2025 Annual Report: Impact through innovation

The central theme of this year’s Annual Report is Innovation, in recognition of the many ways our community broke new ground in 2025.

It was a remarkable year for research at the DeGroote School of Business: DeGroote researchers rank first in Canada for Research Impact (QS 2026)* and advanced thought leadership on disruptive technologies and many other important issues affecting the business landscape.

Meanwhile, our students demonstrated what it means to pair ingenuity with integrity, earning national recognition for their success in case competitions and embracing collaborative learning opportunities closer to home.

The articles featured in the Annual Report are themed for our core values—collaboration, community, inclusivity, innovation and integrity—and provide a window into the remarkable ways our community came together in 2025 to solve authentic problems.

2025 Highlights:

• Nuclear renaissance: DeGroote partnered with McMaster to offer a conference exploring Canada’s role in a net-zero future.
• Global connections: McMaster and DeGroote are leading a strategic engagement in Ghana.
• AI in sports betting: New faculty-student research explored AI’s role in modern sports betting.
• Joyful leadership: An MBA alumnus played a critical role at Pride Toronto.
• Student entrepreneurship: A part-time MBA student started her own hub for coffee and community in Hamilton.

Read the 2025 Annual Report for a glimpse into the innovative thinking at DeGroote.

*This builds on QS subject results that placed McMaster’s Business & Management Studies first in Canada for combined research impact components (H-Index Citations and Citations Per Paper).