2016 91黑料网 Dobson Cup winners eye US expansion
From winning first place for Social Enterprise track in the 2016 91黑料网 Dobson Cup to an upcoming US tour with an eye towards expansion, 91黑料网 alumni Chloe Chow (BSc鈥�15) and Sarah Fennessy know they鈥檙e onto a good thing. As students, both had waited long to see a campus counsellor, so they started Vent Over Tea to help fill the gaps left by more traditional therapy solutions.
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For recession-wary restaurateurs, specialised customer service is the key
In a recent piece for Food NewsFeed, Desautels alumnus Josh Ostrega (BCom'98) says that today鈥檚 slumping full-service restaurant scene needs to get its groove back. Pressured on one side by fast-casual eateries and on the other by home-delivery apps, the traditional sit-down restaurant is in an uncertain place.
Desautels alumna is new Concordia controller
The former senior project director for Finance and Administration at the 91黑料网 Faculty of Medicine, Gracie Pardillo (BCom'89, DPA'91) is the new controller at Concordia University, replacing outgoing interim controller Lyne Bouret as of August 7. She comes to the job with almost 30 years鈥� experience in management, including over a decade in post-secondary education. She is a chartered professional accountant and certified as a fraud examiner and internal auditor.
Female deans share advice for young women graduating from business schools
For convocation season, Poets & Quants asked several female deans of business schools what the current crop of new female grads should think about as they start out in the high-octane world of business, whether they鈥檙e entering the workforce or striking out on their own.
Desautels researchers link thrill-seeking CEOs to increased innovation
CEOs with a real taste for excitement can be a company鈥檚 best bet for upping its innovation cred, according to a paper co-authored by a Desautels professor Jingjing Zhang.
The paper studied 88 CEOs who were pilots, comparing them to 1,123 non-pilot chief executives over ten years. Pilot CEOs helped increase their companies鈥� patents by almost 67 per cent.
Boeing-Bombardier dispute heats up
Boeing鈥檚 petition against Bombardier for allegedly dumping the C Series jet in the American Market sparked off a possibly long and winding legal process. Boeing claims that government subsidies have allowed Bombardier to undercut Boeing, giving a Delta aircraft order as an example. As for Bombardier, the company states that any material injury related to its practises are speculative at best.
How employers must change to suit Generation Z
In a recent piece for Retail TouchPoints, WorkJam鈥檚 Joshua Ostrega (BCom鈥�98) discusses the difference between millennials and Generation Z, and how employers should be prepared to mould their management style to suit this important and emerging workforce.
How to keep showrooming from killing your business
Salesfloor CEO and Desautels alumnus Oscar Sachs (BA鈥�96, MBA鈥�99) knows his stuff when it comes to showrooming and the retail overhaul. His company specializes in helping retailers transition into a new paradigm that merges e-commerce with a personalized on-site shopping experience.
Karl Moore calls LinkedIn the introvert鈥檚 secret weapon for networking
Desautels Professor Karl Moore writes for Thinkers50 that LinkedIn is the perfect networking tool for introverts, because it lets them communicate with others from the comfort of their own homes or offices, without the 鈥渨orking the room鈥� aspect that extroverts thrive on.
Mintzberg on healthcare management and how to fix it
In his new book, Managing the Myths of Healthcare, Desautels professor Henry Mintzberg decries the current management culture being foisted on society by leadership programs, describing it as 鈥渄etached, generic, technocratic,鈥� before going on to claim that it can too easily lead to bullying and divisiveness.
Desautels professor on Bangladesh Government鈥檚 bank-deposits tax
In a recent piece for The Daily Star, Desautels professor Mo Chaudhury calls the tax on bank deposits in the Government of Bangladesh鈥檚 2017-18 budget a bad call, and gives six examples that outline exactly why. He acknowledges the ongoing budgetary challenges faced by the country, but counters that taxing bank deposits may send savers towards stocks, real-estate or even the black market, which will just compound the problem.
Introducing our newest Global Experts
The Desautels Faculty of Management welcomes Darshan Jain (MBA鈥�88) and Harsha Rajamani (BCom鈥�06) as its latest Desautels Global Experts.
Desautels Dean on retail changes and opportunity
In a recent op-ed for the Montreal Gazette, Desautels Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou discussed the seismic changes that have affected the retail sector over the past thirty years.
Karl Moore on taking an extrovert break
Karl Moore can talk to anyone, writes prolifically, and lends his expertise on a wide range of subjects. But in a recent piece for Forbes, the Desautels Professor admits that one thing he can鈥檛 do is work from home.
He blames it on the fact that he is an extrovert: after a few hours spent banging out a book, Prof. Moore needs human contact in order to recharge his batteries.
