teaching

I teach subjects related to innovation, technology, and society at the undergraduate, and masters/MBA levels.  I also enjoy crafting special topics and elective courses that excite students. My ready-to-teach elective teaching portfolio consists of the following courses and course modules:

Organizational and Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies

Developed with Professor Samer Faraj, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

BCom Elective for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Information Systems majors

This 13 week course, offered as an undergraduate 400-level elective, explores the impact of emerging computation, communication, production, and energy technologies on issues related to innovation, organizing, and society.  The course materials draw from research papers and case studies in management, innovation, and technology, as well as popular science, newspaper articles, legal and policy documents, and videos. Learning activities include hands-on experience with emerging technologies such as natural language processing and computational data science algorithms.  The term project for the course is a team based consulting project that addresses a key organizational challenge in a local sponsoring organization. 

A version of this course has been offered four times as a BCom elective and once as an MBA elective at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. I assisted in teaching the course each time it has been offered, and taught it myself in its second undergraduate outing, with exceptional ratings. I contributed to its development from inception as a special topics course to inclusion as a regular elective in the BCom Innovation and  Entrepreneurship majors at Desautels.  

Systems Thinking, Dynamics Models, and Simulation Inference in Management Research

Course Module for Research Methods, Public Policy, or Management

This 1-4 lecture sequence covers systems thinking, systems approaches to modeling complex phenomena, and inference from simulating. 

This module has been taught six times as a part of undergraduate courses in sustainability and the social context of business at the Desautels Faculty of Management between 2022 and 2024, and can be adapted to explore a variety of specific organizational and social phenomena, and cases. 

Living with Quant Methods in Management Research

PhD Seminar in Management: In Development

This 13 week PhD seminar covers quantitative and computational methods in management, innovation, and information systems research. The key learning objectives are for students to be able to critically read, understand, and evaluate modern and classic research in the quantitative hypothetico-deductive tradition, by examining key exemplar publications from top journals in detail, unpacking their ontological assumptions, design and methods choices, and where possible, interacting with their data.

This course has no prerequisites, and is intended for all early stage doctoral students. It is suitable for qualitative scholars who wish to understand and engage with quantitative empirical papers in management research.