Sprott School of Business

Sprott School of Business
Motto	The Knowledge to Compete
Established	1949
Type	Public
Dean	Jerry Tomberlin
Location	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Campus	Urban
Website	www.sprott.carleton.ca

Photograph of Dunton Tower, Current Home of the Sprott School of Business

The Sprott School of Business is a faculty of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Business and Commerce degrees have a long history at Carleton, awarding the first degrees in commerce in 1949, and the Sprott School of Business currently runs several undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. Sprott School of Business has a research-oriented faculty and PhD program, and has won the Overall Institution Performance Award, for its research contribution, at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) , in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010, 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 Co-operative education (Co-Op). The ability for a student to take one or two concentrations in their degree allows student's the ability to customize their learning experience to meet their eventual academic and career goals.

In order to achieve a Bachelor of Commerce degree students will need to demonstrate proficient knowledge in the following base level courses: Marketing, Human Resources, Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Ethics, Strategic Management, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behaviour, and Financial and Managerial Accounting.

Concentrations

• Accounting A concentration geared towards providing students the knowledge to challenge the CA, CMA, or CGA designation exams. It covers Financial, Managerial, Taxation, and Auditing Accounting fields specifically.
• Finance The Finance Concentration at Carleton is structured to cover all the required topics tested on the CFA level 1 exam. It covers Investments, Corporate Finance, M&A, Derivatives, and a prep course for writing finance based research reports.
• Information Systems
• International Business
• Managing People and Organizations
• Marketing
• Operations Management
• Entrepreneurship

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 Japanese, German, French, Spanish, and Mandarin, and travel on exchange to such diverse locales as Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Chile, China, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Peru or Spain. 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 well received, though largely research-centred program, and refocus it into a program more targeted towards practical applications^{[citation needed]}.

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.

Other programs

In addition to its degrees offered at Carleton, the Sprott School of Business collaborates with other schools to offer variety of degrees around the world, including in India, Iran, China, and in partnership with the University of Havana in Cuba. The School also offers a wide variety of professional development programs for people already in the workforce^{[citation needed]}.

Competitions

Students at Sprott are encouraged to apply and compete in several academically based competitions each year. A list of some of the competitions, their structure and prizes are listed here:

• National Capital Leadership Competition- Between Sprott School of Business, Telfer School of Business, and in 2010 including Algonquin College, the NCLC is a competition geared towards rewarding and retaining leaders in the Ottawa technology sector. Workload includes 2 papers, and one 15 minute presentation. Prize is $5000 and a 4 month internship at a minimum of $20 per hour with an Ottawa technology firm.
• Capstone Festival - A team based competition between Carleton BCOM and BIB student groups who have been nominated as best in class in the 4000 level strategic management course. The students will showcase their strategic business solutions developed during the course and will answer any questions asked about their solution. A judging panel of industry executives and academics will select the top three teams after presentations. 1st place gets $6000, 2nd gets $3000, 3rd gets $1000.
• JDC Central - A team based competition between English speaking business schools throughout Eastern Canada. Students can compete in various academic case teams, sports, social and debate.

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 Marketing Association, and the Sprott Accounting Students Association, in addition to the numerous clubs and societies within Carleton University's general community.

SPROSH

The Fall Orientation Week for Sprott Students run by the Sprott Business Students' Society. 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: Prez's, VP's, Managers and BOD's.

Sprott Investment Fund

The Sprott Investment Fund (SIN Fund) 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 12 as of April 2009 and has been able to maintain a positive margin against the S&P 500 as its benchmark for performance comparison. The aim of the SIN 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 value investing, primarily based on bottom-up economic analysis matched with fundamental analysis. It does not use technical analysis to make meaningful investment decisions but technical analysis is sometimes used to determine entrance and exit opportunities. The SIN Fund is run by students enrolled in the Sprott School of Business and historically has been staffed primarily by students in the undergraduate Finance concentration from 2nd to 4th year.

Structure of the SIN fund and reporting hierarchy

		Academic Overseer
		Senior Manager
Basic Materials Manager	Financial Sector Manager		Technology Manager	Emerging Markets Manager
Analyst, Analyst	Analyst, Analyst		Analyst, Analyst	Analyst, Analyst

The 2008/2009 Annual Report for the SIN Fund is found here.

History of the school

The Carleton University School of Business was re-named to the Eric Sprott School of Business in 2000 (later changed to just the Sprott School of Business), named after Eric Sprott, a Carleton Commerce Alumnus, and founder of Sprott Securities, Inc. and more recently, Sprott Asset Management.

Prior to May 1, 2006 the school was a department under the Faculty of Public Affairs and Management. On January 1, 2007 Dr. William W. Keep served as Dean of the school for 91 days of what was to be a six year term. Although the exact reasons for Keep's departure were never officially disclosed, an article was written (under a pseudonym) in the Chronicle for Higher Education describing what is assumed to be Keep's experience working with Carleton University's administration.

Dr. Roland Thomas was then the (acting) Dean until Dr. Jerry Tomberlin, former dean of the John Molson School of Business at Concordia, was chosen to replace Dr. Keep.

External links

• http://sprott.carleton.ca/ - Sprott School of Business
• http://www.carleton.ca/sbss/ - Sprott Business Students' Society
• http://www.carleton.ca/mbasociety/ - Sprott MBA Students' Society