McGill Desautels Faculty of Management - Samer Faraj's Recent Media Coverage

Samer Faraj appointed president of INESSS’ scientific council

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:24:35 +0000

The Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) promotes clinical excellence and efficiency in the health and social services sector. McGill Desautels Professor Samer Faraj has been appointed president of the institute’s scientific council, which will help evaluate the value of new technologies, treatments, and health interventions.

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McGill Desautels faculty members and researchers celebrated at Bravo Gala

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:55:09 +0000

�㽶��Ƶ hosted its annual Bravo Gala on Thursday, March 21, which honours its faculty members and researchers who have won special awards, memberships and prizes over the past year. McGill Desautels is proud to announce 14 of its faculty amongst the distinguished honourees this year. Congratulations to our deserving laureates! Full list below.
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· Geneviève Bassellier, Best AMCIS Emergent Research Forum Paper, Americas Conference on Information Systems

Delve: How Collaborative, Open-Minded Management Could Heal Healthcare

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:53:58 +0000

Walk into any hospital and you’ll witness a complex, multi-level system of personnel in action, interacting with each other, with patients, and with high-tech equipment around the clock. Healthcare systems naturally face management challenges—the COVID-19 pandemic amplified those and introduced new ones. How can management insights gleaned from the pandemic help healthcare move forward into sustainable systems that prioritize the well-being of both practitioners and patients?

Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:45:01 +0000

Across programs and subject areas, the Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that teaching plays in enriching the student experience and in inspiring the next generation of leaders.

The Distinguished Teaching Award recipients Sujata Madan and Juan Serpa were honoured at McGill’s 2022 Management Convocation ceremony on June 1, for their excellence in teaching.

Delve: What Robotic Surgery Reveals About Organizational Change

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:30:25 +0000

At first the operating room appears to be missing its surgeon—in the surgeon’s place, a robot, surgical tools at the ready, towers over the patient. Surgical robotic technology is specialized in design and purpose, yet in practice it illuminates more universal insights into how the introduction of new technologies spurs changes to people’s embodied actions, causing both intended and unexpected impacts.

Delve - "New Normal" podcast: Life’s Good on Top, But For Everyone Else? with Samer Faraj

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 22:13:28 +0000

In episode 5 of The ‘New Normal’ hosted by Dave Kaufman, Professor Samer Faraj 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 “on top”?

Delve: What the Future of Work Holds in the Age of the Learning Algorithm

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:41:03 +0000

What will your workplace be like in the age of the learning algorithm? New research from Professor Samer Faraj explains why the current technological revolution is unlike any other we’ve seen and how we can adapt.

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Welcoming the next wave of management researchers

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:47:43 +0000

The Desautels Faculty of Management welcomed its new cohort of PhD students at a lunch reception in September organized by the Desautels Doctorate Student Society (DDSS).

This year’s cohort totals 65 students (26 women, 39 men) who originate from 16 countries across the world.

Meet the 2018 incoming PhD cohort

Professor Faraj awarded six research recognitions

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:02:46 +0000

Over summer 2018, Professor Samer Faraj received six recognitions for the excellence of his completed and forthcoming research.

In recognition of his published research with students and collaborators, Professor Faraj was presented with the following:

• France-wide FNEGE 2018 Prix académique de la Recherche en Management for: Kudaravalli, S., Faraj, S., Johnson, S. (2017) “A Configural Approach to Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams” in MIS Quarterly;

Marketing Campaign: Who's behind Desautels?

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:40:52 +0000

Does moving hospitals to a new building give you a different kind of care?

Learn more about how Desautels professors are behind some of the most unique research projects in the world.

Research into project team makeup arrives at surprising conclusion

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 12 May 2017 18:36:25 +0000

A research paper authored in part by Desautels Professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management, and Healthcare Samer Faraj compared the traditional management style (where the most experienced person is in charge) with the more self-driving teams that are a hallmark of agile systems development.

Five questions organisations must ask when reacting to surprises

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:09:31 +0000

The researchers examined police data from an infamous 2011 murder – where a Dutch criminal was shot whilst under surveillance, but the assailant evaded capture due to police failings – to highlight the challenges of adaptability in high intensity situations.

Faraj says: “Our research examined a high-profile case which showcased the difficulties in coordination faced by a large multidisciplinary police team in a fast-paced environment."

Keep calm and ask yourself this

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:05:17 +0000

Researchers from the Desautels Faculty of Management at �㽶��Ƶ have examined police data from an infamous 2011 murder – where a Dutch criminal was shot whilst under surveillance, but the assailant evaded capture due to police failings – to highlight the challenges of adaptability in high-intensity situations.

Samer Faraj is the Canada research chair in technology, management and healthcare at �㽶��Ƶ's Desautels Faculty of Management in Quebec

5 questions organisations must ask when surprised

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:18:52 +0000

There are five key questions to ask when adapting to surprise situations in business, according to Samer Faraj, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management and Healthcare at Desautels Faculty of Management, �㽶��Ƶ.

Are you quicker than the police? Five questions to ask when reacting to business surprises

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:12:01 +0000

There are five key questions to ask when adapting to surprise situations in business, according to Samer Faraj, research chair at �㽶��Ƶ.

In 2011, a Dutch criminal under surveillance was shot in plain sight. The assailant evaded capture due to police failings, which is why researchers at McGill examined police data on this case to study the challenges of adaptability in high intensity situations.

Five questions organisations must ask when reacting to surprises

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:42:50 +0000

Shots fired! Why is switching between organisational practices so difficult?

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:12:34 +0000

Imagine you work for the police and are involved in large covert surveillance of a notorious criminal. The team is experienced and includes a helicopter, cars, a high tech listening post, and over a dozen agents observing the site. Just after your team has taken positions, your subject gets shot. You can see the shooter, but are unable to move. Your colleagues cannot see what is happening, but you have difficulty getting into contact with them. The local police do not have a clue of what is going on – it’s a covert operation after all. They can’t start helping you out of the blue.

What effective leaders in online communities do differently

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:36:44 +0000

This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at �㽶��Ƶ with Talking Management for The Globe & Mail. Today I am delighted to speak to one of our senior I.T. professors at McGill, Samer Faraj.

Northern Approaches

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:51:55 +0000

In many ways, Canada, the world’s second biggest country by area, is a global leader in the effective use of technology in its public health system. Almost all X-rays, MRIs, CTs and other imaging tests in its hospitals are now filmless, which equates to adding the equivalent of up to 500 radiologists and 11 million more exams annually.