Re-building Lac-Megantic
McGill students Cecile Branco and Bernard dâArche [winners of the McGill Dobson Cup] tell Camille Ross about their innovative plan to help re-build Lac-Megantic after the devastating train accident.
Watch video:Â Global Montreal
McGill student Bernard D'Arche, on helping to rebuild Lac Megantic
Bernard dâArche, McGill Student [and one of the winners of the Dobson Cup], who came up with a unique idea to help rebuild Lac Megantic. Listen: Tommy Schnurmacher Show
Reconstruire Ă lâheure de lâentrepreneuriat social
Au cĆur du centre-ville ravagĂ© de Lac-MĂ©gantic, crĂ©er une rĂ©sidence pour dĂ©velopper et porter des projets dâentreprise. VoilĂ le plan que trois Ă©tudiants de lâUniversitĂ© McGill â CĂ©cile Branco-CĂŽtĂ©, SĂ©golĂšne Rolin et Bernard dâArche â ont Ă©laborĂ© cet hiver lors dâun cours sur lâentrepreneuriat social.
Student initiative for Lac-Megantic
Desautels students Bernard d'Arche and CĂ©cile Branco discuss their Dobson Cup winning initiative on Breakfast Television Montreal.
View video here.
Bold ideas take flight at McGill Dobson Cup
One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014Â McGill Dobson Cup, the annual start-up competition hosted by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Desautels Faculty of Management. The Centre provides resources and support to all entrepreneurs across McGill and Montreal communities.
McGill studentsâ plans to help rebuild Lac-MĂ©gantic win praise
One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-MĂ©gantic, igniting and razing much of the townâs commercial centre, three Ïăœ¶ÊÓÆ” students with a passion for social entrepreneurship have become part of the townâs efforts to rebuild.
Lac-MĂ©gantic: des Ă©tudiants proposent un incubateur entrepreneurial
Cécile Branco, SégolÚne Rolin et Bernard d'Arche, trois étudiants l'Université McGill, ont conçu un projet de centre d'innovation qui pourrait bien voir le jour dans le nouveau centre-ville méganticois. Leur Centre magnétique, un incubateur entrepreneurial, offrirait une rampe de lancement unique en région pour ceux qui souhaitent se lancer en affaires.
Igniting the Spark of Innovation
From duct tape to smartphones, every great innovation started with a simple idea. Thanks to the generosity of alumni and donors, some of the game-changing ideas of the future are taking shape right now in the annual McGill Dobson Cup start-up competition.
Alexis Ohanian to Desautels Gathering: âDonât Get Hung Up on Great Ideas â Get Started on Themâ
On March 11, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder Reddit, paid a visit to the Desautels Faculty of Management during one of the last stops of his North American tour to promote his book, âWithout Their Permission.â The book describes how he started the front page of the internet from scratch with his partner Steve Huffman. âEveryone has great ideas. No one wakes you up in the middle of the night to say âI have a terrible idea.â We all have great ideas.
Global MIT Founders' Skills Accelerator
Apply to be the only Canadian university student group in Summer 2014 at the MIT Global Founders Skills Accelerator!
You have the chance to go to MIT with select groups of MIT students and several foreign universities.
McGill Dobson Cup Boot Camp
The McGill Dobson Cup (MDC) Start-UP Boot Camp is all about action, training, knowledge, and collaboration. You will learn from successful start-UP veterans, students, lawyers, as well as, through interactive activities with your peers. Keep your eyes open for potential business partners, they are all around you!Â
Kickstart MDC
Interested in Entrepreneurship?
The Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial studies is hosting Kickstart the McGill Dobson Cup Wednesday, November 6 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
ALL students from ALL faculties at McGill are invited.
There are 3 parts to this evening:
1 - Learn about McGillâs Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies & The McGill Dobson Cup (MDC), both of which are great tools to help you develop your business ideas
Universities that Teach You to Change the World
Just three months after graduating this year from the University of Waterloo, Jonathan Rivardâs startup company had generated $130,000 in revenue. ... âIt is a generational zeitgeist, no doubt about it,â says Anita Nowak, integrating director of the Social Economy Initiative, at Ïăœ¶ÊÓÆ”âs Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal.
New Internet Start-Up Hypejar Uses Social Media to Accurately Forecast Demand for Future Products
An online social platform that accurately forecasts future sales of new products has won first place at the Desautels Faculty of Managementâs entrepreneurial competition, the Dobson Cup.