Why Retailers Should Be Planning Their Tech Tools for 2017's Holiday Season
The holidays are in full-swing, and retailers are working through what is projected to be a highly profitable season. The National Retail Federation听expects听sales in November and December to increase 3.6 percent to $655.8 billion, up from $632.8 billion last year. An improving economy spells good news for retailers 鈥� so long as they have the labor needed to take full advantage.
Heike Birlenbach Will Become New Head Of Sales For The Hub Airlines Of The Lufthansa Group
The Lufthansa Group has appointed Heike Birlenbach (50) as the new Senior Vice President Sales Lufthansa Hub Airlines and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Hub Frankfurt. She will succeed Jens Bischof, who has been appointed to the position of Managing Director of the airline SunExpress, effective 1 January 2017. SunExpress is a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines.
Business schools heed the call for more data-literate graduates
Deloitte Analytics and other companies have been pushing Canadian universities for years to produce more data-literate graduates to fill their talent needs. Their efforts appear to be paying off, with business schools ramping up their offerings in data analytics.
In the Desautels MBA with a concentration in analytics, students take a five-course concentration that involves three sides: descriptive, predictive and a prescriptive.
Whither MBAs? Rigour, relevance and results
An MBA has always been a sought-after qualification among managers. It has been hailed as a competency builder on one hand and hacked as a money spinner for mushrooming institutions.听 I read with interest the constructively critical insights by Dr. Rakesh Khurana on elite Harvard MBA. It reminded me of Henry Mintzberg, the veteran management thinker who was also critical about the typical MBAs on offer. 听
Mark Michaud Commended by the Quebec Government
Mark Michaud, MBA'14,听Director of Administration, recently received a commendation letter from the Ministry of Education鈥檚 Director General of University Affairs, Jean-Fran莽ois Lehoux, thanking him for his outstanding contribution to the workgroup that spent over a year reviewing the academic classification system used by the Quebec Government.
Winner Announced: Bloomberg Manulife Prize
91黑料网, in association with Lawrence and Frances Bloomberg and Manulife, is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Robinson, a Stanford University professor of Pediatric Medicine and pioneer in using novel motivational techniques to combat childhood obesity, is the winner of the 2016 Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health.
50 GCPA Students Successfully Passed the CPA Common Final Exam
Desautels students enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program have written the CPA CFE (common final exam) and the results are in! We are pleased to announce that 50 students successfully passed the exam, while one among them, Marie-France Legault (BCom鈥�15, GCPA'16), placed on the national听honour roll. Congratulations to all!听
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Trump (or Asia) will make the Metropolitan Opera great again
Though Broadway musicals (including Andrew Lloyd Webber and even the late Pavarotti鈥檚 occasional Atlantic City solo) do not compare in many minds to opera, Las Vegas has been discovering the long-forgotten relationship between gambling and culture.
Hitting the Road for Warren Buffett
In 2006, Professor听Karl Moore听led 40 Desautels Faculty of Management students to Omaha, Nebraska to learn from legendary investment guru, Warren Buffett.
Heike Birlenbach appointed Vice President Sales Lufthansa Group for the EMEA sales region
Since 2014 Mrs. Heike Birlenbach holds the position of Vice President Sales Europe Lufthansa Group Airlines. As of next year, 2017, she will assume the role of听Vice President Sales EMEA Lufthansa Group Airlines. In this position Birlenbach will not only be responsible for all sales and commercial activities in Europe but also in the Middle East and Africa.
Canadian Schools Tumble In Bloomberg Businessweek International Ranking
In fact, every Canadian business school lost ground on the list, essentially suggesting a sample problem with the employer survey, especially when three MBA programs in Canada fell nine positions in a single year.
Han hopes to challenge conventional thinking in coaching ranks
Jack Han can tell you the precise moment he decided he wanted to be a professional hockey coach.
A wise guy might suggest that since Han is now all of 27 years old, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to remember that, or anything else about his young life, but we digress.
Zoe Yujnovich: 鈥業 actually really value listening to others before I speak鈥�
One of the reasons I love the industry that I work for听is the opportunity to experience different parts of the world. There are many differences across cultures, some a bit obvious 鈥� like the food we eat and the things we do. But in essence, there is a really strong commonality. People all over the world want to come to work, be recognized for doing a great job, and contribute to something that energizes them. Everyone wants to make a real difference.
Why is the media on the left? Why the contempt for workers?
I spent the first fourteen years of my life under communism. When my parents got out in 1962, I realized to my utter astonishment that much of academia was on the left, praising communism, rationalizing increased centralization of powers under a variety of jargons. Even the US was not immune to these ideas, and that the left and academia despised workers who wanted routine lives, rather than revolutions.
91黑料网 MBA Japan Program teaches timeless business principles
In today鈥檚 fast-changing corporate world, team-building, global leadership and how to build start-up companies are more important than ever. Those business principles are all taught at the 91黑料网 MBA Japan Program, one of the most well-known programs in Asia.
