Talking Management with Karl Moore: How Beyond the Rack Fashions Its Strategy
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ speaks to Yona Shtern, CEO of Beyond the Rack.Read full article: The Globe and Mail, January 28, 2014Â
Cross-border Business Teams and the Entertainment Arena
More and more companies are abandoning traditional organisational structures and creating cross-border teams of people who live and work thousands of miles apart.
Modern Travel: Keep Calm and Carry It On
For the modern airline passenger, boarding a plane has morphed into a torturous Tetris-like ordeal—finding that last nook in the overhead bin to jam in your own, probably oversized, carry-on bag.
'Hot Cities' Takes Business Students to Mongolia
More than 40 students and alumni from the Desautels Faculty of Management at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ are visiting Mongolia this March, to help them understand the realities of doing business in a fledgling emerging market.
The Bachelor of Commerce students will travel to the deprived districts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital, as part of the ‘Hot Cities’ tour, a revolutionary initiative led by students which aims to bring them out of the classroom and into emerging commercial markets.
Raise Your Game McGill!
Thanks to a higher education grant from Procter and Gamble, the Career Services Team at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s Desautels Faculty of Management has created the ultimate challenge. Using the 2015 Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations as a guide, participating BCom and MBA students were assigned global challenges and, under the umbrella of collaboration and competition, teams were encouraged to apply integrated management solutions designed to create a global impact.
McGill Cancer Auction raised close to $30,000 for Cancer Society
The McGill Cancer Auction Committee, co-chaired by Rosalie Lesser & Lindsay Lubov, had a record-breaking year after its event on Friday, raising close to $30,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. This year's auction items included flight tickets, spa gift certificates and Igloofest passes.
CSR Ratings
The ascendance of socially responsible investing as a viable financial strategy has been accompanied by a similar proliferation of ratings schemes for assessing corporate social responsibility. Simply, if investors want to allocate their funds with SRI principles in mind, they need data that will allow them to make informed decisions. Indeed, over 50 rating methodologies for assessing environmental and social performance have been developed, more than a third of them since 2005.
'Hot Cities' Takes Business Students to Mongolia
More than 40 students and alumni from the Desautels Faculty of Management at the Canadian Ï㽶ÊÓƵ will visit Mongolia this March to help them understand the realities of doing business in a fledgling emerging market.
And the Next Star Fund Manager Is…
Finding a mutual-fund manager who can beat the market is tough. Winners flame out. Losers revive. The resurgent losers flame out again.
No wonder low-cost index-based exchange-traded funds and mutual funds—which seek only to mimic the return of a designated slice of the market—have eclipsed actively managed funds as the investment of choice for many people.
Réunions marchées : lève-toi, il faut qu’on parle
Deux ans. C’est le nombre d’années d’espérance de vie que nous gagnerions si nous passions moins de trois heures par jour assis, selon une étude américaine publiée en 2012. Selon les auteurs, la position assise prolongée est aussi néfaste pour la santé que le tabagisme ou l’obésité.
Women at Business School – Joanne Liu, MiM student
Joanne Liu is president of Médecins Sans Frontières, an international medical humanitarian organisation that has 30,000 medical professionals delivering emergency aid in more than 60 countries. She trained at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ School of Medicine and has a fellowship in paediatric emergency medecine from New York University School of Medicine.
Desautels BCom Team Wins 2014 National Investment Banking Competition
BCom students Nicholas Bigelow, Ivan Di, Mak Dorić, and Emily Ren have triumphed over 250 teams from across North America to win the 2014 National Investment Banking Competition (NIBC) held in Vancouver from January 7-9.
Desautels Researchers Win Best Paper at International Conference on Information Systems
Professors Alain Pinsonneault and Animesh Animesh, and PhD candidate Hyelim Oh, have won the best paper award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) held in Milan, Italy from December 15 to 18, 2013.
6 Economists Every Entrepreneur Should Know About
For years I’ve rejected the false choice that entrepreneurs are forced to make when it comes to the subjects of political science and comparative economics. First is the offer to buy in to the notion that there exists no natural connection between the underlying motivations and incentives which inspire entrepreneurs and their political and electoral choices.
Desautels BCom Teams Take Two Podiums at 2014 Inter-Collegiate Business Competition
Four BCom case teams in Finance (Egor Gagin and Josh Kimsa), Ethics (Kristen Foster and Greg Frank), Debate (Michayel Villani and Eric Zhao), and HR (Megan Levy and Matthew Hunter) made the finals at the 36th annual Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) held at Queen's University from January 2 to 5, 2014. The Debate team won 1st place while the HR team finished 2nd.