Why climate change will restrict economic growth
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University with Talking Management for The Globe & Mail. Today I am delighted to sit down with an American who teaches at Leeds University in the U.K., Timothy Devinney.
LifeSciences BC announces new Board of Directors leadership at AGM
The Board of Directors of LifeSciences BC announced today at their Annual General Meeting, thatJames P. Hatton Q.C. has been appointed new Chairman of the LifeSciences BC Board of Directors.
It was also announced that Nancy Harrison, Board of Director member since 2012, will take over as Vice Chair.
新文盲时代（完结篇）：你以为的 其实误读了
文盲和半文盲以外，还有一种时代进步的產物「消费文盲」。一般分成两类，一类看不懂品牌背后的內涵，靠价位获得优越感；第二类则崇尚无標籤。新时代文盲或称全球文盲（Global Illiteracy），指的並不是读不懂文字，而是「误读」语言或文化。... EMBA是用公款消费的Easy MBA（商管硕士在职班），人人爭著上课，为的是迅速累积社交资源，高校纷纷开办EMBA课程，意在谋「財」而非「才」。套用国际知名管理学大师亨利明茨伯格（Henry Mintzberg）的话：「EMBA和MBA的区別在于，招收更有经验的学员，
McGill’s Social Innovators’ Integration Lab (SIIL) Awarded Major Development Grant
September 10, 2015
Now Accepting Applications for the Integrated Management Student Projects Fund (IMSPF)
The most important challenges faced by society and managers in contemporary organizations, be they private, public or not-for-profit, are closely related. They do not respect disciplinary boundaries and cannot be adequately tackled with knowledge from just one management function or university faculty.
Henry Mintzberg: Social learning for social impact
Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes speaks to Professor Henry Mintzberg on his new “Social Learning for Social Impact” course at McGill University, which aims to inspire social change to create a positive and sustainable impact on the world.
Watch the interview: Global News, September 8, 2015
Women in Business — Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou is the first female dean of McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. She joined the Canadian business school on September 1st, having spent 21 years at George Washington University in the US in a number of roles, including associate dean for undergraduate programmes. Before this, she taught at Essec Business School in France.
Une troisième génération à la barre du Riôtel Matane
Riôtel Group confirms the arrival of the third generation of the family to Rioux direction Riôtel Matane. En effet, Marie-Frédérik Rioux occupe maintenant les fonctions de directrice de l’établissement. L’hôtel compte 120 chambres, un spa, deux piscines, le restaurant Cargo et six salles de réunions complètement rénovées.
Currency flows and flaws: Brenner
This op-ed is written by Reuven Brenner, the Repap Chair at McGill University’s Desautels faculty of Management.
MDIIM Student Associates Program: Call for 2015-16 Applications
Full-time Desautels students are invited to apply to the 2015-16 MDIIM Student Associates Program. Each fall, a select few MBA and BCom students receive an award of $5,000 and become formally affiliated with M
MDIIM Associate Director Awarded 2015 Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory
MDIIM Associate Director, Professor Saku Mantere, was recently awarded the 2015 Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory for his paper "The contraction of meaning: The combined effect of communication, emotions and materiality on sensemaking in the Stockwell shooting” with co-authors Joep P.
Why impact investors don’t mind negative returns
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University with Talking Management for The Globe & Mail. Today I am sitting down with James Tansey from the University of British Columbia.
Restaurant Week Kicks Off Today!
Cornwall's best chefs have gone all out to create some unique meals for Restaurant Week, a five-day celebration of Cornwall’s vibrant culinary scene.
How a few ‘spoiler’ seats could topple the Conservatives
Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University and the author of Rebalancing Society (2015)
What the Chinese stock bust and US productivity decline have in common
Though it was recently announced that productivity in the US rose 1.3% from the previous quarter, Alan Greenspan is worried about the collapse in productivity: “I think it’s the most serious problem that confronts not only the United States but the world at large and more exactly the developed world especially. American productivity is not significantly different from zero growth in the last 6 or 8 quarters.
