When Aspire Food Group started operations in 2013 under co-founder Mohammed Ashour (MSc鈥�11, MDCM鈥�15), the field it was playing on was wide open. Insects are a viable food source across much of the world, but to farm them on the industrial scale that Aspire needed in order to make crickets an affordable, scalable food-production option was going to take some doing. The answer comes in the form of a well-designed automated cricket farm.聽
Published on: 8 Aug 2017
Montreal shoe giant ALDO agrees to buy the shoes and accessories part of the Camuto Group鈥檚 business
A news release at canadianinsider.com reveals that Montreal-based footwear giant ALDO is set to buy the shoes and accessories side of the Camuto Group. The deal plays nicely into ALDO鈥檚 expansion efforts and frees up Camuto to concentrate on its apparel unit. The ALDO Group鈥檚 ties to Desautels and 91黑料网 run deep: founder Aldo Bensadoun (BCom鈥�64, LLD鈥�04) is a 91黑料网 alumnus and a lifetime member of the Desautels International Advisory Board.
Published on: 7 Aug 2017
A blog post at Virgin.com looks at how adventure-seeking CEOs come at business from a more open, experimental angle.
Desautels Professor Jingjing Zhang鈥檚 research shows that chief execs who fly small airplanes in their off-hours tend to be more open to innovation.
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Published on: 7 Aug 2017
According to a recent piece in the Ottawa Business Journal, David Segal (BCom鈥�04) knocked one out of the park with DavidsTea, and he bets he can do it again with salad. His new venture, Mad Radish, brings premium salad to the fast-food scene, where Canadians currently spend $24 billion per year. There鈥檚 a growing hunger for healthier choices, which is why big-calorie chains like McDonald鈥檚 have started adding salads to their menus, but Mr. Segal believes that quality will make Mad Radish stand out.
Published on: 7 Aug 2017
Jonathan Ross Goodman聽(BA鈥�89, MBA/LLB鈥�93) is the CEO of Montreal-based pharmaceutical company Knight Therapeutics and a Desautels Global Expert. He is also a textbook case of how to overcome adversity: A 2011 biking accident left him in a coma for weeks and caused massive brain damage. Even today, his short-term memory is poor and he has trouble eating. But Mr. Goodman is also still a CEO and a leader in the pharma trade.
Published on: 3 Aug 2017
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Published on: 3 Aug 2017
Clipper Round the World is an epic endurance event, a race that crosses 40,000 nautical miles and hits six continents. It鈥檚 unique in that there is no requirement to have ever stepped on a boat to crew one of the twelve 70-foot yachts. Simon DuBois (BCom鈥�10) is on a mission to be the first Quebecer to complete a round-the-world yacht race. The last attempt by a Quebecer was when solo racer Gerry Roufs disappeared in 1997 while racing in the Vend茅e Globe.
Published on: 2 Aug 2017
The Remarketing Under Forty list in Auto Remarketing Canada鈥檚 Special Conference Issue is a roundup of the industry鈥檚 brightest young minds. Desautels grad Stephanie Turner聽(MBA'15) is the Senior Manager for Strategy and Business Development at Cox Automotive Canada in Toronto, where she has been since 2015.
Published on: 2 Aug 2017
Desautels Professor Karl Moore has been nominated in the leadership category of this year鈥檚 Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards.
Thinkers50 was launched in 2001 as the first worldwide ranking of great thinkers in the management space, and publishes its definitive list every two years. To advance its goal of innovation through management thinking, the organization publishes books, produces a video series and develops apps.
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Published on: 2 Aug 2017
A recent piece in Poets & Quants for Execs looks at how EMBAs are at a crossroads: As companies are less willing to invest in an EMBA for an employee鈥檚 advancement, those execs are looking more and more towards entrepreneurship, which was once the wheelhouse of the MBA set; and B schools are, in turn, facing disruption from microlearning tech startups.
Published on: 2 Aug 2017
Since being sold off by Bombardier in 2003, BRP has enjoyed a string of successes while its parent has staggered under the weight of economic, management and public relations woes. And though the worst might be behind Bombardier, its stock price has dropped by almost 50 per cent while BRP鈥檚 has climbed by 80 per cent.
The two companies are in different markets, but differences in management styles can鈥檛 be overlooked: At BRP, the Bombardier-Beaudoin family takes a more hands-off approach.
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Published on: 2 Aug 2017
Week seven of the 91黑料网 X-1 Accelerator was all about two things: Announcing a transformative $2 million gift from the John Dobson Foundation, and setting up for the upcoming Demo Days.
Published on: 2 Aug 2017
Geoffroy Sauv茅聽(BCom'10) built on his 2014 stint on Quebec鈥檚 La Voix music competition show to make music his full-time job and land a record contract.聽But he鈥檚 not exactly a newcomer: Geoffroy worked on the music scene鈥檚 business side for a decade, and still hires composers for advertising and film work.
Published on: 2 Aug 2017
A recent article in Forbes India looks at the buzz-concept of disruption, and how many companies are caught up in a disrupt-or-die philosophy.
When the idea of disruption was first floated in the early 20th century, it reflected the standard market movements of the day; today鈥檚 lightning-fast disruption cycle has completely turned the old concept of 鈥渘ormal鈥� on its ear. But is disruption just a by-product of the modern world?
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Published on: 2 Aug 2017
SAQ VP and COO聽聽Catherine Dagenais,听an EMBA student,听recently appeared on 98.5 FM鈥檚 Inspiration, Inc to talk about being a woman at the top of her game, her management style, and how she has dealt with the infamous glass ceiling.
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Published on: 27 Jul 2017
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