MONTREAL - The ad agency brief was clear: Get more people shopping at a Montreal bicycle store. The creative talent came cheap: 30 marketing students working free-of-charge for two weeks. And after an evening of pitches to a panel of judges and the selection of winners, the end game now approaches: A $10,000 publicity campaign to be launched in April.
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013
IMHL Class 4 participant Joanne Liu is the winner of the prestigious 2013 Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Every year, the Royal College allocates $1 million through its National and Regional Awards and Grants Program to honour the exceptional accomplishments of Fellows, as well as encourage excellence in specialty medicine.
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Published on: 1 Feb 2013
A prolific author of 150 articles, 15 books, and a few short stories, Henry Mintzberg has been a professor at his alma mater 91黑料网 for 40 years. He's currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management, and for much of the past decade has been developing new approaches to management education and development.
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Published on: 28 Jan 2013
Il y a une d茅cennie, les femmes 茅taient encore peu nombreuses dans les cohortes de MBA au Qu茅bec. Depuis quelques ann茅es, elles repr茅sentent en moyenne de 25 脿 35 % des 茅tudiants dans ces programmes.
La pr茅sence des femmes dans les classes de MBA pour cadres en exercice est appel茅e 脿 cro卯tre au cours des prochaines ann茅es.
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Published on: 28 Jan 2013
Pendant deux ans, St茅phanie Hamelin, 41 ans, a men茅 de front son r么le de m猫re de deux jeunes enfants, son emploi de directrice strat茅gie et d茅veloppement des affaires au Mouvement Desjardins 脿 L茅vis et ses 茅tudes de MBA, qu'elle a obtenu en juillet dernier 脿 l'Universit茅 Laval.
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Published on: 28 Jan 2013
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management, 91黑料网, speaks with Brian Fetherstonhaugh (BCom鈥�79), Chairman & CEO, OgilvyOne Worldwide.
Watch interview: , January 24, 2013
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Published on: 28 Jan 2013
Despite uncertain economic times, the latest MBA graduates from business schools in Canada and around the world are landing jobs (and good salaries) at a speedy pace unparalleled in a decade, according to a new survey.
鈥� The survey results 鈥渟end a very strong message鈥� about the value of an MBA, says Tamer Boyaci, associate dean of masters programs at 91黑料网鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management. 鈥淚t means the investment the students are making is paying off.鈥�
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Published on: 28 Jan 2013
听Although John Law's name is now associated with the 18th century South Sea Bubble, the problem he wanted to solve was the same that central banks are struggling with today: "How much money and credit can be created without bringing about inflation, destabilizing the economy, or destabilizing the international financial system?" Law's proposal then was that a "land-collateralized" note issue would be the solution.
-Article by Reuven Brenner
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Published on: 28 Jan 2013
Careers are a lot longer than people think. Most of my undergrad and MBA students are in a great rush to get on with it. And they should but they need to take the long view. I recently interviewed OgilvyOne鈥檚 CEO Brian Fetherstonhaugh (BCom鈥�79) who is one of the smartest people I know. Brian separates a career into three sections, allowing for some perspective and an eye on the future.
-Article by Karl Moore
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Published on: 28 Jan 2013
A $90,000 area rug, a pair of guest chairs that cost almost as much, a $35,000 toilet and a $1,400 trash can鈥攖hese are just a few of the expenses from a remodeling of John Thain's office when he took over as Merrill Lynch's chief executive officer in December 2007. The total bill came to an astonishing $1.2 million鈥攁bout the price of five average single-family homes.
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Published on: 11 Jan 2013
Desautels BCom students took three top 3 podiums at the听25th edition of the Jeux du Commerce, hosted by HEC Montreal from January 4 to 6, 2013.
Over 1,200 students from 13 Eastern-Canadian universities attended this inter-university competition. In addition to competitions that applied academic knowledge to real-life situations, there were opportunities to network with students from different universities, and connect with members of the business community. Sports and social competitions were also part of the event.
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Published on: 11 Jan 2013
A Desautels BCom team composed of Jacqueline Crapper and Wenxi (Kathy) Kang placed 1st in the Human Resources case competition at the 35th annual Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) hosted by Queen鈥檚 University from January 3 to 5, 2013.
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Published on: 11 Jan 2013
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网 talks to five senior women leaders about the nature of leadership today.
Read full transcript: , January 8, 2013
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Published on: 10 Jan 2013
The Op茅ra de Montr茅al is set to stage Die Fledermaus on Jan. 26, but the singer the company bills as "the prince of Quebec tenors," Marc Hervieux, is refusing to sing during rehearsals, which began this week.
Hervieux says he is on a "vocal cord strike," upset with the posters advertising Johann Strauss II's Viennese operetta, known in French as La Chauve-Souris and in English as The Bat.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2013
Billionaire press baron Mortimer Zuckerman (LLD鈥�11), the Montreal-born former rival of Conrad Black, says he is being encouraged to run for New York mayor 鈥� by the man who holds the title.
鈥淚 would love to be in that job,鈥� said Mr. Zuckerman in a New York Times article Monday hinting that current Mayor Michael Bloomberg 鈥� a fellow billionaire media magnate 鈥� was considering the 75-year-old as a potential successor.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2013
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