Taking stock of social business activities in academia

Published: 3 May 2019

An interview with Desautels lecturer Anita Nowak is featured in the 2019 Academia Report on Social Business, an overview compiled by the YY Foundation of the diverse social business activities that...

Debate: What is the Role of Business in Humanitarian Issues?

Published: 20 November 2015

What is the wider role of business in society? While it has long been acknowledged that big businesses in particular have a part to play – by virtue of their place in society as well as the people...

McGill students’ plans to help rebuild Lac-Mégantic win praise

Published: 25 June 2014

One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-Mégantic, igniting and razing much of the town’s commercial centre, three McGill University students with a...

McGill students give future Syrian newcomers English lessons online

Published: 7 January 2016

Many people are offering help to Syrian refugees after they arrive in Quebec, but students are reaching out to refugees while they remain overseas....

Bold ideas take flight at McGill Dobson Cup

Published: 26 June 2014

One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014 McGill Dobson Cup, the annual start-up competition hosted by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Desautels Faculty of Management....

A lifetime in academia

Published: 17 February 2016

When Anita Nowak, GrDip 99, studied in the graduate diploma program of Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies, she says “a whole new world of cultural studies opened up to me.”...

McGill lance un premier «GROOC» sur l’entrepreneuriat social

Published: 18 September 2015

Le 16 septembre prochain, le début des cours se fera en ligne pour les élèves inscrits au premier « GROOC » (pour Group MOOC) de la faculté de gestion Desautels de McGill. À travers un MOOC ...

McGill business students focus on helping Syrian refugees

Published: 28 April 2016

Every semester, McGill University faculty lecturer Anita Nowak challenges her students to come up with projects for her social entrepreneurship and social innovation class based on a theme that she...

A different kind of MOOC

Published: 2 October 2015

The Desautels Faculty of Management launched a world’s first on September 16, coining a new word in the process. According to the people who put the course together, “Social Learning for Social...

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