political systems of our participants would yield insights that zones, thereby making it easier for them to deal influence policy, thus the energy investment and could inform our understanding of intensely with the intense emotions of their jobs. emissions outcomes of national commitments emotional work in general, and about strategies to international agreements. The implications of our findings for other federalist political systems 40 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

are discussed. We suggest that during national physical capital measures and stronger negative attention. Relatively little research has been leadership voids, subnational governments indirect effects for human capital development. conducted on its feasibility in Asian culture, can counteract the associated negative policy The use of a simultaneous framework and dual acceptance, as well as the relationship between outcomes by implementing climate policies measures of resources reconciles seemingly the pedagogy and learning outcome. Through that support low-carbon technologies and contradictory findings in earlier work. building the proposed flipped classroom platform reducing emissions. This type of system in this study, it could facilitate research on flipped supports the development of a coordinated Liu, C. K. (2019). A holistic approach to flipped classroom in different types of knowledge transfer. strategy among subnational governments in classroom: A conceptual framework using Thus, its feasibility and impact on performance achieving international goals through cooperative e-platform. International Journal of Engineering outcome could be thoroughly studied across federalism via subnational policy compacts. Business Management, 11, 184797901985520. different fields and levels of education in a host https://doi.org/10.1177/1847979019855205 of countries. Lashitew, A. A., & Werker, E. (2020). Do natural resources help or hinder development? The extensive adoption of Internet technology Lu, J., Yu, D., Mahmoudian, F., Nazari, J. A., & Resource abundance, dependence, and the role led to a second wave of change in many different Herremans, I. M. (2020). Board interlocks and of institutions. Resource and Energy Economics, industries: education being one of them. As we greenhouse gas emissions. Business Strategy 61, 101183. witnessed the explosion of free online e-learning and the Environment, bse.2611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2020.101183 platforms and videos, physical educational https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2611 institutions also felt the pressure to enhance The resource curse literature presents conflicting their classroom learning experience in order to Using resource dependence theory, we analyze evidence on the relationship between natural stay competitive. Coupled with the popularity of board interlocks, their industry origin, and their resources and development. We evaluate the mobile devices, physical educational institutions relationship to firms’ greenhouse gas (GHG) direct effect of resources on developmental could also utilize a combination of technologies emissions. Interlocks create connections by outcomes vis-à-vis their indirect effect through to enhance teaching and learning, increasing having board members from one firm sit on other the weakening of political institutions using their competitive edge. Flipped classroom is the firms’ boards, providing an avenue for sharing a 3SLS instrumental variable setup that teaching pedagogy which is gaining growing information and resources to aid in knowledge simultaneously estimates development outcomes popularity among educational institutions. transfer and capability development. As firms and institutions. We find that resource abundance Fundamentally, it is a way of teaching such that face challenges for improved GHG emissions and resource dependence affect development individual learning could be conducted online performance, they may look to their board outcomes through different channels. While outside of class, while group interactive learning members’ connections to other firms to acquire resource abundance generally has a direct positive would be conducted during class time. Since needed resources. Using a sample of US Standard effect on developmental outcomes, resource this is a relatively new concept using mobile and & Poor’s (S&P) 1500 firms for years 2009 to 2018, dependence has a stronger negative indirect effect Internet technology, literature is limited and there we find that firms with a greater number of board that operates through its negative impact on is yet a systematic approach to conduct flipped interlocks achieve lower GHG emissions intensity. institutional quality. The results also depend on classroom-related research. Nevertheless, it is We also find that boards for the best-performing the type of development outcome considered, with gaining much attention in the West. However, companies have interlocks in the same industry, more consistent positive direct effects found for teaching style in Asia is different and its feasibility in other industries, and with firms leading in GHG and performance outcome warrant much of our PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 41

emissions intensity, especially for firms in higher Miele, A., Axsen, J., Wolinetz, M., Maine, E., & of charging or refuelling infrastructure. These environmentally impacting industries, as they Long, Z. (2020). The role of charging and refuelling findings stem from low consumer valuation of face greater emissions challenges. infrastructure in supporting zero-emission vehicle infrastructure found in the stated preference sales. Transportation Research Part D: Transport model. Results suggest that achieving ambitious Mahmoudian, F., Lu, J., Yu, D., Nazari, J. A., and Environment, 81, 102275. ZEV sale targets requires a comprehensive suite of & Herremans, I. M. (2020). Inter-and intra- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102275 policies beyond a focus on charging and refueling organizational stakeholder arrangements in infrastructure. carbon management accounting. The British Widespread uptake of battery electric, plug- Accounting Review, 100933. in hybrid, and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles Moore, M. A., Boardman, A. E., & Vining, A. R. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100933 (collectively zero-emissions vehicles or ZEVs) (2020). Social Discount Rates for Seventeen Latin could help many regions achieve deep greenhouse American Countries: Theory and Parameter This research investigates the role of inter- gas mitigation goals. Using the case of Canada, Estimation. Public Finance Review, 48(1), 43–71. organizational arrangements and intra- this study investigates the extent to which https://doi.org/10.1177/1091142119890369 organizational activities as sub-parts of increasing ZEV charging and refuelling availability carbon management accounting to reduce may boost ZEV sales relative to other ZEV- This article presents new estimates of social greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We apply the supportive policies. We adapt a version of the discount rates (SDRs) for seventeen Latin concept of stakeholder engagement, normally Respondent-based Preferences and Constraints American countries for use in public project utilized in sustainability reporting, to carbon (REPAC) model using 2017 survey data from 1884 evaluation. We derive the SDRs based on the social management accounting and performance. Canadian new vehicle-buyers to simulate the sales rate of time preference method and provide the We also examine if carbon management impacts of increasing electric vehicle charging required parameter values. These rates range from projects that encompass many functional access at home, work, public destinations, and 2.14 percent for Paraguay to 5.83 percent for Chile. areas aid in GHG emissions performance. on highways, as well as increasing hydrogen The unweighted average recommended rate is Using a sample of firms headquartered in the refuelling station access. REPAC is built from a 3.77 percent, which is close to the rates mandated United States with data available from the stated preference choice model and represents by most European countries. We also review CDP, we apply the three-stage least squares constraints in supply and consumer awareness, current governments’ SDR practices worldwide, (3SLS) method to test for the endogeneity of as well as dynamics in ZEV policy out to 2030. including Latin America, and find that the GHG emissions reporting and performance. Results suggest that new ZEV market share from proposed country-specific SDRs are significantly We find that both inter-organizational and 2020 to 2030 does not substantially benefit from lower and less dispersed across countries than intra-organizational arrangements improve increased infrastructure. Even when electric the rates most Latin American countries currently GHG emissions performance through carbon charging and hydrogen refuelling access are recommend. Using four archetypal project profiles, management processes and procedures. Our simulated to reach “universally” available levels we show the potential impact on the net present research contributes to the literature by providing by 2030, ZEV sales do not rise by more than 1.5 values of varying important parameters, including insight into how companies work externally percentage points above the baseline trajectory. growth rates. with their stakeholders and internally with On the other hand, REPAC simulates ZEV market multiple functional areas to implement carbon share rising as high as 30% by 2030 with strong management projects that reduce GHG emissions. ZEV-supportive policies, even without the addition 42 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Oetzel, J., & Oh, C. H. (2019). Melting pot or tribe? Olson, J. G., McFerran, B., Morales, A. C., & Dahl, Roberts, A. L., Gladish, N., Gatev, E., Jones, M. J., Country-level ethnic diversity and its effect on D. W. (2020). How income shapes moral judgments Chen, Y., MacIsaac, J. L., Tworoger, S. S., Austin, S. subsidiaries. Journal of International Business of prosocial behavior. International Journal of B., Tanrikut, C., Chavarro, J. E., Baccarelli, A. A., & Policy, 2(1), 37–61. Research in Marketing, S0167811620300586. Kobor, M. S. (2018). Exposure to childhood abuse is https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-018-00016-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2020.07.001 associated with human sperm DNA methylation. Translational Psychiatry, 8(1), 194. The purpose of our study is to explore the effect of The current research extends past work on how https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-018-0252-1 country-level ethnic diversity on subsidiary-level consumers (as “observers”) view ethical choices ownership strategy and employee productivity. made by others (“actors”). Using a person- Offspring of persons exposed to childhood abuse We examine two characteristics of ethnic diversity centered approach to moral judgments, we are at higher risk of neurodevelopmental and in society, the level of diversity and degree of show that consumers are judged differentially, physical health disparities across the life course. inclusion. Using a multi-source and multi-year based on their income, for engaging in certain Animal experiments have indicated that paternal (2004–2010) sample of 30,007 subsidiaries from 79 prosocial behaviors. Nine studies demonstrate environmental stressors can affect sperm home-countries operating in 63 host-countries, that engaging in the same prosocial behavior, DNA methylation and gene expression in an we find that high levels of diversity are not a de such as volunteering, leads to different responses offspring. Childhood abuse has been associated facto form of country risk as some have argued. depending on whether the actor earns income with epigenetic marks in human blood, saliva, Rather, it is the ability of a dominant ethnic versus receives government assistance. and brain tissue, with statistically significant group to exclude others from full economic and Consistent with our theorizing, we find that methylation differences ranging widely. However, political participation. As societies become more aid recipients are given less latitude in how no studies have examined the association fragmented, and one or few groups become more they spend their time than those earning an of childhood abuse with DNA methylation dominant and prevents other groups from fully income and are scrutinized to a greater degree in gametes. We examined the association of participating in the political process or economic for their choices because people believe their childhood abuse with DNA methylation in opportunities, this may increase business risk time would be better spent seeking employment. human sperm. Combined physical, emotional, and lower labor productivity. The broader policy Consequently, the lower moral judgments of aid and sexual abuse in childhood was characterized implications are that policymakers should have recipients who choose to volunteer (vs. income as none, medium, or high. DNA methylation engagement policies toward disfranchised ethnic earners) are driven, at least in part, by the anger was assayed in 46 sperm samples from 34 men groups. Policymakers should develop policies observers feel about the perceived misuse of in a longitudinal non-clinical cohort using aimed at leveraging the benefits of diversity. time. Additional information or cues about HumanMethylation450 BeadChips. We performed MNCs have an interest in promoting such policies employment efforts or work inability attenuate principal component analysis and examined and fostering greater economic and political these judgments. Importantly, we document the correlation of principal components with inclusion in countries where they operate. implications for support for federal spending on abuse exposure. Childhood abuse was associated welfare programs. with a component that captured 6.2% of total variance in DNA methylation (p < 0.05). Next, we investigated the regions differentially methylated by abuse exposure. We identified 12 DNA regions differentially methylated by childhood PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 43

abuse, containing 64 probes and including sites Robertson, K. M., Lautsch, B. A., & Hannah, D. R. Originality/value on genes associated with neuronal function (2019). Role negotiation and systems-level work- (MAPT, CLU), fat cell regulation (PRDM16), life balance. Personnel Review, 48(2), 570–594. The findings offer a more nuanced and immune function (SDK1). We examined https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-11-2016-0308 conceptualization of the system-level adulthood health behaviors, mental health, and perspective on WLB, and in particular an trauma exposure as potential mediators of an Purpose enriched explanation of work and non-work role association between abuse and DNAm, and found negotiation. The authors encourage employers that mental health and trauma exposure partly The purpose of this paper is to examine the who are interested in promoting WLB to ensure mediated the association. Finally, we constructed processes underlying a systems perspective on that their employees feel empowered to negotiate a parsimonious epigenetic marker for childhood work-life balance (WLB), with a particular focus their roles, particularly with others in their abuse using a machine learning approach, on the tensions and role negotiations that arise work systems. which identified three probes that predicted high within and across work and non-work roles. vs. no childhood abuse in 71% of participants. Our results suggested that childhood abuse is Design/methodology/approach associated with sperm DNA methylation, which may have implications for offspring development. The authors employed a qualitative methodology, Larger samples are needed to identify with greater conducting 42 interviews with lawyers at large confidence specific genomic regions differentially law firms, which is a context notorious for long methylated by childhood abuse. work hours. Findings While a cornerstone of a systems view is that balance is social in nature, and that negotiations occur among stakeholders over role expectations, the process through which this happens has remained unexamined both theoretically and empirically. The authors learned that negotiating around work and non-work role expectations are often contested, complex and fluid. The authors contribute to the literature by elaborating on how these negotiations happen in the legal profession, describing factors that inhibit or facilitate role negotiation and exploring how interdependencies within work systems and across work and non- work systems shape these negotiation processes. 44 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Robertson, K. M., O’Reilly, J., & Hannah, D. R. Schwab, D., & Werker, E. (2018). Are economic Sheppard, J. P., & Young, J. (2020). Addressing (2020). Finding Meaning in Relationships: rents good for development? Evidence from sustainable development goals for confronting The Impact of Network Ties and Structure the manufacturing sector. World Development, climate change: Insights and summary solutions on the Meaningfulness of Work. Academy of 112, 33–45. in the stress stupidity system. Journal of Management Review, 45(3), 596–619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.014 Management & Organization, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2015.0242 https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2020.9 Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Research has pointed to the importance of Rents could induce firms to lobby or bribe We employ the concept of stupidity to address interpersonal relationships in the meaningfulness governments to preserve the status quo; on the why more has not been done to address climate of work, but significant and under-examined other hand, rents may promote growth by giving change and sustainable development. While issues remain. For example, what types of firms the needed funds to make investments in the ‘new’ science of stupid has long existed relationships have the potential to produce a fixed capital or research and development. To in organizational studies, academicians have sense of meaningfulness of work? Further, test this question empirically, we use a panel of been too polite to call it that and organizational through what mechanisms do these relationship manufacturing data at the industry-country-year researchers historically labeled it the ‘threat- features affect the meaningfulness of work? level, and measure rents by the mark-up ratio. rigidity effect.’ With Alvesson and Spicer’s To answer these questions, we adopt a social We find that the relationship between rents and ‘stupidity-based theory of organizations’ networks theory lens to explore how the content growth is strongly negative, with the results management researchers overcame this and structure of an individual’s network ties can being primarily driven by the poorer countries reluctance. In this work, we explore what we will influence their experience of meaningfulness (or those with worse institutions) in the sample. call the ‘stress-stupidity system.’ Building on the at work. Our central argument is that network This result holds when we instrument for mark- threat-rigidity effect, we outline the elements features produce various social resources up using the average mark-up in other industries of the stress-stupidity system and look at how that facilitate the conditions that create in the country. Even in industries with high we may be able to ‘fix stupid’ to address issues meaningfulness of work. We develop a theoretical external financing needs and countries with of sustainability. model that links the resources provided from less developed financial sectors, precisely the three overarching network types, which we label places where excess profits could be used to drive the entrepreneurial, clique, and community-of- growth, we find that rents are especially harmful. practice networks, to three distinct pathways to Consistent with the rent-seeking mechanism we meaningfulness of work. We also incorporate highlight, we find that high rents are associated individuals’ meaning-related preferences into our with a slower reduction in tariffs. We also test model, by explaining how the efficacy of social for the most likely alternative mechanism, that network resources in producing meaningfulness higher rents cause slower growth through the of work will depend on whether the facilitated channel of allowing managerial slack. We find pathway appeals to an individual’s authentic self. that controlling for management has little impact on our estimate of the impact of mark-up on productivity growth. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 45

ten Brummelhuis, L. L., & Greenhaus, J. H. (2018). For male employees, home demands were Tung, E. L., Abramsohn, E. M., Boyd, K., How role jugglers maintain relationships at home negatively related to team relationship quality Makelarski, J. A., Beiser, D. G., Chou, C., Huang, and at work: A gender comparison. Journal of through reduced emotional support they provided E. S., Ozik, J., Kaligotla, C., & Lindau, S. T. (2020). Applied Psychology, 103(12), 1265–1282. to their coworker. For female employees, home Impact of a Low-Intensity Resource Referral https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000340 resources were positively related to team Intervention on Patients’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and relationship quality through enhanced emotional Use of Community Resources: Results from the We examined how demands and resources in support they provided to their coworker. The CommunityRx Trial. Journal of General Internal a role relate to the quality of relationships in findings suggest that relative to men, women Medicine, 35(3), 815–823. another role. In Study 1, 26 cohabiting dual- prevent role demands from reducing the support https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05530-5 earner couples reported on five consecutive days they provide in another role and use role resources about their work demands and work resources, to enhance the support they provide in another Background emotional support they provided to the spouse, role, thereby strengthening relationship quality in and relationship quality among family members. that role. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2018 Connecting patients to community-based Dyadic data analysis revealed that husbands’ APA, all rights reserved) resources is now a cornerstone of modern work demands were negatively related to family healthcare that supports self-management relationship quality through reduced emotional of health. The mechanisms that link resource support provided to their wives. Wives’ work information to behavior change, however, remain resources were positively related to family poorly understood. relationship quality through enhanced emotional support provided to their husbands. In Study 2, Objective we explored whether the same gender pattern existed in the home-to-work direction. Sixty-four To evaluate the impact of CommunityRx, an coworker dyads reported on five days about their automated, low-intensity resource referral home demands and resources, emotional support intervention, on patients’ knowledge, beliefs, and provided to their coworker, and relationship use of community resources. quality among team members. Design Real-world controlled clinical trial at an urban academic medical center in 2015–2016; participants were assigned by alternating week to receive the CommunityRx intervention or usual care. Surveys were administered at baseline, one week, one month, and three months. 46 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Participants weight loss resources (AOR = 2.26; 95% CI Yang, F., Lin, J., & Culham, T. (2019). From 1.05–4.84). Positive changes in both knowledge intimidation to love: Taoist philosophy and love- Publicly insured adults, ages 45–74 years. and beliefs about community resources were based environmental education. Educational associated with higher resource use (P = 0.02). Philosophy and Theory, 51(11), 1117–1129. Intervention https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1564659 Conclusions CommunityRx generated an automated, For decades, a review of environmental education personalized list of resources, known as In a middle-aged and older population with high initiatives in and beyond schools indicates HealtheRx, near each participant’s home using morbidity, a low-intensity health IT intervention that many of them were implemented from condition-specific, evidence-based algorithms. to deliver resource referrals promoted behavior an anthropocentric perspective. The rationale Algorithms used patient demographic and health change by increasing knowledge and positive behind them is often that we must not destroy characteristics documented in the electronic beliefs about community resources for self- the environment because doing so is harmful for health record to identify relevant resources from management of health. ourselves, human beings. One striking feature a comprehensive, regularly updated database of of the various forms of environmental education health-related resources in the study area. is the use of fear as a motivator, as people are warned about the frightening consequences of Main Measures environmental destruction on their life. While this type of fear-based environmental education may Using intent-to-treat analysis, we examined the be effective to some extent, intimidation cannot impact of HealtheRx referrals on (1) knowledge be a fundamental solution to environmental of the most commonly referred resource types, issues. We need to form a loving relationship including healthy eating classes, individual with nature through love-based environmental counseling, mortgage assistance, smoking education. From intimidation to love, love-based cessation, stress management, and weight loss environmental education focuses on enhancing classes or groups, and (2) beliefs about having public environmental awareness through resources in the community to manage health. inculcating love, respect, and gratitude toward nature, thereby helping to solve present and Key Results future environmental problems and construct an eco-friendly world. In a real-world controlled trial of 374 adults, intervention recipients improved knowledge (AOR = 2.15; 95% CI, 1.29–3.58) and beliefs (AOR = 1.68; 95% CI, 1.07–2.64) about common resources in the community to manage health, specifically gaining knowledge about smoking cessation (AOR = 2.76; 95% CI, 1.07–7.12) and PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 47

PRINCIPLE 5: PARTNERSHIP We will interact with managers of business corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these challenges. 48 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

2018/19-2019/20 HIGHLIGHTS SFU Beedie Welcomes Business Leaders to Newly Constituted Advisory Board SFU’s Beedie School of Business welcomed 25 • Ryan Beedie, President, Beedie • James Lee, CEO, Carfield International Limited senior figures from business and academia to (Hong Kong) serve on its newly constituted SFU Beedie School • Jérôme Bon, Senior Associate Dean, Tongji of Business Advisory Board. Advisory Board SEM, Emeritus Professor ESCP-Europe • Greg Malpass, Founder, CEO, Enabler, Traction members help the school realize its strategic (Shanghai, China) on Demand vision with expertise, guidance and direction. The SFU Beedie Business Advisory Board replaces the • Amiee Chan, CEO, Norsat International • Maria Pacella, Senior VP &Portfolio Dean’s External Advisory Board. Manager, Private Equity, PenderFund Capital • Robin Dhir, President, Twin Brook Management Ltd. Members of the SFU Beedie School of Business Developments Ltd. & Strategic Advisor, Fasken Advisory Board offer international experience • Haroon Rashid, Director, Paradigm Gateway Ltd. and global perspectives and represent many • Robert Foord, President and Managing Partner, industries, including financial services, real Kal Tire, Inc. • Lorne Segal, President, Kingswood estate, tech, and academia. Properties Ltd. • Jamie Gray-Donald, VP Sustainability & • Barry Macdonald, Chair, Beedie School of EHS, Enterprise Innovation, QuadReal • Lilian Tan, Managing Director & Senior Advisor, Business Advisory Board; Corporate Director Property Group Bank Julius Baer and Chair of the Board, CPA BC • Mingyu Guan, Partner & Vancouver office • Rod Taverner, Owner, Rolling Mix Concrete • Evaleen Jaager Roy, Vice-Chair, Beedie School Founding Partner, McKinsey & Company of Business Advisory Board; Principal, Jaager • Neslihan Tözge, Founder & Senior Consultant, Roy Advisory • Dana Hayden, President, Hayden Blue Ocean Change Management (London, UK / Consulting Services Istanbul, Turkey) • Elio Luongo, Past Chair, Beedie School of Business Advisory Board; Chief Executive • Catherine Heath, Vice President, Portfolio • Lin Zhou, Dean, Antai College of Economics and Officer and Senior Partner, KPMG LLP Manager, Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai, China) • Anders Aspling, Founding Secretary • Sandra Horvath, Senior Director of Business General, Globally Responsible Leadership Development, Sage Software Initiative (GRLI) • Stacy Kuiack, Director, BTY Group • Kenzie Lau-Kwong, Partner, Leaders Quest (Hong Kong) PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 49

Balancing Act: BBA Alum Catherine Heath Champions Diversity and Equality in the World of Finance Catherine Heath holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) “I felt like we needed that backbone — the designation and is a member and past president program’s strong reputation, resourcing and their Record numbers of women populate business of CFA Society Vancouver (2007). national presence,” says Heath. school programs around the world, excited for future careers in finance. Yet, men still vastly As a student, Heath says her business program Five years later, the chapter provides a platform outnumber women in what is a traditionally offered a balanced representation of genders. This for women to build community and professional male-dominated industry. parity, she says, did not carry across to positions networks. They offer professional development in finance. events, university outreach and programs for SFU Beedie graduate Catherine Heath (BBA 2000) women at all career levels. A recent increase in wants to change this outcome. She encourages “I was shocked that the numbers of women were the number of applicants to the WCM internship women to explore careers in finance and pursue so small, especially in institutional fixed income” program is just one sign their advocacy is making senior leadership positions. she says. “Women only represented about 10 or 15 a difference. percent of the finance world, and I felt I stood out For two decades, Heath built a career with Leith like a sore thumb. I was motivated to change that.” For women already in positions of leadership, Wheeler Investment Counsel. She joined the firm visibility is critical. Young women considering in 2000 after graduating from SFU Beedie with a As she moved up the ranks in her career, Heath finance careers need to see strong women in joint Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Economics. took steps to support change along the way senior leadership positions to envision themselves Today, she is Vice President, Portfolio Manager, through her involvement on corporate and in those roles. Recruitment efforts must be broad volunteer boards and as a mentor. She serves and inclusive, says Heath, because diversity adds as a member of the Portfolio Review Committee depth and breadth to an institution’s decision- for the Beedie Endowment Asset Management making at a board level. (BEAM) program and counsels SFU leadership as a member of the SFU Beedie School of Business “Stronger decision-making is possible with Advisory Board (BAB). greater diversity in a group.” In addition to individual contributions to gender equity, Heath believed that women in the finance industry needed something structured. In 2016 she reached out to Toronto-based Women in Capital Markets (WCM) to see if there was interest in starting a Vancouver chapter. 50 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS