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1919
Due to demand from WWI veterans,
Dr. W. Sherwood Fox, Dean, Faculty of
Arts and Science and Dr. K.P.R. Neville,
University Registrar, investigate
options for teaching Commerce and
Business.
Drs. Neville and Fox (see picture right)
conduct a comprehensive study of all
recognized business courses of
University grade in North America. It
was determined that the Harvard School
of Business case study method was the
most effective style of teaching.
1922 Ellis H. Morrow, a Canadian
who graduated from Harvard is appointed
Head of the Department of Commercial
Economics, Faculty of Arts. Teaching
begins as an option within the Faculty
of Arts.
1923 First six
graduates with the degree, HBA for
Business Administration granted.
1925 Morrow establishes strong links
with the Harvard Business School and
travels to Harvard for training, under
the direction of HBS Dean Wallace B.
Donham.
1927 Department of Commercial
Economics name changed to Department of
Business Administration, Faculty of
Arts.
1929 Phillip H. Hensel appointed
Head of Department. Ellis Morrow founds
Faculty of Commerce at the University of
British Columbia.
1932 Graduate work in Business
begun.
1933 Quarterly Review of Commerce
published. The name was later changed
to Business Quarterly, Ivey
Business Journal and now
Ivey Business Journal Online.
1938 Walter A. Thompson appointed
Acting Head of Department.
1942 Ross B. Willis appointed Acting
Head of Department.
1948 Canada's top 100 CEOs and
Presidents meet at Western and determine
that there is a need for a National
School of Business Administration.
Actions from this meeting included the
establishment of an Advisory Committee,
and work started in examining the
feasibility of an MBA degree program,
Executive Education programs, and PhD
program.
The Management Training
Course, Canada's first Executive program
started. MTC was led by Walter
Thompson, and combines Western and
Harvard faculty.
Canada's first MBA
program established. Teaching began in
the fall of 1948.
1950 The School of Business
Administration is established as a
separate faculty at Western with offices
located in the basement of University
College.
Lloyd W. Sipherd appointed
first Dean of the School.
Richard G. Ivey, Q.C.,
appointed first Chairman of the Advisory
Committee.
First MBA degree granted.
1951 School moves to its first
building, Goodholme (see picture right),
a former residence, located near the
current location of King's College.
1953 Marketing Management Course
established, as the second Executive
program. Jack J. Wettlaufer is the
founding Director.
1954 Fred W.P. Jones appointed as
Dean.
Richard G. Ivey receives Honorary Doctor
of Laws degree for his work with the
Business School.
1955 Jack R. White, President,
Imperial Oil Company, appointed as
Chairman, Advisory Committee. 
1957 Richard G. Ivey leads an effort
that funds the building of the School of
Business Administration Building on
campus. The building opens and honors
his leadership by carrying his name (see
photo right - Richard G. Ivey at the
ceremony to open the new building).
1961 Senate approves the first
PhD program in Business in Canada.
W. Harold Rae appointed
Chairman of the Advisory Committee.
1963 Jack J. Wettlaufer appointed as
Dean of the School.
MBA program expands and adds
second section section.
1964 First PhD degree awarded to
Alexander
Mikalachki, MBA '60.
Ford Foundation awards five
year grant in support of the PhD
program.
1967 Alumni Directory published, to
commemorate Canada's Centennial. 5,927
alumni are listed.
1968 John E. Brent appointed
Chairman of the Advisory Committee.
1969 Addition to the Richard Ivey
Building doubles size of the School.
Grant received from the
Richard Ivey Foundation and the Richard
and Jean Ivey Fund to support computer
equipment and graduate fellowships.
1970 “Plan for Excellence� started
to raise $1.5 million for research, MBA
and PhD Fellowship programs.
1971 Thanks to the support of CIDA
(Canadian International Development
Agency) the School assists in the
development of management studies
programs at the University of the West
Indies in Jamaica and Trinidad.
1973 50th Birthday
parties are celebrated with alumni
across Canada. The first official
alumni clubs start as a result of this
initiative.
1974 Centre for International
Business studies established by
Professor Harold Crookell, thanks to a
five year grant from the Federal
Government (Department of Industry,
Trade and Commerce).
1975 The School offers its first
international Executive program, the
Brazilian Management Course, led by
Professor John Nicholson.
Alan Burton of Simpson's
appointed as Chair of the Advisory
Committee.
1978 C.B. (Bud) Johnston appointed
as Dean.
Spencer Hall Continuing
Education Centre officially opened, in
partnership with the University of
Western Ontario and Scotiabank.
1980 John A. (Jack) Armstrong of
Imperial Oil appointed as Chairman of
the Advisory Board.
1983 James C. Taylor Distinguished
Lecture in Finance established.
Ralph M. Barford of GSW and
Camco appointed as Chair of the Advisory
Committee.
1984 CIDA funds the China Program,
as School partners with Tsinghua
University. Professor J.J. (Joe)
DiStefano is the founding Director.
1985 Professor David S.R. Leighton
appointed first Director of the National
Centre for Management Research and
Development (NCMRD).
1986 NCMRD building opens thanks to
support from the Federal Government, UWO
and private donors.
Donald G. Campbell of
Maclean Hunter appointed Chairman of the
Advisory Committee.
1989 Professor Alexander Mikalachki
appointed acting Dean.
1990 Professor Adrian B. Ryans
appointed Dean.
Richard J. Currie elected
Chairman of the Advisory Committee.
HBA International Case
Competition established.
1991 J.J. Wettlaufer Executive
Development Centre opened in Toronto.
Ivey Executive MBA
program established in Toronto led by
Professor J.P. (Peter) Killing.
1992 Spencer Hall expanded doubling
its size.
1993 Earl H. Orser, Chairman, London
Life Insurance Company, appointed
Chairman of the Advisory Committee.
Journal of International
Business begins its five year term
at the School with Professor Paul
Beamish as the Editor.
1995 Lawrence G. Tapp, former CEO,
Lawson Mardon, is appointed Dean.
Richard M. Ivey family
donates $11 million and School honors
the relationship, that started over 45
years ago, by renaming the School after
the inaugural Chair of the Advisory
Committee, Richard G. Ivey.
This gift forms the
beginning of The Ivey Campaign,
supporting the School's move to the
world stage.
Ivey's Executive MBA by
videoconference is launched, led by
Professor Terry Deutscher.
1997 The Ivey Campaign publicly
launches, with a target of $75 million –
the largest campaign by a single faculty
in Canadian history. The Campaign is
chaired by Bruce Birmingham, President
of the Bank of Nova Scotia.
Ivey's interest in Asia
gathers momentum, with the establishment
of the Asian Management Institute (AMI),
led by Paul Beamish. AMI leads
research and case writing initiatives
for Ivey with Asian themes.
Alumni help celebrate Ivey's
75th anniversary with parties
across Canada and in major international
centres.
1998 The Cheng Yu Tung Management
Institute is officially opened in the
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre, thanks to the generous support
of Henry K.S. Cheng, HBA '71, MBA '72,
LLD ‘97.
The Hong Kong Executive
MBA program opens, with Joe DiStefano as
its first Director.
The Ivey Alumni Association
Board is established, with
representation from alumni of various
ages, geographies and degrees. Ron
Charles, MBA '71, Managing Partner, The
Caldwell Partners, is appointed the
inaugural Chair of this group of forty
alumni.
The first Ivey Distinguished
Service Awards are given to Earl Orser,
LLD '91; Donald K. Johnson, MBA '63 and
Michael Needham, MBA '68.
Ronald Gage, Managing
Partner, Ernst & Young, is appointed as
Chair of the Ivey Advisory Board.
2000 Ivey is ranked by the
Financial Times as one of the top
twenty MBA programs in the world.
The first students of the
Hong Kong Executive MBA program graduate
in Western's first convocation outside
of Canada.
Larry Wynant becomes
Executive Director of the Cheng Yu Tung
Management Institute and Ivey's first
Associate Dean, Asia.
2001 The Ivey Campaign successfully
closes having raised over $78 million in
support.
Ivey was ranked as the #1
Business School outside of the U.S. by
The Wall Street Journal and rated
in the top tier by Forbes,
Business Week and the Financial
Times.
Christopher Matthews, MBA
'72, CEO, The Hay Group, is appointed as
Chair of the Ivey Advisory Board.
The establishment of the Leenders Professors Emeriti Lounge is
announced, thanks to the generous
support of Arkadi Kuhlmann, HBA '71, MBA
'72.
2002 The NCMRD is expanded, an
atrium is added and the building renamed
the Lawrence National Centre for Policy
and Management thanks to a generous gift
from R. John (Jack) Lawrence, HBA '56.
Spencer Conference Centre is expanded
and renovated with the new entrance wing
being named the Donald K. Johnson
Executive Wing, after the generous
support of Donald K. Johnson, MBA '63.
2003 Carol Stephenson appointed Dean
of the Richard Ivey
School of Business
2004
Arkadi Kuhlmann, HBA '71, MBA '72,
Chairman and CEO, ING Direct USA fsb, is
appointed as Chair of the Ivey Advisory
Board.
(Photo
below:
the Lawrence Centre
addition and Atrium
as seen
from University College Tower)
2005
Ivey announces the launch of
Cross-Enterprise Leadershipâ„¢ (CEL), a
revolutionary new approach to business
education.
Ivey begins a comprehensive redesign of
its programs, research and organization
to focus on Cross-Enterprise Leadershipâ„¢
which provides future leaders the skills
to continuously adapt to the societal
forces swirling around them such as
globalization, competition and
technology. It envisions a generation of
executives who, even as they find
themselves in functional roles, will
have the breadth and capacity to always
see the bigger picture and to lead
initiatives that enhance the whole
enterprise.
In May 2006 the Ivey MBA became a 12 month program and takes place
at Spencer Conference Centre.
2006
Dean Carol Stephenson transforms the MBA
program into an intense twelve-month
learning experience, focused on the
capabilities required for
Cross-Enterprise Leadershipâ„¢,
the driving force behind Ivey's
revolution in business education.
Kevin O'Brien, HBA '93, Partner SECOR
Consulting, is appointed as Chair of the
Ivey Alumni Association Board.
Spencer Conference Centre, formerly
Spencer Hall, is renamed Spencer
Leadership Centre.
2007 ING Leadership Centre officially opens
in downtown Toronto and is the new home
of the Executive MBA Program and
Executive Development.
Ivey's first 12-month MBA class
graduates.
Carol Stephenson reappointed for second
five-year term as Dean, effective July
2008.
Ivey welcomes a fifth HBA section
delivering on the first phase of its
strategy to build the world's best
undergraduate business program.
Ivey's business library was renovated
and re-named in honour of C.B. "Bud"
Johnston, HBA '54, MBA '57, Ivey's Dean
from 1978 – 1989. Over $1.8 million was
raised in his honour and announced at
the dedication ceremony held on
Homecoming weekend.
2008
Ivey celebrates the 60th anniversary of
both its MBA and Executive Development programs, the oldest in Canada,
and the 10th anniversary of the opening
of the Cheng Yu Tung Management
Institute, Ivey’s Hong Kong Campus.
Site selected and approved for new
landmark Ivey building in front of
Brescia College on Western Road.
Ivey students spend a day with the
"Oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffett as part
of the J.C. Taylor Lecture in Finance
series.
2009
Ivey welcomed the 50th class into the
Executive MBA program, a program that
has operated in Canada since 1991 and in
Hong Kong since 1998.
With start-up funding of $5 million from
the Government of Canada, and building
on Ivey's established strength and
leadership in bridging the gap between
business, science and technology, Ivey
establishes the Ivey Centre for Health
Innovation and Leadership.
Architects Hariri Pontarini are
unanimously selected by the New Building
Task Force to bring the vision of the
new building into fruition. |
