Congratulations to the student-led Desautels Sustainability Network (DSN) who received a Catalyst Award from the 91黑料网 Office of Sustainability this week under the category of Sustainability in Connectivity & Governance!
The DSN seeks to promote sustainability as a profitable opportunity for businesses. Through various events, they aim to break silos between Faculties, connecting Montreal鈥檚 professional community with students in the BCom program and beyond.
According to a study co-authored by Professor Brian Rubineau, female engineers find consistent evidence that their profession is not an objective meritocracy, but embrace the belief that it is 鈥� thus further perpetuating gender (and other) inequalities.
91黑料网 Dobson Cup winners Taiga Motors discuss the path to commercialization of the world鈥檚 first electric snowmobile, which boasts 0-60 mph in just three seconds and zero emissions to boot.
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Professor Dror Etzion, along with 91黑料网 colleagues Jaye Ellis (Law) and Catherine Potvin (Biology), has been selected to co-lead a research project under the 91黑料网 Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI).
Working under the theme of 鈥淭ransitions鈥�, the team will explore the pivotal role that Small- and Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs) will play as they increasingly shift toward sustainable practices.
Following the release of the American Economic Association鈥檚 survey results revealing the predominance of discrimination against women in the world of finance, Professor Francesca Carrieri affirms that the findings are not surprising.
Coinciding with its theme of Building Future-Readiness, the 91黑料网-HEC Montreal Executive MBA program recently celebrated its tenth anniversary and simultaneously became the University鈥檚 100th Sustainable Event.
The celebrations were deemed Gold, the highest level of certification, by integrating best practices such as incorporating a land acknowledgement for Indigenous territory, reducing food packaging waste and committing to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions related to travel.
The Ville de Montr茅al and 91黑料网 today received Blue Community certification on the occasion of World Water Day. To obtain this certification, they have undertaken to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, to promote publicly managed water services and to ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in their buildings and at their events. Hence Montreal has joined some forty Blue Communities worldwide, including major cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Victoria. For its part, 91黑料网 has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.
Randi Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media recently spoke at Place des Arts in Montreal about empowering fellow women to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions without qualms, particularly in the tech sector.
Celebrated Canadian Olympian Jennifer Heil (BCom鈥�13) knows very well the positive impact that sports can have on a girl鈥檚 confidence, personal growth, and success.
As VP Sport Development at viaSport, she is on a mission to ensure that stereotyping and discrimination are a thing of the past for women athletes.
Rising global maritime traffic could lead to sharp increases in invasive species around the world over the next 30 years, according to a new study by 91黑料网 researchers.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, suggest that shipping growth will far outweigh climate change in the spread of non-indigenous pests to new environments in coming decades.
Team gREen, comprised of MBA students Heena Chhatlani, Mehreen Haider and Fang Yang earned a first-place finish in the Net Impact Sustainability Challenge, coming in victorious over 12 teams from MBA programs across Canada and the US. Haider was further recognized with the Best Speaker Award.
Hosted by the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, the team competed to solve a live case for QuadReal Property Group on sustainable investing in real estate.
The women of 91黑料网 are expanding the frontiers of knowledge, improving society and inspiring others. Included among them is Dean Isabelle Bajeux for her contributions at this year鈥檚 World Economic Forum in Davos.
Authors: He Huang, Shanling Li & Yu Yu
Publication: The Journal of The Textile Institute, Forthcoming
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Paulo Caputo (MBA - Global Strategy & Leadership), Sandra Chang (MBA - Finance, Global Strategy & Leadership), Aditya Chinnakonda (MBA - Business Analytics),听Lo茂c Eloy (BCom - Managing for Sustainability), Maxime Lakat (BCom - Managing for Sustainability), Mari Claire Paoli (BCom - Economics), and Priscille Raynaud (B Arts - Political Science)听recently participated in the Finance & Sustainability Initiative (FSI) Awards Ceremony
Citing recent research co-authored by Professor John-Paul Ferguson, Vox explores how racial segregation in American workplaces has gotten worse over the last generation, suggesting that the shadows of residential segregation follow individuals wherever they go during the day.
