McGill Desautels Faculty of Management - Liette Lapointe's Recent Media Coverage

McGill Desautels professors and lecturers recognized at Faculty Awards

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:33:56 +0000

Across programs and subject areas, the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that research, teaching, service and media engagement play in enriching the student experience and inspiring the next generation of leaders through the annual Faculty Awards. This year we recognize the following outstanding members of our faculty:

Research

Professor Liette Lapointe awarded honorary doctorate from Aix-Marseille University

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:35:17 +0000

McGill Desautels Professor Liette Lapointe has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from Aix-Marseille University, recognized for her contributions to information systems management and behavioural studies.

Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 31 May 2023 19:52:07 +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 Anna Kim and Warut Khern-am-nuai were honoured at McGill’s 2023 Management Convocation ceremony on May 31, for their excellence in teaching.

$1-million gift accelerates student mental health effort at Desautels

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:46:28 +0000

A generous donation from Gisèle and Neil Murdoch (BCom’81) has accelerated student mental health efforts at Desautels, creating a new Local Wellness Advisor position in the Faculty.

2017‐18 Desautels Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate and Graduate teaching

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:57:18 +0000

The Desautels Faculty of Management is pleased to announce that Professor Desmond Tsang and Professor David Schumacher have been selected as recipients of the 2017‐18 Desautels Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate and Graduate teaching, respectively.

The influence of social media

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:00:50 +0000

The Globe and Mail recently featured the research of Desautels Professors Emmanuelle Vaast and Liette Lapointe that explored the power of social media to propel meaningful social movements.

Using the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a case study, they analyzed the surge of Tweets that followed to illustrate how social media can effectively rally individuals around a shared cause.

Twitter use during the Gulf oil spill

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:05:39 +0000

Social media has become a part of everyday life. We enjoy the contact Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., provide with friends and family, and, indeed, the world.

Sometimes we gripe about the downsides of the technology. People say it’s a time suck. There’s fake news. It’s hard to trust what you see.

Student events and the McGill context

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:59:45 +0000

The McGill context can be a make-or-break thing when it comes to the University’s ability to take disciplinary action in the case of breach of the Code of Student Conduct at an event that is only peripherally McGill-related. In the latest McGill Tribune, Dean of Students Christopher Buddle points out that events held off-campus by faculty student societies (which are separate legal entities) may not be McGill jurisdiction.