Multi-million dollar project to assess environmental risks of toxic chemicals

Published: 19 December 2017

Assessing the risks that toxic chemicals pose to natural ecosystems is a major challenge, but the task is expected to become less daunting thanks to a new tool, referred to as EcoToxChip, which is...

Congratulations to Faculty Award recipients

Published: 10 November 2017

The Desautels Faculty of Management congratulates the following individuals who are the latest to be granted a Faculty Award for the period of September 1, 2017-August 31, 2020. The Faculty Awards...

Teaching the impact of climate change to the leaders of tomorrow

Published: 4 December 2015

The environmentalists and green groups at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which starts today in Paris, will inevitably call for better leadership on sustainability issues. They...

ACS-GCI Director on the MDIIM Sustainable Innovation Workshop

Published: 23 October 2013

The past six weeks have been eventful. In early September there was the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis and that was an enjoyable week.  Indianapolis turned out to be a great venue with lots...

Chemistry and Business that are Benign by Design: Leveraging the Canadian Chemistry Industry’s Leadership in Sustainability

Published: 19 February 2013

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson published her bestseller, Silent Spring, and the chemical industry was changed forever. An indictment of inattention to the flow and negative consequences of...

2017 Finalist for AMR Best Paper Award: Organizing Risk - Discourse, Power and ‘Riskification'

Published: 26 April 2017

Professor Steve Maguire’s paper published in the Academy of Management Review, 41(1): 80 – 108 with co-author Cynthia Hardy was selected by the Best Paper Awards Committee for the prestigious...

Building Links Between Green Chemists and Business in Education

Published: 25 September 2012

On September 7 and 8, 2012, McGill University (Montréal, Canada) hosted a unique workshop designed to foster green innovation in the next generation. Ten MBA students from the Desautels Faculty of...

Organizing risk: Discourse, power, and "riskification"

Published: 8 January 2016

Authors: Hardy, C., Maguire, S. Publication: Academy of Management Review Abstract:

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