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A research team led by Prof. Mary Dean Lee of the Desautels Faculty of Management has spent the past four years examining how attitudes and approaches toward retirement are shifting as the oldest Baby Boomers turn 65 and companies prepare for their exodus from the workforce.

Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, speaks with Peter Cappelli, a senior professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Read full transcript: The Globe and Mail, May 23, 2012

Un patron qui gagne 100, 200 fois ce que gagne son salarié ne peut pretender être un leader»; «L'alliance entre des entreprises qui pensent avoir le droit moral de faire ce qu'elles veulent et une théorie économique qui les conforte en érigeant en dogme le mythe du marché efficient nous a conduits à la catastrophe»; «Le vrai changement ne viendra ni des gouvernements ni des marchés, mais du mouvement social»...

For most MBA students, the closest they will get to the health-care sector and agriculture during their time at business school will be the hefty checks U.S. schools require for medical insurance and the pizza and subs that fuel all-night assignments.

MONTREAL William Ackman's triumph at Canadian Pacific Railway may echo across boardrooms far from the railroad's Calgary headquarters.

In a Canadian corporate culture long resistant to activist shareholders, the U.S. hedge-fund manager sounded a rousing wake-up call by ousting a chair, a CEO and four directors, said Karl Moore, professor of business strategy at McGill University in Montreal.

América Economía has published the 2012 edition of its annual rankings of top global MBA programs. The rankings rate the top global programs, based on both their academics and how attractive they are to Latin American students who wish to study abroad.

... Of the 33 programs ranked, only two are outside the US, the UK and Europe, and both are in Montréal, Canada: HEC Montréal, which is ranked 14, and McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management, ranked 12.

Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, speaks with Thomas Hellwig, a professor of Leadership at INSEAD, one of the world's top business schools.

Read full transcript: The Globe and Mail, May 16, 2012

(Article by Karl Moore)

When I worked for IBM, the customer was always right. In today's column I interview Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, one of the largest I.T. outsourcing firms in the world. Vineet argues that how it got to be one of the world's largest IT firms is by putting employees first and customers second. Sounds radical, but when he explains, it makes sense.

(Article by Karl Moore)

McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Lannon as Managing Director of the McGill World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence (MWP).

Led by scientific director, Professor Laurette Dubé, the MWP unites leading researchers from a host of disciplines, in the pursuit of innovative and practical solutions to pressing global problems.