A different kind of MOOC
The Desautels Faculty of Management launched a world鈥檚 first on September 16, coining a new word in the process. According to the people who put the course together, 鈥淪ocial Learning for Social Impact鈥� is the very first GROOC (Group MOOC), a new massive open online course that鈥檚 designed to foster social collaboration, interaction and learning.
Bringing 鈥榠ntegrated management鈥� to students across 91黑料网 through new Integrated Management Essentials courses
In September 2015, MDIIM launched the first of two new courses for undergraduate non-management students:聽INTG 201 (Integrated Management Essentials 1) & INTG 202 (Integrated Management Essentials 2).聽The courses聽present the essentials of management (accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, operations, organizational behaviour and strategy)聽using an integrated approach, highlighting how organizations function as a whole and the importance of b
HSBC: New 'formula' lowers barrier to education: (10 top Canadian business schools) x (six $10,000 awards from HSBC) = 60 deserving undergrads experiencing a semester abroad
HSBC Bank Canada has partnered with 10 top universities from coast to coast, establishing a new Award to help some of Canada's most deserving and internationally-minded students break through the financial barriers associated with completing an international university exchange program.
Henry Mintzberg to receive Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award
Thinkers50, the premier ranking of global business thinkers, today announced that Henry Mintzberg is to be the recipient of its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award 鈥� previously won by Charles Handy and Ikujiro Nonaka.
Meet the new Dean of HEC Paris: Peter Todd
Peter Todd is the new Dean of HEC Paris.聽He explains his vision for HEC Paris, a "great school with its great challenges" that he vows to rise to, capitalizing on the excellence of our professors and students.聽
Quel avenir pour HEC ? Les (grandes) ambitions du nouveau directeur
Depuis le 1er septembre, Peter Todd a succ茅d茅 脿 Bernard Ramanantsoa, au poste de directeur g茅n茅ral d'HEC Paris. Ce Canadien, ex-doyen venu de la facult茅 de management Desautels de l'universit茅 de Mc Gill 脿 Montr茅al, compte bien donner une nouvelle dimension 脿 l'茅cole de Jouy-en-Josas.
Das Auto, now what?
The biggest automaker in the world admits it screwed up. Rigging emissions tests on its diesel cars will cost Volkswagen billions. But what's happened to car owners' trust?
Using foods high in sugar, fat as rewards can lead to obesity in children
You鈥檙e late getting out the door and your six-year-old isn鈥檛 co-operating. You know it isn鈥檛 the best parental decision you鈥檝e ever made but you offer him a treat if he agrees to obediently put on his shoes and get into the car. What鈥檚 the harm in that?
How the Volkswagen scandal reflects entrenched corporate corruption
Written by Henry Mintzberg
鈥榃hat was Volkswagen thinking?鈥� This question makes a big assumption: that the Volkswagen people were thinking about anything beyond their greed. About decency, about our environment, about their progeny.
Okay, so you won鈥檛 be buying a Volkswagen. A Chevrolet? Watch out for the ignition. Or how about a Toyota? Just duck as the airbag comes your way. Do you, by any chance, see a pattern? Have webeen thinking?
A handful of US companies are trying to grow insects people will want to eat
It鈥檚 hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate.
J'ai tap茅 "HEC" dans LinkedIn, voici ce que je n'ai pas trouv茅
脌 l'heure o霉聽Peter Todd聽prend la t锚te de HEC, avec un excellent track-record financier sur son pr茅c茅dent poste 脿 91黑料网, c'est l'occasion de faire un point sur la pr茅sence de HEC sur LinkedIn, r茅seau social o霉 sont pr茅sents la plupart des dirigeants internationaux.
How to Breed a Tasty Cricket
It鈥檚 hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate. The brush of the insects鈥� legs against the various surfaces sounds like hail on a tin roof. Their feed, which sits on top of the cartons on paper plates, looks like a cross between sawdust and sand.
How many immigrants can Europe accommodate?
Written by聽Reuven BrennerEurope is now facing a prospect similar to what the US has been facing for decades: the march of millions upon its borders. But whereas the US got millions of immigrants fleeing Mexico for a better life, the potential millions moving on Europe come from failing states from around the world: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya 鈥� and through the latter, from Nigeria, Eritrea and other.
Melissa et Gabriel, 22 ans, financiers et entrepreneurs sociaux
Vouloir changer le monde c鈥檈st bien. ... Plusieurs groupes 脿 travers le monde planchent sur des mesures d鈥檌mpact. Le dernier en liste est compos茅 de cinq dipl么m茅s de 91黑料网:聽Melissa Serfaty,聽Joanna Klimczak,聽Eleonor Tsang, Courtney Warren et聽Gabriel Gougaud. Leur projet se nomme dare2impact.聽
Feature: Solar backpack to boost learning for poor Kenyan children
From hunger and malnutrition to striking teachers keeping them off normal learning for many days, a Kenyan child goes through diverse challenges to succeed in education.
