Dr. McKnight is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and the Michael Lee-Chin & Family Professor in Strategic Business Studies at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. Dr. McKnight studies how firms and organizations address complex societal problems. He is driven by a fascination both with how firms bounce back from substantial adversity and in the increasingly important role that firms play in building community-level resilience across a range of shocks and disturbances including climate change, natural disasters, and COVID-19.
In Dr. McKnight’s research, resilience plays an important role in conceptualizing a firm’s pursuit of sustainability; resilience taps into the essence of what it is to be sustainable over long timelines. Dr. McKnight is the director of the Integrated Business and Humanities program at DeGroote and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Sustainability.
He is also the faculty lead for the Social Impact Hub that is building cross-sector partnerships in Hamilton while providing DeGroote and McMaster students with real-world experiential learning opportunities.