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Message from the Dean
In a year when every aspect of our professional and personal lives were disrupted, the Sprott research community demonstrated its resilience and responsiveness.
Early in the pandemic, the community pulled together to reflect on ways that our expertise could benefit organizations that were coping with the shock of the pandemic. We learned that some of our past research was relevant to the questions that organizations were facing, and we drew on our expert knowledge to develop new research agendas and projects.
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As the year progressed and issues of social justice, inclusion and wellbeing came to the forefront of political and business agendas, the significance our deep knowledge in these areas became even clearer. This year, our community not only continued to develop projects and to publish; we also took opportunities to share our research with practitioners, to forge new partnerships and to reach out to our broader business community.
As we responded to the new issues and challenges facing the world, we also started to look ahead. Over the course of the year, a team of Sprott colleagues completed a process of consultation with our community and stakeholders and wrote our strategic plan. ‘Vision 2025’ was officially unveiled in November, featuring a strong emphasis on our research and expertise.
In the plan, we define our core strengths; inclusion and diversity, sustainability, entrepreneurship, organizational change and internationalization. Our vision for future involves further developing research across these areas as well as finding new ways to make our research matter. Impact, at a local and global level, is a key goal for our future. We will achieve this goal in a number of ways; through outreach and partnering; increasing visibility of our expertise and by embedding our research into our degree programs and executive training. As you will see in the pages that follow, our research is already making a difference and has the potential to create more widely shared benefits for individuals and organizations worldwide.
We are proud of all that we have overcome and accomplished in 2020 and we hope that you will enjoy learning more about Sprott research in this third annual review.
Dana Brown
Dana Brown Dean, Sprott School of Business
