Announcing the Donald E. Armstrong Building
The future home of the MBA and specialized Masters ProgramsRenovations began at full pace this September in the Donald E. Armstrong Building, which will house our MBA and Masters programs.
Since then, progress is being made every day, with the grand opening slated for Winter 2018.
MBA Students awarded second place in the Business for a Better World case competition
Congratulations to MBA students, Aman Arora, Timothy Lane, Santiago Monroy, and Jose Nunez Gutierrez, who were awarded second place in the Business for a Better World case competition. The team has been working since October on designing a global equity portfolio that advances the UN’s sustainable development goals, which culminated with a presentation in Davos, Switzerland on January 19th to a panel of high-profile judges.
Eco Atlantic Announces Intention to Float on Aim
Derek Norman Linfield, aged 60 (Proposed Non-Executive Director)
Business schools heed the call for more data-literate graduates
Deloitte Analytics and other companies have been pushing Canadian universities for years to produce more data-literate graduates to fill their talent needs. Their efforts appear to be paying off, with business schools ramping up their offerings in data analytics.
In the Desautels MBA with a concentration in analytics, students take a five-course concentration that involves three sides: descriptive, predictive and a prescriptive.
Mark Michaud Commended by the Quebec Government
Mark Michaud, MBA'14, Director of Administration, recently received a commendation letter from the Ministry of Education’s Director General of University Affairs, Jean-François Lehoux, thanking him for his outstanding contribution to the workgroup that spent over a year reviewing the academic classification system used by the Quebec Government.
Heike Birlenbach appointed Vice President Sales Lufthansa Group for the EMEA sales region
Since 2014 Mrs. Heike Birlenbach holds the position of Vice President Sales Europe Lufthansa Group Airlines. As of next year, 2017, she will assume the role of Vice President Sales EMEA Lufthansa Group Airlines. In this position Birlenbach will not only be responsible for all sales and commercial activities in Europe but also in the Middle East and Africa.
SunExpress appoints Jens Bischof as new managing director
 Jens Bischof has been appointed as managing director of SunExpress, a Deutsche Lufthansa/Turkish Airlines joint venture, with effect from January 1, 2017.
He holds a degree of business administration (Dipl. Betriebswirt) from the University of Applied Sciences (AKAD) in Rendsburg and a master’s degree in Management from Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal, Canada.
Canadian Perspectives on Hedge Funds in 2016
Jean-François Papillon: I have been a Wealth Advisor and Portfolio Manager with the Roux Papillon Blais team at BMO Nesbitt Burns for 15 years. I have a civil engineering background and hold an MBA from Ď㽶ĘÓƵ. I earned the CFA designation in 2005. I have used hedge funds for approximately eight years. The reason is simple: they represent a diversification tool with little correlation to the other investment categories in my portfolio.
Desautels MBA Delivers the Global Leadership Lecture in Sydney, Australia
Usman W. Chohan, a graduate of Desautels MBA in Strategy and Leadership (2014)Â delivered the 2015 Foreign Affairs Lecture in the Global Leadership Program (GLP) at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The lecture was titled "The World Bank and the New Dynamics of Development", and drew on Mr. Chohan's WB experience to map the development field, particularly in the context of emergent institutions such as AIIB.
Le cabinet d'avocats Taj renforce son activité juridique
Taj confirme son dynamisme et sa volonté de développer ses expertises juridiques en renforçant ses équipes en droit des affaires avec un nouvel associé et deux nouvelles directrices.
Taj : arrivée de Thibaut Lasserre, Isabelle de La Gorce et Florence Théodose
Thibaut Lasserre, avocat Associé spécialisé en droit des sociétés, diplômé du MBA de l’université McGill, revient à Paris pour renforcer l’offre Corporate - M&A après avoir passé deux ans au bureau de Marseille. Il intervient principalement sur des opérations de fusionsacquisitions et de private equity.
One-Year or Two-Year MBA: Is There a Simple Answer?
MBAs have become diversified products, catering to segmented clientele’s needs. Upon exploring whether a two-year MBA program is superior to a one-year program, there is, unfortunately, no simple answer to suit all circumstances.
Why Canadian MBA programs want to attract more international students
Gabriel Werkhaizer may have managed multiÂmillion-dollar budgets in his hometown of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, but it was only this year that he learned how to say some financial words in English, such as “accruals.” The 30-year-old moved to Montreal last year with his wife and two-year-old daughter to earn his MBA degree at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ’s Desautels Faculty of Management.
4 Sénégalais dans le Top100 Africa
Quant aux SĂ©nĂ©galais, ils sont 4 nominĂ©s parmi les top-leaders. Ainsi, Adrien Diouf, Directeur de l’Agence UMOA Titres, figure Ă la 17ème place. C’est un financier pur et dur, diplĂ´mĂ© de l’UniversitĂ© Paris I et d’un MBA de Ď㽶ĘÓƵ (Canada) avec une expĂ©rience d’une dizaine d’annĂ©es dans le secteur bancaire oĂą il a plafonnĂ© comme Directeur marchĂ© obligataire de Afreximbank.
​​​​​​​​​​Nadeem Velani named CP’s Chief Financial Officer
Canadian Pacific today announced that Nadeem Velani has been named Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Velani had been serving as Vice-President and interim CFO since September 9, 2016.
Velani holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Western University and an MBA in Finance/International Business from McGill.Â
