| 1906 | Management education begins at McGill University. The Department of Commerce is established within the Faculty of Arts, offering “commercial courses to train people as accountants, clerks, and the like.” A Diploma of Commerce is awarded to students completing the two-year program. |
| 1912 | The Commerce program is named the School of Commerce, and the first BCom degrees are awarded by McGill in 1915 |
| 1920 | McGill’s School of Commerce is founded, independent of the Faculty of Arts. |
| 1948 | Executive-level management courses are introduced in the School of Commerce. |
| 1963 | McGill opens its Graduate School of Business Administration, offering its first MBA program. |
| 1965 | McGill graduates its first MBA class. Businessman and future McGill benefactor Seymour Schulich is one of the graduates. |
| 1968 | The Faculty of Management of McGill University is established, incorporating the School of Commerce and the Graduate School of Business Administration. |
| 1972 | The Samuel Bronfman Building is inaugurated, providing the Faculty of Management with a modern new home on Sherbrooke Street. A generous donation from the Bronfman family makes the building possible. |
| 1976 | The Faculty of Management initiates a joint PhD program with HEC, Concordia and UQAM. |
| 1978 | The joint MBA/Law program receives approval. Applications begin in 1979. |
| 1988 | The Faculty establishes the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies, thanks to a generous donation from the John Dobson Foundation. In an effort to provide a much-needed link between financial market theory and practical investment experience, McGill pioneers the Applied Investments Program, which was the first program of its kind in Canada. |
| 1991 | Chaired by Paul Desmarais Jr. (BCom ’77), an International Advisory Board is established to seek management education advice from leading Canadian and foreign business leaders. |
| 1995 | The John Cleghorn (BCom ‘62) Chair in Management Studies is established |
| 1996 | The Faculty launches three new programs, all of which are Canadian “firsts”: the International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM), the Joint MD/MBA program, and, in conjunction with the McGill Faculty of Engineering, the Masters in Manufacturing Management (MMM). |
| 1998 | The Faculty launches the MBA Japan program, the first Canadian degree program offered in Japan. |
| 1999 | McGill opens the Power Corporation International Executive Centre on the sixth floor of the Bronfman Building: a new home for a suite of innovative executive-level programs. The new Centre offers executive-level students the best education facilities in Montreal. |
| 2003 | The Canadian Credit Management Foundation endows a chair in Integrative Health Management. |
| 2004 | The Faculty launches the Advanced Leadership Program (ALP), marking a new generation of executive education. |
| 2005 | McGill’s MBA program celebrates its 40th anniversary. The Desmarais Centre for Global Finance, made possible by a donation from the Desmarais family, is established. Herschel Victor (BCom ‘44), Chairman and CEO of Jack Victor Ltd., a men’s clothing manufacturer, makes a generous donation to renovate the lobby of the Bronfman Building. The lobby is named in his honour. On November 17, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation and Marcel Desautels donate $22 million to the Faculty. The gift is the largest single donation ever made to a business or management faculty in Canada. The Faculty is named the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University. |
| 2008 | The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management is opened. |
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