McGill Alumni Association Awards
Eight Desautels students and alumni have been selected to receive the McGill Alumni Association (MAA) Awards. They will be honoured at the MAA's Annual Honours & Awards Dinner.
McGill's Clement-Heydra among CIS athlete of the year nominees for BLG Award
CALGARY ¨C Katia Clement-Heydra, a hockey player from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, is among?eight finalists announced by Canadian Interuniversity Sport and the national law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais for the 22nd annual BLG Awards, which were established in 1993 to recognize the top female and male athletes from universities affiliated with CIS.
The CEO Series with Karl Moore
Imagine Inside the Actors Studio with top CEO's. In this four-part special series Ï㽶ÊÓƵ professor and noted author,?Karl Moore,?sits down with Montreal business leaders. Each week he asks a different CEO about their path to success, their advice to budding entrepreneurs, their work/life balance and more. This week's guest is?Stephen Bronfman, Executive Chairman of Claridge Inc.
McGill Students Made Cold Ulaanbaatar into One of the ¡°Hot Cities¡± of the World
Consent gap fillers
Dididache àÖàÖ´ò³µ - Hailing the Future, One Cab at a Time
Usman W. Chohan?(³þºÆÔÆ) is an MBA candidate at Desautels with a Concentration in Strategy and Leadership. He is currently on an MBA exchange in Beijing, at a joint program between Tsinghua School of Economics (SEM) and MIT. The following piece is based on his work on financial innovation in China, in collaboration with Professor Alexander White of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.
Alexis Ohanian to Desautels Gathering: ¡°Don¡¯t Get Hung Up on Great Ideas ¨C Get Started on Them¡±
On March 11, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder Reddit, paid a visit to the Desautels Faculty of Management during one of the last stops of his North American tour to promote his book, ¡°Without Their Permission.¡± The book describes how he started the front page of the internet from scratch with his partner Steve Huffman. ¡°Everyone has great ideas. No one wakes you up in the middle of the night to say ¡®I have a terrible idea.¡¯ We all have great ideas.
Eating Bugs
Bringing bugs to more plates around the world may be one solution to changing our food supply as the planets population continues to grow. Jesse Pearlstein and Shobita Soor are McGill MBA students who are in Calgary to pitch this idea.
Herald Food Writer Bugs Out for Dinner
Between the three of us, a small plate is piled high with the grasshopper bodies.
They have been roasted, salted and flavoured with some spicy chipotle, but they are also clearly identifiable as insects with an exoskeleton and, in the case of many, including the first one I grab, little eyes.
... ¡°Insects are the food of the future,¡± says Jesse Pearlstein, chief financial officer for the collection of students, known as Aspire Food Group.
Mintzberg On Why You Need To View A Company As 'A Community Of Human Beings'
¡°I¡¯m a human being, not a human resource¡±. Is something I have heard my colleague Henry Mintzberg say a number of times. It really seems to resonate with people. Recently Henry published on his website an e-pamphlet called Rebalancing Society. In it he argues that society rests on three key pillars: government, business and what he calls plural society. Henry believes that business today in the West has too much power and we need more of the plural society.
Reflections from South Korea
Recently, I visited South Korea and Mongolia along with a group of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ undergraduates and alumni. This trip was part of the Hot Cities of the World Tour organized by Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. Frankly, South Korea was an incredible place to visit; especially from an economic perspective.
CA Program Awarded Mid-Program Scholarships to CA Students
On April 8, the CA program awarded two mid-program scholarships to 8 CA students.
The Lionel Pelham Kent Scholarship was awarded to Mathieu Laflamme, Charles Leclerc, Patrick Provencher, and Marc-Olivier McCraw. Established in 1998 in memory of Lionel Pelham Kent, CA, the scholarship is given to a team of final year students based on outstanding skills in written and oral communication as presented in a case competition.
eKutir¡¯s VeggieLite Gains Gates Foundation Grant
eKutir¡¯s new project VeggieLite is a recipient of Grand Challenges India 2014, supported by the Gates Foundation, USAID and DBT, the Indian government¡¯s anti-poverty scheme.
Talking Management with Karl Moore: The Tough Slog of Making a Company Agile and Socially Responsible
Professor?Karl Moore?of the Desautels Faculty of Management at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ speaks to management professor Ed Lawler from the University of Southern California¡¯s Marshall School of Business.
The Art (NOT Science) of Management¨Cand Its Cousin Leadership
It seems that a number of people want to be scientists, or at least in the sense of ostensibly adding credibility to their respective field of work. Economists (of which I¡¯ve been a practitioner since 1982) and those in the leadership field (yours truly since the early nineties) covet the science moniker. Adding the word ¡°science¡± adds a certain cachet to one¡¯s profession.
