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Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91 with Talking Management for the Globe and Mail sitsdown in Vancouver with Sheen Levine, from the University of Texas at Dallas and Columbia University.

Read full transcript: , April 16, 2016

Classified as: Karl Moore
Published on: 19 Apr 2016

POXEL SA (Euronext - POXEL - FR0012432516), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel treatments for type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease, today announced that Pierre Legault has been appointed the new Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Legault joined Poxel's Board of Directors in February 2016 and will succeed Dr. Thierry Hercend, who will continue to support Poxel as a member of its Board.

Classified as: MBA, Pierre Legault
Published on: 19 Apr 2016

CablePlan Plannica reduces the planning cycle from days to minutes. It enhances and improves the decision making of production planners. CablePlan reduces the manual workload and releases the decision makers’ valuable time, enabling them to regain responsiveness and flexibility in the planning cycle. CablePlan enables planners to increase their planning horizon, enables smarter optimization and allows planning considering multiple objectives.

Classified as: Mehmet Gumus
Published on: 19 Apr 2016

According toForbes, there are “three major disconnects” that “prevent business schools, especially those with full-time MBA programs,” from developing leaders. Topping the list is a lack of sufficient emphasis on soft “people” skills, Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management, 91, told the magazine.

Classified as: Henry Mintzberg
Published on: 19 Apr 2016

What started as a series of mishaps while flying with United Airlines 20 years ago will culminate Friday in a 91 professor and one of the world’s largest passenger carriers facing off in a Montreal courtroom.

United Continental Holdings Inc. is suing Jeremy Cooperstock, an engineering professor at 91, over his customer complaint website, Untied.com. The airline wants Cooperstock to delete contact information for its management and lawyers; he has refused.

Classified as: Karl Moore
Published on: 19 Apr 2016

Pierre Legault a rejoint Poxel en apportant plus de 35 ans d’expérience de l’industrie biotechnologique et pharmaceutique. Il est membre du Conseil d’Administration de Tobira Therapeutics (Président du Comité d’Audit), de ceux d’Iroko Pharmaceuticals et de NephroGenex. Au cours de sa carrière, M. Legault a été Président, Directeur Général et Directeur Financier de plusieurs sociétés cotées incluant Eckerd Pharmacies, NephroGenex, OSI Pharmaceuticals et Rite Aid. Il a occupé plusieurs fonctions seniors chez Sanofi-Aventis et sociétés précédentes. M.

Classified as: MBA, Pierre Legault
Published on: 19 Apr 2016

After 21 years at the George Washington University School of Business,Isabelle G. Bajeux-­Besnainoulast year became the first female dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91, in Montreal. She says she was lured by the university’s "impeccable reputation" and its location in a bilingual city with European and North American roots.

Read full article: , April 17, 2016

Classified as: Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou
Published on: 19 Apr 2016

The following BCom students were awarded the Kenneth F. Byrd Prize entrance scholarships:

  • Jenny Bradley-Tessier
  • Nathaniel Kirsh
  • James McCollough-Gilbert
  • Alanna NUssbaum
  • Alexander McGarry
  • Kaihua He

About the Award:

Classified as: Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA Program), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)
Published on: 15 Apr 2016

For those who may not know, every year the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference holds theFirst Pitch Case Competition. The competition is designed to give top graduate students the opportunity to work with a major sports organization to analyze and evaluate their most challenging issues. This year, teams worked with Ticketmaster to explore better ways for the company to improve its partnership with the NBA through a multitude of different technological advancements.

Classified as: MBA
Published on: 12 Apr 2016

The parallel universe of some of the world’s wealthy and their bankers was exposed just over a week ago by a massive leak on its inner workings. The Panama Papers concerning more than 200,000 offshore companies continue to create enough waves internationally that the whistleblower on the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca will, when identified, probably become known as the world’s leading “Information Patriot.”

Classified as: Henry Mintzberg
Published on: 12 Apr 2016

La voixa révélé des artistes plus éclectiques que ceux deStar Académie. Des «enfants du millénaire» bilingues qui ont attendu de gagner en maturité artistique plutôt que de sortir un album rapidement après leur passage à l'émission. Voici trois artistes pour qui l'intégrité passe avant la visibilité: Charlotte Cardin, Matt Holubowski et Geoffroy.

AvantLa voix, Geoffroy a étudié en gestion à l'Université 91. Il a voyagé, travaillé pour l'étiquette Analekta, puis il a fait une maîtrise en gestion des arts au campus espagnol de l'Université Berkeley.

Classified as: Geoffroy
Published on: 12 Apr 2016

With over 30 years of expertise in Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Penny Price, IMHL’10, continues to lead change and advancement for heath care. She was recently recognizedin a 2016 list of the top 14 most influential women in EMS.

Price is the director at Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario.In 1999, she left Canada to become executive director of the National Ambulance Service of Qatar in the Middle East. Though there was limited ambulance service in the capital city, herrole was to build an EMS systemto serve the entire nation.

Classified as: International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL)
Published on: 11 Apr 2016

Popular culture loves the mythology of the self-made success, the boot-strapping individual who eschews formal education to blaze a path to success. But, while superstar dropouts can capture our imaginations – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg – they are the exceptions, not the rule.

Classified as: Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management, entrepreneurship, Integrated Education
Published on: 10 Apr 2016

Ken Lester,Desautels Faculty of Management, was interviewedbyMutsumiTakahashion Panama Papers.

Watch full video: , 8 April, 2016

Classified as: finance, Kenneth Lester
Published on: 8 Apr 2016

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