The pursuit of happiness through the ages

Published: 30 March 2017

Desautels Professor Reuven Brenner gave a lecture as part of the Centre for the Thought of John Paul II’s series on Moral Capitalism, in which he explored the concept of the pursuit of happiness,...

Improving innovation policy

Published: 30 March 2017

During a debate hosted in part by the Centre for the Thought of John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland, Desautels Professor Reuven Brenner explores the military origins of venture capital, as well as the...

Shoes, economics and entrepreneurship: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Published: 30 March 2017

John Tamny starts his review of Nike founder Phil Knight’s eminently enjoyable memoir, Shoe Dog, with a quote by Desautels Professor Reuven Brenner that macroeconomics is a “tautology and a myth, a...

Social Media for Startups: a workshop to build from

Published: 30 March 2017

At the last of this season’s McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship workshops, participants were treated to an in-depth understanding of what social media can do for startups. The workshop, led...

Canada stagnates while the US charges ahead: why VC in Canada is doing so poorly

Published: 30 March 2017

In a recent piece for Asia Times, Desautels Professor Reuven Brenner shines a light on Canada’s VC culture, contrasting its sluggish returns with those of the US, which outstrips its northern...

Honours in Investment Management Morning Meeting with Mark Taborsky, BCom’88

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 07:30to08:30

 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1G5, CA/desautelsCategory: Desautels alumni Desautels Faculty of Management

New Pulse Platform launched to boost health and wealth in India

Published: 22 March 2017

To develop new ways to innovate and support food enterprises in the pulse supply chain, the McGill Centre of for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) has launched the Pulse Innovation...

SNC-Lavalin CEO on strategy, communication and excellence

Published: 20 March 2017

SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce sat down with Desautels Associate Professor Karl Moore to discuss what it takes to keep a major engineering firm with 40,000 workers humming — and crucially, to get his...

Northleaf appoints Desautels alumnus to its infrastructure team

Published: 24 March 2017

Northleaf Capital Partners has brought former Goldman Sachs banking analyst Simon Bibeau (BCom'15) on board to perform market research and asset management duties in its infrastructure team....

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