Consulting Magazine names Desautels grad a 2017 rising star
Consulting Magazine has released its 2017 Rising Stars of the Profession 35 Under 35 list, and number 34 on that list is KPMG鈥檚 Matthew O鈥機onnell, who is named for Excellence in Financial Services. Mr. O鈥機onnell works in the company鈥檚 Forensic Advisory Services Practice, where he deals in anti-corruption, regulatory compliance and conflict minerals. He has taken point on several big-ticket investigations in a multitude of nations.
Principal discovers latest lessons in strategy
On March 9, 2017, the Desautels Faculty of Management was delighted to welcome Principal and Vice-Chancellor of 91黑料网 Suzanne Fortier to one of Professor Elliot Lifson鈥檚 classes on Strategy in Context (MGPO 645).
Un truc ultrasimple pour voler de succ猫s en succ猫s au travail!
A key method for highly-successful peopleA new study by Desautels Assistant Professor Nathan Yang explores how to attain short-and long-term goals, using the database of mobile weight-loss app Lose It! to track user information and success rates.
Bombardier shaken by corruption allegations in Sweden
As Bombardier鈥檚 Swedish office is rocked by allegations of collusion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that Canadian companies operating abroad must operate in good faith, but that the case shouldn鈥檛 affect Ottawa鈥檚 recent $372.5-million loan to the company to fund the CSeries and Global 7000 projects.
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EMBA grad鈥檚 new project is a brewery with a differenceNew Deal Brewing Co鈥檚 Daleyne Guay (EMBA鈥�16) was a serial entrepreneur who made beer in his free time and dreamed of starting a new business with a sustainability mandate. So, when Jean-Fran莽ois Gigu猫re came knocking with a proposal for a new kind of microbrewery, he jumped at the chance.
Porter Airlines鈥� CEO talks growth
Porter Airlines CEO Robert Deluce knows a thing or two about airlines. His father was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, his parents started an airline in Ontario after World War II, and the whole family worked there at some point. Deluce himself got his pilot鈥檚 license while attending high school in Toronto.
How Desautels alumna Monia Mazigh took on the government and won
Monia Mazigh became a household name when her husband, Maher Arar, was detained and held without charge in the US, then deported to Syria in 2002. As Arar suffered in a Syrian cell, Mazigh鈥檚 persistent campaign to get him released not only brought Arar home, it also resulted in a Commission of Inquiry, which cleared him of wrongdoing 鈥� and it changed Mazigh鈥檚 life.
Comment un petit PDG deviendra-t-il grand?
A new generation, a new model of leadershipWith each session at the Institute of Leadership, cofounder Eric Paquette helps turn 250 managers and executives into true leaders, developing rhetoric skills, personal awareness and methods for getting everyone working together towards a unified goal.
Aldo founder passes the torch to his son
Aldo Bensadoun (BCom'64, LLD'12) is stepping down as chairman of the company that bears his name, as is CEO Patrik Frisk 鈥� but continuity won鈥檛 be a problem: Bensadoun鈥檚 son, David, is taking on the CEO job, starting this April.
Profound appoints Desautels alumna to its Board of Directors
In its 2016 financial results press release, Mississauga-based Profound Medical announced the appointment of Samira Sakhia (BCom鈥�90, MBA鈥�01) to its Board of Directors. Ms. Sakhia is also a member of the Desautels International Advisory Board and serves as President of Knight Therapeutics. Prior to that, she was CFO of Paladin Labs, which she helped sell to Dublin-based pharma giant, Endo International.
Desautels scores win at CBS Case Competition 2017
Congratulation to Desautels undergraduates Amir Fawzy Guirguis, 聽Charles Lavoie-Aubuchon, Maria Power, and聽 Samantha Simpson for winning the 2017 CBS Case Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as to Amir Fawzy Guirguis, in particular, for securing the award for Best Speaker.
Shaun Donovan on leadership during economic crisis
The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) recently hosted Shaun Donovan, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget of the United States Government under President Obama, as its latest Integrated Management Symposium speaker.
Bannon, Plato and the decline of America
In a piece for the Asia Times, Desautels Professor Reuven Brenner looks at Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon鈥檚 view of history and how it forms his domestic and foreign strategy. Professor Brenner says that Bannon鈥檚 鈥済enerational view of history鈥� can be traced back to analogues in the ancient world, specifically those of Aristotle and Plato, not to mention the US founding fathers.
Another successful Hot Cities of the World Tour
March 5th, 2017 marked the conclusion of the ninth edition of Professor Karl Moore鈥檚 Hot Cities of the World Tour, which afforded thirty 91黑料网 students from across the University the opportunity to travel to Manila, Palawan and Hong Kong over reading week.
Getting Canadian Entrepreneurs to the next level: the BDC and success
Canada, according to Business Development Bank of Canada chief Michael Denham, is way behind the curve when it comes to scaling small businesses up to the all-important medium-sized company category, which is where most of the innovating and exporting happens. And Denham knows his business. Before becoming President and CEO of the BDC, he held executive and management positions at AquaTerra Corp, Accenture, CGI and Bombardier.
