Professors Yuri Levin and Jean-Paul Roy named top QSB Researchers

Research excellence exemplified by two prolific QSB faculty members was celebrated at a reception in January. The QSB Award for Research Achievement was presented by Dean David Saunders to Yuri Levin, Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Operations Management, while New Researcher Achievement Award honours went to Jean-Paul Roy, Assistant Professor and the Toller Family Fellow of International Business.

Prof. Levin established his research credentials early. Only one year after joining the School in 2002, he received the New Researcher Achievement Award, and in 2009 he was a co-winner of an international award recognizing his research on novel techniques for cargo capacity management and dynamic pricing. He has consulted widely on modeling and optimization of pricing, has developed corporate training programs in strategic analytics, operations management, and strategic pricing optimization, serves on the advisory boards of several companies, and is a visiting professor at Skolkovo Moscow School of Management.

Prof. Roy was recognized for his research on international strategic alliances, social networking and cross-cultural management. He is especially interested in how institutional environments influence the behaviours and performance of multinational enterprises and their executives. His research has also investigated the social networking practices of firms and their executives in China and Japan, and how these practices are influenced by the institutional environment.