Montreal-based Lantinga Vita is all about merging functionality, a chic design and sustainability. The company鈥檚 Tempus bag is an Italian-made, multi-functional bag that boasts a compartment for a 15鈥� laptop and a thermal pocket for food. The company鈥檚 founder and CEO, Nina Lantinga, recently spoke with The Dobson Chronicles about the entrepreneurial life, growing her business and winning the Grit Prize at the 91黑料网 Dobson Cup 2014.
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Published on: 12 Apr 2017
Startup Saccade Analytics was the first place winner of the 2017 91黑料网 Dobson Cup Health Sciences Track. The team鈥檚 pitch involved analyzing eye and head movement to help diagnose neural diseases. The team sat down with the Dobson Chronicles to talk about what made them dive into the entrepreneurial life, and eye-head movement as an indicator of disease 鈥� including, but not limited to, concussion. The team鈥檚 work builds on a foundation laid by team member Professor Mimi Galiana, who is a pioneer in the field.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2017
Desautels Associate Professor Karl Moore appeared on an April 7th Breakfast Television panel to address the question of whether or not Bombardier is too big to fail. Professor Moore stated that, in some ways, this is definitely true, just because of the role it plays in the Canadian economy and the fact that it is 鈥淐anada鈥檚 greatest global competitor, in terms of size and in terms of where the exports go.鈥�
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Published on: 11 Apr 2017
Now in its fourth edition, Corporate Knights鈥� Future 40 ranking is a yearly roundup of companies and organizations that are transitioning towards a low-carbon future. The list heavily reflects Ontario-based companies and utilities, but there is also a lot of representation from Canada鈥檚 mining sector and medium-sized oil and gas producers, all of which are pivoting towards greater sustainability in their production processes.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2017
鈥淚鈥檓 not looking at fashion through a Canadian lens, or even a Western lens, but a global lens,鈥� says Imran Amed (BCom'97). Indeed, he doesn鈥檛 even look at it through the eyes of someone who grew up steeped in fashion. Mr. Amed started Business of Fashion as a personal blog while he was working as a management consultant with zero fashion training. Today, his London-based site is the go-to source for news-hungry glitterati.
Published on: 11 Apr 2017
A joint 91黑料网-Concordia effort has won a $50,000 federal grant to bring its innovative row-house design to the International Solar Decathlon in China next year. TeamMTL鈥檚 design takes aim at the growing affordable-urban-housing crisis, successfully marrying energy efficiency and sustainability with comfort and affordability.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2017
Desautels Professor Ken Lester was interviewed on BNN about the commodification of marijuana post-legalization. He discussed product choice, the question of how branding might be constrained by the impending legislation, and the tricky taxation line that the governments will have to trace in order to not send consumers back to the black market.
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Published on: 7 Apr 2017
In an interview on Fox Business Network, Aspire CEO and former MBA student聽Mohammed Ashour聽makes the case for eating bugs as a way to meet the world鈥檚 growing protein requirements. His company, the Aspire Group, runs a cricket farm in Texas and a palm weevil larvae operation in Ghana, both aimed at creating a sustainable insect-based food industry. Mr. Ashour says that both insects are 鈥渆xtremely nutritious, and have a high amount of protein, iron and other micro-nutrients; and utilize an extraordinarily low amount of resources to produce.鈥�
Published on: 7 Apr 2017
Dr. Anoop Kumar (IMHL鈥�15) has published a new book, Michelanglo鈥檚 Medicine: how redefining the human body will transform health and healthcare. The book offers聽a refreshing look at the human body not just as a bunch of organs, but rather as 鈥渁 masterpiece, waiting to be discovered.鈥� Dr. Kumar proposes a new approach based on his experiences as an ER doctor, as well as the eastern philosophies he grew up with.
Published on: 6 Apr 2017
West Vancouver-based PNG Gold has announced the appointment of Wesley Marstaller (BCom'05)聽as Executive Vice President of the corporation. Before coming on board at PNG Gold, Mr. Marstaller served in several capacities at the Macquarie Group, then as COO of the Rennie Group. PNG Gold CEO Greg Clarkes praises Mr. Marstaller, saying that his expertise will help with 鈥渂uilding the management group necessary to achieve the Company鈥檚 near and long term goals.鈥�
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Published on: 5 Apr 2017
Bombardier鈥檚 recent executive pay raises have caused heavy public criticism in the face of recent cash injections from the federal and Quebec governments. In an interview on BNN, Desautels Professor Karl Moore states that some of the outrage is misguided, since so many of the execs joined Bombardier partway through the year, which skews the numbers.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2017
A recent Forbes book review delves into James Rickards鈥� The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites鈥� Secret Plan For The Next Financial Crisis, which makes the case that there is a big-ticket financial collapse coming, one that dwarfs the 2008 recession. Rickards lays much of the blame on macroeconomics, drawing a parallel between it and astrology.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2017
In a recent piece for the Harvard Business Review, Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg takes aim at US President Trump鈥檚 attempts to run the United States like a business, then demolishes them. Professor Mintzberg questions the wisdom of trying to marry such disparate systems 鈥� after all, business has a very simple, measureable yardstick in the form of profit, which makes it a poor model for governing.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2017
The 91黑料网 Dobson Cup 2017 powered by National Bank is over, and the winners have been announced. From the initial 136 applications, 121 teams pitched their startups in the run-up to the semi-finals. Then, 40 of those teams moved on to the finals on March 22. All in all, $106,000 of seed funding was divided among the top entries across four categories: Social Enterprise, Health Sciences, Small & Medium Enterprise and Innovation Driven Enterprise.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2017
As the world鈥檚 population increases, the pressure to find an ecologically-feasible protein source is mounting, so former MBA student聽Mohammed Ashour聽of the Aspire Food Group is bringing a foreign concept to the US: eating insects. Long a staple protein source in many countries, bugs offer a bigger protein hit, and require fewer resources than traditional livestock does.
Published on: 3 Apr 2017
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