Africa is at the heart of our world, but its diverse cultural and economic influence has often been overlooked. Yet the world has begun to take note, says Prof. Karl Moore, who led this year’s Hot Cities of the World Tour to Accra, Ghana and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
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Published on: 2 May 2023
Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. “And studies tell us methane emissions are greatly underestimated,” says Lee Krywitsky (IMPM'18), whose Calgary-based company Safe Effective Technology works with the oil and gas industry to reduce emissions. Krywitsky started consulting after selling his manufacturing business, and McGill’s International Masters Program for Managers (IMPM) helped him make the leap.
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Published on: 2 May 2023
Danone’s success is centred on its people, and built around fundamental principles of learning, support and belonging, says Dan Magliocco, the CEO of Danone Canada, a large food products company that specializes in dairy. “We live in a society that is driven by goals and performance,” Magliocco told Karl Moore in an interview for Forbes and Les Affaires. “But our workplace is collaborative and inclusive, and emphasizes well-being.
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Published on: 2 May 2023
In a move the company said was planned in advance, Galen Weston will be stepping down as the president of Loblaws at the end of 2023, and will be replaced by Danish retail executive Per Bank, who will also assume the title of CEO. But Weston will be staying on as executive chairman of the board. “It’s a natural evolution,” said Prof. Karl Moore in an interview with BNN Bloomberg. “The word ‘executive’ is important here. While a chair might be there one day a week, an executive chair is there five days a week.”
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Published on: 2 May 2023
The second week of May marks the start of the GCPA program for a new incoming cohort of 52 students. This year’s cohort consists of 47 of McGill University’s very own Bachelor of Commerce graduates, one graduate from McGill’s School of Continuing Studies, 2 Concordia graduates and the remaining from other Canadian Universities.
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Published on: 2 May 2023
McGill Desautels’ Cameron McRae, PhD candidate in Marketing, has made the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Top 25 Finalists list for the 2023 Storytellers Challenge. Watch his compelling story on Precision Retailing in Grocery and Supermarket Environments.
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Published on: 28 Apr 2023
The Integrated Management Student Fellowship (IMSF), offered by the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), is an experiential leadership development program that aims to bridge the gap between the classroom and the community. The program encourages multidisciplinary experiences and taking on initiatives that make a difference in the community. The IMSF consists of course work, a faculty-guided research project and an impact initiative.
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Published on: 27 Apr 2023
Located in Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Nation operates more than 100 businesses and employs nearly 14,000 people. The federally recognized Native American tribe has come a long way since Governor Bill Anoatubby began working there as health director in the 1970s. “We had to use ingenuity because we did not have a lot of resources. We had the human resources that we needed to mobilize. We identified the resources we did have and moved forward,” said Anoatubby in an interview with Professor Karl Moore for The Globe and Mail.
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Published on: 26 Apr 2023
Learn how the McGill Master of Management in Finance (MMF) can open a number of career doors. On this Earth Day, we catch up with an MMF alumnus working in ESG and Sustainable Finance, Mitchell McEwen (MMF’20). Now Senior Manager, Enterprise Sustainable Finance, TD Bank Group, he first joined the Bank as an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) intern. He credits the MMF program’s flexibility with allowing him to explore the intersection between finance and sustainability.
Published on: 21 Apr 2023
Each year, the McGill Desautels African Business Initiative (DABI) brings together attendees, panelists and guest speakers for an opportunity to learn, network and engage in stimulating discussions about the future of business in Africa. This year’s panelists included Sekou Coulibaly (BCom’03), who was executive director at L’Oréal before launching a sustainable, made-in-Africa luxury clothing brand called SEKBI Bogolan in 2020.
Published on: 20 Apr 2023
Sustainable finance is an integral part of a more sustainable future, but it won’t fix the world’s problems overnight. “Even if we all want to go to work tomorrow in electric vehicles, and have our groceries delivered in electric trucks, we’re not there yet,” said BMO Quebec President Grégoire Baillargeon in an interview with McGill Desautels Prof. Karl Moore for Les Affaires. “We need to find technologies to decarbonize, but these types of projects require enormous amounts of money.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2023
About sixty entrepreneurs from Vaudreuil-Soulanges region joined Desautels faculty and staff for a conference on best practices in retail.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2023
E-commerce has made it possible to order almost anything online, but that has made it more challenging for brick-and-mortar retailers to attract shoppers and with more stores sitting vacant, some shopping malls have gotten creative, and added temporary pop-up activities like roller skating and haunted houses. Before the pandemic, commercial landlords demanded multi-year leases, said Charles de Brabant, executive director at McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2023
One of the largest contributors to climate change worldwide, the agricultural food supply chain crosses international borders and reaches across industries and sectors. Reducing its environmental impact requires complex, high-tech solutions like artificial intelligence—and the people to implement them at the right time, in the right places.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2023
“Epidemics and pandemics are without pity,” says Joanne Liu (MDCM'91, IMHL'14, DSc'16) “If there are weak links, they will break.” Liu is the former president of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a graduate of Desautels’ International Masters for Health Leadership program. In 2021, she joined McGill’s School of Population and Global Health to create the new Pandemic Emergency Readiness Lab (PERL).
Published on: 14 Apr 2023
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