Management and Innovation


Faculty List

Adminstrator
Patrice Lee
Kaneff Building, Room KN2248
905-569-4565
patrice.lee@utoronto.ca

Program Director
Leigh Revers
Kaneff Building, Room KN2256
905-569-4323
leigh.revers@utoronto.ca

 

The Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI) is the centre for trans-disciplinary education focused on innovation and innovation management at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). The Institute’s mission is to develop innovation-focused leaders, from all academic backgrounds, with a strong link to the external community. IMI also serves as a platform for fostering inter- and trans-disciplinary research and scholarship in areas relevant to its associated programs.

As a collaborative institute, IMI provides students with access to professional masters programs in biotechnology, accounting, innovation and sustainability, and undergraduate courses in accounting, finance, marketing and human resource management.

Certificate of Completion in Global Sustainability

The Certificate of Completion in Global Sustainability offers a greatly expanded opportunity for all UTM undergraduate students to learn about global sustainability, which is not limited to environmental conservation and includes all aspects of human wellbeing covered by the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs include poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, social equities, clean water, clean energy, decent work, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable consumption, economic growth, climate change, peaceful societies, and environmental conservation.

The main objectives of the Certificate of Completion are: (i) to provide an intellectual and practical understanding of the holistic nature of global sustainability to transform the student’s ability to engage in systems and integrative thinking; (ii) to develop applied and managerial skills to address real-life sustainability issues; and (iii) to enhance the opportunities for summer as well as regular full-time employment after graduation.

The Certificate of Completion will be available to all actively enrolled UTM undergraduate students who have completed 4.0 credits. Completion of the Certificate of Completion in Global Sustainability will require successful completion of 3 required modules and 3 elective modules. Each module will be approximately 10 hours (most will be five 2-hour sessions), and will include a set of workshops, group discussions, analyses of real-life sustainability problems/ issues, and exploration of diverse approaches to potential solutions. Students must participate in all 10 hours to receive credit for the module. Most modules will be offered on evenings or weekends or during special events (such as UTM’s Sustainability Week) to reduce scheduling conflicts. Students can plan their own schedules to complete the six modules over their program length.

Required Global Sustainability Modules

Students must complete all three modules:

  1. Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Global Sustainability: The module will focus on inter- disciplinary perspectives and approaches (including natural science, social science, and humanities approaches) related to global sustainability. The module will also include complementarities and conflicts between the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and their global implications.
  2. Systems Thinking and Global Sustainability: This module will focus on transforming the typical student’s lens from reductionist thinking to systems, integrative, and critical thinking. The module will include the concepts of systems analysis and design, integrative thinking, and critical thinking, and their applications to analyze and design local and global sustainable systems.
  3. Sustainable Consumption: This module will be “about doing more and better with less” and it will examine sustainable consumption from a variety of different perspectives, including the marketing view, the policy maker’s view, the corporation’s view, and the ethical view. Students will evaluate various theories of consumer behaviour, such as social influence, social dilemma, and collective effort. Finally, students will investigate the need for proactive consumer social

Elective Global Sustainability Modules

Students must complete three (3) modules of their choice. Each year, 3-5 elective modules will be offered on rotation. Check Quercus for the complete and up-to-date listing of module offerings.

  1. Sustainability Engagement and Reporting: This module will focus on developing applied skills related to stakeholders’ engagement in sustainability decision making and sustainability reporting at global, national, sub-national, and corporate scales. The module will include frameworks related to stakeholders’ classification, stakeholders’ materiality analysis, and sustainability reporting. The module will include the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework, Integrated Reporting, and ESG Reporting.
  2. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories: This module will focus on developing applied skills related to measurement, reporting, and checking greenhouse gas inventories at a global, national, sub-national, corporate, and organizational level. The module will also cover global frameworks, standards and protocols related to GHG inventories.
  3. Waste Management Systems: This module will focus on developing applied skills in designing waste management systems, for different types of waste, and in different contexts such as educational institutions, multi-unit buildings, and government offices.
  4. Global Sustainability Culture: This module will develop the basic foundations of sustainability culture, and will include the role of Aboriginal culture, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Love and Respect, and Humanistic Leadership in sustainability culture.
  5. Global Sustainability Communication: This module highlights research at the intersection of fields like communication, media studies, journalism, cinema studies, visual studies, and science and technology studies. Sustainability communication draws attention to how media systems represent issues like climate change, sustainability, conservation, pollution, ecosystems, environmental health, food and agriculture, and energy.
     

For details, please visit our website: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/imi/programs

Contact Information:
Diana Aldaz
Events & Sustainability Outreach Coordinator Institute for Management & Innovation
p: 905-302-3191 |e: diana.aldaz@utoronto.ca

Prof. Shashi Kant
Institute for Management & Innovation
P: 905-569-5739 e: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca


Management and Innovation Courses

IMI201H5 • Fundamentals of Marketing

An introduction to the fundamentals of market definition, consumer behaviour, and the principal marketing functions: product line development, pricing, distribution, promotion, salesforce management, advertising, research, and planning.

Recommended Preparation: ECO101H5 or ECO100Y5
Enrolment Limits: Please note that this course is restricted to students enrolled in the Minor in Business, Science & Entrepreneurship.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI202H5 • Principles of Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management involves everything related to the employer-employee relationship and is about supporting and managing the organisation’s people and associated processes.

Recommended Preparation: ECO101H5 or ECO100Y5
Enrolment Limits: Please note that this course is restricted to students enrolled in the Minor in Business, Science & Entrepreneurship.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI203H5 • Essentials of Accounting: Financial & Managerial

Financial accounting revolves around the preparation and understanding of financial statements, including income statements, and balance sheets which help management and other stakeholders understand the state of affairs within an organization. Managerial accounting provides management with information, analysis and reports that support management's decision making.

Recommended Preparation: ECO101H5 or ECO100Y5
Enrolment Limits: Please note that this course is restricted to students enrolled in the Minor in Business, Science & Entrepreneurship.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI299H5 • Research Opportunity Program

This course provides a rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for IMI299H5 course credit. Based on the nature of the project, projects may satisfy the Social Sciences or Sciences distribution requirement. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Exclusions: Concurrent enrolment in IMI399H5 or IMI499H5.

Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI301H5 • Essentials of Finance

The two main fields of finance are investments and the financing of corporations. In the investments segment, students first learn how individual investors decide on their investments based on the time value of money and risk and return trade-offs. In the corporate finance segment students will build on the insights from the investments segment to understand the financing of firms within the context of capital markets.

Prerequisites: IMI203H5
Recommended Preparation: ECO101H5 or ECO100Y5
Enrolment Limits: Please note that this course is restricted to students enrolled in the Minor in Business, Science & Entrepreneurship.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI302H5 • Managing Projects, Operations & Preparing a Business Plan

Every business needs to formulate the strategies by which it will compete successfully in the market place, and plan for the implementation of these strategies, which may include joint ventures, strategic alliances, etc. This requires operational capabilities, the preparation of business plans and project management skills.

Recommended Preparation: ECO101H5 or ECO100Y5
Enrolment Limits: Please note that this course is restricted to students enrolled in the Minor in Business, Science & Entrepreneurship.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI303H5 • Technology Strategy

Businesses typically want to grow and compete. Science oriented businesses rely on innovation, protected by intellectual property rights and patents, to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Entrepreneurial science-based start-up ventures especially need a strong intellectual foundation, and they need to raise capital.

Prerequisites: ECO101H5 or ECO100Y5
Enrolment Limits: Please note that this course is restricted to students enrolled in the Minor in Business, Science & Entrepreneurship.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI399H5 • Research Opportunity Program

This course provides a rewarding opportunity for students in their third or fourth year to undertake relatively advanced work in the research project of a professor in return for IMI399H5 course credit. Based on the nature of the project, projects may satisfy the Social Sciences or Sciences distribution requirement. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: 8.0 credits and permission of instructor
Exclusions: Concurrent enrolment in IMI299H5 or IMI499H5

Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI400H5 • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Students in this course will analyze business cases, read academic studies, and interact with guest lecturers to gain familiarity with the major challenges that entrepreneurs encounter in successfully bringing innovations to market. Topics to be addressed include market and industry analysis, managing value chains, competing and positioning in the marketplace, negotiating for and obtaining financial resources, defining a business model, writing a business plan, and growth and exit strategies. In addition to more "traditional" lectures, there will be a number of guest lectures, especially in the second half of the course, provided from practitioners in different areas of interest, including current entrepreneurs, technologists, early-stage investors, and IP lawyers. The course is open to 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-year students in all programs and does not require any prerequisites.

Exclusions: MGT494H5
Enrolment Limits: Please note that preference will be given to students enrolled in the Minor in Business, Science & Entrepreneurship.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

IMI499H5 • Research Opportunity Program

This course provides a rewarding opportunity for students in their fourth year to undertake relatively advanced work in the research project of a professor in return for IMI499H5 course credit. Based on the nature of the project, projects may satisfy the Social Sciences or Sciences distribution requirement. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: 14.0 credits and permission of instructor
Exclusions: Concurrent enrolment in IMI299H5 or IMI399H5

Mode of Delivery: In Class

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