Are crickets the meal staple of the future?

Published: 2 October 2017

Mohammed Ashour, co-founder of Aspire Food Group, received the Highly Commended Award at FoodBytes, a startup competition that supports innovative ideas in food and agriculture. The Aspire Group...

Future food now: how insects will solve world hunger

Published: 7 April 2017

In an interview on Fox Business Network, Aspire CEO and former MBA student Mohammed Ashour makes the case for eating bugs as a way to meet the world’s growing protein requirements. His company, the...

Desautels alumnus bets on bugs to solve world hunger

Published: 3 April 2017

As the world’s population increases, the pressure to find an ecologically-feasible protein source is mounting, so former MBA student Mohammed Ashour of the Aspire Food Group is bringing a foreign...

Crickets: a healthy food choice that’s tasty too

Published: 16 October 2017

Former MBA student Mohammed Ashour and the Aspire Group have come a long way since winning the Hult Prize in 2013 for their vision of creating a high-tech cricket farm to produce foods for human...

A great milestone for Aspire Food Group

Published: 8 March 2018

Aspire Food Group, a manufacturer of food products made from crickets co-founded by former MBA student Mohammed Ashour, announced that it has acquired Exo, a producer of protein bars made from...

Catching up with renowned management thinker Henry Mintzberg

Published: 4 May 2018

Professor Henry Mintzberg recently sat down with Professor Karl Moore on his CEO Series show to explore his approach to Management education via the IMPM and IMHL programs, as well as the profound...

Great strides for PhD alumna

Published: 20 June 2018

Congratulations to Pamela Lirio (PhD’11) who was recently promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Industrial Relations at Université de Montréal and was awarded with the “Prix d'excellence...

Takeaways from a marketing guru and Dobson Cup judge

Published: 18 June 2018

Tylenol, Band-Aid, and Neutrogena are just some of the brands that Jill Selick (BCom’02), Founder of Rubix Marketing and McGill Dobson Cup judge has helped market....

Social Capital and Job Search in Urban China: The Strength-of-Strong-Ties Hypothesis Revisited

Published: 8 May 2017

Authors: Elena Obukhova & Letian Zhang Publication: Chinese Sociological Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2017 Abstract: 

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