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In an upcoming Retail Leaders Talk, Liza Amlani will speak with Master of Management in Retailing (MMR) students about her vision for helping retail brands build more equitable and sustainable strategies.

As the founder of Retail Strategy Group, a consulting firm that helps retailers build more effective organizations, Amlani believes data and technology can be leveraged to create climate-conscious and consumer-facing solutions to a vast array of industry problems, from sourcing materials to selling a final product.

Classified as: Master of Management in Retailing (MMR), experiential learning, Sustainability
Published on: 14 Dec 2021

In response to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this month, Professor Dror Etzion and his colleagues call for accelerated global action against the ongoing impact of climate change. International collaboration is key to the success of initiatives geared toward cutting down on carbon emissions, they say. They also emphasize the need to invite more diverse, non-governmental voices to the table.

Classified as: Dror Etzion, Sustainability, Strategy and Organization (T)
Published on: 3 Dec 2021

Carbon emissions from a typical company鈥檚 supply chain are on average 5.5 times that of direct emissions, including from facilities and company vehicles. In certain sectors such as retail and food & beverage, that ratio goes up to 10 or 20 times. Reducing the environmental impact of supply chain emissions depends on both public pressure and government regulation.

Classified as: delve, Thought Leadership, Sanjith Gopalakrishnan, Operations Management (T), Sustainability
Published on: 2 Dec 2021

In a new report supported by the Women's Entrepreneur Knowledge Hub out of Ryerson University, Prof. Patricia Hewlin and former Integrated Management fellows Sandra Urbina Chang (惭叠础鈥19), Fiorella Rojas Vizarreta, (MBA鈥19) and Hoaran Wang (BCom鈥20) outline a two-part study on perceptions and attitudes towards supplier diversity.

Classified as: Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), BCom Alumni, MBA Alumni, equity, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Research EDI, Patricia Hewlin, Organizational Behaviour (T), Integrated Management Student Fellowship (IMSF), Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
Published on: 2 Dec 2021

Earlier this fall, the Chinese government banned coverage of feminine-presenting men from TV shows and other broadcasted programming. The news provokes new fears and questions surrounding gender, culture, and art among Chinese communities, says Professor Elena Obukhova. Despite the crackdown, the lines between how the government views feminine and masculine traits remain blurry and undefined, especially in the entertainment industry.

Classified as: Elena Obukhova, Strategy and Organization (T), equity, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Sustainability
Published on: 1 Dec 2021

As the world reflects on pledges made at the United Nations climate conference (COP26) to reduce carbon emissions, and scientists develop new ways to scale up renewable energy, 91黑料网鈥檚 efforts to contribute to a cleaner, carbon-free future will take another big leap forward thanks to a $2-million donation from TD Bank Group (TD).

Classified as: TD Bank Group, 91黑料网 Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy, McISCE, Sustainability
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Published on: 1 Dec 2021

A dedicated group of 91黑料网 students successfully planned the first hybrid iteration of the annual 91黑料网 International Portfolio Challenge.

This year, 91黑料网 invited 114 teams from 26 countries to tackle the challenge of designing sustainable retirement system plans in light of Dutch pension reforms.

Classified as: 91黑料网 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC), Case Competitions and Challenges, Sebastien Betermier, experiential learning, Sustainability
Published on: 30 Nov 2021

A new school for First Nations leaders was launched on Nov. 25, ahead of the Grand Economic Circle of Indigenous People and Quebec, which took place this past Nov. 25 and 26. Initiated by First Nations, this new school is propelled by Executive Education H脡C Montr茅al and will welcome its first cohort starting December 9, 2021.

Classified as: EMBA Alumni, 91黑料网-HEC Montreal Executive MBA (EMBA), Sustainability
Published on: 29 Nov 2021

Concentrations of dissolved oxygen in the deep waters of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (LSLE) have dropped by over 50% over the past two years. The consequences for many marine species, who depend on oxygen to survive, are potentially very serious. A compilation of historical data reveals that dissolved oxygen concentrations in the deep waters of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary decreased by about 50% during the fifty years between 1934 and 1985. And then remained fairly constant until 2019, when the situation changed dramatically.

Classified as: Faculty of Science, St. Lawrence river, Alfonso Mucci, Sustainability
Published on: 26 Nov 2021

Retirement systems around the world, from public pension plans to private funds, are weathering a storm of ultra-low bond yields that threaten not only adequate returns for pensioners but the sustainability of the systems themselves. Designing retirement systems that are resilient to low yields requires balancing risk with resilience and innovative approaches.

Classified as: delve, Thought Leadership, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), 91黑料网 International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC), Sebastien Betermier, finance, Sustainability
Published on: 26 Nov 2021

Maxime Lakat (BCom鈥21) is the executive director of the Canadian Business Youth Council for Sustainable Development. Together with peers from 91黑料网 and other universities, Lakat is spearheading a campaign for Canadian business schools to increase student representation on governance boards and actively integrate sustainability and climate change into their course curricula.

Classified as: Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Sustainability
Published on: 22 Nov 2021

Jaquelynn Mateluna (MBA'21) is leveraging her background in biology, plant sciences, and business to help her clients develop environmentally, financially, and socially sustainable production practices in the food, agriculture and energy industries. As she builds her career as a strategy consultant at EY Parthenon, she expresses gratitude for the ongoing support she receives from her professors and former classmates at the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Classified as: Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA Alumni, alumni, Sustainability
Published on: 22 Nov 2021

Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers led by 91黑料网 has used data from 60 million individual American households to look into how carbon emissions caused by household energy use vary by race and ethnicity across the country. Paradoxically, this first national level analysis found that even though energy-efficient homes are more often found in Caucasian neighbourhoods, carbon emissions from these neighbourhoods are higher than in African American neighbourhoods.

Classified as: mcgill research, Benjamin Goldstein, Department of Bioresource engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, racial discrimination, race, affordable housing, green housing, energy, energy efficiency, carbon efficiency, carbon emissions, infrastructure, United States, Sustainability
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Published on: 22 Nov 2021

Social inequalities are responsible for the loss of millions of ideas and inventions over hundreds of years. This loss over time is measurable today in a decline in innovation, slowing economic growth, and repercussions on all sectors, from technology to health care. The gender gap among inventors affects what gets invented鈥攁nd consequently who benefits from innovation.

Classified as: delve, Thought Leadership, Organizational Behaviour (T), Research EDI Delve, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, John-Paul Ferguson, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
Published on: 19 Nov 2021

Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from small krill to large tuna, seem to obey a simple mathematical law that links an organism鈥檚 abundance to its body size. For example, although small krill are individually only about one millionth of the weight of a large tuna, they also tend to be a million times more numerous throughout the oceans. The idea, known as the Sheldon size spectrum theory, was first advanced in the 1970s, but has never been tested for a wide range of marine species and on a global scale until now.

Classified as: Sustainability, eric galbraith, oceans, fishing industries, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Research
Published on: 10 Nov 2021

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