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Thanks to a higher education grant from Procter and Gamble, the Career Services Team at 91黑料网鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management has created the ultimate challenge. Using the 2015 Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations as a guide, participating BCom and MBA students were assigned global challenges and, under the umbrella of collaboration and competition, teams were encouraged to apply integrated management solutions designed to create a global impact.
91黑料网 Cancer Auction raised close to $30,000 for Cancer Society
The 91黑料网 Cancer Auction Committee, co-chaired by Rosalie Lesser & Lindsay Lubov,聽had a record-breaking year after its event on Friday, raising close to $30,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. This year's auction items included flight tickets, spa gift certificates and Igloofest passes.
CSR Ratings
The ascendance of socially responsible investing as a viable financial strategy has been accompanied by a similar proliferation of ratings schemes for assessing corporate social responsibility. Simply, if investors want to allocate their funds with SRI principles in mind, they need data that will allow them to make informed decisions. Indeed, over 50 rating methodologies for assessing environmental and social performance have been developed, more than a third of them since 2005.
Women at Business School 鈥� Joanne Liu, MiM student
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Finding a mutual-fund manager who can beat the market is tough. Winners flame out. Losers revive. The resurgent losers flame out again.
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Desautels BCom Team Wins 2014 National Investment Banking Competition
BCom students Nicholas Bigelow, Ivan Di, Mak Dori膰, and Emily Ren have triumphed over 250 teams from across North America to win the 2014 National Investment Banking Competition (NIBC) held in Vancouver from January 7-9.
Desautels Researchers Win Best Paper at International Conference on Information Systems
Professors Alain Pinsonneault and Animesh Animesh, and PhD candidate Hyelim Oh, have won the best paper award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) held in Milan, Italy from December 15 to 18, 2013.
6 Economists Every Entrepreneur Should Know About
For years I鈥檝e rejected the false choice that entrepreneurs are forced to make when it comes to the subjects of political science and comparative economics. First is the offer to buy in to the notion that there exists no natural connection between the underlying motivations and incentives which inspire entrepreneurs and their political and electoral choices.
Desautels BCom Teams Take Two Podiums at 2014 Inter-Collegiate Business Competition
Four BCom case聽teams in Finance (Egor Gagin and Josh Kimsa), Ethics (Kristen Foster and Greg Frank), Debate (Michayel Villani and Eric Zhao), and HR (Megan Levy and Matthew Hunter) made the finals at聽the 36th annual Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC)聽held at Queen's University from January 2 to 5, 2014. The Debate team won 1st place while the HR team finished 2nd.
Emerging Models of Leadership: PBOs and Tri-Sector Leaders
Usman W. Chohan is a consultant with the World Bank Institute in the field of Social Accountability, and is pursuing an MBA at Desautels with a concentration in Strategy and Leadership.
Reassessing History from Two Continents
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Pay it Forward Initiative Puts Smiles on Hundreds of Faces
Over the years, the end of final exams has inspired any number of spontaneous displays of pure happiness, including high fives, chest bumping and uncontrollable giggling. But what was up with the 100 or so students boogying in the streets at the crossroads on lower campus on Tuesday, Dec. 3 鈥� two days before finals kicked off?
Inaugural English Business Case Competition in Tokyo Provides Worldwide Networking Opportunities
On November 17, the first business case competition conducted in English in Japan took place. The main event was hosted by Aoyama Gakuin, in Shibuya, Tokyo, with a networking event following elsewhere in the area.
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