Desautels alumna on law, business and her transgender journey

Published: 19 September 2017

Marie Laure Leclercq (MBA) started her career, and indeed her life, as a male. According to the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) National Magazine, when she began the process of changing her gender...

Desautels alumna and former Ericsson exec joins Verizon as CSO

Published: 20 September 2017

Light Reading reports that after leaving her position as Head of Ericsson North America, Rima Qureshi (BCom’87, MBA’96) has been hired as Verizon’s new Chief Strategy Officer. She will be working...

Montreal is the place to be for Desautels MBA student

Published: 27 September 2017

Desautels MBA student, Moises Meza, originates from Venezuela, but has lived all over the world. After working for five years in consulting, Meza always envisaged pursuing his MBA studies in a vast...

LIMRA names Desautels alumnus to list of financial innovators

Published: 29 September 2017

LIMRA has released its 2017 Rising Stars of Innovation under 40 list and Jean-Michel Lavoie (MBA’09), Assistant Vice President, Product Development, Group Benefits at Sun Life Financial has made...

Ben Plomion talks startups, skateboards, and Donald Trump

Published: 29 September 2017

­­­­­­­­­­For French native Ben Plomion (MBA’07), his early teenage years consisted of skateboards, Nirvana, and an unshakable dream of relocating to the U.S. After completing his studies in Canada...

Digitisation vs. textbooks: the debate continues

Published: 2 October 2017

The general trend among MBA programs worldwide points to a rise in digitised course readings, as opposed to the use of bulky textbooks....

Announcement of Knight Therapeutics CFO resignation

Published: 11 October 2017

Knight Therapeutics has announced the resignation of its chief financial officer, as the company’s president and Desautels International Faculty Advisory Board member, Samira Sakhia (BCom’90, DPA...

Desautels MBA program ranks among Top 10 for sustainability

Published: 16 October 2017

Corporate Knights has released its 2017 Top 40 Better World MBA ranking, and the Desautels Faculty of Management has placed 9th among top business schools who put issues of sustainability at the...

McGill X-1 Accelerator: second week at a glance

Published: 21 June 2017

Week 2 of the McGill X-1 Accelerator is done! From an opening session with serial entrepreneur Luc Giguere, the week progressed through a second look at Bill Aulet’s Disciplined Entrepreneurship;...

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