A place to call home trumps portfolio diversification for some investors
Many households are heavily, or even exclusively, invested in real estate. That鈥檚 a lot of聽money to have tied up in a single type of investment, but people don鈥檛 think of houses聽like other investments, according to research from Associate Professor聽Sebastien Betermier.
Companies can tap into the talent pipeline by engaging more with universities
Finding talent is a challenge for many businesses, and some of the most common approaches are not necessarily the best ones. The 鈥楶ost and Pray鈥� strategy banks on posting a job description, and hoping the best candidates will find you. The 鈥楻each-out and Pray鈥� strategy involves a manager leveraging their network to find candidates who might be suitable. But since most hiring managers are not human resources professionals, their network won鈥檛 necessarily land them the best candidate either.
Quantum tech is closer to commercialization, but few have the knowhow to commercialize it
Quantum technology has largely been confined to the lab, but it is moving ever closer to聽the world of business, writes Karl Moore in Forbes.com. With $35.5 billion in government and business investment globally, technologies like quantum computers have the potential to transform multiple sectors of the economy.
M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res brought business innovations to charitable giving
M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res (MSF) introduced a new business model for charitable giving. 鈥淲e聽were the first ones to create the regular donation model," said Dr. Joanne Liu聽(MDCM'91, IMHL'14, DSc'16), an emergency聽physician, a professor at the School of Population and Global Health at 香蕉视频, and the聽13th President of MSF (2013-2019). 鈥淥ne of our first fundraising campaigns was 1 euro per day,鈥澛燣iu said in an interview with Prof.
Business leaders now operate at the intersection of business operations and global trends
Politics has pervaded the world of business, writes Prof. Karl Moore in Forbes.com. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and equity, diversity聽and inclusion (EDI) are both聽changing corporate practices.
MIPC wraps up with MDIIM Symposium and Grand Finale
The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management Symposium on The Road to Net Zero took place on November 2, marking the opening ceremony of the sixth edition of the McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC).聽Thank you to our panelists, Fanny Doucet, CFA, Managing Director & Head, S
Chef Rich Francis revives Indigenous culinary traditions
Rich Francis, owner of Seventh Fire Hospitality Group in Six Nations in Ontario and Alberta,聽 never set out to be a chef, but leveraged his time on Top Chef Canada to launch a prominent culinary career. Francis focuses on the precolonial culinary traditions of Indigenous peoples, but there are limits on what he鈥檚 able to do. 鈥淢ost of my work is in First Nations communities,鈥� Francis told Prof.
McGill Personal Finance Essentials course can help youth learn to manage money
Young Canadians are more engaged in their finances than they are sometimes given credit for. And there are things that parents can do to help them learn to manage their money, writes Canadian SME magazine, a publication produced for an audience of small and medium sized enterprises. McGill鈥檚 Personal Finance Essentials course is one of them.
McGill鈥檚 International Masters Program for Managers teaches successful managerial mindsets
McGill鈥檚 International Masters Program for Managers (IMPM) gives its students a fresh take on business education, said Ron Duerksen, the Global Executive Director of IMPM. In an interview with the EMFD Global blog, Duerksen elaborated on what makes its approach distinctive.
Aldo Bensadoun gives master class at Bensadoun School of Retail Management
Aldo Bensadoun began his career at a chemical company, but that didn鈥檛 align with his values 鈥� or his vision. The entrepreneur launched ALDO in 1972, with a vision of love, respect, and integrity. Fifty years later, the company has more than 3,000 stores around the world.
Congratulations to Fall 2022 graduates!
A heartfelt聽congratulations聽to our undergraduate and graduate students who received their diplomas during the October ceremony.
Best wishes and welcome to the illustrious alumni network at 香蕉视频 and the Faculty of Management!
Desautels team represents at Lazaridis International Case Conference聽Competition
Coached by Senior Faculty Lecturer Niels Billou, BCom students Marc Ransom, Amy Pag茅, Izabella Tyc and Hosseyn Al-Moussawi Wasserman traveled to Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, to compete at the Lazaridis International Case Conference Competition.
McGill Desautels undergraduate team wins ethics case competition
Congratulations to Karen Zhuang, Lara Landauro, Ma毛 Vernet, and Thanh Nguyen who won the $2500 first place prize in the 2022 Scotiabank Ethics in Action Case Competition (undergrad track) hosted by Dalhousie University. The team, coached by Dr.
First graduating class of GCHM program
We are so proud to have graduated our very first cohort of the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management (GCHM) program!
Congrats to MMF team on Challenge win
Congratulations to Master of Management in Finance (MMF) Team 6 students Pascal Audette, Heng Chang, Fenton Garvie, Eugenia Pan and Alexandre Touchette on their win at the 5th
