McGill annonce que le prix Manuvie 2019 pour la promotion d'une santé active est décerné à Kerry S. Courneya, Ph.D.
La bourse de 50 000 $ est remise à un pionnier de la recherche qui place l’exercice physique à l’avant‑plan dans le traitement du cancerMontréal, le 1er avril 2019 – L’Université McGill, en association avec Manuvie et le Centre de convergence de la santé et de l’économie de l’Université McGill, est heureuse d’annoncer que Kerry S.
McGill announces Dr. Kerry S. Courneya as the 2019 Winner of the Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health
$50,000 award recognizes a trailblazing researcher who put exercise front and centre in cancer treatmentMontreal – April 1, 2019 Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, in association with Manulife and the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), is pleased to announce that Dr. Kerry S.
Professor Tsang honored at Bravo 2019
Professor Desmond Tsang was recently honored at the Bravo 2019 gala for his recognition by REAL as a top real estate researcher for a second consecutive year.
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A silver finish for BComs in Paris
Congratulations to BCom students Michael Amar, Tanya Gandhi and Babet Nieman who took second place in the final round of the Accuracy Business Cup, which unfolded in Paris in partnership with LVMH.
Desautels was one of six teams out of 100 entrants who were selected to advance. Thank you to Roman Celac and Peg Brunelle who contributed as coaches.
ABB CEO on people power
In an interview with Professor Karl Moore, Nathalie Pilon, CEO of ABB Canada, reveals that, while a major part of her job revolves around numbers, it’s the people behind an organization that inspire her most.
Reflecting on the Hot Cities Tour
Professor Karl Moore and Kenza Bennis (BCom’19) share takeaways from the eleventh edition of the Hot Cities of the World Tour, which brought McGill students and alumni to Japan and Thailand to study business trends in the Far East.
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Dishing on cross-border issues
Professor Karl Moore joins Northeast Public Radio to discuss the USMCA agreement (or NAFTA 2.0) and the Canadian sentiment around the proposed terms.
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BCom alumnus promoted to court judge
Howard Leibovich (BCom’90, BCL/LLB’94) Director of the Crown Law Office – Criminal, at the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, has been appointed as Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, and a Judge ex officio of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
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These headphones can read your thoughts
Dobson X-1 Accelerator participants Orbityl are on a mission to develop a set of headphones that can be controlled by sensing your brain’s activity.
“A lot of the research that we’ve done is in brain-computer interface applications — looking for discrete thoughts that an individual is having as a mechanism to be used for control [of a device],” said Orbityl co-founder Sean Kaiser.
Professor Etzion co-leads MSSI research project focusing on SMEs
Professor Dror Etzion, along with Ď㽶ĘÓƵ colleagues Jaye Ellis (Law) and Catherine Potvin (Biology), has been selected to co-lead a research project under the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI).
Still an uphill battle for women in finance
Following the release of the American Economic Association’s survey results revealing the predominance of discrimination against women in the world of finance, Professor Francesca Carrieri affirms that the findings are not surprising.
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Business school recruiters set sights on Africa
Professor Corey Phelps, Associate Dean of Executive Education at Desautels comments on the growing recognition of Africa as a source of top candidates for Canadian business schools. In the case of the International Masters for Healthcare Leadership, some of the program’s strongest participants have originated from there.
EMBA anniversary celebrated sustainably
Coinciding with its theme of Building Future-Readiness, the McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA program recently celebrated its tenth anniversary and simultaneously became the University’s 100th Sustainable Event.
Mintzberg among top 30 gurus
Professor Henry Mintzberg ranks 22nd among the world’s top 30 management professionals for 2019. He is celebrated, in particular, for his contrarian views of management that have elucidated dimensions of the profession that were previously left unquestioned or overlooked.
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HIM students are champions in National Banking Competition
Desautels Honours in Investment Management students Kyle Costanzo, Émilie Granger, Tejas Saggi, and Eric Van Hees won the top spot in the National Banking Competition in Vancouver, coming in victorious over the 500 applicants and 70 competing teams who made it to the finals.
