��Ƭ��Ƶ Desautels Faculty of Management - Warut Khern-am-nuai Recent Media Coverage

‘Elite’ Yelp reviewers hold outsized influence, even after their formal status is lost

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:57:54 +0000

Yelp’s restaurant review platform awards an ‘elite’ badge to top contributors, acknowledging their role in shaping user experiences. However, new research by Associate Professor Warut Khern-am-nuai reveals that the influence of these elite reviewers persists even if they lose their official status.

��Ƭ��Ƶ Desautels faculty members and researchers celebrated at Bravo Gala

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:55:09 +0000

��Ƭ��Ƶ University hosted its annual Bravo Gala on Thursday, March 21, which honours its faculty members and researchers who have won special awards, memberships and prizes over the past year. ��Ƭ��Ƶ Desautels is proud to announce 14 of its faculty amongst the distinguished honourees this year. Congratulations to our deserving laureates! Full list below.
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· Geneviève Bassellier, Best AMCIS Emergent Research Forum Paper, Americas Conference on Information Systems

Graduates and Outstanding Achievements Celebrated at Spring Convocation 2023

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:23:13 +0000

The ��Ƭ��Ƶ Desautels Faculty of Management proudly celebrated its Spring 2023 Convocation on Wednesday, May 31. The event served as a special recognition for the exceptional accomplishments of students who have successfully completed their degrees in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs during the academic year of Fall 2022 and Winter 2023. Addresses were made bt ��Ƭ��Ƶ Principal Deep Saini, Chancellor John H. McCall MacBain, Faculty Dean Yolande E.

Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Wed, 31 May 2023 19:52:07 +0000

Across programs and subject areas, the Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that teaching plays in enriching the student experience and in inspiring the next generation of leaders.

The Distinguished Teaching Award recipients Anna Kim and Warut Khern-am-nuai were honoured at ��Ƭ��Ƶ’s 2023 Management Convocation ceremony on May 31, for their excellence in teaching.

Desautels Professor named to Poets&Quants 50 Best Undergraduate Professors of 2022

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:15:34 +0000

We are proud to share that Warut Khern-am-nuai, Associate Professor in Information Systems, has been named to the Poets&Quants 50 Best Undergraduate Professors of 2022 list. This fifth edition of the award received more than 500 nominations from more than 50 of the best undergraduate business programs, including a dozen international schools.

Delve: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Management Insights and Solutions

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:14:34 +0000

How can Artificial Intelligence augment and even improve management of and within organizations? In the interdisciplinary arena of management, AI is being applied to big-picture issues of organizational strategy and supply chain operations, as well as the ethical details of human resources and the many moving parts of the retail industry.

Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:45:01 +0000

The Distinguished Teaching Award recipients Sujata Madan and Juan Serpa were honoured at ��Ƭ��Ƶ’s 2022 Management Convocation ceremony on June 1, for their excellence in teaching.

Delve podcast: New Normal: How AI Is Reshaping Post-Pandemic Retail with Warut Khern-am-nuai

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:47:51 +0000

On Delve’s The "New Normal" podcast series, Professor Warut Khern-am-nuai from the Desautels Faculty of Management at ��Ƭ��Ƶ University joins journalist Dave Kaufman to discuss the data behind pandemic buying and how retailers can use an Artificial Intelligence framework to react in real time to unexpected fluctuations in consumer purchasing.

Delve: Overcoming Bias in AI Technologies

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:12:38 +0000

A new study by Warut Khern-am-nuai, an assistant professor of information systems at ��Ƭ��Ƶ University, proposes a new approach to optimizing the way algorithms process data, without modifying the outcome. To eliminate discrimination in AI, algorithms should see race and gender, according to the study.

This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of ��Ƭ��Ƶ University's Desautels Faculty of Management.

��Ƭ��Ƶ professors create AI-powered tool to monitor supply and demand of essential goods

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:28:11 +0000

Desautels professors Maxime Cohen and Warut Khern-am-nuai are the brains behind a new technology that monitors the supply of essential goods at grocery stores. A joint venture with a team of scientists from HEC Montreal and a Canadian supermarket chain, the tool uses artificial intelligence to prevent shortages in an environment of uncertainty.

2019 SSHRC Grants awarded

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:21:35 +0000

Congratulations to the Desautels professors who received 2019 SSHRC Grants.

SSHRC Insight Development Grants

Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:57:04 +0000

On May 16, the Desautels community gathered to recognize faculty who have gone above and beyond in their teaching. Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2018-19 teaching awards!

Pokémon Go: a boon for businesses

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:44:00 +0000

Professor Warut Khern-am-nuai is a co-author on a study revealing that Pokémon Go does not merely bring health benefits, as has been widely studied, but also contributes to increased restaurant business revenues.

His research finds that restaurants located in close proximity to PokéStops, a key element of the game, see a visible increase in customers, as compared to those that do not have a PokéStop nearby.

Pokémon Go and the fortunes of local businesses

��Ƭ��Ƶ University — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:21:16 +0000

According to Les Affaires, a study partly authored by Desautels Professor Warut Khern-am-nuai looks at whether or not the augmented reality game Pokémon Go affects local businesses.

The study looked at restaurants within 40 metres of PokéStops (spots where people could catch the game characters). The researchers found that attendance at these restaurants was up by almost five per cent compared to other nearby eateries, with mid-range restaurants enjoying the best increases.