/desautels/taxonomy/term/831/all en /desautels/channels/event/introduction-industry-analysis-358849 <div><img src="https://se-images.campuslabs.ca/clink/images/2eddd557-cff6-464c-8883-29ed66563b5fe8f22431-bbf8-4992-bc6a-3b815102fcd7.png?preset=med-w" width="320" style="float:left; margin-right:15px; margin-bottom:15px" alt="Introduction to Industry</body></html>" /></div> Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:18:48 +0000 admin 1322299 at /desautels /desautels/channels/event/techaccel-showcase-359086 <h4>Come and meet our TechAccel teams! Student startup teams funded and supported by <strong><a href="/engine/" title="">The McGill Engine</a> </strong>will be present to demo their projects and businesses!</h4> Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:50:50 +0000 admin 1251019 at /desautels /desautels/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-5-foundations-ip-and-patent-searching-358779 <p>This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:09:13 +0000 admin 1216887 at /desautels /desautels/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-6-customer-discovery-358780 <p>This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:10:31 +0000 admin 1216888 at /desautels /desautels/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-3-introduction-industry-analysis-358777 <p>This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:06:52 +0000 admin 1216885 at /desautels /desautels/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-4-market-research-and-analysis-competition-358778 <p>This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:07:58 +0000 admin 1216886 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/impact200-finalists-pitch-their-start-ups-nyc-networking-tour-340008 <p>McGill’s impact200 asked students to develop innovative solutions to address society’s most pressing challenges.</p> Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:56:24 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 87400 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/poets-and-quants-celebrates-mcgill-mba-alumna-iwd-338413 <p>For International Women's Day last week, <i>Poets and Quants</i> spoke with a number of female business school graduates who have successfully started their own enterprises. <b>Aurélie Hélouis</b> (MBA’16), Founder and CEO of infinityQ, a quantum analog computing start-up, shared how her time at Desautels helped her discover how to apply the skills she acquired as a former senior officer and CTO in the French Navy to her entrepreneurial endeavours and develop her own business.</p> Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:04:26 +0000 sabatino.dellicompagni@mcgill.ca 87088 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/why-serial-entrepreneur-finally-went-back-school-256901 <p>Nicholas Reichenbach believes in letting the ideas flow.</p> <p><span>Similarly, <strong>Alexander Kalil</strong>, a former portfolio manager in his 70s who teaches at �㽶��Ƶ’s Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal, encourages MBA students to take an open-minded approach to business creation.</span></p> <p><span>Read full article: <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/business-education/why-this-serial-entrepreneur-finally-went-back-to-school/article27282049/" target="_blank">The Globe and Mail</a>, November 16, 2015</span></p> <p> </p> Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:41:45 +0000 arifa.nitol@mail.mcgill.ca 65292 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/most-powerful-entrepreneurs-canada-256876 <p>Who’s really calling the shots in Canada? Every year, Canadian Business compiles a list of the Power 50, the dealmakers, financiers, entrepreneurs and CEO whisperers who are shaping the way we do business now.</p> <p><strong><span>50. Imran Ahmed</span></strong><br /> Founder, Business of Fashion <br /> Built a huge following in a $1-trillion industry</p> Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:31:05 +0000 arifa.nitol@mail.mcgill.ca 65287 at /desautels /desautels/channels/event/innovating-impact-building-successful-businesses-science-based-discovery-262395 <p>Universities are full of bright, curious individuals asking fundamental questions. What isn’t evident is how breakthroughs are transformed into marketable products and services that combat complex health, environmental, and social challenges.</p> Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:42:18 +0000 megan.poss@mcgill.ca 66457 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/how-does-innovation-come-life-mcgill-261194 <p>Innovation is certainly a buzzword in business media and Canadian policy – but at what point does the buzz transform into action? At McGill, “innovation” is most broadly understood to mean the advancing of public good, either through the development of scientific and technological solutions to market problems, or through novel approaches to meeting society’s pressing needs.</p> Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:44:48 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 66190 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/minoring-entrepreneurship-majoring-success-260309 <p>Popular culture loves the mythology of the self-made success, the boot-strapping individual who eschews formal education to blaze a path to success. But, while superstar dropouts can capture our imaginations – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg – they are the exceptions, not the rule.</p> Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:09:25 +0000 megan.poss@mcgill.ca 65922 at /desautels /desautels/programs/bcom/academics/minors-non-management-students/entrepreneurship-minors-non-management-students <h5>The McGill Faculties of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Arts, Education (Kinesiology and Physical Education), Engineering, Music and Science collaborate with the Desautels Faculty of Management in offering 18 credit Minors in Entrepreneurship for McGill undergraduate students enrolled in those faculties.</h5> <p>These Minors are designed to provide students with an understanding of how to conceptualize, develop, and manage successful new ventures - including for-profit companies, social enterprises, not-for-profit organizations, and cooperatives, as well as how to successfully champion intrapreneurship projects in larger organizations. </p> <div class="accordion"> <h3>Read more</h3> <div> <ul> <li>Management courses cover management essentials and the key concepts of entrepreneurship including basic accounting, financing, organizational behavior, marketing, operations management, information technology, strategy, plus the basic processes involved in starting and managing a new venture.  </li> <li>Faculty-specific courses allow students to further their knowledge in specific types of entrepreneurship, such as social, technological, music or agribusiness entrepreneurship.</li> <li>Students gain hands-on experience through an entrepreneurial project or internship.</li> <li>The programs are interdisciplinary and integrative. Many courses will include a diverse set of students from multiple McGill faculties.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <p> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:33:11 +0000 julie.lapalme@mcgill.ca 65666 at /desautels /desautels/channels/event/mcgill-dobson-cup-application-now-open-258072 <h2 style="text-align:center">McGill Dobson Cup Application is now open!</h2> <h2 style="text-align:center">22 January, 2016 to 1 Feb, 2016</h2> Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:16:49 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 65487 at /desautels