IMPM student Isabelle Graveline says that the programme鈥檚 Indian module has changed her approach to business 鈥� and life. She saw how Indian businesswomen were using micro-finance to improve their lives, and visited a $1.5 billion biopharm company, started in its founder鈥檚 garage in 1978, where 鈥渢he biggest stakeholders are the employees.鈥� For Graveline, 鈥渢he firm鈥檚 focus on meeting its workers鈥� expectations really resonated with me.鈥�
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Published on: 20 Mar 2017
SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce sat down with Desautels Associate Professor Karl Moore to discuss what it takes to keep a major engineering firm with 40,000 workers humming 鈥� and crucially, to get his vision out across the whole organization. One of the biggest factors is straight-up communication. Keeping everyone abreast of the overall strategy, as well as the role that each person plays, helps everyone to stay on top of market trends and developments.
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Published on: 20 Mar 2017
For the ninth 91黑料网 Hot Cities tour, Desautels Associate Professor brought 40 students to Hong Kong, then Palawan and Manila in the Philippines to observe some of Asia鈥檚 strongest growing economies.
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Published on: 20 Mar 2017
The Desautels Faculty of Management was well represented at this year鈥檚 HEC Corporate Responsibility Challenge. Among the twelve competing teams, MBA students Taha Ataullah, Bernardo Pr么a Bressane, Hardeep Singh, and Karen Vanthuyne secured second place, while Angela Hernandez Castillo, Matt Jones, Akshay Kohli, and Margarita Komarova placed fifth.
The latter team was invited to present their case solution to the Board of Directors of ACEM Montreal Community Loan Fund in April.
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Published on: 17 Mar 2017
The Desautels MBA case team composed of Catherine Du Pont, Jiawei Lin, Helena Rati, Karen Sidhu, Jessica Truong secured first place at the USC Marshall Global Case Competition, which was hosted at the Amazon Headquarters in Seattle, WA. Congratulations to all!
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Published on: 17 Mar 2017
An undergraduate team from Desautels came home from a case competition in Portugal with an invite to go back for a month-long project aimed at making the city of Porto more attractive to startups. The prize is doubly sweet, as neither the team nor the officials saw it coming. Team member Aarushi Kumar says that 鈥淚t was not something we were expecting and it was not something the organizers were expecting to do, either.鈥�
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Published on: 17 Mar 2017
On March 15, 2017 our #DesautelsFamily came together to raise money for both our Faculty and 91黑料网 as a whole.
A big thank-you to all those in our community who helped make this year鈥檚 #91黑料网24 a success!
Did you know that Desautels graduates alone gave a remarkable $187,000 to 91黑料网?
Whether you are a student, a graduate, a parent, or you work at Desautels, you made a difference for our University. You set records, you inspired others to get involved, and you supported our community.听 Thank you so much!
Published on: 16 Mar 2017
A commitment to change: nonprofits, business sense and research in action
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Published on: 16 Mar 2017
The 91黑料网 Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship鈥檚 recent Startup Financials workshop gave attendees a solid basis from which to build out financial projections, which can be the weakest link in many business plans. Expert presenters included pros from White Star Capital, Appetite (Honorable Mention at the 2016 Dobson Cup), and of course, National Bank.
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Published on: 16 Mar 2017
A recent post on Changeboard examines what leadership will mean for coming generations, seen through the lens of Brexit and Trump in the world today. The piece throws the question to leading business departments from around the world.
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Published on: 16 Mar 2017
Consulting Magazine has released its 2017 Rising Stars of the Profession 35 Under 35 list, and number 34 on that list is KPMG鈥檚 Matthew O鈥機onnell, who is named for Excellence in Financial Services. Mr. O鈥機onnell works in the company鈥檚 Forensic Advisory Services Practice, where he deals in anti-corruption, regulatory compliance and conflict minerals. He has taken point on several big-ticket investigations in a multitude of nations.
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Published on: 15 Mar 2017
On March 9, 2017, the Desautels Faculty of Management was delighted to welcome Principal and Vice-Chancellor of 91黑料网 Suzanne Fortier to one of Professor Elliot Lifson鈥檚 classes on Strategy in Context (MGPO 645).
Strategy in Context explores strategy-making in a series of contemporary industry contexts and how different environments enable some competitive modes and maneuvers, while constraining others.
Along the way, students learn to analyze:
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Published on: 14 Mar 2017
A key method for highly-successful people
A new study by Desautels Assistant Professor explores how to attain short-and long-term goals, using the database of mobile weight-loss app Lose It! to track user information and success rates.
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Published on: 14 Mar 2017
As Bombardier鈥檚 Swedish office is rocked by allegations of collusion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that Canadian companies operating abroad must operate in good faith, but that the case shouldn鈥檛 affect Ottawa鈥檚 recent $372.5-million loan to the company to fund the CSeries and Global 7000 projects.
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Published on: 14 Mar 2017
EMBA grad鈥檚 new project is a brewery with a difference
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Published on: 13 Mar 2017
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