The Sprott School of Business is a doctoral-granting business school at

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(AACSB) and the Network of International Business Schools (NIBS). The school explores complex management issues through its programs, interdisciplinary research and collaborative partnerships. It was named in 2001 for

Eric Sprott Eric Sprott (born 1944/45) is a Canadian billionaire businessman. Early life Sprott has a bachelor's degree from Carleton University. Career Sprott started his career as a research analyst with Merrill Lynch Merrill (officially Merrill Lync ...

, a well-known philanthropist, alumnus of the school, and precious-metals investor. Business studies have a long history at Carleton, with the first commerce degrees awarded in 1949. Today, the Sprott School of Business offers a range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. The school is also highly research-oriented. Among its accolades, Sprott has won the Overall Institution Performance Award for research contribution at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) conference in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012, the most such honours among all Canadian business schools.

Programs

Bachelor of Commerce

The Sprott School of Business offers a 4-year Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, with a variety of concentrations and opportunities for

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(co-op). The ability to choose as many as two concentrations in their degree enables students to customize their learning experience to meet their specific academic and career goals. To earn a Bachelor of Commerce degree students must demonstrate proficient knowledge in the following base level courses:

Marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

Human Resources Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include m ...

Information Systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, information storage, store, and information distribution, distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems a ...

Statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

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Strategic Management In the field of management, strategic management involves the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by an organization's managers on behalf of stakeholders, based on consideration of Resource management, resour ...

, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behaviour, and Financial and Managerial

Accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...

Concentrations

*Accounting — A concentration geared towards providing students the knowledge to challenge the Chartered Accountant,

Certified Management Accountant Certified Management Accountant (CMA) is a professional certification credential in the management accounting and financial management fields. The certification signifies that the person possesses knowledge in the areas of financial planning, ana ...

, or

Certified General Accountant Certified General Accountant (CGA) is a professional designation granted to Canadian accountants. A person who meets the education, experience and examination requirements of the Certified General Accountants of Canada (CGA-Canada) is entitled to u ...

designation exams. It covers

Financial Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

Managerial Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

Taxation A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal person, legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regiona ...

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Audit An audit is an "independent examination of financial information of any entity, whether profit oriented or not, irrespective of its size or legal form when such an examination is conducted with a view to express an opinion thereon.” Auditing ...

ing Accounting fields specifically. *Finance — The Finance Concentration at Carleton is structured to cover all the required topics tested on the

Chartered Financial Analyst The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program is a postgraduate professional certification offered internationally by the American-based CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research, or AIMR) to investment and fina ...

level 1 exam. It covers

Investments Investment is the dedication of money to purchase of an asset to attain an increase in value over a period of time. Investment requires a sacrifice of some present asset, such as time, money, or effort. In finance, the purpose of investing is ...

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Mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization. As an aspect ...

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, and a prep course for writing finance based research reports. *Information Systems *International Business *Management (previously named Managing People and Organizations) *Marketing *Operations Management *Entrepreneurship *General

Bachelor of International Business

Founded in 1995, the Bachelor of International Business was the first program of its kind in Canada. Taking the core of the Commerce program, adding a mandatory language study, foreign exchange to a country where that language is spoken, and an international focus to many of the business classes, the program is designed to prepare students for a business career in the international arena, whether it be with international corporations, government agencies, or developmental organizations. Currently, students can study

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, French,

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, and travel on exchange to such diverse locales as

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. These locations are based on existing exchange agreements with Carleton, as well as the availability of courses in Carleton's language programs as students are expected to complete two full-year courses of language study prior to going abroad.

Concentrations

*International Marketing and Trade *Strategic Management and International Human Resources *International Investment, Finance, and Banking

Master of Business Administration

While Sprott's MBA program is relatively new, it was developed from the previous Master of Management Studies program. The School decided to take their largely research-centred program, and refocus it into a program more targeted towards practical applications .

Doctoral program

The Sprott Ph.D. in Management is a research-focused program. It offers a number of interdisciplinary, issue-focused courses to provide a holistic perspective to defining and solving problems.

Sprott Competes

The Sprott School of Business also operates a comprehensive business

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training program, known as Sprott Competes, whose aim is to cultivate student skills in integrative thinking, teamwork, decision-making, and effective communication. The program is open to all Sprott students and consists of a mix of course-based and extra-curricular components, including: a business analysis and presentation course, skill-building workshops, an internal case competition and an elite case training squad. Participants in the Sprott Competes program attend a range of national and international case competitions including: * Jeux du Commerce (JDC) Central * Queen's University Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) * John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition * Network of International Business Schools (NIBS) Worldwide Case Competition * University of Navarra International Case Competition * University of Vermont Family Enterprise Case Competition

Student life

Multiple Sprott clubs and societies provide numerous opportunities for students to get involved. These include the Sprott Business Students' Society, the Sprott Information Systems Students Association, the Sprott Finance Association, the Sprott International Business Association, the Sprott Marketing Association, and the Sprott Accounting Students Association, in addition to the numerous clubs and societies within Carleton University's general community.

SPROSH

Beginning in 2009, the Sprott Business Student Society introduced Sprosh, the Fall Orientation Week for Sprott Students. The week for all incoming first year business students, named interns throughout the week, coming into Carleton University. Upper year students take part as the facilitators of the week, all of whom have various roles: Presidents, Vice Presidents, Managers and Board of Directors.

Rankings

The Sprott School of Business has been ranked 16th overall in Canada, and 1st in its class by Ediversal rankings in 2016.

Sprott Student Investment Fund

The Sprott Student Investment Fund (SSIF) was founded in 2007 as a charitable organization under the guidance of academic overseer Howard Nemiroff with an endowment from the school of $50,000. It has grown from 8 members to over 20 members as of October 2019 and has been able to maintain a positive margin against the S&P 500 as its benchmark for performance comparison. The aim of the Fund is to educate its participants in how the process of evaluation of investment opportunities takes place with large sums of money. Its focus is on

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, primarily based on bottom-up economic analysis matched with

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. It does not use

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to make meaningful investment decisions but technical analysis is sometimes used to determine entrance and exit opportunities. The Sprott Student Investment Fund is run by students enrolled in the Sprott School of Business and historically has been staffed primarily by students in the undergraduate

concentration. Currently, the Fund has over $1M AUM.

References

External links

*http://sprott.carleton.ca/ - Sprott School of Business *http://sprottcompetes.ca/ - Sprott Competes Case Competition Program *https://archive.today/20041029214448/http://www.carleton.ca/sbss/ - Sprott Business Students' Society *https://archive.today/20130115061215/http://www.carleton.ca/mbasociety/ - Sprott MBA Students' Society *https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031708/http://www.sprottiba.ca/ - Sprott International Business Association {{DEFAULTSORT:Sprott, Eric School Of Business Carleton University Business schools in Canada 1949 establishments in Ontario Educational institutions established in 1949 Accounting schools in Canada