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Have you heard about the next big food trend? You won’t find it growing in your garden, but you might find it crawling there.

Classified as: Hult Prize, MBA students
Published on: 23 Jun 2016

Ce n’est pas moi qui fais ce constat lapidaire et déprimant, c’est Estelle Métayer, véritable gourou de l’information et des données. J’ai eu la chance de la rencontrer hier en marge du panel qu’elle animait sur la gestion des villes avec intelligence, au New Cities Summit, à Montréal.

Un mot, avant de poursuivre sur le manque de vision de Montréal, sur cette femme de 46ans qui maîtrise quatre langues, bientôt cinq, et qui pilote des avions par passion.

Classified as: International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL)
Published on: 22 Jun 2016

Fatoumata Diane

Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

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Hometown:Conakry, Guinea

Undergraduate School and Degree:91, Bachelor of Commerce

Where did you work before enrolling in business school?I started my career in Montreal in the Investment Banking Division of CIBC, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Later, I took over a Financial Analyst role at Air Canada, initially focusing on labor negotiations with major unions. Following this, I was promoted to Financial Analysis Manager.

Classified as: Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)
Published on: 22 Jun 2016

This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91 with Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am delighted to sit down with Kevin Lobo, who is the CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, Stryker.

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Classified as: Karl Moore
Published on: 22 Jun 2016

Retirement is not an end but a beginning - an opportunity to experiment and explore, to engage in pursuits you value, and perhaps to reinvent your legacy. Rather than just slipping quietly into retirement, here's why you should create new opportunities towards the end of your career.

Mary Dean Leeis professor Emeritus, organisational behaviour and human resource management at the Desautels Faculty of Management, 91.

Classified as: Mary Dean Lee
Published on: 22 Jun 2016

As week 2 of the 91 X-1 Accelerator comes to an end, we’re happy to see our 6 teams —Appetite,Fractal,FRSH,NXTSENS Microsystems,UGo Smoothies, andVenndor—swiftly settling into their space.

Day by day, the walls and windows are increasingly covered with sticky notes of all colours shapes and sizes, every writable surface is covered with notes, and each desk has someone calling it home — for the next 8 weeks at least.

Classified as: Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship, 91 Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship
Published on: 22 Jun 2016

Researchers Caroll Serron at the University of California at Irvine, Susan S. Silbey at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Erin Cech (who performed the research at Rice University but is now at the University of Michigan), and Brian Rubineau at 91 conducted the study to try to get a better idea of just why women who made it through years of STEM education start migrating out of tech. The effort, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, looked at 40 undergraduate engineering students, male and female, spread among the four schools.

Classified as: brian rubineau
Published on: 22 Jun 2016

„Na czym powinna polegać skuteczna polityka proinnowacyjna?” – to temat wykładu profesora Reuvena Brennera, który we wtorek został zorganizowany dla członków Narodowej Rady Rozwoju oraz ekspertów z zakresu innowacji w Pałacu Prezydenckim.

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Classified as: Reuven Brenner
Published on: 21 Jun 2016

“Managing without soul has become an epidemic in society. Many managers these days seem to specialize in killing cultures, at the expense of human engagement.” That’s what management guruHenry Mintzbergrecentlywroteabout the current state of corporate culture on his blog.

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Classified as: Henry Mintzberg
Published on: 21 Jun 2016

Women who go to college intending to become engineers stay in the profession less often than men. Why is this? While multiple reasons have been offered in the past, a new study co-authored by an MIT sociologist develops a novel explanation: The negative group dynamics women tend to experience during team-based work projects makes the profession less appealing.

Classified as: brian rubineau
Published on: 16 Jun 2016

On June 14, the GCPA program awarded the Lionel Pelham Kent Scholarship to students Josh Faier, Will Gendron-Saulnier, David Song, and Ming Xu. This scholarship was established in 1998 in memory of Lionel Pelham Kent, F.C.A., for high academic standing and communication skills, and is open to students in the final year of the GCPA program. The winning team is chosen based on outstanding skills in written and oral communication as presented in a case competition.

Photo from left to right:David Song, Josh Faier, Ming Xu, Will Gendron-Saulnier

Classified as: Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA Program)
Published on: 16 Jun 2016

The claim of thisrecent bookby Manchester Business School professor Christopher Bones is that too much of a focus on ‘leadership’ in business can be counterproductive and even dangerous for organizations. Seeing leaders as ‘special beings’ risks creating what Henry Mintzberg called ‘leadership apart’: leaders unconnected to their organizations, insulated from conflict, challenge, and debate; and unwitting creators of a culture of conformity and compliance rather than creativity and innovation.

Classified as: Henry Mintzberg
Published on: 16 Jun 2016

Henry Mintzberg has been sharing his insights on management for almost 40 years. Often original and provocative, his booksThe Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning and Managers not MBAsare still widely cited, Mintzberg’sManagingbrings together a lot of Mintzberg’s key ideas on the practice of management, as exemplified by Mintzberg’s observations of a day in working lives of 29 managers from a wide ride of organisations. For anyone wanting a concise and elegant statement of some of Mintzberg’s most important ideas,Managingis an excellent place to start.

Classified as: Henry Mintzberg
Published on: 16 Jun 2016

Maria Labrecque Duchesneau et Beverley McLachlin également au nombre des personnalités qui ont reçu un doctorat honorifique de 91 cette année

Deux Montréalais figurent au nombre des 14 personnalités à qui 91 a décerné un doctorat honorifique au cours de ses cérémonies de collation des grades de fin d’année : la journaliste et présentatrice duTéléjournalde 22 h de Radio-Canada, Céline Galipeau, et le fondateur de la chaîne Dollarama, Larry Rossy.

Classified as: Larry Rossy
Published on: 16 Jun 2016

TheSoutar Career Centreat91’sDesautels Faculty of Management(91 Desautels) plans recruiting events and helps students hone their interview skills, but did you know that they also play a critical role in the admissions process by providing feedback on non-typical applicants?

Classified as: Career services, Soutar Career Centre
Published on: 16 Jun 2016

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