At its latest Investor Day, Air Canada announced that it will be considering the possibility of introducing an ultra-low-cost airfare plan. The news comes as more and more airline companies, such as WestJet and Flair Airlines, begin to dabble in the cheapening airfare market.
Desautels professor Karl Moore believes that the timing and the Canadian context might be right for these plans to really take off.聽
As Amazon hunts for a location for its second North American headquarters, Canada鈥檚 major cities are building their cases.
In a short interview with the 91黑料网 Media team, Desautels Professor Saibal Ray talks about the benefits that a Montreal Amazon office would bring in terms of jobs and indirect benefits to the city鈥檚 academic and research sectors.
Poets & Quants has released its inaugural 2017 Top Undergraduate Business Professors list, and on it is Desautels鈥� own Juan Camilo Serpa, Assistant Professor of Operations Management.
Prof. Serpa鈥檚 students hail his enthusiastic approach and his unique teaching methods, which last year included using business statistics to predict a film鈥檚 chances at box-office success. He also holds 鈥渃office鈥� hours in caf茅s on the weekend.
Light Reading reports that after leaving her position as Head of Ericsson North America, Rima Qureshi (BCom鈥�87, MBA鈥�96) has been hired as Verizon鈥檚 new Chief Strategy Officer. She will be working for CEO Lowell McAdam.
Qureshi has a deep understanding of the issues involved with running a successful tech company in today鈥檚 network-heavy reality: she started at Ericsson as a system analyst in 1993, before moving up through the ranks.
In an interview for Flare Magazine, Toronto-based Shereen Ladha (BCom鈥�10) talks about finding success both as a brand strategist and as a busy Bollywood dancer in movies, Netflix shows, on Canada鈥檚 Got Talent and since 2014, on her own YouTube channel.
Ms Ladha says that the moment she realized that she could indeed balance her day job and her side hustle was when she left work late one night to go to a video shoot for which she鈥檇 hired dancers. She worked through the stress, and the video ended up going viral.
Nour Hadidi (BCom鈥�10) is a comedian and TV writer who grew up in a family of doctors, earned a BCom, and spent a half-decade as a financial analyst before leaving Montreal for the comedy stages of Toronto.
In an interview with Flare Magazine, Ms Hadidi says that she got her big break in the form of an appearance on a CBC Radio special. That event led to other CBC appearances and gigs at comedy clubs.
Marie Laure Leclercq (MBA) started her career, and indeed her life, as a male. According to the Canadian Bar Association鈥檚 (CBA) National Magazine, when she began the process of changing her gender in 1995, it was what she calls an act of survival.
For years, the former Mr Leclercq had been hiding growing feelings of unease in his gender and suffering from depression, but at the time, transgender people had to jump through hoops before becoming eligible for gender-reassignment surgery.
In a piece for the Harvard Business Review, Desautels course lecturer Jay A Hewlin writes that, though negotiation experts the world over consider the 鈥渨alk away鈥� (technically, 鈥淏est Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement鈥� or BATNA) tactic to be an important tool, it鈥檚 not the best approach for every situation.
In a recent op-ed for Bangladeshi online newspaper bdnews24.com, Desautels Professor Mo Chaudhury explores the unfolding Rohingya humanitarian disaster in Myanmar, then outlines the corruption at the heart of the crisis and the players who stand to benefit from it.
Desautels Professor Patricia Hewlin has been invited to serve as guest editor of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes鈥� (OBHDP) 鈥淎uthenticity at Work鈥� issue. Prof. Hewlin was co-author of a study on leader integrity and worker conformity.
OBHDP is one of the Financial Times鈥� top-50 business journals, and publishes on organizational behaviour and judgement in business.
A piece in the Coshocton Tribune delves into the subject of fall-season beef herds and how to decide whether to cull a female. Pregnancy status can be the determining factor, since caring for a cow can cost $1,000 per year. If a cow isn鈥檛 a good bet for breeding, it might be better to sell it off or harvest the meat. Since a cow isn鈥檛 fully mature until the age of four, good nutrition is crucial for cows that are being aimed at breeding while they are themselves still developing.
A recent Huffington Post article talks about how the old credo of 鈥渄oing well by doing good鈥� is becoming more integral to business, and quotes Desautels Professor Nancy Adler that we can no longer 鈥渃reate financially successful companies and an equitable 鈥� sustainable world by simply applying yesterday鈥檚 approaches to business.鈥� The piece goes on to describe how the Ashoka U initiative is bringing these next-gen business concepts to colleges and universities to light the social-innovation fire at the campus leve
Canadian Business鈥� Profit 500 ranking is out, and two companies led by 91黑料网-HEC Montr茅al EMBA alumni are on it. Atypic is a Montreal-based professional-services firm that works with organizations in the plural sector, and is headed by President Pascal L茅pine (贰惭叠础鈥�12).
At the inaugural session for the Universit茅 de Montr茅al Law faculty鈥檚 2017-18 school year, Jean-Fran莽ois Gaudreault-DesBiens extended a warm welcome to the new and returning students, then invited Cogeco Connexion鈥檚 VP Legal Affairs, Chief Privacy Officer, and Desautels alumna Caroline Dignard (EMBA'10) to the podium to deliver the annual speech.
A recent piece in Le monde du droit announces that French business law firm Bersay & Associ茅s has brought Thibault Lasserre (MBA'07) on board as an associate. Mr Lasserre concentrates on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. Before joining Bersay & Associ茅s, he advised several corporations about international mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs; and worked at Law firms such as Veil Jourde, Coudert Brothers and Jones Day.
