Philanthropist and visionary Marcel Desautels passes away at age 88

Published: 10 February 2023

Marcel Desautels, LLD’07 (CM, O Ont, OM) generously donated both his resources and his time to furthering business education at McGill. The business leader and philanthropist passed away on January...

Marcel Desautels: 15 years of support broadens horizons in business education

Published: 13 November 2020

The impact of Marcel Desautels’ giving is dramatic, both on individual students who receive his awards, as well as on the Faculty’s programs. Two previous scholarship recipients and the Director of...

Desautels celebrates 15th anniversary of historic $22-million gift

Published: 13 November 2020

In 2005, Dr. Marcel Desautels made the largest donation to a Canadian business or management faculty in history. His game-changing $22-million gift to name the Desautels Faculty of Management has...

Announcing the 2019 Order of Manitoba recipients

Published: 13 May 2019

Congratulations to preeminent philanthropist and member of our International Faculty Advisory Board Marcel Desautels (C.M., LLD’07) for being named to Order of Manitoba....

MBA Next 50 Celebration

Published: 26 June 2018

The Desautels community has come together for an amazing achievement. ...

Marcel Desautels honoured with the Friend of McGill in Toronto Award

Published: 8 June 2018

The Desautels Faculty of Management is delighted to announce that Marcel Desautels, CM, O.Ont., LLD’07, was honoured with the Friend of McGill in Toronto Award at the inaugural McGill Toronto...

Desautels expanding into Bookstore space

Published: 20 November 2014

The Desautels Faculty of Management will take over the adjacent McGill Bookstore at 3420 McTavish St. sometime in 2016, providing a new home for the Faculty’s MBA programs, which will be moved out...

Queen’s to receive Can$50m naming gift from Canadian entrepreneur

Published: 2 October 2015

Queen’s University School of Business will today announce that it has received the largest ever donation to a Canadian business school, with a Can$50m pledge from financier and entrepreneur Stephen...

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