Monday, March 18, 2024 12:00to13:00

Personal Finance 101: Align you Money Habits with your Goals

This is a 4-part series offered by the Health and Wellness Program.

Setting a goal, drafting a budget, monitoring your expenses, and reevaluating—these steps sound familiar, right? Despite an abundance of free budgeting and financial tools available through online searches, an astounding 47% of Canadians are still living paycheck to paycheck. Why is that?

Classified as: faculty, My Healthy Workplace, Health and Well-being, staff, Staff Health and Well-Being
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.

Date: Mar. 19th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law
Thursday, March 21, 2024 12:00to13:00

Offered by the Health and Wellness Program in collaboration with the McGill School of Human Nutrition 

Classified as: faculty, My Healthy Workplace, Health and Well-being, staff, Staff Health and Well-Being
Thursday, March 21, 2024 14:00to15:00

Online Session

Offered by the McGill Office of Sustainability and Organizational Development

In this training, participants will learn about key sustainability concepts and how to incorporate these dimensions into their role. Whether working remotely or in the office, participants can learn how to apply sustainability best practices, behaviour change frameworks, and tools to foster environmental and social change.

To register:

Classified as: Sustainability, Staff workshops, staff, faculty, My Healthy Workplace, Organizational Development
Monday, March 11, 2024toMonday, March 25, 2024

Application Deadline: March 25, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET 

The McGill Engine Capstone Design Prizes for Entrepreneurship support Faculty of Engineering student teams that have developed an innovative design solution as part of their final year Capstone Design Project with potential for their own startup venture.

How it works:

Classified as: entrepreneurship, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, Project, Venture, startup
Monday, March 25, 2024

Application Deadline: March 25, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET

The McGill Engine Capstone Design Prizes for Entrepreneurship support Faculty of Engineering student teams that have developed an innovative design solution as part of their final year Capstone Design Project with potential for their own startup venture.

How it works:

Classified as: entrepreneurship, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students
Monday, March 25, 2024 12:00to13:15

Offered by the Health and Wellness Program 

Interested in saving money on groceries and ensuring healthy eating for your family? Our dietitian, Veena, will provide tips and tricks on how to shop smarter and save money when you do groceries. In this session, we will explore 5 tips for eating well and not breaking the bank. Let's take some time to look at some new strategies to help you save for the long term!

Register here.

 

Classified as: faculty, My Healthy Workplace, Health and Well-being, staff, Staff Health and Well-Being
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian Emily Jaeger-McEnroe will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.

Date: Mar. 26th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 09:00to10:30

This workshop is required for all members of academic search committees. Topics covered include:

Classified as: Faculty Workshops, faculty
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.

Date: Apr. 2nd, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 12:00to13:00

In this workshop, you'll learn how VC's typically value an early stage innovation driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.

This workshop is facilitated by Derrick Wong (Ronald Chwang EiR).

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, Venture Capital
Monday, April 8, 2024 12:00to13:00

Personal Finance 101: Align you Money Habits with your Goals

This is a 4-part series offered by the Health and Wellness Program.

Setting a goal, drafting a budget, monitoring your expenses, and reevaluating—these steps sound familiar, right? Despite an abundance of free budgeting and financial tools available through online searches, an astounding 47% of Canadians are still living paycheck to paycheck. Why is that?

Classified as: faculty, My Healthy Workplace, Health and Well-being, staff, Staff Health and Well-Being
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.

Date: Apr. 9th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law

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