Sprott School of Business Welcomes New Faculty and Celebrates Faculty Promotions

The Sprott School of Business at Carleton University is pleased to announce the addition of two faculty members to its team. Five faculty members have also received tenure and/or promotion, effective July 1, 2024. These faculty additions and promotions demonstrate Sprott’s dedication to delivering top-quality education, conducting ground-breaking research, and fostering strong community engagement.

New Faculty

Shani Pupco – Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in Organizational Behaviour

Shani Pupco’s research is broadly centred around leadership. She is seeking to develop a better understanding of who becomes a leader (or who doesn’t become a leader) and why.Her primary work explores the influence of pregnancy and parenthood on parents’ careers. She is also working on a project which assesses the role of socioeconomic status on leadership emergence and behaviour, as well as a study which evaluates how surgeons’ leadership behaviours in the operating room influence patient outcomes. Finally, she is involved in a series of studies looking at the role of temporal factors on the quality of leaders’ behaviour.

Yan (Nicole) Yang – Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in Finance

Nicole Yang’s primary research explores rich institutional details in corporate bankruptcies to examine the impact of dynamics in bankruptcy regimes on investment and financing decisions. Yang’s teaching interests include corporate finance, investment and portfolio management, financial derivatives, and financial programming (Python/R). Yang has been working on several research projects throughout her PhD studies on corporate financial distress, distress investing, and informed trading.

Tenure and Promotion to the Rank of Associate Professor

Promotion to the rank of Associate Professor is based on a strong and successful record of research and teaching and service to the University.

Mohamed Al Guindy – Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor

Dr. Mohamed Al Guindy’s research focuses on the role of social media in financial markets – and more broadly, on how technology affects financial markets. Dr. Al Guindy completed his PhD in Finance and MBA at Queen’s University. An engineer by training, he completed his Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto, and Master’s degree in electrical engineering at Queen’s University – with particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence.

Daniel Gulanowski – Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor

Dr. Daniel Gulanowski’s main research area is international business. His research focuses on newcomers’ adjustment and labour market integration, computer mediated communication, and internationalization. His publications in these areas include peer-reviewed articles in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Review of International Business and Strategy, and Journal of International Technology and Information Management.

Leanne Keddie – Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor

Dr. Leanne Keddie’s current research follows three key streams. In the first, she examines the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance-based goals in executive bonus plans. Second, Dr. Keddie is leading an interdisciplinary team exploring Canada’s transition towards a circular economy; her role examines how food retailers are tackling the measurement, reduction and redirection of food waste. Third, she has been exploring the valuation of natural and cultural capital in the context of UNESCO sites in Canada.

Faculty Promotions

Aron Darmody – Tenure

Aron Darmody is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. He studies the ways marketing strategies influence consumer behaviour, including research into the psychological ownership within crowdfunding initiatives. He completed his PhD in Marketing at York University. Prior to that he obtained a Master’s degree in Marketing at Dublin City University and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce at University College Cork. Before joining Sprott, Aron was an Associate Professor of Marketing at Suffolk University, Boston.

Hayley Cooper – Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Hayley Cooper is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and acting academic director of Sprott’s Master of Accounting program. She holds both a Bachelor of Commerce with a Concentration in Accounting and a Master of Accounting from Carleton University. Hayley is actively involved with the Common Final Exam (CFE) with CPA Canada.