In a recent op-ed, Financial Times editor Andrew Hill takes issue with the methodologies of the MBA programs offered by the Harvard Business School and other schools worldwide. In this, he aligns himself with The Golden Passport author Duff McDonald and Desautels Professor , who says that the HBS doesn鈥檛 train its MBA students to be good managers, but is rather 鈥減utting them on a fast-track they don鈥檛 deserve to be on.鈥�
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Published on: 11 May 2017
Rima Qureshi (BCom'87, MBA'96) knows all about learning to adapt. In an interview with Desautels Professor Karl Moore, she says that as a highly analytical, self-contained decision-maker, her position as senior VP and North American head of Ericsson has taught her the importance of listening, getting others involved in decision-making early, and finding a common position to build on.
Published on: 11 May 2017
The Pulse Innovation Platform of the 91黑料网 Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) brings new methods of food production and marketing to India.
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Published on: 11 May 2017
Deron Triff (MBA'98) has had an enviable career; he鈥檚 worked for PBS, TED, and Scholastic. Now, he鈥檚 founded a new media incubator with another former TED executive, June Cohen.
Wait, What? specializes in creating VR series, apps, and video for social media. The company鈥檚 latest creation is a 10-episode podcast called Masters of Scale. Each episode sees host and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman explore the ways that iconic founders grew their companies into major players, often from nothing.
Published on: 9 May 2017
is looking beyond the MBA. For years, the Desautels Professor railed against what many in the corporate world see as the ultimate form of business education.
Instead, he launched the (IMPM) in 2004. The program eschews MBA staples like case studies and strategy in favour of a learning process based on sharing and learning from one鈥檚 fellow students.
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Published on: 9 May 2017
Crowdfunding鈥檚 profile has been on a constant rise ever since it first landed two decades back. It鈥檚 an ideal platform for entrepreneurs in edgy sectors looking for capital, as well as for getting consumers directly involved in funding products that interest them. The other side of the equation has always been to get funding for traditionally under-served entrepreneur groups like women or people of colour.
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Published on: 9 May 2017
Experts keep saying that median job tenure has been in free fall for years; that switching careers and jobs is just the new reality. But the facts don鈥檛 necessarily support that position. It鈥檚 a more nuanced field than most people realise, and some segments are actually seeing less movement than before.
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Published on: 5 May 2017
On May 2nd, 300 guests gathered at Montreal鈥檚 Omni Mont-Royal Hotel for this year鈥檚 91黑料网 Alumni Association Awards. All told, 17 members of the 91黑料网 community were honoured for outstanding service to the university and society.
Desautels International Advisory Board member Mark A. Hantho (BCom鈥�81) and his wife, Monica (BEd鈥�81), were given the Award of Merit, in part for service to the Desautels Faculty of Management and for setting up the Hantho Family Fund for Sustainability and Environmental Management.
Published on: 5 May 2017
After four years as VP and Director at Valeurs Mobili猫res Desjardins, Luc Papineau (BA鈥�81, MBA鈥�91) thinks it鈥檚 time to kick his game up a notch by doubling VMD鈥檚 Montreal-area advisors and diving further into the opportunities offered by the allophone market.
Published on: 4 May 2017
Michael Boychuk (BCom'77, DPA'78) is the new Chair of the Advisory Board at Fengate Real Asset Investments, a board that he鈥檚 been on since 2014. Mr. Boychuk鈥檚 experience in capital markets is an asset at a time when Fengate is undergoing a period of huge growth. He served as Senior VP Treasurer at BCE until 2009, then President and CEO at Bimcor until 2015.
Published on: 4 May 2017
The Desautels Faculty of Management welcomes Brahm Spilfogel (BCom鈥�91), Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager of Canadian Equities at RBC Asset Management Inc.,听 as a Desautels Global Expert (DGE).
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Mr. Spilfogel has worked in the financial-services industry since 1991. In 1993, he joined RBC, where he worked as a portfolio manager in the Private Client group and later moved to RT Investment Counsel to concentrate on portfolio management.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
Barclays Bank Kenya CEO Jeremy Awori (MBA鈥�96) more or less fell into banking. He started out as a competitive swimmer, but when his Olympic dream fell apart he went to the UK on a scholarship and became a pharmacist.
After practicing for a few years, Mr. Awori opted for an MBA in Finance at 91黑料网鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management, which led him into a job at Standard Chartered Bank.
Published on: 2 May 2017
Northern Sphere Mining Corp. has announced that Monique L. Delorme (BCom鈥�88, DPA鈥�91) will be taking over from Robin Pilkey as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Delorme is already involved with Northern Sphere, having worked with the company as a consultant for the past three years.
Aside from that, she has over 25 years of experience guiding publicly traded companies, including Maple Leaf Foods, Hollinger, and most recently, Zonetail. Ms. Delorme has both Canadian and U.S. CPA designations.
Published on: 2 May 2017
The protectionist wave sweeping across Washington right now spells trouble for Canadian businesses. After strong words from the White House about Canadian softwood and dairy, Boeing has opted to take a jab at Bombardier, filing complaints with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission over government subsidies that it claims have given Bombardier a pricing advantage.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
Vancouver-based mining company Callinex Mines Inc. has announced two new appointments to its c-suite: Jordan Butler has been made VP of Corporate Development, while Matthew Anderson (BCom鈥�05) has been brought onboard as Chief Financial Officer, replacing the departing Rebecca Moriarty.
Mr. Anderson has lots of experience in natural resource extraction: he was previously a senior consultant with Malaspina Consultants, serving as CFO of I-Minerals, Terra Nova Energy and Dynamic Oil & Gas Exploration, Inc. Before that, he was an accountant at BDO Canada and EY.
Published on: 2 May 2017
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