eXplorance, the leading provider of聽Learning Experience Management solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to its executive team, cementing its commitment to continuous improvement and growth. Marc Lamy joins eXplorance as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Charles Assaf as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Dr. Yeona Jang as Executive VP, Strategic Initiatives Office (SIO).
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Published on: 6 Jul 2016
Rather than slipping quietly into retirement, managers should create new opportunities toward the end of their careers, Professor Mary Dean Lee from the聽Desautels Faculty of Management聽at 91黑料网 suggests.
Professor Lee and her research team interviewed 100 executives and managers who had recently retired or were actively considering it and HR professionals from 24 companies to explore the different paths taken to retirement today.聽
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Published on: 6 Jul 2016
Since the recession of 2008 and 2009, increasing concern has been expressed by politicians, union leaders and analysts concerning the decline of manufacturing in Canada. Indeed, during the past half-century, the share of manufacturing as a percentage of Canadian GDP has declined from just under 25 percent to 10 percent. The declines are also recorded when measured by employment levels or the number of new auto assembly plants.
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Published on: 6 Jul 2016
Twenty-first century leadership needs more than just having a qualification, but special skills that one can work on. Leadership is complex to those who lead from a control or autocratic standpoint. It鈥檚 rewarding to those who understand people, communication, learning, serving and other soft skills.聽
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Published on: 6 Jul 2016
From boosting retention to bridging the generation gap, reverse mentoring is brimming with potential.聽
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Published on: 6 Jul 2016
Six years ago 91黑料网鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management took the unprecedented decision for a Canadian business school to raise its MBA fees to a level that would make the course self-funding.
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Published on: 6 Jul 2016
Imagine you work for the police and are involved in large covert surveillance of a notorious criminal. The team is experienced and includes a helicopter, cars, a high tech listening post, and over a dozen agents observing the site. Just after your team has taken positions, your subject gets shot. You can see the shooter, but are unable to move.聽Your colleagues cannot see what is happening, but you have difficulty getting into contact with them. The local police do not have a clue of what is going on 鈥� it鈥檚 a covert operation after all. They can鈥檛 start helping you out of the blue.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
But some competitors don鈥檛 follow the pattern. Semifinalist聽Sean Sutherland, 39, grew up in St. Vincent and The Grenadines, and he fell in love with the piano early on. By the time he was fifteen, however, he had exhausted the piano teaching resources available on St. Vincent. He kept up his musical activities by becoming the arranger and manager for a 鈥渂oy band鈥� (one of his bandmates was聽Kevin Lyttle, now a highly successful pop singer). After a three-year lapse in his piano study, Sutherland enrolled at MIT, receiving degrees in music and electrical engineering/computer science.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
From boosting retention to bridging the generation gap, reverse mentoring is brimming with potential
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
Hydraulic fracturing (鈥渇racking鈥�) is a technology employed in the production of oil and gas from unconventional shale formations. Over the last decade, tens of thousands of fracking wells have been drilled worldwide. Fracking often takes place in relatively populated areas, thus posing an array of risks to public health such as water contamination and induced seismicity. In addition to inspecting and monitoring these risks, regulators now face the challenge of keeping the public well informed about their extent.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
The sudden departure of David Leduc has left the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace searching for a new executive director for the second time in less than 12 months.
Leduc鈥檚 hiring was announced July 28 last year. He came to Development and Peace with a history of frontline community development work in the Middle East and 11 years as director of operations at 91黑料网鈥檚 International Community Action Network. His undergraduate degree in international development from Dalhousie University was supplemented with an MBA from 91黑料网.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
On June 22, seven members of the 91黑料网 community were among the 34 new appointments to the National Order of Quebec, the province鈥檚 highest civilian honour.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
Some Quebecers like Angus Bell are ready to pull an all-nighter to find out whether the United Kingdom will leave the European Union.
"I am very nervous. It's another referendum where it's 50-50," says Bell, who is the owner and founder of a multi-sports centre in Montreal called Ministry of Cricket and Other Homeless Sports.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
Britain鈥檚 historic vote to exit the European Union has the financial markets in a tizzy and many observers expressing hyperbolic views of a disaster ahead. While BREXIT has many implications for the United Kingdom鈥檚 higher education market, much of what will actually occur is uncertain. Some conclude that there will be limited impact. Others are more pessimistic. 鈥淭he global attractiveness of British higher education will take a hit,鈥� flatly predicts John A. Quench, a Harvard Business School professor who had been dean of London Business School from 1998 to 2001.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2016
The import of making choices is often revealed after the choice has been made.聽 In global health we are often faced with the reality that there is never really a 鈥渞ight choice鈥� or a 鈥渨rong choice鈥�.聽 聽It is a series of trade-offs and in low resource environments how one allocates scarce resources takes on a zero-sum persona.
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Published on: 27 Jun 2016
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