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UPEI's McDougall Faculty of Business wins award at Atlantic Schools of Business Conference

The UPEI McDougall Faculty of Business received the 2024 Best Overall Performance Award during the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference (ASBC) on September 21 at Saint Mary's University (SMU), Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Pictured from left to right: Drs. Blake Jelley, Susan Graham, Scott Cassidy, Gabrielle Durepos (ASB Conference Co-Chair, Mount Saint Vincent University), Reuben Domike, Suzanne Rath, and Sam Kolahgar. Photo by Dr. Wendy Carroll (ASB Conference Co-Chair, Saint Mary's University).

The award recognizes an institution who has the best ratio of work accepted for presentation at the conference compared to the total number of full-time faculty members employed in the respective unit. 

Some of the projects presented at the conference include:

• Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Spinoff Incompletion Azadeh Babaghaderi, University of Windsor, and Sam Kolahgar, UPEI
• Christmas Decorations in October? How Time Style Affects Consumers' Reactions to Holiday Salience Suzanne Rath, UPEI
• Exploring Management Education in the Atlantic Canadian Region: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future Nicholous Deal, Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) (organizer) with panelists Susan Graham, UPEI; Ellen Shaffner, MSVU; Kristin Williams, Acadia University and University of Eastern Finland; Mary Beth Doucette, Cape Breton University; Wendy Carroll, SMU; and Shamsud Chowdhury, Dalhousie University
• Donor's Name Fund to Support Women in Business Susan Graham, UPEI, and Amy MacFarlane, UPEI
   
• Remote Work and Employee Withdrawal Cognitions During the Late Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Dual Roles of Job Satisfaction and Psychological Strain [Best paper nominee] Scott A. Cassidy, UPEI, and Hannah E. Bertrand, UPEI
• Development of a Pan-University Entrepreneurship Centre at UPEI Reuben Domike, Amy Andrews, Jeremy Heartz, Megan MacLean, Tarek Mady, and Dr. Greg Naterer, all of UPEI
• Preliminary Categories of Reactions to Personality Feedback Interventions [Best paper nominee] R. Blake Jelley, UPEI, and Henriette Lundgren, University of Georgia
• I Stumbled Upon Stemble: Using AI to Provide Real-Time Feedback in a Marketing Cases Class Susan C. Graham, UPEI, and Jason Pearson, UPEI

The ASBC is one of Canada's longest running academic conferences focusing on business studies. The annual conference attracts approximately 100 delegates from professional studies programs across the region and beyond including deans, faculty, and students.