Desautels MBAs promote social good and compete for $1 million

Published: 5 March 2013

Desautels MBA students Mohammed Ashour, Jesse Pearlstein, Shobhita Soor, Zev Thompson, and Gabriel Mott, beat out over 40 teams, including Harvard, MIT and Yale, to win the Boston Regional Finals...

The future of food can be found in insects

Published: 7 December 2017

Restauranteurs and entrepreneurs around the world are heeding the call for more sustainable food sources. Among them is the Aspire Food Group, which has recently doubled its production of crickets...

McGill law grad makes Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Published: 18 January 2016

Recent McGill University law grad Shobhita Soor says she is “grateful to be in good company,” after being recognized by Forbes magazine as a breakout talent of 2016 30 Under 30 list. ...

Fundraising For A Humanitarian Startup? Show VCs The Money

Published: 16 January 2017

A noticeable fraction of the thousands of startups I have looked at in the last seven years have made attacking a societal evil (e.g., hunger, homelessness, etc) a key part of why they exist. This...

Crunch time: Edible-bug trend on the rise

Published: 23 June 2016

Have you heard about the next big food trend? You won’t find it growing in your garden, but you might find it crawling there.

How to Breed a Tasty Cricket

Published: 25 September 2015

It’s hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate. The brush...

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