Professor Gregory Vit Wins 2013 MUS Professor of the Year Award
The Management Undergraduate Society (MUS) has awarded the 2013 Professor of the Year Award to Professor Gregory Vit. This annual award recognizes a professor's meaningful involvement with the student body, eagerness to have an impact on students lives outside the classroom, and great insight on theoretical and academic matters. It is the highest honour given by the undergraduate student body at the Desautels Faculty of Management.
Christine Boynton Wins 2013 MUS Faculty Member of the Year Award
The Management Undergraduate Society (MUS) has awarded the 2013 Faculty Member of the Year Award to Christine Boynton. This annual award recognizes an administrative member's meaningful involvement with the student body. It is the highest honour given by the undergraduate student body at the Desautels Faculty of Management.
IMHL Collaborators Win Grand Challenges Canada Grant
Students in 91黑料网鈥檚 International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) program -- Drs.
Global Business Education Awards 2012
As talent pools shift across different industries and workers aim to better their value to future and current employers, business education has never been more important. Last year we witnessed a fundamental increase in the number of business school applicants, and greater pressure on the industry to up the standard. With that in mind, European CEO looked at business schools the world over to construct its 2012 Global Business Education Awards.
Talking Management with Karl Moore: How Youth Can Take Hold of the New Age of Social Enterprise
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网 reports from the Social Economy Initiative's flagship event, where former primer minister Paul Martin speaks about how youth can take hold of the new age of social enterprise.
MBAs champion social entrepreneurship and compete for $1 million
A group of Desautels MBA students beat out over 40 teams and 10,000 applicants, including representatives from Harvard, MIT, and Yale, to win the 2013 Hult Prize Boston Regional Finals.
Read about their win in BusinessWeek.
Metti un manager al museo
Altro che studenti, turisti o facoltose signore. A far la coda per entrare agli Uffizi o alla Cappella Sistina dovrebbero essere gli industriali. Manager e imprenditori, seduti davanti a Raffaello o a Picasso per prendere familiarit脿 con la strategia pi霉 trendy del momento: la bellezza. Se ne parla sulla rivista di economia di Harvard, all "Acadamy of Management鈥�, la Copenaghen Business School ha dedicato al rapporto fra arte e leadership un intero dipartimento.
MD/MBA Student Samuel Waserman Receives HRF Healthcare Management Scholarship
MD/MBA student Samuel Waserman is the recipient of the HRF Healthcare Management Scholarship. He received the top score based on the evaluation conducted by the HRF Scientific Advisory Council.聽
Hot Cities Report: Russia Is Many Things, But Boring Isn't One of Them
Ten months ago, I volunteered to help organize Desautels鈥� fifth annual Hot Cities of the World trip. I enjoy the challenge of detailed logistics; in my pre-MBA life, I booked national concert tours and publicity campaigns. As it turns out, booking a Canadian tour and booking a Russian trip for 44 people are very different beasts.
Air Canada Negotiating Code-Share Deal with Etihad
Air Canada is negotiating a code-share agreement with a Gulf carrier rival that flies long-haul routes to the Middle East. The airline announced Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Etihad Airways, whose hub is in Abu Dhabi, for a code-share agreement on routes between the United Arab Emirates and Canada.
Talking Management with Karl Moore: Want to Keep Younger Employees? You've Got to Play by Their Rules
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网 speaks to Brian Fetherstonhaugh (BCom'79), CEO and Chairman of OgilvyOne in New York City.
Read full transcript: The Globe and Mail, April 23, 2013
Credit for Home-Support Services for Seniors
There is a Quebec refundable tax credit for expenses relating to home-support services for the 2012 filing year that is available to seniors over the age of 70.
The tax credit is designed to make it easier for you to remain in your home so that you do not have to move into an establishment that is part of the public health and social services network or so you can delay such a move.
-Article by Mike Dellar
Understanding the YOLO Generation
Millennials are bold, inquisitive, ambitious and adept. If this demographic had the chequing accounts to match, they鈥檇 be a marketer鈥檚 dream. Unfortunately, they鈥檙e totally broke.
Youth unemployment rates are grim (14.1%), and many bright-eyed young graduates will stay jobless and deep in debt for a long time (the average Canadian university student takes 14 years to pay off their loan).
Crickets for Dinner Anyone? A Crazy, Yet Clever Idea from Students of 91黑料网
Five students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网, Canada offered a rather innovative (read bizarre) solution to the challenge of the 2013 Hult Prize, considered by some as the Nobel Prize of the b-school arena. Responding to the challenge of developing a viable social enterprise to tackle the challenge of food security for urban slum dwellers, these students have offered crickets as an inexpensive source of food as well as a new source of income.
Must All Patents Last for 20 Years?
Patent controversies continue to roil the business world. In March, a federal judge slashed by nearly half the $1.05 billion in damages awarded Apple last year in its patent-infringement suit against Samsung. On April 1, India's Supreme Court denied Novartis AG's request, after a seven-year legal battle, to gain patent protection for an updated version of its blockbuster leukemia drug Gleevac. And on April 15, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Association for Molecular Pathology v.
