Clients

"Our final report should be read by every health care ministry in the country. Its something we refer to on a regular basis. To this day, it continues to inform our strategic thinking. It's a very dynamic, iterative process in regards to planning and very untraditional in our industry. It was state of the art in strategic planning."
- Frank Lussing, President & CEO, York Central Hospital

"The process that the students engaged in was mutually meaningful, shed some new light and confirmed for us a number of observations. Their findings and enthusiasms were very positive and constructive. Thank you for the contribution of this wonderful team to FGI."
- Allon Bross, President & CEO, FGI

"The Strategy Study awakened in me an understanding of the size of the market in which we operate. We've made tough business decisions based on the study."
- James Bowen, President & CEO, Feature Factory

"They were organized, professional, highly focused. They found the problems."
- Diane Blackburn, Bell Mobility

"I'm not sure they came up with the ideas they were expecting or the ideas we wanted. It was a wake-up call. It told us that we were really a lot better than we thought we were."
- Bill Redelmeier, President, Southbrook

Students

"The kind of research and analysis required for the study is the same kind of work I did later in my consulting career, and still do as a CEO. The study helps you learn the type of thinking and orientation that takes you to a management point of view."
- Sheelagh Whittaker,
Enterprise Client Executive/Federal Government, EDS Australia
Former Chief Executive Officer, EDS Canada Inc.
Former President and Chief Executive Officer,
Canadian Satellite Communications Inc. (Cancom)
(MBA, 1975)

"When we were finished the Strategy Study, we knew more than the people who work in the industry. You could not have received that kind of learning experience anywhere else."
- Brian Jones, MBA 1999

"It's the single best program offered by an MBA school in North America, if not the world."
- Lee Grunberg, Bear Sterns & Co., MBA 2000

Faculty

"The case method is no longer an adequate substitute for the complexity of the world. If you had to design and develop a program that would prepare today's MBA students for the demands of today's business environment with its emphasis on teamwork, speed and analytical ability, that program would be the strategy study. It is the ultimate in integrative management learning."
- Dezsö J. Horváth, Dean & Tanna H. Schulich Chair in Strategic Management


"This is at the frontier of management learning. The competence and resources to manage a strategy study simply lie beyond most business schools. The amount of time that we spend – both in terms of the School and the faculty – is unprecedented. It is the key distinguishing feature of a Schulich MBA."
- James Gilles, Schulich School of Business Founding Dean