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The following faculty members have been promoted to Professor, effective June 1, 2002: Jean-Marie Bourjolly, Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems Jean-Marie Bourjolly studied mathematics in Toulouse, operations research at Université de Montréal, and earned a PhD in combinatorics and optimization at Waterloo. Since 1987, when he was hired by the John Molson School of Business, he has taught more than 15 different courses at all levels, including MBA, MScA. and PhD seminars. His research interests encompass classical combinatorial problems such as Max-clique and Max-SAT, the design and operation of cellular telephone networks, and logistics and supply chain management. His papers have appeared in a number of first-class journals such as Mathematical Programming and Management Science. As a consultant to Prestige Telecom Ltd., Dr. Bourjolly has worked on the development of a software package for frequency allocation that so far has been sold to telecom operators in nine countries, and for which, together with Prestige’s R&D Department, he was awarded the 2001 First Prize for an OR application by the Canadian Operational Research Society. He was invited to present this work at the 2001 INFORMS General Meeting in a special session titled “Telecommunications Keynote: Distinguished Applications of Telecommunications Planning.” He was also invited to present supply-chain management at the Spring School on Logistics and Distribution Management that was organized at H.E.C. in May 2002. |
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William Taylor, Management William D. Taylor is director of the executive MBA program in the John Molson School of Business. He has a PhD in strategic management from the École des Hautes Études Commerciale de Montréal, and MBA from McMaster University, and a BA in economics from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published numerous papers on subjects related to organizational strategy and strategic planning systems, and he has made presentations at many national and international conferences. He has extensive business experience as an employee of General Motors and as a consultant. Dr. Taylor has worked with both domestic and international firms in the areas of strategic planning and management development. His clients have included SNC/Lavelin, Newbridge Networks, Nortel, Air Canada, Dominion Textiles, Bombardier Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Laurentian Bank of Canada, Standard Life of Canada, ESAB Canada, Alcatel Canada Wire, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Computing Devices Canada, Petromont (Union Carbide), International Air Transport Association (IATA), International Aviation Management Training Institute, the Canadian Institute of Bankers, Federation of Canadian Deans of Management and Administrative Studies, Charterways Transport, and the New Brunswick Department of Economic Development. Dr. Taylor has over 30 years of experience in management education and has helped to establish a number of new programs, including the Concordia Executive MBA Program. He is also the founding director of the IATA/Concordia International Aviation MBA program. Prior to coming to Concordia in 1983, he helped develop the business administration program at Bishop’s University where he served as Director of Business Administration Division. Dr. Taylor has been chair of the Business Policy Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, and an area associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. He has also served as an advisor to and taught in the Canadian Certified Advanced Technology Manager Program. He has taught in a number of countries, including China, Trinidad and Switzerland. |
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Jerry Tomberlin, Decision
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