Larry Wood

Larry A. Wood is a professor in the Finance/Risk Management and Insurance area at the Haskayne School of Business. He has been teaching at Haskayne since 1983. Larry received his BComm and MBA from the University of Calgary.

During his academic career Larry has received the Superior Teacher Award for the Faculty of Management and the Master Teacher Award for the University of Calgary. In 1997 he was presented with the Teaching Excellence Award for the Faculty of Management by the University of Calgary Student's Union. He has been nominated for that award on two other occasions – in 1999 and 2003.

In 2003, he received the MBA society's outstanding teaching and learning award. This is presented annually in recognition of outstanding teaching and contributions to student learning in the Masters of Business Administration programs of the Haskayne School of Business.

Larry has been active with the Faculty's Intercollegiate Business Competition teams and as a result has received several Alberta Achievement Awards from the Province of Alberta.

He has lectured to participants from Tanzania, Kazakhstan, Russia, China, Poland, Latvia and Hungary. While teaching at the International Management Centre in Budapest, Hungary, he was presented with the Most Popular Visiting Professor Award.

In 1998 he successfully wrote the Professional Proficiency Exam offered by The Financial Planners' Standard Council of Canada and was awarded the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation in January, 1999.

Larry is also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for collegiate schools of business.

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