After competing against over聽80 teams from universities across Canada,聽BCom students Sean Finnell, Jaylen Ghadia and Thanin Tabuteau have won the national L'Oreal Brandstorm competition. Sean, Jaylen and Thanin will head to Paris to represent Canada at the international Brandstorm competition this summer.听
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Desautels BCom students Ethan Zhang, Jeremie Guay, Chris Lim, Yusu Zheng, Nikolas Sinnhuber and Sameer Rizvi, won 1st place in Quantitative Outcry at the 2014 Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) held February 20 to 22. The RITC is an annual event hosted by the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The competition utilizes simulated trading cases that closely mimic different aspects of real world markets and brings teams of students and faculty from universities worldwide to participate. The team was sponsored by Desjardins.听
When it comes to combining both sport and academic achievement it is hard to top Simon and H茅l猫ne Bibeau, siblings who attend Montreal鈥檚 香蕉视频.
Simon Bibeau, 22, is the starting point guard for McGill鈥檚 men鈥檚 outfit, the two-time Quebec conference champion who will lead the sixth-ranked Redmen into the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men鈥檚 basketball championship, beginning Friday in Ottawa.
This Reading Week, a group of students from the faculties of Management, Arts, Education, and Engineering will travel to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Seoul, South Korea to experience business within rapidly emerging markets. Their journey, the sixth Hot Cities of the World Tour, will be led by Desautels Professor Karl Moore.
A McGill management professor is leading students on a business field trip that will give them global experience.
Called the 鈥楬ot Cities鈥� tour, professor聽Karl Moore聽is taking students to emerging and developing countries to more about other economies.
... 鈥淚've never been to Asia and I've always wanted to explore Asia,鈥� said student聽Joseph Polossifakis. 鈥淚 know it鈥檚 an up-and-coming region.鈥�
The McGill 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.
The McGill delegation to the Financial Open Case Competition won a podium in four of the six disciplines, placing the school third overall.
Starting in Fall 2014, students in the Faculty of Management will be able to major in Strategic Management.听
... 鈥淪ocial Business is a type of company that runs just as a normal business鈥攕elling a product, earning revenue鈥攂ut whose ultimate goal is to solve a social problem颅 as opposed to maximizing profit, like many companies aim to do,鈥� explained聽Joanna Klimczak, U3 Management, one of the two students who started the project.听
More than 40 students and alumni from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 香蕉视频 are visiting Mongolia this March, to help them understand the realities of doing business in a fledgling emerging market.
... Mia Bernhardt, a student organiser for the trip, says:
Most professors exhaust themselves trying to get their students off of social media.听Andy Nulman (BCom'83), however, has designed his entire class around being on it.
In what鈥檚 believed to be the first syllabus of its kind, 香蕉视频鈥檚 marketing and society class uses YouTube鈥檚 Creator Playbook as its sole course book. And, in lieu of a final exam, students will be evaluated on their launch of a unique channel on the video-sharing site.
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.
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?
A Desautels undergraduate student case team composed of Brooke Freeman, Shonezi Noor, Katan Patel and Jeremy Singer not only took 1st place in the preliminary case but also placed 1st overall in the main case at the UPorto ICC 2013 hosted by the University of Porto from October 21 to 25, 2013. This was the first international case competition held in Portugal. 聽聽
Last weekend St. Petersburg hosted a group of 37 business students and alumni from 香蕉视频, Montreal, Canada, as part of the institution鈥檚 鈥淗ot Cities鈥� initiative.
鈥� Speaking to the St Petersburg Times, trip leader Dr. Karl Moore, a lecturer in business leadership and strategy at McGill鈥檚 world-renowned Desautels Faculty of Management, explained that this trip was a chance for students to experience the global business environment first-hand.
香蕉视频 Desautels Faculty of Management students Jean Vianney Cordeiro, David Gao, Shirley Xu Wang and their team have won the 2013 National Ace the Case competition on March 2. Jean Vianney, David and Shirley鈥檚 team had earned the opportunity to represent Canada at the 2013 KPMG International Case Competition (KICC) in Madrid, Spain, coming up on April 2-5.
