Delve: Managing Ourselves Out of Climate Change
As heatwaves increase around the world and weather patterns become even more unpredictable, top researchers at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management are finding novel solutions to the climate crisis—solutions that link multiple industries, regulatory bodies, leaders, entrepreneurs, workers, and consumers. Because the only way forward is together.
Delve podcast: New Normal: Can Global Financial Transparency Deter Corporate Tax Avoidance? with Preetika Joshi
While tax policies are complicated and often seem unfair, new global solutions can both simplify how corporations pay their taxes and make payment more equitable for countries owed their share of tax revenue.
Delve: Can Loyalty in Investor Relationships Calm the Competitive Disruption of ETFs?
On the surface, the Exchange Traded Fund or ETF is a relatively straightforward concept, but it has become a major disruptor in the sphere of money management. In the past few years, mutual fund managers started to also manage ETFs for their clients—a way to potentially alleviate competition, maintain client loyalty, and keep institutional money within a growing family of funds.
Delve: An Ethical, Human-Centred Approach to AI in Human Resources, with Matissa Hollister
Could Artificial Intelligence tools decide who gets hired or fired, who gets a raise, or who’s ready to be a mentor? Some already are, to varying levels of success, and it’s often difficult to discern their use value, let alone how to use them effectively and ethically, an arguable essential in HR.
Delve: How Predictive Data Analysis Illuminates the Future of Retail, with Maxime Cohen
Artificial Intelligence innovation thrives in an environment where business arenas, fundamental research, and thought leadership overlap.
Delve: Could New Algorithms Ensure Everyone Pays Fair Prices Online?
Dynamic pricing algorithms set the prices we pay online—and few rules govern how they work. Even if an algorithm doesn’t ostensibly consider race at all, research shows that it can be biased and discriminatory on the basis of race, as well as gender, economic level, and other personal information openly gathered from consumers.
Delve podcast: How Information Technology Can Drive Efficiency and Spark Creativity, with Alain Pinsonneault
What do Cirque du Soleil, American Airlines, and Canadian Tire have in common? They’ve all shifted their perspective on the value of Information Technology. On the Delve podcast, Desautels Faculty of Management Professor Alain Pinsonneault discusses how the overall mindset towards Information Technology’s value is changing, especially in times of broader turbulence like the COVID pandemic.
International Management Student Fellows present creative solutions to societal challenges
Bread and grain waste is a leading cause of food waste in Canada, and but this can be reduced by transforming spent brewing yeast and stale bread into flour that can be sold to businesses or directly to the consumers.
Delve podcast: New Normal: How Fast Fashion Can Slow Down and Go Green, with Javad Nasiry
Fast fashion is a rapidly expanding subsection of an already environmentally problematic industry. What does a truly sustainable fashion industry model look like—and will customers buy it?
Integrated Student Management Fellowships apply academic learning to real-world challenges
The Graphix Project is creating an intellectual history of human rights in graphic novel form – over 3,000 years of conflict and social movements. Third-year student Nada Al Mgharbel has been contributing research to the initiative, which is a collaboration between McGill and Yale University, and will be the centrepiece of a human-rights education program.
Delve podcast: New Normal: How Healthcare Systems Impact Practitioner Distress, with Dr. Martin A. Koyle
What can be done when healthcare leaders say that they simply can't work anymore? On Delve’s The "New Normal" podcast, Dr. Martin A.
Delve: Why Organizations Need Authentic People and Inclusive Policies, with Patricia Hewlin
The complex issue of authenticity at work isn’t only about people within an organization—it’s connected to the organization’s own integrity, including policies on equity, diversity, and inclusion. The value of authenticity for employees, customers and clients, and management is linked to a diversity of people and innovative ideas suited to today’s world.
Delve: Are Consumers Spoiled For Choice or Too Overwhelmed to Choose?
Today’s consumers demand and expect a wealth of choices in everything from sneakers to potato chips, but while large product lines provide abundance and variety, they don’t always result in sales—and can even take away from a company’s bottom line.
Delve: Using International Supply Chains For Peace in Times of War with Juan Camilo Serpa
Risk is a fact of life in business—it’s also an ever-present reality in times of war. Wars and armed conflicts embroil 60% of the developing world, and now Ukraine and Russia, posing a constant threat to commodity production, the flow of international supply chains, and the economic lifeblood of these nations.
Delve: Constructing Narratives and the International Monetary Fund with Lindsay Holmgren
Narrative theory is about looking at worlds, from their construction and governance to the real people living within them. This perspective is useful for understanding the complexities of not only literature, but the mechanisms of medicine, law, management, and economics. In the process, questions arise around established paradigms—the answers have the potential to bring about concrete disciplinary, practical, and policy-oriented outcomes.
