Brother-Sister Combination Strong on the Court 鈥� and in the Classroom
When it comes to combining both sport and academic achievement it is hard to top Simon and H茅l猫ne Bibeau, siblings who attend Montreal鈥檚 香蕉视频.
Simon Bibeau, 22, is the starting point guard for McGill鈥檚 men鈥檚 outfit, the two-time Quebec conference champion who will lead the sixth-ranked Redmen into the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men鈥檚 basketball championship, beginning Friday in Ottawa.
How Women Leaders Have Transformed Management
In a recent New York Times column, 鈥淗ow to Get a Job at Google,鈥� Thomas Friedman interviews Laszlo Bock, the company鈥檚 senior vice president for people operations (which seems to be Google-speak for talent management). Bock notes that because constant innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, people who succeed in the company 鈥渢end to be those with a lot of soft skills: leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability, and loving to learn and re-learn.鈥�
Le prof Mintzberg persiste et signe
Voil脿 41 ans que le professeur Henry Mintzberg jette son regard critique sur les organisations, leurs strat茅gies et leurs leaders. Son 17e livre, sorti le 1er mars, est un fait un e-pamphlet, ou brochure 茅lectronique. Sous le titre Rebalancing Society, Mintzberg tourne cette fois son regard inquiet sur la soci茅t茅. Mais qu'est-ce qui trouble ainsi le sommeil du plus international des professeurs qu茅b茅cois de gestion ?
The Strange Psychology of Expectations
When Facebook announced its astounding $19bn takeover of 55-employee WhatsApp, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and other tech startup hubs around the world were shocked.
Real Trouble
Don't go talking "real world" with Henry Mintzberg. It's a silly term that drives him mad, especially when management skills are at stake.聽
"The word 'real world' is a red flag for me," says Mintzberg, 香蕉视频's John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies. "Real world is out there. You don't simulate a real world. We don't play business in our classroom."
MBA Primer
MBA programs are now a dime a dozen. B-schools are expanding at a dizzying rate and doubling their enrolments by packing their classrooms full of more and more students. This has prompted worries about a gradual dilution in the quality of the student body as well as meaningful networking opportunities. "An MBA is still valued, but a lot of people have it," says Jay Mintz, a second-year MBA student at 香蕉视频's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal.
"You've Invested Real Money. You Haven't Just Run a Virtual Portfolio"
Along Highway 401 and over the Ontario border, Tyler Maxey and some of his MBA classmates at 香蕉视频's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal are also learning by doing. Their modus operandi: investing other people's money. Since 2008, students have been running a registered fund management firm called Desautels Capital Management that has about $3 million in assets.
An Idea that Will Change the World
How a team of McGill MBA students beat thousands of competitors to win $1 million for the not-so-crazy idea of farming edible insects. 聽 On Sept.Making It to the Top
Lisa Cohen, Assistant professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, 香蕉视频, Canada, reveals the difficulty women encounter in being hired for higher level roles.聽
When Mary Barra became the first female chief executive of General Motors, we celebrated a woman reaching the height of her profession.聽
Market May Reward 'Greenwashing' Over Green Results
A growing number of people are interested in investing in companies that perform well environmentally as well as economically. Unfortunately, measuring environmental performance is not as straightforward as calculating a simple financial return on investment.
McGill 'Hot Cities' Business/Field Trip Expands Horizons
A McGill management professor is leading students on a business field trip that will give them global experience. Called the 鈥楬ot Cities鈥� tour, professor聽Karl Moore聽is taking students to emerging and developing countries to more about other economies.
... 鈥淚've never been to Asia and I've always wanted to explore Asia,鈥� said student聽Joseph Polossifakis. 鈥淚 know it鈥檚 an up-and-coming region.鈥�
L'avocate tricolore
Apr猫s avoir vendu - deux fois - le Canadien de Montr茅al,聽France Margaret B茅langer聽est la nouvelle responsable des affaires juridiques de l'茅quipe. 脌 41 ans, elle est l'une des rares 脿 d茅tenir un poste juridique aussi prestigieux dans la LNH. Et la premi猫re femme 脿 faire partie du comit茅 de direction du Canadien de Montr茅al en 104 ans d'histoire.
Mattel to Buy Mega Bloks
Mattel has made a friendly takeover offer for Montreal-based toy maker Mega Brands Inc., which has the world鈥檚 No. 2 line of construction sets after Lego. Desautels Executive in Residence聽Melissa Sonberg聽comments on the takeover. 聽
Watch full interview:聽Global Montreal, February 28, 2014聽
Henry Mintzberg鈥檚 Un-MBA Management Program
Lili Hall (IMPM'13) came across the International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM) by chance. She had considered MBA programs before, but the standard options seemed too formulaic. 鈥淓very time I looked at the curriculum, I鈥檇 get sad,鈥� she says. As the founder and CEO of KNOCK, inc., a creative agency, Hall had already enjoyed a lot of professional success. She wasn鈥檛 looking to switch industries or climb the corporate ladder.
World's Top 30 Leadership Professionals for 2014
Professor Nancy J. Adler has been selected as one of the world's top 30 leadership professionals for 2014 by Global Gurus International.聽
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