An article for The Globe and Mail highlights the popular Mini-MBA program offered by the McGill Executive Institute at the Desautels Faculty of Management.
The program aims to improve options for working professionals who do not have the time for longer course offerings and provides them with the tools necessary to satisfy the future needs of their companies.
Executive Director of the Bensadoun Retail Initiative, Charles de Brabant (BCom'83), has been selected to be a part of a committee organized to devise a commercial development plan for Montreal and strategy for the local merchants.
The committee will study how other cities are dealing with the global issues and challenges that are also prevalent in Montreal’s retail sector.
Learn more about how Desautels has one of the most personalized undergraduate business programs.
Marking the sixth year of participating in the 2018 Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC), a team of Desautels’ students took 1st place in the MATLAB Options Volatility Case. The team consisted of BCom students Matei Popescu, Jasmine Chi, and Percy Ahn; Masters of Management in Finance students Zacharie LeBlanc and Joanie Grimard; and PhD candidate Chengyu Zhang.
Organized by the Bensadoun Retail Initiative, this conference will provide a forum for exchange —for both professionals and academics— at the newly opened Donald E. Armstrong Building. An impressive roster of academic and practitioner speakers will foster discussions about the latest research, industry practices & approaches, trends & challenges in retail.
McGill University, in association with Manulife and the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), is pleased to announce that Dr. Jean-Pierre Després, Professor at the Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval and pioneer in developing screening techniques for visceral obesity, is the winner of the 2018 Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health.
Chantal Souligny (IMHL’14) has been selected as the new Director of Nursing for the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), effective March 19, bringing considerable experience in the health care sector to the role.
Luiz Barreto, an MBA exchange student at Desautels, represented the Faculty as a finalist in the Wharton People Analytics Case Competition, which took place on March 22 in Philadelphia.
He entered the competition under the guidance of Professor Brian Rubineau and his People Analytics course.
Luiz presented his case to a panel of leading industry and academic representatives, as well as competition attendees.
With the news that Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival has been sold to an American investor group, some worry about what this will mean for the city’s signature comedy event.
Professor Karl Moore shares his perspective, stating that “it's unfortunate that another successful Quebec company has resorted to foreign ownership.”
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McGill University hosted annual Bravo gala on March 15 to honour the McGill researchers and scholars across disciplines who won special awards, memberships, and prizes during the preceding year.
Among the list of distinguished honourees was Professor Karl Moore who was presented with the Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media – Outstanding Achievement.
Apollo Music Store, founded by Philippe-Aubert Messier (EMBA’13) is embarking on a new venture through the introduction of a web application, which will allow users to search a growing repertoire on Canadian and international music through a refined music keyword search, among other features.
Hugo Delorme (EMBA’16), Director of Corporate Services at CN has been recently named a Board Member for Loto-Québec.
Taiga Motors, founded by McGill Engineering grads and winners of the McGill Dobson Cup, is preparing to launch the very first electric snowmobile — a vehicle that can go from zero to 95 kilometers per hour in three seconds and boasts zero emissions.
The company has already collected a few hundred preorders, with hopes to reach 1,000 by the end of the summer.
