Retirement systems around the world, from public pension plans to private funds, are weathering a storm of ultra-low bond yields that threaten not only adequate returns for pensioners but the sustainability of the systems themselves. Designing retirement systems that are resilient to low yields requires balancing risk with resilience and innovative approaches.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2021
Social inequalities are responsible for the loss of millions of ideas and inventions over hundreds of years. This loss over time is measurable today in a decline in innovation, slowing economic growth, and repercussions on all sectors, from technology to health care. The gender gap among inventors affects what gets invented鈥攁nd consequently who benefits from innovation.
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Published on: 19 Nov 2021
Digital technologies today are highly generic and highly specific at the same time 鈥� even a mobile phone is also a translator, a map and an entertainment system 鈥� complicating the design of organizational strategy. In the latest episode of the Delve podcast, Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management and James McGill Professor Yolande Chan discusses a 鈥渄igital ecodynamics鈥� approach to organizational strategy, where technology is at the core of strategy from the start.
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Published on: 4 Nov 2021
Could a Central Bank Digital Currency ensure privacy and transparency for every transaction? A new model of digital currency by Desautels Professor Katrin Tinn proposes a secure yet anonymous 鈥渁symmetric privacy鈥� alternative to cash, traditional bank transactions, and cryptocurrency. 鈥淎 public institution is in a better position to design a digital currency that has the correct incentives,鈥� says Tinn.听
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Published on: 1 Nov 2021
Small and medium-sized enterprises account for as much environmental impact as the entire Canadian transportation industry鈥攜et solving their climate impact requires a unique approach. In the "New Normal" Delve podcast series, Desautels Professor Dror Etzion discusses the role of SMEs in the global fight for climate sustainability. Etzion illustrates the power of a 鈥減eer-to-peer inspiration model of change鈥� and how the McGill-founded PIVOT project is encouraging SMEs to take action.
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Published on: 28 Oct 2021
Terroir conjures European flavours and landscapes, flora and fauna, champagne and Parmigiano-Reggiano, but Quebec terroir has become a player in the terroir game. On the Delve podcast, Desautels Professor Robert David discusses the lucrative realm of Quebec terroir and how it has flourished not only for its flavours but as an identity crafted by social and cultural factors
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Published on: 25 Oct 2021
Despite being essential in organizations across sectors, data scientists wrestle with the implications of writing the code that will replace their own jobs. New research by Desautels Professors Emmanuelle Vaast & Alain Pinsonneault analyzes six years of what data scientists have been saying about their occupational identity and its interlinked evolution to new digital technologies.听
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Published on: 20 Oct 2021
Launching the second season of Delve鈥檚 The "New Normal" podcast series, Professor Jean-Nicolas Reyt discusses why businesses should embrace a hybrid work method, why the future of workspaces needs to change from the status quo, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has forced management to change in order to adapt to a new reality 鈥� plus the one thing companies can do for remote workers to make sure they鈥檝e got their backs.
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Published on: 11 Oct 2021
An entrepreneurship venture high in creativity, culture, and community and low in risk, gourmet food trucks illuminate how authenticity and associated identities鈥攍ike the 鈥渃ultural omnivore鈥濃�攁re constructed by business owners and consumers alike. On Delve's podcast, Desautels Faculty of Management Professor Daphne Demetry discusses the drive for authenticity and the gourmet food truck trend that shows no sign of slowing down.
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Published on: 1 Oct 2021
In episode 5 of听罢丑别听鈥�New Normal鈥� hosted by听Dave Kaufman, Delve Editor-in-Chief Professor Saku Mantere听discusses how organizations have responded and adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic: whether universities, governments, or businesses, many responded to the crisis by adapting quickly and performing beyond expectations. Why are some organizations at their best when facing a problem, while others flag?
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Published on: 5 Jul 2021
In episode 5 of听罢丑别听鈥�New Normal鈥� hosted by听Dave Kaufman,听笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Samer Faraj听speaks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has created an over reliance on corporate technological behemoths. Faraj breaks down the ever-growing role of digitization in our society and examines who benefits from the UBER-ization of our daily lives: all who take part in the gig economy or only to those who are 鈥渙n top鈥�?
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Published on: 15 Jun 2021
In episode 4 of听罢丑别听鈥�New Normal鈥� hosted by听Dave Kaufman,听笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Patrick Augustin听from The Desautels Faculty of Management at 香蕉视频 examines the allegations of听insider trading听levied against former Georgia Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler at the dawn of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Should politicians be held to a higher ethical standard when lives are at stake?
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Published on: 3 Jun 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Delve, the thought leadership publication of McGill鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management, has examined how organizations grapple with a rapidly changing world. In the spirit of embracing transformation and leveraging insight from the latest management research, Delve launches into uncharted post-pandemic directions with a new website and 鈥淣ew Normal鈥� podcast episodes, aiming to inspire conversation and shift perspectives on some of the most consequential economic, social, and ecological topics of our time.
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Published on: 31 May 2021
In episode 3 of听罢丑别听鈥�New Normal鈥� hosted by听Dave Kaufman,听笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Yu Ma discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected our relation to grocery stores, how shopping has changed in the last year, and what can be done from a technological perspective to improve the shopping experience and perhaps even help the consumer make more informed and healthier choices at the store.
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Published on: 21 May 2021
In episode 2 of The 鈥�New Normal鈥� hosted by Dave Kaufman,听笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Lisa Cohen discusses how the shift to working from home that has been hastened by the Covid-19 pandemic, how the work from home phenomenon has been more disadvantageous to some members of society than others, and ways in which working at home has given us all more time to think about how to make our world a more equitable place.
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Published on: 21 May 2021
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