Dishing on cross-border issues
Professor Karl Moore joins Northeast Public Radio to discuss the USMCA agreement (or NAFTA 2.0) and the Canadian sentiment around the proposed terms.
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BCom alumnus promoted to court judge
Howard Leibovich (BCom鈥�90, BCL/LLB鈥�94) Director of the Crown Law Office 鈥� Criminal, at the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, has been appointed as Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, and a Judge ex officio of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
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These headphones can read your thoughts
Dobson X-1 Accelerator participants Orbityl are on a mission to develop a set of headphones that can be controlled by sensing your brain鈥檚 activity.
鈥淎 lot of the research that we鈥檝e done is in brain-computer interface applications 鈥� looking for discrete thoughts that an individual is having as a mechanism to be used for control [of a device],鈥� said Orbityl co-founder Sean Kaiser.
Professor Etzion co-leads MSSI research project focusing on SMEs
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).
Still an uphill battle for women in finance
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.
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Business school recruiters set sights on Africa
Professor Corey Phelps, Associate Dean of Executive Education at Desautels comments on the growing recognition of Africa as a source of top candidates for Canadian business schools. In the case of the International Masters for Healthcare Leadership, some of the program鈥檚 strongest participants have originated from there.
EMBA anniversary celebrated sustainably
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.
Mintzberg among top 30 gurus
Professor Henry Mintzberg ranks 22nd among the world鈥檚 top 30 management professionals for 2019. He is celebrated, in particular, for his contrarian views of management that have elucidated dimensions of the profession that were previously left unquestioned or overlooked.
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HIM students are champions in National Banking Competition
Desautels Honours in Investment Management students Kyle Costanzo, 脡milie Granger, Tejas Saggi, and Eric Van Hees won the top spot in the National Banking Competition in Vancouver, coming in victorious over the 500 applicants and 70 competing teams who made it to the finals.
鈥淣o one ever says you can create your own job鈥�: Catalyzing women鈥檚 big ideas
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.
Announcing a new vegan investment fund
Quebec has just announced a new fund to support vegan enterprises, Vegan Capital, with ACEM emerging as its first investor. For Indu Krishnamurthy (EMBA鈥�15), Executive Director of ACEM, the fund dovetails seamlessly with the company鈥檚 mission.
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An Olympian鈥檚 quest for gender equality
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.
New heights for Syntax
Following the double acquisition of foreign tech companies by Syntax, the company鈥檚 CEO Christian Primeau (EMBA鈥�12) shares his perspective on what this achievement signifies and his vision for the future at a press conference attended by Mr. Pierre Fitzgibbon, Quebec Minister of Economy and Innovation.
The ABC鈥檚 of victory
Over a dozen 91黑料网 students participated in Accuracy鈥檚 Business Cup (ABC) this semester, with one team of Desautels BCom students winning the Canadian final.
Babet Nieman, Michael Amar, and Tanya Gandhi are headed to Paris this week for the international final that will feature representation from six countries.
Looking closer at the F.A.A.
If the Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A.) certified the 737 Max 8 aircraft in 2017, Professor Karl Moore comments on the soundness of their regulatory practice in light of the mandated grounding of the aircraft.
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