At its June 27 meeting in London, the Accreditation Board of the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) rendered its decision to re-accredit the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management for a second five-year period – the maximum term granted by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) through EQUIS.
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Published on: 10 Jul 2023
The McGill Desautels Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) program, ranked 1st in Canada for three consecutive years and top 10 in the world by the 2023 QS Masters in Business Analytics Rankings, proudly welcomed Montreal businesses in June to an Industry Partnership Breakfast. The event served to showcase the program's strengths and emphasized how the program and its students, at no cost, collaborate and foster partnerships that can help businesses address their analytical concerns.
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Published on: 5 Jul 2023
What can older generations learn from Millennials and Gen Z about leadership, strategy, and dealing with crisis? And how can these younger generations unlock their professional potential by engaging in meaningful work and taking larger roles in organizational strategy and change?
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Published on: 4 Jul 2023
Business has an important role in the economy, and in shaping culture. Businesses set the norms, and can foster inclusivity. McGill’s International Masters Program for Managers (IMPM) recently took steps to help 2sLGBTQIA+ people do this by launching a scholarship of up to $10,000 USD for leaders actively involved in promoting diversity and inclusion in their organization, communities, country, or region.
Published on: 4 Jul 2023
Young people entering the workforce today have a worldview that can be profoundly different than senior leaders. Education has shifted from a modern approach to a postmodern one, and that results in a workplace generation gap. The onus to bridge it lies largely with older generations, said Prof. Karl Moore to Oliver Wyman Forum. “It's much more challenging for a young person to understand how older people view the world because they weren't alive then,” he says. Moore recommends reverse mentoring.
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Published on: 4 Jul 2023
Prof. Henry Mintzberg has been observing, advising and researching organizations since the early 1970s, and has had a profound influence on their study. The most recent book from the John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies is Understanding Organizations…Finally! Structure in Sevens, and it synthesizes decades of analysis to understand the forces that shape organizations. “I have probably changed more than organizations have,” Mintzberg told Le Devoir.
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Published on: 4 Jul 2023
WestJet takes over Sunwing, but competition from Air Canada will limit negative impact for consumers
In May 2023, WestJet completed a takeover of Sunwing, a Canadian charter airline and the following month, it announced it was shutting down Swoop, its own discount carrier. The company’s CEO says it’s a good thing for customers, but some think it could push prices higher. Prof. Karl Moore told CBC News that while mergers typically aren’t great for consumers, Canada’s airline industry remains highly competitive. “Reduced competition typically means higher prices, but Air Canada and Air Transat will be pushing WestJet.
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Published on: 4 Jul 2023
In business, short-term thinking often predominates. But the profit maximization often comes at the expense of long-term interests, such as limiting the effects of climate change or alleviating global inequality. This spring, McGill Faculty of Law and the Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI), anchored at the Desautels Faculty of Management, collaborated to bring together 35 student-fellows for the inaugural Transformative Business Law Academy.
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Published on: 4 Jul 2023
After two years as the President and CEO of the Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC), Jacques Farcy (EMBA’21) is assuming the same titles at the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), a Quebec government crown corporation that sells and distributes alcohol. “I am very enthusiastic about the prospect of contributing to the SAQ’s development and working with each member of the great SAQ team, to satisfy each and every customer on a daily basis and generate value for Quebec,” Farcy said in a press release.
Published on: 4 Jul 2023
What if just doing your job causes you to lose your job? New technologies have constantly replaced old technologies for hundreds of years, but new digital technologies, namely artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies, are doing more than replacing old tech—they’re replacing the people who create those technologies in the first place.
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Published on: 3 Jul 2023
"I want there to be a day where there’s more than just two red scarves [at the Faculty of Management convocation] and that’s what I’m going to continue to work to achieve," says Leon Picha (BCom’23).
Published on: 27 Jun 2023
AI's impact on retail is set to revolutionize the industry, from crowd measurement to price management, changing the in-store experience significantly. Certified analytics and marketing intelligence professional Christian Bourque explains how infrared technology is currently used to analyze foot traffic levels and reveal the upcoming technological frontier in retail, stating that McGill’s Retail Innovation Lab in the Bronfman pavilion exemplifies the store of the future.
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Published on: 20 Jun 2023
As part of the fourth cohort of McCall MacBain International Fellows, eight McGill students have been selected to spend a fully funded year abroad to study, live and work in a new country, including BCom student Jennifer Shi. Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Shi, who serves as Co-President of the Junior Hong Kong-Canada Business Association, a Junior Team Canada Ambassador at Global Vision, and a member of the Canada China Forum, will be spending a year learning Korean in South Korea.
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Published on: 16 Jun 2023
In the future, education and learning will require a greater focus on individual and collaborative reflection and reflexivity, writes Martin Brigham, Associate Professor at the Lancaster University School of Management and Worldwide Academic Director of the International Masters Program for Managers (IMPM), a program that has been ranked as North America's best international executive management masters. The grand challenges that organizations and societies face will require new levels of ambition when it comes to collaboration, says Brigham.
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Published on: 14 Jun 2023
The Linda and Robert J. Goldberger MBA Fellowship was established in 2009, and was one of the first MBA fellowships at Desautels. The Goldbergers initial pledge was matched by a large Montreal charitable foundation to establish this endowment, and over the years, the Goldbergers have continued to add to it, with a former employer matching several annual donations to McGill. “Everyone knows what compounding means,” says Mr.
Published on: 14 Jun 2023
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