Brent Snider

Brent Snider

Affiliations

Professor (Teaching)

Haskayne School of Business, Operations and Supply Chain Management [OSCM]

Haskayne STEP Professor

Haskayne School of Business

Contact information

Email

brent.snider@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Google Scholar

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-7164

Location

Office: SH124

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Senior Communications Specialist
jamie.zachary@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

B.B.A. Comm, Manag & Bus Admin, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1997

M.B.A. Comm, Manag & Bus Admin, University of Calgary, 2004

C.P.A. Accounting, CPA Ontario, 2000

Biography

Brent is a Teaching Professor in the operations and supply chain management area. He has been teaching at the Haskayne School of Business since 2003. Brent graduated with distinction from Wilfrid Laurier University's Honours Bachelor of Business Administration program in 1997. He obtained the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation from The Society of Management Accountants of Ontario in 2000. In 2004, Brent completed the MBA thesis program at University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business, majoring in operations management. Prior to joining Haskayne, Brent worked as a management accountant, and as a consultant / project manager conducting enterprise software implementations.

Brent teaches in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and project management for the undergraduate and Executive MBA program.

Brent's research interests focus on Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), specifically innovative pedagogical approaches for management education.  His work has been published in Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE), INFORMS Transactions on Education (ITE), and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM). 

His teaching innovations have been adopted by faculty at more than 200 institutions across 50 countries and six continents. He has received international teaching innovation ‘best paper’ awards from the Decision Sciences Institute and the European Operations Management Association. In addition to winning UCalgary’s pinnacle teaching and learning award, the 2026 McCaig-Killam Teaching Award, Brent has won 10+ teaching excellence awards across Bachelor of Commerce, MBA, and Executive MBA programs.

Brent is the creator of the Partial Information Exercise (PIE) pedagogical approach where some information from traditional cases / activities is intentionally withheld, requiring students to identify what information is missing, seek it, then integrate it. By simulating real-world ambiguity, PIE develops student critical thinking, communication, and resilience skills while creating enduring learning that sticks.  The PIE pedagogical approach has been successfully implemented in operations management, supply chain management, accounting, finance, and analytics courses in multiple countries.

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
OPMA 317 LEC 04 Fund Op & Supply Chain Mgmt 2026
OPMA 317 LEC 05 Fund Op & Supply Chain Mgmt 2026
OPMA 317 LEC 06 Fund Op & Supply Chain Mgmt 2026
OPMA 317 LEC 07 Fund Op & Supply Chain Mgmt 2026

Awards

  • McCaig-Killam Teaching Award, Killam Trusts & University of Calgary. 2026
  • Best Teaching Brief (An Inquiry Based Partial Information Exercise), Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE). 2020
  • SU Teaching Excellence Award , University of Calgary Students’ Union . 2022
  • Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award , Executive MBA Cohort. 2020
  • EurOMA 2017 Best Paper - Teaching, European Operations Management Association (EurOMA). 2017
  • University of Calgary Teaching Award - Full Time Academic Staff (Senior Instructor), University of Calgary. 2018
  • EurOMA 2018 Best Paper - Teaching (Highly Commended), European Operations Management Association (EurOMA). 2018
  • Nigel Slack Teaching Innovation Award, European Operations Management Association (EurOMA). 2017
  • University of Calgary Students Union Teaching Excellence Award (Honourable Mention), 2015
  • Commerce Undergraduate Society Award Outstanding Teaching & Learning, 2014
  • University of Calgary Students Union Teaching Excellence Award, 2014
  • Deans Award for Outstanding Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2013
  • Deans Award for Research Contributions by Instructors, 2013
  • 2010 Oustanding Paper Award (International Journal of Operations & Production Management), 2010
  • Haskayne Superior Service Award - Faculty Member (2009-2010), 2010
  • Commerce Undergraduate Society Award - Outstanding Teaching & Learning (2008-2009), 2009
  • MBA Society Award - Oustanding Teaching & Learning (2008-2009), 2009
  • Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2007
  • Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award - Honourable Mention, 2007

Publications

  • Embracing a Möbius strip metaphor and a critical reflection framework to explore personal barriers to service-learning. Kenworthy, A. L., Snider, B., Cronshaw, S., Hedges, P. L., Le, L., & Jamil, F. . The International Journal of Management Education. 24(1) 101312. (2026)
  • Patio Swings Intermodal Shipping Competition: An Inquiry Based Partial Information Exercise. Snider, B., Southin, N., Cole, R.. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 146-162. (2020)
  • Managing in turbulent times: The impact of sustainability in management education on current and future business leaders. Cole, R. & Snider B. . Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 210, p. 1622-1634. (2019)
  • Rolling the dice on global supply chain sustainability: A total cost of ownership simulation. Rosanna Cole; Brent R Snider. INFORMS Transactions on Education. Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 165-17. (2020)
  • Student Peer Evaluated Line Balancing Competition. Snider, B., Southin, N., Weaver, S.. INFORMS Transactions on Education, Vol. 17, No. 2. 43-48. (2017)
  • Operations Course Icebreaker: Campus Club Cupcakes Exercise. Snider, B. & Southin, N.. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 14, No. 3. 262-272. (2016)
  • Beat the Instructor: An Introductory Forecasting Game. Snider, B. & Eliasson, J.. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 11, No. 2. 147-157. (2013)
  • Compensation-based incentives, ERP, and delivery performance in manufacturing: analysis from production and improvement perspectives. da Silveira, G., Snider, B., Balakrishnan, J.. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 33, No. 4. 415-441. (2013)
  • Lessons Learned From Implementing Web-Based Simulations to Teach Operations Management Concepts. Snider, B., Balakrishnan, J.. INFORMS Transactions on Education, Vol. 13, No. 3. 152-161. (2013)
  • ERP implementation at SMEs: analysis of five Canadian cases. Snider, B., da Silveira, G., Balakrishnan, J.. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 29 (1). 4-29. (2009)
  • Canadian Orthodontics Practice: Bracing for Patients. Janice Eliasson, Brent Snider, Peggy Hedges . Ivey Case Publishing. W26090. (2022)
  • Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core, Second Canadian Edition. Jacobs, Chase, Balakrishnan, Snider. McGraw-Hill Ryerson. (2013)
  • Queuing at eCycle Services, he Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM. Eliasson, J., & Snider, B.. Financial Times Press,. 111-116. (2013)