Written by Reuven Brenner
George Akerlof’s and Robert Shiller’s (Nobels in economics) new book, titled Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception declares on its first page that people “do not do what is really good for them; they do not choose what they really want.” It appears that a main preoccupation of economists – the self declared “behavioral economists” prominent among them – is to show how dumb people are as consumers and in assessing risks.
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Published on: 18 Dec 2015
Lors d’un séjour humanitaire en Haïti en 2010 pour combattre l’épidémie de choléra après le séisme, le Dr Abdo Shabah a constaté à quel point le manque d’accès à l’internet compliquait la gestion de l’information sur le terrain. Les données concernant les patients et leurs besoins étaient enregistrées et transmises sur des papiers imbibés de chlore. Les cartes des lieux transformés par le tremblement de terre et la réorganisation du terrain étaient mises à jour à la main.
Published on: 18 Dec 2015
Le Défi 100 jours tire à sa fin pour les leaders et les participantes de L’effet A. Afin de donner un dernier petit coup de fouet à l’ambition des filles qui se préparent pour l’ultime étape de leur parcours, Diane Giard a prévu une rencontre inspirante avec une femme d’affaires et philanthrope reconnue venue de Los Angeles. Tout juste descendue de l’avion, Joey Adler, à qui l’on doit le succès canadien de la célèbre marque de vêtement Diesel, s’est donc adressée aux participantes.
Published on: 18 Dec 2015
Dialogic, a global networking software and infrastructure solution provider, announced today that Christian Primeau has joined Dialogic as the Chief Operating Officer. This is a new position in the company.
Read full article: Dialogic, December 2, 2015
Published on: 18 Dec 2015
Depuis plusieurs mois, le président du Groupe Bertrand Rioux, François Rioux, s’est donné comme objectif d’amasser 250 000$ auprès de 50 entrepreneurs de la région, dans le but de mettre sur pied un fonds dédié à la création de nouvelles entreprises et de nouveaux emplois dans la MRC de Matane.
Published on: 18 Dec 2015
Lavery est fier d’annoncer que Me Guillaume Lavoie, associé du cabinet en droit des affaires, a remporté le prix Avocat JBM de l’année 2015 dans la catégorie Droit corporatif, remis lors du Gala JBM « Les leaders de demain » qui s’est déroulé au Théâtre Rialto, le 26 novembre dernier.
Lire l'article complet: Lavery Avocats, le 30 novembre 2015
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Published on: 18 Dec 2015
Desautels Honours in Investment Management students Drew Allen and Philippe Rich won the 2015 Harvard Financial Analysts Symposium. In this competition, students had to present a stock pitch of professional quality to a panel of industry experts. The honours students collected the top prize of $1,000 based on the merits of their investment thesis, rigorous analysis, and in-depth research.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2015
Usman W. Chohan has an MBA from Desautels (2014) in Strategy and Leadership. He has served as a consultant at the World Bank Institute (WBI), and as Special Situations Analyst in Global Equities at Natcan Investment Management, investment arm of the National Bank of Canada. He has been a participant in various important climate initiatives in 2015 including the Pacific Island Development Forum (PIDF) 3rd Summit in Suva, Fiji.
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Published on: 11 Dec 2015
Congratulations to our 48 GCPA students for successfully passing the first Common Final Examination (CFE) including 3 students on the provincial honour roll!
Provincial Honour Roll Recipients
Christopher De Santis
Melissa Marginson
Lauren Prorok
Recipients
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Published on: 11 Dec 2015
The third installation of McGill Innovation Week took place in November 2015, featuring nineteen events which integrated McGill students and faculty with the local Montreal innovation community.
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Published on: 7 Dec 2015
BMO Financial Group and Catalyst Canada have announced the launch of the BMO Millennial Leaders Advisory Council on Inclusion. The Group is made up of 30 female student leaders from universities across Canada.
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Published on: 7 Dec 2015
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University with Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. I am delighted to sit down the CEO of Brain Canada, Inez Jabalpurwala.
Published on: 4 Dec 2015
Van de Water-Raymond, entreprise familiale de services 3PL de logistique et de gestion, est fière d'annoncer la nomination de monsieur Claude Hardy au poste de Vice-président directeur général, Ventes et Marketing pour le marché du Québec. Il veillera, entre autres, à gérer efficacement l'ensemble de l'équipe des ventes afin de permettre l'atteinte des objectifs d'affaires de la société.
Read full article: Le Lezard, December 1, 2015
Published on: 4 Dec 2015
McGill Innovation Week took place for a third year in a row this November and the third time was certainly a charm. Nineteen events integrated the McGill student and faculty community with the Montreal innovation community to demonstrate how people can collaborate to create novel ideas that will drive our future.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2015
Article written by Professor Henry Mintzberg.
In 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell alongside communism in Eastern Europe, pundits in the West proclaimed the triumph of capitalism. The American historian Francis Fukuyama even declared “the end of history,” writing in National Interest‘s summer 1989 issue that he saw “the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”
Read full article: Harvard Buisness Review, December 3, 2015
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Published on: 4 Dec 2015
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