In a move the company said was planned in advance, Galen Weston will be stepping down as the president of Loblaws at the end of 2023, and will be replaced by Danish retail executive Per Bank, who will also assume the title of CEO. But Weston will be staying on as executive chairman of the board. “It’s a natural evolution,” said Prof. Karl Moore in an interview with BNN Bloomberg. “The word ‘executive’ is important here. While a chair might be there one day a week, an executive chair is there five days a week.”

McGill Desautels’ Cameron McRae, PhD candidate in Marketing, has made the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Top 25 Finalists list for the 2023 Storytellers Challenge. Watch his compelling story on Precision Retailing in Grocery and Supermarket Environments.

Located in Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Nation operates more than 100 businesses and employs nearly 14,000 people. The federally recognized Native American tribe has come a long way since Governor Bill Anoatubby began working there as health director in the 1970s. “We had to use ingenuity because we did not have a lot of resources. We had the human resources that we needed to mobilize. We identified the resources we did have and moved forward,” said Anoatubby in an interview with Professor Karl Moore for The Globe and Mail.

Each year, the McGill Desautels African Business Initiative (DABI) brings together attendees, panelists and guest speakers for an opportunity to learn, network and engage in stimulating discussions about the future of business in Africa. This year’s panelists included Sekou Coulibaly (BCom’03), who was executive director at L’Oréal before launching a sustainable, made-in-Africa luxury clothing brand called SEKBI Bogolan in 2020.

About sixty entrepreneurs from Vaudreuil-Soulanges region joined Desautels faculty and staff for a conference on best practices in retail.

One of the largest contributors to climate change worldwide, the agricultural food supply chain crosses international borders and reaches across industries and sectors. Reducing its environmental impact requires complex, high-tech solutions like artificial intelligence—and the people to implement them at the right time, in the right places.

Some aspects of introversion can make parents think something’s wrong with their child, but it can be more productive to embrace these traits rather than forcing them into extroverted tropes. “As avid listeners, introverts can capture information that some extroverts might overlook,” said Prof. Karl Moore for a CNBC article. “Unlike extroverts, introverts aren’t known to jump to conclusions, and as a result, they garner more attention and appreciation from an audience when they do speak.”