Politics has pervaded the world of business, writes Prof. Karl Moore in Forbes.com. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and equity, diversity听and inclusion (EDI) are both听changing corporate practices.
Business leaders still need to have a strategic vision, but they also need to demonstrate compassion, empathy, and vulnerability on behalf of their company 鈥� all听qualities that have historically been concealed to entrench a leader鈥檚 authority.
The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management Symposium on The Road to Net Zero took place on November 2, marking the opening ceremony of the sixth edition of the 91黑料网 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC).听Thank you to our panelists, Fanny Doucet, CFA, Managing Director & Head, Sustainable Finance at Scotiabank and Lori Kerr, CEO of FinDev Canada for participating in what was an insightful disc
Rich Francis, owner of Seventh Fire Hospitality Group in Six Nations in Ontario and Alberta,听 never set out to be a chef, but leveraged his time on Top Chef Canada to launch a prominent culinary career. Francis focuses on the precolonial culinary traditions of Indigenous peoples, but there are limits on what he鈥檚 able to do. 鈥淢ost of my work is in First Nations communities,鈥� Francis told Prof. Karl Moore in an interview for The Globe and Mail. 鈥淧artially because it鈥檚 illegal to do what I鈥檓 doing using Indigenous products.
Young Canadians are more engaged in their finances than they are sometimes given credit for. And there are things that parents can do to help them learn to manage their money, writes Canadian SME magazine, a publication produced for an audience of small and medium sized enterprises. course is one of them. The free course is a collaboration between the university, RBC and the Globe and Mail, and is to help Canadians of all ages enhance their knowledge.
惭肠骋颈濒濒鈥檚 International Masters Program for Managers (IMPM) gives its students a fresh take on business education, said Ron Duerksen, the Global Executive Director of IMPM. In an interview with the EMFD Global blog, Duerksen elaborated on what makes its approach distinctive.
Aldo Bensadoun began his career at a chemical company, but that didn鈥檛 align with his values 鈥� or his vision. The entrepreneur launched ALDO in 1972, with a vision of love, respect, and integrity. Fifty years later, the company has more than 3,000 stores around the world.
A heartfelt听congratulations听to our undergraduate and graduate students who received their diplomas during the October ceremony.
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Coached by Senior Faculty Lecturer Niels Billou, BCom students Marc Ransom, Amy Pag茅, Izabella Tyc and Hosseyn Al-Moussawi Wasserman traveled to in Waterloo, Ontario, to compete at the Lazaridis International Case Conference Competition.
Congratulations to Karen Zhuang, Lara Landauro, Ma毛 Vernet, and Thanh Nguyen who won the $2500 first place prize in the 2022 Scotiabank Ethics in Action Case Competition (undergrad track) hosted by Dalhousie University. The team, coached by Dr.
We are so proud to have graduated our very first cohort of the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management (GCHM) program! As the group of 20 graduates move on to the next phase of their careers, we look forward to 91黑料网 Desautels' continued partnership with the for Cohort 2 in January 2023.
Congratulations to Master of Management in Finance (MMF) Team 6 students Pascal Audette, Heng Chang, Fenton Garvie, Eugenia Pan and Alexandre Touchette on their win at the 5th MMF Synergy Challenge!
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) represent a possible next step in the technological evolution of banking and the financial intermediation sector, with advances in privacy, fraud protection, and efficiency鈥攂ut their roles and risks on the high-tech path forward are only now becoming clear.
A job description can be pretty different from the job itself. Sometimes this can be because the hiring organization鈥檚 needs are evolving, and they are responding to these changes, write Professor听Lisa Cohen听and听PhD candidate Sara Mahabadi in The Conversation. If an organization becomes aware of their evolving needs during the hiring process, it can help to repost the job ad, so they find the candidates that are best aligned with their actual needs.
For small businesses 鈥� and aspiring businesspeople -- banks have been a financial gatekeeper. Without assets and a business credit profile, businesses are often out of luck. But peer-to-peer lending services are beginning to disrupt an industry that is very set in its ways. Fintech lending platforms like October assign businesses a credit score based on a company鈥檚 financial history, default probability, and projected profit margin. Then, they allow their users to participate in lending to the companies 鈥� and collecting interest.
Remote work promised office workers more freedom and flexibility, but digital surveillance tools are already eroding that. Some employers use digital surveillance tools that monitor employees鈥� computer activity by logging the keystrokes on their keyboard, and even taking web cam photos to ensure that they are dutifully staring at their screens. But this is short-sighted, says Desautels Prof Jean-Nicolas Reyt, as it may cause office relationships to take an unhealthy turn.
