Pulses – legumes, beans and peas – are poised to become the food of 2016 thanks to a massive global marketing effort. The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) is closely involved with the pulse community, and will shortly launch the global Pulse Innovation Platform (PIP), the convening body for pulse-based food innovation globally, serving as catalyst for a novel model of business engagement in bringing solution at scale to challenges at the nexus of farm, food and health systems.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
Congratulations to Desautels' Jeux du Commerce delegation for its 8 podium wins and overall 3rd place academic ranking.
Podiums
- Surprise Case - 1st
- Stock Simulation - 1st
- Human Resources - 2nd
- International Business - 2nd
- Debate - 2nd
- First Year Case - 3rd
- Finance - 3rd
- Information Systems - 3rd
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
THE Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) has been kicking goals recently and much of the credit must go to visionary CEO Sophie Galaise who has been with the orchestra for the past two and a half years.
Galaise, who is French-Canadian, has just announced she is leaving us to become CEO of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. That sucks.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
Studies in this week’s Hutchins Roundup find that macroprudential policies that target the cost of bank capital are the most effective way to contain housing booms, bonus depreciation has a significant impact on investment, and more.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
The money managers have started 2016 in a blue funk – but most are too young to remember what kicked off at the end of the 1980s and the fact that, with the exception of the instigator, we weren’t then doomed to years of economic gloom.
...Of course, professor Henry Mintzberg described the Davos gathering as the event "where the people who spend all year causing our problems take a few days prentending to fix them."
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
Several hundred aspiring MBAs will descend on Vancouver and Toronto next week for the first two Canadian stops this year on the QS World MBA Tour, which brings about two dozen Canadian and international business schools under one roof for a day-long recruitment pitch.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, the first female dean of McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management, says it is important to embrace diversity schools by having open communication. She also hopes for the day when an appointed female dean is no longer news.
Watch full video: Financial Times, 22 January, 2016
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
Both familiar and foreign, Canada has fine schools at bargain prices. But you'd better bundle up.
...Matthew Reid, an analyst at Sabal Financial Group in Newport Beach, Calif., attended the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill from 2009 to 2013. He also cites lower costs as a factor in his decision. The Canadian dollar is now worth only about 70 cents U.S., and tuition costs are generally much lower to begin with. The University of Toronto costs $19,754 to $25,584 a year in U.S. dollars, for example.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2016
The CEO of a major multinational recently shared with me that, as an introverted leader, he had to put on his “game face” whenever he left his floor. He’d realised that as a CEO of a big company, you need to act like, at times, as an extrovert. After studying introverts and extroverts in the C-Suite, I have come to the conclusion that extroverts, like myself, must also put on this “game face” and occasionally act like an introvert in order to be more effective leaders.
...Professor Karl Moore is from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.
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Published on: 21 Jan 2016
Quelle meilleure façon de commencer l’année 2016 pour Shobhita Soor, sortie diplômée en droit en 2015 de l’Université McGill ?
Car en effet, comme le rapporte Canadian Lawyer Mag, la jeune femme de 26 ans, qui s’est dit très « reconnaissante de figurer en si bonne compagnie » a été identifiée par le magazine Forbes comme l’une des avocates les plus prometteuses de l’année.
Lire l’article complet: Droit-Inc, 20 Janvier, 2016
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Published on: 21 Jan 2016
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University talks with his former colleague from McGill who is now at INSEAD, Mark Mortensen.
Read full transcript: The Globe and Mail, 20 January, 2016
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Published on: 21 Jan 2016
NewLeaf Travel will not be taking off next month. The airline says it’s suspending operations and refunding ticket sales as the Canadian Transportation Agency reviews its aviation licence.
...McGill Professor Karl Moore has offered consulting advice to several airlines including British Airways and feels this is just a speedbump.
Read full article: News 1130, January 18, 2016
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Published on: 20 Jan 2016
Karl Moore is a professor of strategy and organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. In this exclusive interview he speaks with John Wood, the founder of Room to Read, a global non-profit organization that promotes literacy and gender equality in education.
Read full article: Financial Post, January 19, 2016
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Published on: 20 Jan 2016
Her Campus McGill is pleased to present you with this week's über fabulous profile, Megan Munroe! Although her roots lie in both San Francisco and Vancouver, she has found her temporary home at McGill as a U1 Management student majoring in Marketing. Along with her studies, Megan is the Director of Communications for the MUS club Fashion Business Uncovered. She also runs a seriously incredible and successful blog (that I frequent when I should be studying, but her major style gives me life), theClosetCraze.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2016
The moment I typed the heading, the Word spellchecker highlighted that there was no such word. It is in a way correct. It is refreshingly new. I came across it after reading the inspiring book, ‘Simply Managing’ by one of my all-time favourites, Henry Mintzberg. Today’s column is an elaboration of it in relation to the Sri Lankan context.
Read full article: DailyFT, January 16, 2016
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Published on: 18 Jan 2016
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