John Melnyk, Instructor
Department of Business & Administration
Office: 3BC24 Buhler Centre, 786-9833
Email: j.melnyk@uwinnipeg.ca
Office Hours: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays and by appointment
For the 2012 winter term, John Melnyk is teaching Advertising, Ethics in Management and the Business Competition course. For fall, 2012, he will again be teaching Ethics in Management as well as Business Strategy.
John Melnyk holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics(AB'77) from Harvard College and a Master in Business Administration (MBA'83) from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Following business school he worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble, before returning to his native Winnipeg to become Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. This was a welcome opportunity to combine training and experience in business with a lifelong interest in music. John is an accomplished pianist, and has appeared as soloist with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops as well as with the Vancouver and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras. After five years at the WSO, he became General Manager of Orchestra London in London, Ontario. More recently John served five years on the board of directors of Virtuosi Concerts (MB) Inc., four of those as President. He is married to Winnipeg pianist and teacher, Jacqueline Ryz.
As a member of the Business and Administration faculty at The University of Winnipeg, he has taught Introduction to Business, Organizational Behaviour, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and currently teaches Ethics in Management, Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management. He has also taught Administrative Policy in the Bachelor of Commerce program for the I.H. Asper School of Management at the University of Manitoba, Industry & Competitive Analysis in the MBA Manitoba program and a number of continuing education seminars including a workshop on Strategic Thinking for Winnipeg Police Service.
John has had three cases published in the Case Research Journal of the North American Case Research Association, two of which were co-authored by University of Winnipeg alumni. He also has several cases in the collection of the Richard Ivey School of Management at University of Western Ontario, and received the "Best Case" award at the 2002 Administrative Studies Association of Canada (ASAC) conference as well as first and second runner up recognition for that award at the 2003 ASAC conference.