Desautels wins Canadian Brandstorm for the second year in a row!
Congratulations to Maripaz Fern谩ndez, Marianne El Yordy Morera and Juan de los Santos who will be headed to Paris to compete at L鈥橭real鈥檚 Brandstorm finals on June 18 in Paris.
Internship Opportunity with the Social Economy Initiative in partnership with the 91黑料网 Quartier de l鈥橧nnovation
The Social Economy Initiative in partnership with the 91黑料网 Quartier de l鈥橧nnovation (QI) team invites 91黑料网 student (graduate and undergraduate) applications to a part-time 6-month internship developing a case study on 91黑料网鈥檚 partnership and involvement with the Salon 1861 (Gestion immobili猫re Quo Vadis).听
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Health Initiative Hosts MD MBA Alumni Event
In November 2014, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Managment (MDIIM)'s Health Initiative hosted its first formal MD MBA Alumni event. Entitled "Technology and Innovation in Health Management: MD-MBA Alumni Share their Experience",听the full day event featured opening remarks by Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, CEO of the Jewish General Hospital, and presentations by alumni Dr. Sacha Bhatia, Dr.
91黑料网 program empowers women in Japan
Yo Omata is an ambitious woman. At 36, she is a medical science liaison with a U.S. pharmaceutical company in Tokyo, a job that perfectly complements her professional experience as a scientist with a PhD in dentistry.
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Nancy Adler among Top 30 Global Gurus for 2015
Professor Nancy J. Adler has been ranked #23 in the leadership professionals category in the 2015 Global Gurus Ranking.
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Sustainable Innovation through Green Chemistry Case Competition Promotes Cross-Faculty Collaboration
On January 16-17, 2015, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), CREATE in Green Chemistry, and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED), jointly hosted a workshop and case competition on Sustainable Innovation through Green Chemistry.
Insider Trading Investigators Have a Blind Spot
Over the past year, a record 266 companies have spun off divisions in a trend bankers are calling 鈥淪pinmania.鈥� If history is any guide, about 35 of those deals will have leaked undetected to inside traders.
Professor Gregory Vit: "The Risk in Risk Management: Financial Organizations and the Problem of Conformity" book release
91黑料网 Desautels Professor Gregory Vit's book:听The Risk in Risk Management: Financial Organizations and the Problem of Conformity was reviewed听in the March 2015 Issue of Organization Studies. The reviewer, Professor Iain Munro, concluded: "鈥his book deserves to be widely read and听I听have no doubt that its scrupulous lessons will better equip us and our students to avoid such financial misadventures in the future."
Management Undergraduate Society raises $45 thousand for cancer research
New initiatives contribute to increased revenuesby听Cece Zhang
Jan 27, 2015
The Management Undergraduate Society (MUS) organized the Winter Carnival and the Cancer Auction, raising approximately $45,000 towards cancer research this year, a significant increase from last year鈥檚 events, which raised $30,000.
Desautels MBAs Win Consulting Prize at USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge
MBA students Sankalp Sachdeva, Brandon Groper, Nico Drohojowski, Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri (Professional MBA), and Vasu Subrahmanian, won the prestigious Consulting prize and ranked 2nd overall at the 2015 USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge.
Not giving regular feedback? No wonder you鈥檙e losing talent
Written by Professor Karl Moore and Sema Burney Many managers today don鈥檛 relish giving feedback. In the past, feedback was associated with the annual review, a thoroughly unenjoyable hour where everyone involved couldn鈥檛 wait for it to end. Today with millennials, feedback is more central to the role of manager than ever before.
How Skateboarding Made Me a Better Marketer
This year, I鈥檓 celebrating 25 years of skateboarding. While I鈥檝e skated all over the world and made a lot of incredible friends along the way it wasn鈥檛 until I read听this article about skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen听that I began to consider the overlap between my passion for skateboarding and my passion for marketing. ...听Ben Plomion听is VP of Marketing at听Chango, where he heads up marketing and communications.听
Aspire Food Group: First Recipient of the Richter Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Program
Richter is proud to announce the creation of the Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Program - an initiative to help social entrepreneurs in their mission of bringing innovative solutions to social problems. The Program aims to recognize and assist businesses that have demonstrated a positive impact on social, cultural and environmental concerns.
HBO Financial Services joins Peak
Peak Financial Group is continuing to expand, as HBO Financial Services joins forces with Peak Insurance Services, after an eight-year partnership.听Founded in 1997, by James Hindley, Larry Barakett and Boris Ozbalt, HBO is a boutique Managing General Agency, catering to a group of advisors working predominantly in the high net worth markets in Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
