MOOCs and GROOCs on the move
McGill鈥檚 initial experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, has been a success and the first offering, Food for Thought, will be repeated next year.
Bold ideas take flight at McGill Dobson Cup
One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014听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.
Matthew Willsher Confirmed as CEO of Etisalat Nigeria
Board of Directors of Etisalat Nigeria has announced the appointment of Matthew Charles Willsher as its new chief executive officer.听Willsher previously held the position of chief commercial officer and acting chief executive officer replacing previous CEO, Steven Evans in August 2013.
Lucie Ducharme and Sylvie Lachance elected to the Board of Trustees of BTB
BTB Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:听BTB.UN) (芦听BTB听禄 or 芦听Trust听禄) is proud to announce the election of听Lucie Ducharme听and听Sylvie Lachance听as Trustees of the Trust, by a vote taken during its annual general meeting held in Montr茅al on听June 17, 2014.
McGill MBA Stephen Bailey in Air Canada En Route Magazine
Head of marketing at John Fluevog Shoes in Vancouver, Stephen Bailey scouts new store locations and conducts store visits across North America. When he's not working for one of Canada's favourite footwear brands (Air Canada rouge flight attendants wear Fluevog proudly), Bailey designs men's accessories with his wife for their company, Cursor & Thread.
The problem with insider obsession
If investors needed another reason to distrust the stock market, here鈥檚 a doozy. A study by a trio of researchers in the U.S. and Canada into听insider trading听found that one-quarter of the big merger and acquisition (M&A) deals over a 15-year period鈥攔oughly 460 transactions in total鈥攎ay have seen people profiting on information before it was public.
Talking Management with Karl Moore: Transcript: How Deutsche Bank survived the tsunami in Japan
This Is听Karl Moore听of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 香蕉视频, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am delighted to speak to Michael Useem, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
No prep, no clue. How I took the GMAT cold
The Graduate Management Admission Test, better known as the GMAT, is hard.听The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is celebrating 60 years administering the test in 2014. Nine million tests have been taken since its launch in 1954, and GMAC says test-takers spend upwards of 200 hours studying for it.
McGill students鈥� plans to help rebuild Lac-M茅gantic win praise
One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-M茅gantic, igniting and razing much of the town鈥檚 commercial centre, three 香蕉视频 students with a passion for social entrepreneurship have become part of the town鈥檚 efforts to rebuild.
Lac-M茅gantic: des 茅tudiants proposent un incubateur entrepreneurial
C茅cile Branco,听S茅gol猫ne Rolin听et听Bernard d'Arche,听trois 茅tudiants l'Universit茅 McGill, ont con莽u un projet de centre d'innovation qui pourrait bien voir le jour dans le nouveau centre-ville m茅ganticois. Leur Centre magn茅tique, un incubateur entrepreneurial, offrirait une rampe de lancement unique en r茅gion pour ceux qui souhaitent se lancer en affaires.
Are all insiders rogue traders?
Insider trading is a topic of intense public debate these days, but this debate must be framed in the context of a clear, objective definition of informed versus insider trading.
Feeling entrepreneurial?
鈥淧eople used to take a traits-based approach to defining entrepreneurs: they are risk-takers, for instance,鈥� says听Greg Vit, BCom鈥�80, director of the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in McGill鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management. 鈥淏ut that characterization has been challenged by a more recent approach that suggests you can create the underlying conditions to help entrepreneurs emerge.鈥�
Extroverts - Tapping Your Inner Introvert Is A Key To Excellent Leadership
The CEO of a major multinational came to our McGill MBA CEO Insights class and told us that, as an introverted leader, he had to put on his 鈥済ame face鈥� whenever he left his floor. That is, if you want to be a CEO of a big company, you need to act like an extrovert, at times.
Appointments to VIA Rail Canada
The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, today announced the appointments of Ms.听Melissa Sonberg听of听Montreal, and Ms.听Deborah Robinson, of听Toronto, to the board of directors of VIA Rail Canada, each for a three-year term.
Canada鈥檚 partnership opportunity
Canada has excellent universities: for example, our share of highly cited publications is nearly 10 times our share of the world population. We also have great companies, and according to a 2014 Bloomberg ranking, Canada is the second-best country in the world in which to do business. Over the last 15 years, our governments have put in place many new investments in research and development, as well as innovation-friendly policies.
