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

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS) 1. No Poverty: End poverty in all its 10. Reduced Inequalities: Reduce inequality forms everywhere within and among countries 2. Z ero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities: security and improved nutrition and promote Make cities and human settlements inclusive, sustainable agriculture safe, resilient and sustainable 3. Good Health and Well-being: Ensure healthy 12. Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure sustainable lives and promote well-being for all at all ages consumption and production patterns 4. Q uality Education: Ensure inclusive and 13. Climate Action: Take urgent action to equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all combat climate change and its impacts 5. G ender Equality: Achieve gender equality  14. Life Below Water: Conserve and and empower all women and girls sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development 6. C lean Water and Sanitation: Ensure 15. Life on Land: Protect, restore and promote availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat 7. Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all 16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: Promote peaceful and 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth: inclusive societies for sustainable Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable development, provide access to justice for all economic growth, full and productive and build effective, accountable and inclusive employment and decent work for all institutions at all levels 9. I ndustry, Innovation and 17. Partnerships for the Goals: Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, Strengthen the means of implementation promote inclusive and sustainable and revitalize the global partnership for industrialization and foster innovation sustainable development 4 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

INTRODUCTION We have challenged ourselves at Simon Fraser Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide University’s Beedie School of Business (SFU frameworks and areas in which to concentrate our Beedie) through our calling to develop innovative efforts to facilitate this renewal. and socially responsible business leaders who demonstrate global perspectives. Our experience It is important during periods of significant has shown that innovation, global perspectives, change to re-examine achievements and reflect and social responsibility are inextricably linked on coming changes to the status quo. Over the with the ideas behind the six Principles of past two years, the SFU Beedie community of Responsible Management Education (PRME). faculty, staff, students, alumni, and industry These principles have helped guide the activities partners, have made progress towards our calling of the business school since we became a and we appreciate the opportunity to hear from signatory in 2009. your organization about our progress. More than ever, the world is calling on On behalf of the Beedie School of Business, I am organizations to act with integrity and purpose. proud to share our progress and successes as we SFU Beedie empowers students to reimagine renew our PRME commitment. their roles in creating and contributing to socially, environmentally, and economically Sincerely, sustainable enterprises. Andrew C. Gemino We submit this report during challenging times. Dean pro tem, SFU Beedie The unprecedented combination of global health, social and financial crises illuminates not only the 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 within the context of equitable and beneficial partnerships. The PRME and the United 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 Assessment by Principle Goals for 2018/19-2019/20 a culture of pride, presence and responsibility, with awareness of international and Indigenous contexts and Principle 2 – Values: issues. Transfer Launch is a 3-day orientation experience created in 2019 that equips undergraduate transfer • Align curriculum and pedagogy with the strategic students with resources and community to support their priorities, values, and themes identified (innovation, social curricular and co-curricular goals. Students engage with responsibility, global perspective). a variety of topics including intercultural communication, Indigeneity and reconciliation, and the value of • Redesign undergraduate and graduate program-level interdisciplinary studies. learning goals and review current assessment practices. Principle 4 – Research: Outcomes • The school has engaged in a re-examination of its • We seek to hire individuals who share our commitment to diversity and who demonstrate an affinity with our vision. Assurance of Learning (AoL) activities. Work has progressed on articulating school-level goals (SLGs) that • Increase the percentage of faculty engaged in social reflect mission priorities, allowing programs to re-evaluate responsibility, innovation, and global business research. existing program-level learning goals (PLGs) and the existing curriculum. Outcomes • In hiring at SFU Beedie, we prioritize candidates who Principle 3 – Method: have an affinity with our vision and who have experience • Develop a core culture among the undergraduates of pride teaching or conducting research in our core areas of in the School, presence through deeper engagement in social responsibility, innovation and global business. In sponsored activities, and responsibility by owning their support of these aims, we have two newly created Area actions and showing commitment to our values. groups, Business & Society, which focuses on issues of social responsibility, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. • Expand co-curricular opportunities to support student Over the last two years, we have successfully recruited leadership initiatives that demonstrate innovation; that 16 faculty members, including an Assistant Professor in create positive impact; and, that bridge connections Business & Society, a Senior Lecturer in Innovation & between students, alumni, and industry. Entrepreneurship, as well as filling the Keith 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: INTENTION: GOALS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS • Continue to develop and manage RADIUS to ensure engagement with students and faculty at Goals by Principle SFU to further its community development and Goals for 2020/21-2021/22 social initiatives, explore the social innovation opportunities in SFU’s designation as an Ashoka U Principle 2 ­– Values: 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, engagement with research centres. Grow resources to and virtual conferences. Alongside the growth of the support and the size of our doctoral program. PhD 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

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PAST TWO YEARS SFU Beedie Alumni Consistently • Dianne Sparrow, EMBA 2015. Honoured in Business in Vancouver Intergovernmental affairs manager, Musqueam Forty Under 40 Awards First Nation. SFU Beedie School of Business alumni • Denise Williams, MBA 2015. CEO, First Nations consistently rank among the leaders selected Technology Council. Member, SFU Board for Business in Vancouver (BIV) magazine’s 2018 of Governors. Forty under 40 Awards. Recipients demonstrate excellence in business, judgment, leadership, 2019 and community contribution. We celebrate the following inspirational leaders from 2018-2019. • Robert Coard, BBA 2004. Partner, PwC Canada. 2018 • Derrick Li, BBA 2006. CEO, Lawson Lundell LLP. • Benjamin Britton, PhD Chemistry 2018 and • Reshma Chaskar Mehta, BBA 2005. i2I Alumnus 2016. Chief Strategy Officer VP Program director, partnerships and business business development, Ionomr Innovations Inc. development, consumer health, Telus Health. • Josh Carr-Hilton, BBA 2009. Founder and CEO, 2020 The District. • Sean Tyson, BBA 2007. CEO, Quietly Media. • Graham Collings, BBA 2002. Executive Vice- President, Investments, and Partner, ACM Advisors Ltd. • Matias Marquez, BBA 2012 and Venture Connections Alumnus. President, CEO, and co- founder, Buyatab Online Inc. • Kylie Dickson, BBA 2002. VP business, Equinox Gold Corp. • Kylie McMullan, MBA 2008. Principal, Finch Media. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 9

SFU Beedie students among Surrey’s 2019 • Summin Dinsa, BBA 2017. Co-founder of the Top 25 Under 25 for 2019- 2020 LUMEN Society. • Khayla Almonte-Davila, BBA 2018. Co-founder SFU Beedie students or alumni appeared on of REACH, recipient of the honorary Health & • Shilpa Lakshmy, BBA 2020. President, Enactus the Surrey Board of Trade’s annual Top 25 Safety in the Workplace Award. SFU, Team lead for Coast Cards. Under 25 Awards lists in 2019 and 2020. The 25 winners are chosen based upon their business • Hajira Khan, BBA student. Founder of Creatorly • Ravneet Randhawa, BBA 2017. Project manager, or community achievements, leadership and EmpowHer, lead organizer of BeautyCon Enactus SFU initiative Count on Me. ability, community involvement, professional SFU in partnership with Shoppers Drug Mart achievements, and uniqueness of their business Canada. • Tanraj Sohal, BBA 2019. Ambassador with or community projects Canadian Eyesight Global. • Branden Sorbo, BBA Honours student. VP external relations and finance with Enactus SFU. • Peyton Winslade, BBA Honours 2020. External manager of Media Minds at Enactus SFU. 2020 • Jasdeep Gill, BBA 2020. VP External relations of Simon Fraser Student Society. • Samad Raza, Business Minor student. Founder and director of Emerge SFU. • Peter Tivy, BBA 2020. Founder and managing partner of Teifi Digital. • Jonathan To, BBA student. Project manager, Enactus SFU initiative Count on Me, Health Change Lab, TEDxSFU. 10 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Building Business and Supporting Community in the Fight Against Food Waste Bruised, bumpy or blemished—every year, a vast transform produce seconds into gourmet spreads Readiness Grant from the Vancouver Foundation, amount of food waste ends up in landfills. Canada and chutneys. an initiative supporting social enterprises alone produces 56.6 million tonnes of carbon preparing for social finance investment. dioxide-equivalent emissions from this waste, The idea for Luv the Grub was first seeded Metro Vancouver residents throw out over 100,000 during Sunderji’s first term teaching Sustainable With the help of food and operations consultants tonnes of food each year. Innovation. Students approached her with and Sunderji’s marketing savvy and previous research about the global environmental impacts experience as an Associate Brand Manager for SFU Beedie lecturer, social entrepreneur and of food waste and Sunderji saw an opportunity to Tim Horton’s, the business is thriving. Luv the sustainability advocate Alia Sunderji (BBA affect meaningful change. Grub chutneys and spreads are found available 2009) knows that rescuing food waste, in turn, in 55 stores across Canada and through online helps save the planet. To pursue this mission, “I learned about initiatives in the UK and Australia retailers. Plans are underway to sell on Amazon. she founded Luv the Grub, a social enterprise that were turning food waste into value-added ca by mid-March 2021, and Luv the Grub was that partners with local farmers and markets to products,” says Sunderji. She was also inspired by recently shortlisted to participate in Amazon’s her mother, a refugee from Uganda, to offer job Launchpad program to launch in the U.S. market. opportunities and paid training for individuals with barriers to employment. Luv the Grub Since launching in 2016, Luv the Grub has kept currently hires newcomer refugee youth to create over 100,000 lbs of food waste out of landfills delicious and marketable products like Pear and proven that imperfect foods can be perfectly Walnut Chutney and Chai Apple Spread. In the delicious. “So many people love our product even past, Luv the Grub also employed young single before they find out about the environmental mothers, low-income seniors, youth with mental impacts,” she says. “And hiring different people illness and youth between foster homes and who come from very different backgrounds and shelters. seeing them build community amongst each other makes me really proud.” The City of Surrey helped incubate Luv the 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 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 on CBC’s TV show Dragon’s Den, which showcases Mikhailov credits the program—particularly to pitching his start-up on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, entrepreneurs and their ventures. financial modelling, and writing and presenting a MBA 2013 alum Denis Mikhailov’s career path is business case—for providing the skills needed to anything but orthodox. The founders’ pitch impressed the judges, and build Nomad Nutrition. three of the six established entrepreneurs made Mikhailov, a graduate of SFU Beedie’s Full-Time investment offers. They eventually accepted a “When you’re starting a business, the first thing MBA program, is the founder and CEO of Nomad $100,000 investment for a 12% stake, valuing the you do is write a business case, and you use that Nutrition Ltd, a venture that creates healthy business at more than $830,000. Mikhailov says to go and find funding,” he says. “That initial dehydrated meals for outdoor enthusiasts. A they experienced a noticeable uptick in sales document, that strategy, is imperative to get climber and adventurer, Mikhailov was inspired and enquiries following the show’s broadcast in people to listen to you.” to start Nomad Nutrition by the poor quality of November 2019. the dehydrated meals he ate on his hiking trips, which left him feeling sluggish and unsatisfied. Mikhailov has the energy and spirit of a natural entrepreneur, but starting a business was not “I realized that there was a gap in the market for always his goal. His undergraduate degree is in healthy, whole-food made dehydrated meals that political science, and he aspired to a career in don’t have any preservatives or chemicals, that diplomatic service. He quickly realized that public are not laden with salts, and are geared towards service was not his passion and pivoted to the the organic and vegan communities,” says private sector. He paid for school by tree planting, Mikhailov. and the company offered him a management position, which he held for two years. Founded in 2017, Nomad Nutrition boasts a loyal following. Nomad Nutrition retails in over 65 Seeking to advance his career, Mikhailov decided retail locations across North America and online to strengthen his skillset with an MBA, landing on through Amazon and the company’s website. The SFU Beedie’s full-time program for its location in business garnered attention when Mikhailov and the heart of Vancouver’s business district. During his business partner Polina Slepukhina appeared the year-long program, he served as President of the Graduate Business Student Association and participated in several case competitions, including captaining the school’s team at the BC MBA Games. 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 were named a Top 100 finalist in the Telus Pitch procedures, Vancouver-based Labora Consulting and cut into a worker’s labour hours. They also contest. In 2020 they accepted the Coast Capital Services Corp. is improving the financial require them to leave their accommodations—a Savings Venture Prize Alumni Founder Award, conditions of seasonal agricultural workers risky endeavour during a global pandemic. made the Ready to Rocket recognition program’s in Canada. Emerging Rocket Agri-Food List and were as a Instead, Labora’s digital payroll eliminates Top 100 Recovery Project by Future of Good. Most Rene Blanco, Jaspal Brar and Ryan Klatt founded multiple transaction fees, and streamlines recently, Labora was a finalist for the Rising Star Labora in 2018 while students in the SFU Beedie remittance record-keeping processes. Farmers Award in the Foresight 2021 BC Cleantech Awards. Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Today, Labora send wages to Labora, and Labora directly is a thriving social enterprise that provides deposits a lump payment into beneficiary bank Once they have traction in Canada, Blanco says farmers with a digital payroll service that enables accounts in Mexico. they plan to crossover into the US. Further down workers to send money home in a single safe and the road, they envision helping even more workers affordable transaction. While convenience is central to Labora’s mission, by expanding into the global marketplace. it is the seasonal workers’ financial future 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 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 Capital Savings Venture Prize Top Idea Prize and 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 commitment for hydrogen production by 2030. 2016), a sustainable hydrogen economy is not a fuel cells, hydrogen production and numerous dream for future generations—it is the real-world energy storage applications. “Nouryon has said that based on our technology, work undertaken by Ionomr Innovations Inc. they could save over a billion USD on that The idea for Ionomr bloomed in 2015-16 when deployment,” says Britton. “Our technology Ionomr is the manifestation of Britton’s Britton was a PhD student with SFU’s Department enables pulling the cost targets of 2040 and commitment to combating global climate change. of Chemistry. For the tools to launch his 2050 to today, and that enables much greener The Vancouver-based start-up develops and business, Britton also enrolled in the invention hydrogen and a far greater cost advantage in the markets ion-exchange membrane and polymer to Innovation (i2I) graduate program at the SFU 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 Products & Venture Connection and later SFU’s Venture Markets award at F-Cell 2020, the world’s leading Labs. In 2016 Ionomr placed first at the annual hydrogen and fuel cell conference. They also Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize, and that received a Joule Innovation Grant and secured same year netted nearly $30,000 in cash and funding from the National Research Council services at the Hong Kong-Canada Investment of Canada (NRC) for a collaborative research pitch competition. In 2018 they received a Startup project. This collaboration will develop Ionomr’s Energy Transition (SET) award at the prestigious technology for use in converting carbon dioxide Berlin Tech Festival. emissions into renewable fuels and chemicals. “Through the i2I program, I learned how to talk “We enable the lowest cost hydrogen possible, 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 investments 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 will help Nouryon meet 10% of the European

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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 Indigenous SFU Beedie Partners with University Launch of New Course 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 Environmental, social and governance (ESG) Advisory Service (SIAS) Fund and the Beedie Cassidy Emby, BEAM ESG specialist, also sees ESG principles are an invaluable tool to assist Endowment Asset Management (BEAM) Fund. as a tool for improving shareholder engagement. socially-conscious investors in assessing potential investments. Students from the SFU Beedie Master of Science “ESG is an additional screening tool we use before in Finance (MSc Finance) help manage the SIAS making a final decision on whether to either In 2014, as a United Nations Principles for Fund, which boasts a current market value of divest or invest in a company,” explains Emby. Responsible Investment (UN PRI) signatory, almost $20 million CAD. Undergraduates involved “This summer, certain stakeholders came to us Simon Fraser University (SFU) committed with BEAM manage $6.6 million CAD in Canadian with concerns about some of the companies to applying ESG criteria to its endowment equities, fixed income and cash. In 2019-2020 we were holding, particularly in the oil and gas investments, including its two student-managed students in both funds took significant steps to industry. In response, we contacted TC Energy investment funds—the Student Investment align their investments according to ESG criteria. and spoke to several people about concerns 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 SIAS ESG Manager for the 2019-2020 cohort. do more of this kind of outreach in the future.” She describes ESG as a research-tested, guiding framework that is an integral part of their Moving into 2021, SIAS and BEAM students portfolio management. It helped SIAS achieve its continue to examine changing ESG trends and the investment goals, including the reallocation of impact of their holdings on SFU’s commitments. investments to renewable power. “There has been a lot of discussion about “A SIAS initiative to divest from 50% of all current ESG becoming mainstream in finance, about oil and gas holdings will reduce the carbon sustainable financing bringing about responsible emissions of the Canadian equity portfolio by investors in the world,” says Sewruttun. “The about 46%. The proposed new portfolio will have a world needs it, and I do think that finance is a lower carbon emission by about 40% in relation to very valid solution to the problems we are facing the benchmark.” right now.” Like SIAS, the BEAM team uses ESG as a tool in portfolio management. The 2020 cohort added ESG Analyst roles to add value to equity and fixed income research and part of their ESG work in 2020 was a research report on stranded assets. 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- “Something like one in six people worldwide Students conceptualized and developed prototypes Emily Carr Sustainable Design Entrepreneurship works in fashion and textiles,” says Ostler. “The for ventures that could connect to and form part of Program (SDE) focused their critical thinking industry is the second-largest user of freshwater a local, sustainable textile ecosystem during their skills on creating a more sustainable local in the world, it’s one of the largest-polluting second term. Finally, in the third term, students textiles industry. 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 The SDE program is a collaboration between wearing clothing. There is such a broad scope of industry members. SFU’s Beedie School of Business and SFU’s School different problems, and there are so many things of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). The you can solve. If you want to change the world, While most students are from SFU Beedie and program partnered with Emily Carr University of there are countless ways you can do it.” SIAT, the courses are open to interested SFU Art and Design to offer four courses between fall students from all faculties. While SDE is not a 2019 and summer 2020. In the first course, students devised a solution certificate program, the courses are also part of to “kickstart” the textile revolution in Vancouver. the requirements for the Charles Chang Certificate SDE students worked with two local textiles They connected with local designers to in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, open to all and clothing experts: Emily Smith, co-founder understand the market. They explored industry students at SFU. of Vancouver Maker Faire and founder of issues, examined producers’ and consumers’ Fibreshed, and Stephanie Ostler, founder and needs, and defined how to balance these with CEO of Devil May Wear. With guidance from these the economy and sustainability. Students then experts, students examined how to reshape the conceived and implemented a single intervention local textile community, bring together local to reshape the industry. textile entrepreneurs and create an ecosystem of local opportunities and environmentally “We’re going to be using a structure based on responsible products. the wicked problem, design thinking, design, research and bringing in making,” says Smith. “We’re focusing on the problems of textile sustainability, and textile waste, and also some cultural connections. A big part of that is about encouraging students to engage with the issue, engage with what is actually happening, and to meet with real people who are creating solutions.” 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 In the Product Ready Ventures category, Andrew Sasan Ebrahimi, the founder of MFC Corporation, arthritis and a wearable massage device were Park’s won for his venture Coral Health, which pitched his energy conversion device that converts among the ventures pitched to a panel of industry offers AI-powered solutions to accelerate care chemical energy directly into electricity, with judges at SFU Beedie’s annual Venture Pitch delivery, automate multiparty administrative noticeably higher efficiency than current fuel Competition on October 10, 2018. processes and improve health outcomes. Park cells. Sasan has a PhD in Mechatronics System worked in the biotechnology and software Engineering from SFU. The event brought together scientist- industries for several years and has a solid entrepreneurship students in the third cohort understanding of the interplay between scientific Avid Khamenehfar is the Chief Technology Officer of the invention to Innovation (i2I) program discovery and business processes. at Extem Bioscience Corp., which produces at SFU Beedie’s Segal Graduate School. This a medical device to advance personalized graduate certificate program equips scientists SFU Beedie Professor of Innovation and regenerative medicine. Avid received her PhD in and engineers with the business skills required to Entrepreneurship Dr. Elicia Maine, created the i2I Bioanalytical Chemistry from SFU. From her PhD make their inventions a commercial success. program to tap into the latent innovation potential research, she filed a patent based on her research of Canadian universities. The goal of i2I is to bring in microfluidic technology. “Now I am not only able to produce science, but I more breakthrough innovations out of the lab and have the entrepreneurship mindset to transform into the marketplace. Shahram Pourazadi’s venture, Relaxopeutic, my scientific findings into a product that could produces an unobtrusive, battery-operated, reach the market,” says Elena Groppa, i2I graduate In 2018, i2I piloted a ‘Science Commercialization massaging garment to improve blood circulation and winner in the Emergent Ventures category. Scholar’ initiative with MITACS, modelled after in the lower leg. Shahram has a MASc degree in the I-Corps funding through the US National Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering from Groppa founded Promotus to develop a first-in- Science Foundation. “This funding has enabled UBC and obtained his PhD from the School of class therapeutic to treat Duchenne Muscular five high potential scientists-entrepreneurs to Mechatronics Systems and Engineering Science Dystrophy. She has a PhD in Vascular Biology develop and adapt their innovative ideas through at SFU. and Cell and Gene Therapy from the University of the i2I program,” says Maine. Basel, Switzerland, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Center for Genetic Although they did not win, three other Venture Engineering and Biotechnology. Pitch competitors still impressed the judges with their entries. 26 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

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

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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 The coronavirus pandemic is not only a health sustainability initiative founded and led by SFU Research published in the Journal of Applied crisis but it has also impacted the global economy, Beedie Associate Professor Stephanie Bertels, Psychology revealed that moms offer more resulting in mass layoffs, panic-buying, and received three international awards. emotional support than dads under the dual increased online shopping. pressures of work and family responsibilities. The Embedding Project brings together academic researchers from six institutions (SFU’s Beedie SFU Beedie professor Lieke ten Brummelhuis led Companies that are able to adjust to these School of Business, Cambridge University’s Judge two studies surveying dual-income families. The changes will keep their employees working School, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, first study analyzed how work-life might impact and contribute to the fight against COVID-19, Rotterdam School of Business, HEC Montreal the level of emotional support the participants says Simon Fraser University professor Rajiv and University of Cape Town’s Graduate School provided to their spouses when they arrived Kozhikode. 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 Kozhikode, an associate professor at SFU’s Beedie it partners with sustainability leaders to help participants provided to their colleagues at work. School of Business, says businesses that step companies embed sustainability across their up their social commitment now will benefit in operations and decision-making. Findings from both studies suggest that moms, the future, as social responsibility is a form of regardless of work and home demands, do not corporate political activity. 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 “Business can expect a bailout in the future if inaugural International Impactful Collaboration the emotional support they receive in one role by their good behavior now gets them in the red in Award. The Clean50 Project also named The giving more emotional support in another. Their the future,” he says. “But if they neglect society Embedding Project on its annual list of 20 Top findings also suggest that when men are having now, they still might end up in the red, but Projects in September 2018. Finally, in April 2019, a tough day at work or are having problems at without any respite from the government.” the AACSB honored The Embedding Project with home, it negatively impacts their capacity to a spot on its list of Innovations that Inspire as a provide emotional support. Many businesses are repurposing their champion of change in business education. production facilities to produce much-needed healthcare supplies in response to the federal government’s request. Breweries are making alcohol-based hand sanitizer, clothing companies are sewing face masks and auto parts manufacturers are producing ventilators. The federal government PRMEreScHeAnRItNlyG IsNiFgOnReMdATaIOdNeOaNl wPRiOthGRAESmS a20z1o8n/19C-a20n1a9d/2a02t0o 31 manage the distribution of medical equipment. Hotels and convention centres are being

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SFU Beedie Assistant Professor Honoured for Work in Indigenous Business The Confederation of University Faculty Salish, her work advances the study of Indigenous In 2020, Kelly and SFU Beedie PhD candidate Associations of British Columbia (CUFA BC) business by developing the field’s theoretical Jordyn Hrenyk published “A Call to Decolonize presented SFU Beedie Assistant Professor Dr. framework, which historically receives limited Business Schools,” which calls on business Dara Kelly with the Early in Career Award for 2020 attention from academia. schools to tackle institutionalized racism for her work focusing on Indigenous business and both Indigenize existing structures and theory. This award recognizes contributions “Other than entrepreneurship, we have almost decolonize them (https://www.socialsciencespace. made to the non-academic community by faculty no theoretical foundation within business and com/2020/10/a-call-to-decolonize-business- members early in their careers. It highlights economics that is Indigenous-focused,” says Kelly. schools/). the role academic research plays in addressing “The oldest scholarship I’m talking about dates some of the province’s most pressing social, back to the 1990s, so that’s just three decades environmental and economic challenges. worth of very scarce scholarship.” The CUFA’s recognition represents a powerful An avid speaker, Kelly regularly presents at validation of her work, says Kelly. She is conferences and in public spaces to challenge committed to using Indigenous research conventional economic practices and inform methodologies – largely qualitative research based positive change by drawing on Indigenous on interviews with Indigenous Elders. “I care economics knowledge. She addresses gaps in very deeply about the impact of my research, and the literature on the Coast Salish and other it’s really important for me to connect with my Indigenous Nations’ economic concepts and community, which I see as being people who can practices. Her efforts to educate the public actually use that knowledge right away.” frequently place her in front of government, industry, policymakers and the wider community. Kelly joined the SFU Beedie in 2018 and teaches She is co-chair of the Indigenous Caucus at the in the Executive MBA (EMBA) in Indigenous Academy of Management and is a board member Business and Leadership Program, and on of the Association for Economic Research of Indigenous business environments within full- Indigenous Peoples, an organization focused time and part-time MBA programs. Hailing from on economic research related to Indigenous the Leq’á:mel First Nation, part of the Stó:lō Coast peoples worldwide. Kelly is also an advisor to the Indigenomics Institute, where she advises on emergent trends and advances in Indigenous business and economics research. 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 leading a movement to revitalize this once block is the first important step in our alignment Ashes: A Requiem for Hogan’s Alley. Drawing on vibrant neighborhood. She currently serves as with the Northeast False Creek Plan, which aims the history of the community for inspiration, the co-chair of the Hogan’s Alley Society, a non-profit to help redress the past displacement of Black artwork depicts prominent Black figures from organization composed of “civil rights activists, citizens in this neighbourhood,” says Francis. Hogan’s Alley. business professionals, community organizations, artists, writers and academics committed to Other projects spearheaded by the society include daylighting the presence of Black history in a cultural centre at 898 Main Street and the 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 “Ten years ago, climate risk was considered a “If you are paid for growth, you will grow, even fossil fuels. It’s money trapped in a carbon bubble very long-run risk. It’s difficult to look at financial though this is penalized by the market. You get many researchers believe will burst, transforming prices and analyze something that might happen your bonus, and the person who is hurt is the fossil fuel reserves and their means of production in 50 years because people’s beliefs determine shareholder,” says Atanasova. into stranded assets. these prices,” explains Atanasova. “If people don’t buy the narrative that there will be stranded The solution is a combination of government As we move towards greener global economies, assets, the price isn’t going to go down.” regulation and innovation. Already, many two SFU Beedie faculty members examined why traditional oil producers like BP and Shell are some companies continue to grow, despite the risk Developments like the 2015 Paris Agreement exploring green energy alternatives. And while oil of undeveloped reserves remaining in the ground. confirmed the severity of the climate crisis and demand may bounce back from 2020 conditions shifted the narrative. Countries committed to and the COVD-19 pandemic, what that recovery In 2019, Christina Atanasova and Eduardo emissions targets—targets requiring fuel reserves looks like is still unknown. Schwartz published “Stranded Fossil Fuel remain undeveloped. According to Atanasova, it’s Reserves and Firm Value” with the National a looming problem oil producers must address. “For centuries, we accumulated capital reliant Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (November on fossil fuel energy. So there has to be a 2019). Their research posits that the growth of “If we are to adhere to these tight carbon budgets, substantial shift in terms of having energy that reserves negatively affects an oil company’s value. they should stop capital expenditures and stop doesn’t produce carbon emissions,” explains Those with the highest extraction costs, the most investment in either acquisition and development Atanasova. “That’s going to take time and a lot of significant number of reserves and those working of reserves. The question is, why are these technological innovation.” in countries with restrictive climate policies fare companies growing? Why are they developing the worst. more reserves? Why are people opening new wells and drilling, and what kind of companies grow the fastest?” Part of the problem rests with incentives. Atanasova and Schwartz collected data on CEO compensation and found that 90% of pay packages for oil and gas company CEOs remain linked to growth metrics. 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. https://doi. transparency: Evidence from Mongolia. The Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 38(4), 451– 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 36 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS that contract transparency can meaningfully contribute towards improved governance.

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

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 M., Apospori, E., Bagdadli, S., Chudzikowski, K., perceived external employability was significant and agricultural biotechnology. Trends in Food Dickmann, M., Ferencikova, S., Gianecchini, M., across all countries. In addition, at the individual Science & Technology, 79, 204–213. https://doi. Hall, D. T., Kaše, R., Lazarova, M., & Reichel, A. level, we found that HRDPs acted as a buffer for 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. https://doi.org/10. was not observed. Limitations, future research and resource limitation. However, to realize 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., & Lazarova, M. Alonso, J. (2020). Collaborating for transformation: Outsourcing Responsibility for Indulgent Food B. (2019). Acculturation, coping, and integration Applying the Co-Laboratorio approach to bridge Consumption to Prevent Negative Affect. Journal success of international skilled migrants: An research, pedagogy and practice. Canadian Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 4(2), integrative review and multilevel framework. of Development Studies / Revue Canadienne 136–146. https://doi.org/10.1086/701821 Human Resource Management Journal, 29(3), 328– d’études Du Développement, 1–24. https://doi.org/ 352. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12233 10.1080/02255189.2020.1797650 To many consumers, indulging in unhealthy treats is a “vice” and can cause unpleasant feelings, such In this article, we review the limited but growing Intractable issues such as poverty, environmental as guilt. Nonetheless, consumers do not want body of research on international skilled degradation and economic and social exclusions, to give up indulgences altogether and find ways migrants and examine to what extent knowledge as exemplified in the SDGs, are inherently to allow themselves guilt-free gratification. We generated in adjacent research streams— systemic problems that require multi-actor propose a novel, calculated tactic that consumers specifically, work on assigned and self-initiated collaborations. This paper presents the learnings use to avoid unpleasant feelings often associated expatriates—can be meaningfully applied to aid from Co-Laboratorio Perú – a five-year university- with unhealthy eating. Four studies demonstrate our understanding of the challenges, coping driven international development initiative that that consumers proactively and strategically strategies, and acculturation dynamics of skilled fostered collaborative approaches, spaces and confer responsibility for indulgences to other migrants. We develop a framework that explains interventions to drive development, linking people to prevent looming negative feelings about how variables and processes at multiple levels universities’ advantages as neutral conveners and consuming the same item. In laboratory and (individual, organisational, and societal) influence ethically guided knowledge and innovation hubs field experiments, for unhealthy (compared to migrant acculturation and coping and result in to practical interventions through collaborations healthy) foods, consumers exhibit a preference integration-related outcomes in the domains with civil society organisations, communities, for being served a chosen food instead of serving of personal/family life and workplace/career. the private sector and policymakers. This paper themselves. Moderation and mediation show We discuss directions for future research and critically examines the conventional development that this preference is driven by anticipated implications for practice. delivery model and collaborative rationale negative self-conscious affect, which gives rise to 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 the emotional landscape of their work. We are Jordaan, S. M., Davidson, A., Nazari, J. A., regulation in veterinary work: Do you know your pleased to share the results of this research, & Herremans, I. M. (2019). The dynamics of comfort zone? The Canadian Veterinary Journal, which will shortly be published in one of the top advancing climate policy in federal political 61(2), 178–180. journals in our field, Academy of Management systems. Environmental Policy and Governance, Discoveries (4). 29(3), 220–234. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1849 As readers are undoubtedly well-aware, one of the significant challenges of working in the veterinary We learned that veterinary workers’ ability to To avoid irreversible climate damages, countries field is managing the intense emotions that can engage in emotional regulation is critical to doing with different political systems must commit to be elicited by various aspects of the job (1,2): the their jobs well, and may be necessary for them reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the emotional highs of accurately diagnosing a rare to enjoy long and rewarding careers. Emotional world. The challenge posed to federal countries illness or successfully performing a complex regulation involves shaping one’s emotional participating in international climate agreements surgery, contrasted with the emotional lows experience by increasing experienced emotions through the United Nations Framework of being unable to adequately treat an animal (think of an athlete getting “psyched up” before Convention on Climate Change is that successful due to owners’ financial constraints or having a big game), decreasing emotions (taking deep implementation requires buy-in from their to euthanize a beloved animal companion. The breaths to stay calm in an anxiety-provoking subnational governments. However, subnational ability to manage emotional ups and downs may situation), or maintaining them (striving to stay climate action may not be aligned with the be just as crucial to veterinarians’ career longevity “in the moment” during an enjoyable event) (5). political priorities of the national government and and well-being as the ability to effectively execute More specifically, through our conversations with could either undermine or support commitments the technical dimensions of their work (3). veterinary workers, we developed the concept of made through the agreement. To explore these an emotional comfort zone, which is comprised dynamics, we review the incoherence between As management professors, we are interested of a worker’s personal preferences for feeling and international commitments, national and in understanding how workers navigate the expressing emotion. Participants who were able subnational policies of Canada and the United challenges posed by their unique work contexts. to stay in their comfort zones while performing States, relying on case studies of investments We had read about the extreme emotional euthanasias appeared to benefit in a number of in low-carbon energy and emissions outcomes. demands of veterinary work, discussed them ways, including being able to execute required Political and policy incoherence has flowed with acquaintances employed in the field, technical tasks effectively, avoid burnout, and in both directions. Both countries have seen and experienced some of these challenges enjoy a sense of authenticity from experiencing periods of federal government action, which have ourselves as pet owners. We set out to conduct genuine emotion. We also identified common in-depth research with veterinarians, veterinary circumstances that tended to move workers technicians, and veterinary assistants, with a outside of their comfort zones, as well as focus on the emotional dynamics of performing organizational practices that helped workers to euthanasia. We suspected that the experiences transition into and remain within their comfort of our participants would yield insights that zones, thereby making it easier for them to deal could inform our understanding of intensely with the intense emotions of their jobs. emotional work in general, and about strategies that might help veterinarians effectively manage 40 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

been undermined by subnational inaction or Lashitew, A. A., & Werker, E. (2020). Do natural Liu, C. K. (2019). A holistic approach to flipped opposition. Similarly, both countries have seen resources help or hinder development? classroom: A conceptual framework using periods of federal government inaction, which Resource abundance, dependence, and the e-platform. International Journal of Engineering has placed the onus on subnational governments. role of institutions. Resource and Energy Business Management, 11, 184797901985520. Our analysis enables a greater understanding of Economics, 61, 101183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. https://doi.org/10.1177/1847979019855205 how the dynamics of federalist political systems reseneeco.2020.101183 influence policy, thus the energy investment and The extensive adoption of Internet technology emissions outcomes of national commitments The resource curse literature presents conflicting led to a second wave of change in many different to international agreements. The implications of evidence on the relationship between natural industries: education being one of them. As we our findings for other federalist political systems resources and development. We evaluate the witnessed the explosion of free online e-learning are discussed. We suggest that during national direct effect of resources on developmental platforms and videos, physical educational leadership voids, subnational governments outcomes vis-à-vis their indirect effect through institutions also felt the pressure to enhance can counteract the associated negative policy the weakening of political institutions using their classroom learning experience in order to outcomes by implementing climate policies a 3SLS instrumental variable setup that stay competitive. Coupled with the popularity of that support low-carbon technologies and simultaneously estimates development outcomes mobile devices, physical educational institutions reducing emissions. This type of system and institutions. We find that resource abundance could also utilize a combination of technologies supports the development of a coordinated and resource dependence affect development to enhance teaching and learning, increasing strategy among subnational governments in outcomes through different channels. While their competitive edge. Flipped classroom is the achieving international goals through cooperative resource abundance generally has a direct positive teaching pedagogy which is gaining growing federalism via subnational policy compacts. effect on developmental outcomes, resource popularity among educational institutions. dependence has a stronger negative indirect effect Fundamentally, it is a way of teaching such that that operates through its negative impact on individual learning could be conducted online institutional quality. The results also depend on outside of class, while group interactive learning the type of development outcome considered, with would be conducted during class time. Since more consistent positive direct effects found for this is a relatively new concept using mobile and physical capital measures and stronger negative Internet technology, literature is limited and there indirect effects for human capital development. is yet a systematic approach to conduct flipped The use of a simultaneous framework and dual classroom-related research. Nevertheless, it is measures of resources reconciles seemingly gaining much attention in the West. However, contradictory findings in earlier work. teaching style in Asia is different and its feasibility and performance outcome warrant much of our attention. Relatively little research has been conducted on its feasibility in Asian culture, acceptance, as well as the relationship between the pedagogy and learning outcome. Through PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 41

building the proposed flipped classroom platform Mahmoudian, F., Lu, J., Yu, D., Nazari, J. A., Miele, A., Axsen, J., Wolinetz, M., Maine, E., & in this study, it could facilitate research on flipped & Herremans, I. M. (2020). Inter-and intra- Long, Z. (2020). The role of charging and refuelling classroom in different types of knowledge transfer. organizational stakeholder arrangements in infrastructure in supporting zero-emission vehicle Thus, its feasibility and impact on performance carbon management accounting. The British sales. Transportation Research Part D: Transport outcome could be thoroughly studied across Accounting Review, 100933. https://doi. and Environment, 81, 102275. https://doi. different fields and levels of education in a host org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100933 org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102275 of countries. This research investigates the role of inter- Widespread uptake of battery electric, plug- Lu, J., Yu, D., Mahmoudian, F., Nazari, J. A., & organizational arrangements and intra- in hybrid, and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles Herremans, I. M. (2020). Board interlocks and organizational activities as sub-parts of (collectively zero-emissions vehicles or ZEVs) greenhouse gas emissions. Business Strategy carbon management accounting to reduce could help many regions achieve deep greenhouse and the Environment, bse.2611. https://doi. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We apply the gas mitigation goals. Using the case of Canada, org/10.1002/bse.2611 concept of stakeholder engagement, normally this study investigates the extent to which utilized in sustainability reporting, to carbon increasing ZEV charging and refuelling availability Using resource dependence theory, we analyze management accounting and performance. may boost ZEV sales relative to other ZEV- board interlocks, their industry origin, and their We also examine if carbon management supportive policies. We adapt a version of the relationship to firms’ greenhouse gas (GHG) projects that encompass many functional Respondent-based Preferences and Constraints emissions. Interlocks create connections by areas aid in GHG emissions performance. (REPAC) model using 2017 survey data from 1884 having board members from one firm sit on other Using a sample of firms headquartered in the Canadian new vehicle-buyers to simulate the sales firms’ boards, providing an avenue for sharing United States with data available from the impacts of increasing electric vehicle charging information and resources to aid in knowledge CDP, we apply the three-stage least squares access at home, work, public destinations, and transfer and capability development. As firms (3SLS) method to test for the endogeneity of on highways, as well as increasing hydrogen face challenges for improved GHG emissions GHG emissions reporting and performance. refuelling station access. REPAC is built from a performance, they may look to their board We find that both inter-organizational and stated preference choice model and represents members’ connections to other firms to acquire intra-organizational arrangements improve constraints in supply and consumer awareness, needed resources. Using a sample of US Standard GHG emissions performance through carbon as well as dynamics in ZEV policy out to 2030. & Poor’s (S&P) 1500 firms for years 2009 to 2018, management processes and procedures. Our Results suggest that new ZEV market share from we find that firms with a greater number of board research contributes to the literature by providing 2020 to 2030 does not substantially benefit from interlocks achieve lower GHG emissions intensity. insight into how companies work externally increased infrastructure. Even when electric We also find that boards for the best-performing with their stakeholders and internally with charging and hydrogen refuelling access are companies have interlocks in the same industry, multiple functional areas to implement carbon simulated to reach “universally” available levels in other industries, and with firms leading in GHG management projects that reduce GHG emissions. by 2030, ZEV sales do not rise by more than 1.5 emissions intensity, especially for firms in higher percentage points above the baseline trajectory. environmentally impacting industries, as they On the other hand, REPAC simulates ZEV market face greater emissions challenges. share rising as high as 30% by 2030 with strong ZEV-supportive policies, even without the addition 42 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS of charging or refuelling infrastructure. These

findings stem from low consumer valuation of Oetzel, J., & Oh, C. H. (2019). Melting pot or tribe? Olson, J. G., McFerran, B., Morales, A. C., & Dahl, infrastructure found in the stated preference Country-level ethnic diversity and its effect on D. W. (2020). How income shapes moral judgments model. Results suggest that achieving ambitious subsidiaries. Journal of International Business of prosocial behavior. International Journal of ZEV sale targets requires a comprehensive suite of Policy, 2(1), 37–61. https://doi.org/10.1057/ Research in Marketing, S0167811620300586. policies beyond a focus on charging and refueling s42214-018-00016-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2020.07.001 infrastructure. The purpose of our study is to explore the effect of The current research extends past work on how Moore, M. A., Boardman, A. E., & Vining, A. R. country-level ethnic diversity on subsidiary-level consumers (as “observers”) view ethical choices (2020). Social Discount Rates for Seventeen Latin ownership strategy and employee productivity. made by others (“actors”). Using a person- American Countries: Theory and Parameter We examine two characteristics of ethnic diversity centered approach to moral judgments, we Estimation. Public Finance Review, 48(1), 43–71. in society, the level of diversity and degree of show that consumers are judged differentially, https://doi.org/10.1177/1091142119890369 inclusion. Using a multi-source and multi-year based on their income, for engaging in certain (2004–2010) sample of 30,007 subsidiaries from 79 prosocial behaviors. Nine studies demonstrate This article presents new estimates of social home-countries operating in 63 host-countries, that engaging in the same prosocial behavior, discount rates (SDRs) for seventeen Latin we find that high levels of diversity are not a de such as volunteering, leads to different responses American countries for use in public project facto form of country risk as some have argued. depending on whether the actor earns income evaluation. We derive the SDRs based on the social Rather, it is the ability of a dominant ethnic versus receives government assistance. rate of time preference method and provide the group to exclude others from full economic and Consistent with our theorizing, we find that required parameter values. These rates range from political participation. As societies become more aid recipients are given less latitude in how 2.14 percent for Paraguay to 5.83 percent for Chile. fragmented, and one or few groups become more they spend their time than those earning an The unweighted average recommended rate is dominant and prevents other groups from fully income and are scrutinized to a greater degree 3.77 percent, which is close to the rates mandated participating in the political process or economic for their choices because people believe their by most European countries. We also review opportunities, this may increase business risk time would be better spent seeking employment. current governments’ SDR practices worldwide, and lower labor productivity. The broader policy Consequently, the lower moral judgments of aid including Latin America, and find that the implications are that policymakers should have recipients who choose to volunteer (vs. income proposed country-specific SDRs are significantly engagement policies toward disfranchised ethnic earners) are driven, at least in part, by the anger lower and less dispersed across countries than groups. Policymakers should develop policies observers feel about the perceived misuse of the rates most Latin American countries currently aimed at leveraging the benefits of diversity. time. Additional information or cues about recommend. Using four archetypal project profiles, MNCs have an interest in promoting such policies employment efforts or work inability attenuate we show the potential impact on the net present and fostering greater economic and political these judgments. Importantly, we document values of varying important parameters, including inclusion in countries where they operate. implications for support for federal spending on growth rates. welfare programs. PRME SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS 2018/19-2019/2020 43

Roberts, A. L., Gladish, N., Gatev, E., Jones, M. J., abuse exposure. Childhood abuse was associated Robertson, K. M., Lautsch, B. A., & Hannah, D. R. Chen, Y., MacIsaac, J. L., Tworoger, S. S., Austin, S. with a component that captured 6.2% of total (2019). Role negotiation and systems-level work- B., Tanrikut, C., Chavarro, J. E., Baccarelli, A. A., & variance in DNA methylation (p < 0.05). Next, we life balance. Personnel Review, 48(2), 570–594. Kobor, M. S. (2018). Exposure to childhood abuse is investigated the regions differentially methylated https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-11-2016-0308 associated with human sperm DNA methylation. by abuse exposure. We identified 12 DNA Translational Psychiatry, 8(1), 194. https://doi. regions differentially methylated by childhood Purpose org/10.1038/s41398-018-0252-1 abuse, containing 64 probes and including sites on genes associated with neuronal function The purpose of this paper is to examine the Offspring of persons exposed to childhood abuse (MAPT, CLU), fat cell regulation (PRDM16), processes underlying a systems perspective on are at higher risk of neurodevelopmental and and immune function (SDK1). We examined work-life balance (WLB), with a particular focus physical health disparities across the life course. adulthood health behaviors, mental health, and on the tensions and role negotiations that arise Animal experiments have indicated that paternal trauma exposure as potential mediators of an within and across work and non-work roles. environmental stressors can affect sperm association between abuse and DNAm, and found DNA methylation and gene expression in an that mental health and trauma exposure partly Design/methodology/approach offspring. Childhood abuse has been associated mediated the association. Finally, we constructed with epigenetic marks in human blood, saliva, a parsimonious epigenetic marker for childhood The authors employed a qualitative methodology, and brain tissue, with statistically significant abuse using a machine learning approach, conducting 42 interviews with lawyers at large methylation differences ranging widely. However, which identified three probes that predicted high law firms, which is a context notorious for long no studies have examined the association vs. no childhood abuse in 71% of participants. work hours. of childhood abuse with DNA methylation Our results suggested that childhood abuse is in gametes. We examined the association of associated with sperm DNA methylation, which Findings childhood abuse with DNA methylation in may have implications for offspring development. human sperm. Combined physical, emotional, Larger samples are needed to identify with greater While a cornerstone of a systems view is that and sexual abuse in childhood was characterized confidence specific genomic regions differentially balance is social in nature, and that negotiations as none, medium, or high. DNA methylation methylated by childhood abuse. occur among stakeholders over role expectations, was assayed in 46 sperm samples from 34 men the process through which this happens has in a longitudinal non-clinical cohort using remained unexamined both theoretically and HumanMethylation450 BeadChips. We performed empirically. The authors learned that negotiating principal component analysis and examined around work and non-work role expectations are the correlation of principal components with 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

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

ten Brummelhuis, L. L., & Greenhaus, J. H. (2018). male employees, home demands were negatively Tung, E. L., Abramsohn, E. M., Boyd, K., How role jugglers maintain relationships at home related to team relationship quality through Makelarski, J. A., Beiser, D. G., Chou, C., Huang, and at work: A gender comparison. Journal of reduced emotional support they provided to their E. S., Ozik, J., Kaligotla, C., & Lindau, S. T. (2020). Applied Psychology, 103(12), 1265–1282. https:// coworker. For female employees, home resources Impact of a Low-Intensity Resource Referral doi.org/10.1037/apl0000340 were positively related to team relationship Intervention on Patients’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and quality through enhanced emotional support Use of Community Resources: Results from the We examined how demands and resources in they provided to their coworker. The findings CommunityRx Trial. Journal of General Internal a role relate to the quality of relationships in suggest that relative to men, women prevent role Medicine, 35(3), 815–823. https://doi.org/10.1007/ another role. In Study 1, 26 cohabiting dual- demands from reducing the support they provide s11606-019-05530-5 earner couples reported on five consecutive days in another role and use role resources to enhance about their work demands and work resources, the support they provide in another role, thereby Background emotional support they provided to the spouse, strengthening relationship quality in that role. and relationship quality among family members. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all Connecting patients to community-based Dyadic data analysis revealed that husbands’ 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- To evaluate the impact of CommunityRx, an four coworker dyads reported on five days about automated, low-intensity resource referral their home demands and resources, emotional intervention, on patients’ knowledge, beliefs, and support provided to their coworker, and use of community resources. relationship quality among team members. For 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. https:// Intervention 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 • Ryan Beedie, President, Beedie • Greg Malpass, Founder, CEO, Enabler, Traction to Newly Constituted Advisory Board on Demand • Jérôme Bon, Senior Associate Dean, Tongji SFU’s Beedie School of Business welcomed 25 SEM, Emeritus Professor ESCP-Europe • Maria Pacella, Senior VP &Portfolio senior figures from business and academia to (Shanghai, China) Manager, Private Equity, PenderFund Capital serve on its newly constituted SFU Beedie School Management Ltd. of Business Advisory Board. Advisory Board • Amiee Chan, CEO, Norsat International members help the school realize its strategic • Haroon Rashid, Director, Paradigm Gateway Ltd. vision with expertise, guidance and direction. The • Robin Dhir, President, Twin Brook SFU Beedie Business Advisory Board replaces the Developments Ltd. & Strategic Advisor, Fasken • Lorne Segal, President, Kingswood Dean’s External Advisory Board. Properties Ltd. • Robert Foord, President and Managing Partner, Members of the SFU Beedie School of Business Kal Tire, Inc. • Lilian Tan, Managing Director & Senior Advisor, Advisory Board offer international experience Bank Julius Baer and global perspectives and represent many • Jamie Gray-Donald, VP Sustainability & industries, including financial services, real EHS, Enterprise Innovation, QuadReal • Rod Taverner, Owner, Rolling Mix Concrete estate, tech, and academia. Property Group • Neslihan Tözge, Founder & Senior Consultant, • Barry Macdonald, Chair, Beedie School of • Mingyu Guan, Partner & Vancouver office Blue Ocean Change Management (London, UK / Business Advisory Board; Corporate Director Founding Partner, McKinsey & Company Istanbul, Turkey) and Chair of the Board, CPA BC • Dana Hayden, President, Hayden • Lin Zhou, Dean, Antai College of Economics and • Evaleen Jaager Roy, Vice-Chair, Beedie School Consulting Services Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University of Business Advisory Board; Principal, Jaager (Shanghai, China) Roy Advisory • Catherine Heath, Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel • Elio Luongo, Past Chair, Beedie School of Business Advisory Board; Chief Executive • Sandra Horvath, Senior Director of Business Officer and Senior Partner, KPMG LLP Development, Sage Software • Anders Aspling, Founding Secretary • Stacy Kuiack, Director, BTY Group General, Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) • Kenzie Lau-Kwong, Partner, Leaders Quest (Hong Kong) • James Lee, CEO, Carfield International Limited (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 joint Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Economics. Capital Markets (WCM) to see if there was interest Today, she is Vice President, Portfolio Manager, in starting a Vancouver chapter. Record numbers of women populate business holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) school programs around the world, excited for designation and is a member and past president “I felt like we needed that backbone — the future careers in finance. Yet, men still vastly of CFA Society Vancouver (2007). program’s strong reputation, resourcing and their outnumber women in what is a traditionally national presence,” says Heath. male-dominated industry. As a student, Heath says her business program offered a balanced representation of genders. This Five years later, the chapter provides a platform SFU Beedie graduate Catherine Heath (BBA 2000) parity, she says, did not carry across to positions for women to build community and professional wants to change this outcome. She encourages in finance. networks. They offer professional development women to explore careers in finance and pursue events, university outreach and programs for senior leadership positions. “I was shocked that the numbers of women were women at all career levels. A recent increase in so small, especially in institutional fixed income” the number of applicants to the WCM internship For two decades, Heath built a career with Leith she says. “Women only represented about 10 or 15 program is just one sign their advocacy is making Wheeler Investment Counsel. She joined the firm percent of the finance world, and I felt I stood out a difference. in 2000 after graduating from SFU Beedie with a like a sore thumb. I was motivated to change that.” For women already in positions of leadership, As she moved up the ranks in her career, Heath visibility is critical. Young women considering took steps to support change along the way finance careers need to see strong women in through her involvement on corporate and senior leadership positions to envision themselves volunteer boards and as a mentor. She serves in those roles. Recruitment efforts must be broad as a member of the Portfolio Review Committee and inclusive, says Heath, because diversity adds for the Beedie Endowment Asset Management depth and breadth to an institution’s decision- (BEAM) program and counsels SFU leadership as making at a board level. a member of the SFU Beedie School of Business Advisory Board (BAB). “Stronger decision-making is possible with 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 50 SFU BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS