Ellen Auster, is Director of the Schulich Centre for Teaching Excellence (SCTE) at York University, a multiple teaching award winner, and a Professor of Strategic Management. She earned her BA from Colgate University and her MA and Ph.D from Cornell University. She has been on the faculty at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. In addition to her teaching, she is a consultant to a number of companies including Procter and Gamble and Price Waterhouse Coopers. She has published in a number of leading business journals including: The Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, Human Resource Management, Research in Organizational Behavior, The Journal of International Management, Sociological Inquiry, Advances in Strategic Management, and The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Ellen created the Schulich Centre for Teaching Excellence in 1992 to support Schulich’s strategy to become a leading global business school. The SCTE has a wide range of initiatives including a just-in-time classroom feedback process, annual teaching awards, teaching grants, ongoing workshops and seminars, an interactive training web-site and other outreach programs. Since its inception, hundreds of new and part-time faculty, as well as more experienced faculty have been trained and coached by the SCTE.
