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Cara Maurer

Assistant Professor, General Management & Organizational Behaviour

Education

  • HBA
  • MBA
  • PhD, UWO - Ivey

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Profile

Dr. Cara Maurer is an assistant professor in General Management and Organizational Behaviour at the Richard Ivey School of Business. She earned her HBA, MBA, and PhD in General Management from the University of Western Ontario before joining the Ivey faculty in 2009. Dr. Maurer currently teaches strategy, the leadership of change and cross-cultural management in the HBA program.

Her research projects focus on the positive and negative impact of diversity on organizational learning, and on the impact of culture on firm performance. Her work has been recently published in such internationally regarded top management journals as the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science.  She is a regular presenter at the Academy of Management Conferences. Her research on CSR in Canada was published in the Ivey Business Journal and was featured in the Globe & Mail and the Financial Post. She won a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship in 2008, and was nominated for the Kathryn Hughes Leadership Award in 2007.

Her case writing, research and consulting have provided her with exposure to internationally known private and public organizations, such as L'Oreal S.A.,TD Bank Financial Group, Diamond Aircraft Industries, and London Health Sciences Centre.

Teaching

  • Strategic Analysis & Action (HBA I)
  • Learning through Action (HBA 1)
  • Leading Change (HBA II)
  • Cross-cultural Management (HBA II)

Selected Publications

  • Crossan, M., Maurer, C., White, R. 2011. Reflections on the 2009 AMR Decade Award: Do We Have a Theory of Organizational Learning? Academy of Management Review, 36(3): 446-460.
  • Maurer, C., Bansal, P., Crossan, M.M., 2011. "Creating economic value through social values: Introducing a culturally informed resource-based view", Organization Science, 22(2): 432-448.
  • Bansal, P., Maurer, C., Slawinski, N., 2008. Beyond Good Intentions: Strategies for Managing Your CSR Performance, Ivey Business Journal Online (January); featured in The Globe & Mail, March 10, 2008 and the Financial Post, August 25, 2009.
  • Slawinski, N., Maurer, C., and Bansal, P. 2008. Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada: The 2008 Ivey-Jantzi Research Report (March).

Experience

  • Cara Maurer has previously worked in sales and strategic consulting, and has operated her own business.

Expertise

  • Organizational Learning and Diversity
  • Impact of Culture on Firm Strategy
 

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