Umar Ruhi

Dr. Umar Ruhi is an Associate Professor at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa where he teaches various undergraduate (B.Com) and graduate (MBA) level courses in Information Systems and Digital Enterprise Strategy. Additionally, he teaches in the University of Ottawa’s interdisciplinary M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in E-Business Technologies. Most of his courses comprise an integration of themes and topics related to business strategy and technology applications.

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Dot Whatever – Some Thoughts on the ICANN Announcement

Dot Whatever Top-Level Domains

In what may be the biggest development concerning Internet address spaces to date, this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced its plans to approve new top-level domains (TLDs) to expand the current set of domain suffixes like .com, .net, .org, as well as country code suffixes (such as .ca .us .uk). A request can… Read More »

B-school Bashing in Overdrive

Financial Crisis

It seems like B-School are being bashed left right and center this past week, and MBA programs are being blamed for the current financial mess that we’re in. I’ve also read various opinion editorial pieces and heard interviews of faculty members who have commented on the role business schools have played directlyor indirectly in leading to the current… Read More »