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MBA Programs Drawing More Applications in Quebec

Applications are up for MBA programs in Quebec, even as they have slowed in the U.S. RDI's business-news show reports on the situation, including interviews at Desautels Faculty of Management.

Featured in the interview: Professor Laurent Barras, MBA students Annjulie Beaulieu Hebert, Jean-Philippe Dulude, and Alexis Pradie

Knowledge investing: The path to safer returns

A $1,000 investment in Berkshire Hathaway in 1965 鈥� the year that Warren Buffett took control of the company 鈥� is worth over $5 million today.

鈥� Over the decades, this legendary investor has been unparalleled in his ability to create shareholder wealth.

-Article by William Polushin

Henry Mintzberg On What Is Wrong With Our Economy and How To Begin To Fix It

Henry Mintzberg is one of the most thoughtful and provocative thinkers in management today. He has a new electronic pamphlet coming out called 鈥淩ebalancing Society.鈥� In this interview Henry tells what he thinks is wrong with our economies and what might be the way forward.

-Article by Karl Moore

Talking Management with Karl Moore: Harvard's Tarun Khanna and the need for governments to be more inclusive

Prof. Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 香蕉视频 speaks with Tarun Khanna, professor at the Harvard Business School and the director of Harvard鈥檚 South Asia Initiative.

Read full transcript: The Globe and Mail, October 16, 2012

In 1973, Managers Could Work 23 Minutes Without Distraction. And Today?

A study of business managers reports the following findings:

Managers scarcely have time to start on a new task or to sit down before they are interrupted.

Only 12 times in the study did the manager succeed in working undisturbed in his office for at least 23 minutes.

鈥淭he brevity of many of the manager鈥檚 activities is most surprising鈥�Half of the observed activities were completed in less than nine minutes, and only one tenth took more than an hour.

You're never too old to learn

When John Haddon, 57, left a 22-year career in financial services in 2004, like many of us, he wasn't expecting the storms that lay on the horizon. One financial crisis later, he realised that, despite his years in the field, as an entrepreneur he was still lacking some of the skills required to navigate through choppy economic waters and a global business environment. "Although I'd been in financial services for a long while, I didn't have all that was required to 'speak the language'.

Be yourself for the best result

If a book was written about you, what would the title be and why? If that one has you tripping over your tongue, it's meant to. "Part of the idea behind these questions is to throw you something you are not prepared for and see what you come up with," says Michael Forde, who successfully applied to a handful of business schools before choosing McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management in Canada.

Growing Together: Synthetic Teamwork

In Henry Mintzberg鈥檚 1994 landmark book, 鈥淭he Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning,鈥� the author calls for a new method to create effective strategies. He notes that 鈥淪trategic planning isn鈥檛 strategic thinking. One is analysis, the other is synthesis.鈥�

Learning the legal and corporate realities of sustainability

For many people, sustainability in business is an afterthought. Not for me. Over the last two years, I have spent my time at 香蕉视频鈥檚 law faculty where my passion for sustainability has grown tremendously. Taking courses on environmental law and business law was an eye-opening experience. Often enough, the law responded too slowly to sustainability issues yet business had the capacity and resources to act immediately.

2012-2013 MDIIM Student Associates Program

The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) is pleased to announce its selections for the 2012-2013 MDIIM Student Associates Program: Shobhita Soor (3rd-year MBA/Law) and Shaonan Zhou (U3 Finance) will work with the Institute over the coming academic year to assist with the implementation of innovative teaching, research and outreach initiatives related to integrated management.

The End of Leadership 鈥� At Least as We Know It!

America is currently facing a crisis of leadership in business and in government. Yet at the same time 鈥� participation in leadership seminars and programs has never been higher. The leadership industry, with many of its roots in America, is now a $50 billion industry. If America is so good at developing leaders however, then why is America a mess? Both presidential candidates are impressive men but neither seems, at this point, to really rise to equal leaders of the past.

Finding happiness the MBA way

These days, when Jesper Hornberg goes to work he's likely to be stepping into a mud hut in Kenya, checking on a solar lamp. He's the founder of an NGO called Givewatts, which is trying to reduce dependence on kerosene lamps. Rather than having to work in the poor light given off by kerosene, children whose families have his lamps can now see well enough to do their homework. In some cases, their school test scores have increased by 50%.

Social and Environmental Ethics Integrated into Management Curricula

Throughout the last two decades, a wave of studies criticizing current curricula have swept through the field of management, leading to the discussion of widespread reforms throughout educational institutions. Specifically, many criticized the lack of 鈥渇unctionally integrated curricula in higher education,鈥� one that is inclusive of social and ecological factors in business practices.

Silent Spring: The Birth of the Environmental Movement

On September 19th, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), in collaboration with The Bull & Bear and the Management Sustainability Network, held a panel reflecting on the relevance of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson鈥檚 1962 bestseller that exposed the public to the hazards of synthetic materials in the environment.