Threads 4 Thought, Boxercraft, Arcade Fire and OSP Group are just a few of the customers placing production with Industrial Revolution II (IRII), and if you asked them why they chose the Port-au-Prince, Haiti-based apparel factory, they'd surely point to its high quality knit tops and bottoms, competitive pricing and proximity to North American markets, but there's another reason these companies are drawn to IRII: because of its social mission.
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Published on: 13 May 2014
When Richard III was frantically canvassing Bosworth Field for a horse, the mace was still feared as a 鈥渂ruising iron of wrath.鈥澛�
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Published on: 16 May 2014
Announcing the new online publication of the McGill School of Information Studies newsletter, featuring updates about the School and achievements of our alumni, faculty, and students.
Read the Spring 2014 newsletter at
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Published on: 20 May 2014
The McGill Alumni Association (MAA) celebrated some of its most dedicated alumni and volunteers at its annual Honours and Awards Banquet tonight. Student leaders, graduates who have had a significant impact on alumni life and the community, and volunteers with outstanding records of service to McGill were honoured at a banquet held at the Omni Mont-Royal Hotel in Montreal.
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Published on: 9 May 2014
Honorees include particle physicist who co-led the discovery of the Higgs boson,聽Room to Read founder and agronomist who created 鈥渟uper rice鈥�
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Published on: 29 Apr 2014
Imagine Inside the Actors Studio with top CEO's. In this four-part special series 香蕉视频 professor and noted author,聽Karl Moore, sits down with Montreal business leaders. Each week he asks a different CEO about their path to success, their advice to budding entrepreneurs, their work/life balance and more. This week's guest is聽Andy Nulman (BCom'83), CEO, Just for Laughs.聽
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Published on: 29 Apr 2014
Nothing so became Herb Gray (BCom'52) than the manner in which he left the House of Commons, where he was the third-longest serving parliamentarian in our history.
... Gray was proud to be Canada鈥檚 first Jewish cabinet minister. He grew up in a Canada that was not always kind to people of his ilk, but he succeeded nonetheless, studying commerce at McGill and law at Osgoode Hall.
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Published on: 25 Apr 2014
Eight Desautels students and alumni have been selected to receive the McGill Alumni Association (MAA) Awards. They will be honoured at the MAA's Annual Honours & Awards Dinner.
Award of Merit:聽Lili de Grandpr茅, MBA鈥�81
Lili has a long record of service as a volunteer for the MAA and the Faculty of Management, and she most recently served as Vice-Chair of the McGill Board of Governors. In addition to her McGill involvement she has sat on the boards of Centraide, the OSM, Y des Femmes, and the Montreal Circus School.
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Published on: 17 Apr 2014
CALGARY 鈥� , a hockey player from 香蕉视频, is among聽eight finalists announced by Canadian Interuniversity Sport and the national law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais for the 22nd annual BLG Awards, which were established in 1993 to recognize the top female and male athletes from universities affiliated with CIS.
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Published on: 17 Apr 2014
What are the odds that a dozen of our graduates would converge at the Supreme Court of Canada arguing for different intervenors in a single, high-profile case? On March 18, 2014, those odds were good indeed.
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Published on: 15 Apr 2014
Who's moving and shaking Canadian HR? We're showcasing this country's high achievers as the industry faces growing challenges and success.聽Three EMBA alumni are featured in this list:聽
Florent Francoeur (EMBA'11) 鈥� Pr茅sident-Directeur general, Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agrees (page 19)聽
Giulia Cirillo (EMBA'11) 鈥� Corporate Vice President, Human Resources, Bombardier Recreational Products (page 22)聽
Michel Boucher (EMBA'10) - Vice President, Human Resources and Quality Systems, EMBA 2010 (page 24)聽
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Published on: 11 Apr 2014
Maintenant que la saison froide - et surtout la campagne 茅lectorale - est termin茅e, l'industrie immobili猫re anticipe un certain redressement du march茅 ce printemps 脿 Montr茅al.
芦On pr茅voit que le prochain trimestre sera probablement beaucoup plus fort que celui qu'on vient de vivre, l脿, maintenant que les 茅lections et l'hiver sont derri猫re nous, a fait valoir 脿 La Presse Affaires Dominic St-Pierre (EMBA'14), directeur de Royal LePage pour le Qu茅bec. Il y a des signes encourageants.禄
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Published on: 11 Apr 2014
Tanya Graber, a resident of Switzerland, researched fashion retailer Aldo on the Internet before her vacation to New York City.
鈥淲e saw these handbags and we wanted to buy these handbags,鈥� Graber said, gesturing to the camel-colored leather model on the checkout counter at the company鈥檚 store on Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.
... The retailer has a value of $1.7 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, making Aldo鈥檚 executive chairman, Aldo Bensadoun (BCom'64, LLD'12), a billionaire.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2014
Wearable devices are just starting to take off and global electronics companies are racing to release smartwatches ahead of rivals to capture a bigger slice of the emerging next-generation market.
... LG plans to introduce a smartwatch jointly developed with Google. The G Watch will be released sometime between April and June this year. President Park Jong-seok (IMPM'07)聽of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company said that the opportunity to work with Google "was the perfect chance for LG to really pull out all stops in both design and engineering."
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Published on: 24 Mar 2014
Since January, I've been teaching a somewhat different type of course at 香蕉视频. While saddled with the unfortunate standard curriculum name "Marketing and Society," the class is anything but.
... When I first put this course together, I had a discussion with two academics I respect immensely, Prof. Morty Yalovsky of McGill (who used to be MY stats prof in my undergrad years) and Prof. Pete McGraw of the University of Colorado at Boulder (and co-author of the upcoming book "The Humor Code").聽
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Published on: 24 Mar 2014
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