Joey Adler, Businesswoman, philanthropist and EMBA alumna

Published: 12 September 2017

Joey Adler (EMBA’14) was a successful businesswoman when her husband and business partner died of cancer in 2001. She sat down with HEC Montreal’s Gestion magazine to talk about life without her...

John Dobson Foundation donates $2 million to support entrepreneurship at McGill

Published: 18 July 2017

Montreal, Quebec, July 18, 2017 - The John Dobson Foundation has announced a donation of $2 million – its largest gift to McGill yet – to fund the McGill X-1 Accelerator program run by the McGill...

Philippines-based fashion retailer sees doors opening, thanks to inclusion on BoF 500 list

Published: 11 September 2017

Mark “Jappy” Gonzalez is thrilled to be included on BoF 500, the list of people moving and shaking the fashion industry. Mr Gonzalez says that being included on the list can only open doors, and...

Professor Vihang Errunza named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Published: 8 September 2017

The Desautels Faculty of Management is pleased to congratulate Professor Vihang Errunza, Associate Dean, Research, on being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’s Social Sciences Academy.

There’s a new crop of booze coming from Quebec

Published: 8 September 2017

The end of summer saw a lot of new alcohols come from Quebec distilleries. La Presse tested three of them, including a special gin inspired by Montreal’s 375th anniversary....

Desautels alumna on recycling cigarette butts

Published: 8 September 2017

TerraCycle Marketing Manager Jessica Panetta (BCom’16) recently appeared on Toronto’s Breakfast Television to talk about recycling “non-recyclable” waste, specifically used cigarette butts....

EMBA alumnus and Groupe Deschênes CEO on keeping a family separate from business

Published: 8 September 2017

Groupe Deschênes CEO François Deschênes (EMBA’10) was recently interviewed for a piece in Montreal French-language newspaper La Presse. He spoke about recently being put in charge of the family...

Karl Moore on Boomers, millennials and the post-truth world

Published: 8 September 2017

Desautels Associate Professor Karl Moore writes in Forbes that executives and older people who are disoriented by the post-fact world can do themselves a favour by looking to millennials for help....

Desautels students from Japan and Montreal tour Vietnam businesses

Published: 8 September 2017

This summer, a combined group of Desautels MBA Japan students and participants from the PMBA cohort in Montreal accompanied Associate Professor Desmond Tsang on a Study Tour of Vietnam to get a...

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