The glass ceiling still exists for many reasons, leaving some women reluctant to apply for promotions and senior leadership positions. To ensure more women are considered for promotions, Professor Brian Rubineau suggests employers generate their own list of potential applicants.
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Published on: 29 Jan 2020
Le Devoir sits down with four students from the Montreal Social Value Fund (MSVF) at 91黑料网, Lina Dieudonn茅, Tanya Gandhi, Bhoomika Saxena and Maxime Lakat, to highlight ways in which they are investing in and advocating for sustainable finance.
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Published on: 29 Jan 2020
Meritocracies are predicated on the belief that only the best are chosen and that hard work and talent are always rewarded. If we presume that talent and hard work are not gender specific, then why is it that assumed meritocracies show extraordinary imbalances between men and women? Surprisingly, part of the answer is the assumption itself: Assuming a setting is a meritocracy can blind even those experiencing discrimination to its actual inequalities.
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Published on: 21 Jan 2020
91黑料网 students are once again at the forefront of the climate movement, finding ways for businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Students in Professor Dror Etzion鈥檚 Strategies for Sustainability course are using solutions proposed by to present viable business cases to help combat climate change. Mariela Tovar highlights some of the cases presented by students.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2020
Authors: Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, Sameer B. Srivastava
Publication: Harvard Business Review, January-February 2020 Issue
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Culture is easy to sense but hard to measure. The workhorses of culture research鈥攅mployee surveys and questionnaires鈥攁re often unreliable.
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Published on: 15 Jan 2020
Authors: He Huang, Shanling Li & Yu Yu
Publication: The Journal of the Textile Institute, Vol. 110, Issue 6, Pages 901-910, 2019
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Published on: 15 Jan 2020
New research from 91黑料网 and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world鈥檚 cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2020
Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in , researchers from 91黑料网, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).
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Published on: 7 Jan 2020
In November 2019, teams in the 91黑料网 International Portfolio Challenge were asked to provide a solution for a fictional pension fund reassessing its investments in the interest of climate action.
In a piece for The Globe and Mail, Professor Sebastien Betermier considers the winning solution in the context of university pension plans.
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Published on: 6 Jan 2020
How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by researchers from 91黑料网 and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam have now confirmed that regular oscillations in predator-prey populations can persist over very long periods
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Published on: 18 Dec 2019
At the recent 91黑料网 International Portfolio Challenge, students once again demonstrated that they are leading the march to sustainability. Asked to consider the options of a pension fund under pressure to divest from the fossil fuel industry, the winning team from HEC Montr茅al presented a solution that is both responsible and realistic.
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Published on: 13 Dec 2019
Sustainable investing is transforming the global finance landscape, with companies that switch to greener initiatives gaining popularity. 91黑料网-HEC Montr茅al EMBA participant Jason Taylor (EMBA鈥�19) comments on the increased transparency of companies reporting on their environment, social and governance (ESG) rating.
Published on: 11 Dec 2019
Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and catchments.
HydroATLAS was co-developed by Bernhard Lehner and his team from 91黑料网鈥檚 Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University鈥檚 Australian Rivers Institute.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from 91黑料网鈥檚 Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
91黑料网 is moving forward to reduce the overall carbon footprint of its investment portfolio, as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and its own stewardship role with respect to sustainability.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
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