Professor Matissa Hollister, McGill University Fellow with the World Economic Forum, recently co-presented at the Virtual CogX conference on AI policies that enable the future of HR work.
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Published on: 17 Jun 2020
Yasunari Shimizu, president and CEO of Fujitsu Computer Products of America, talks to Professor Karl Moore about finding new ways to connect communities with document imaging solutions.
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Published on: 17 Jun 2020
Professor Henry Mintzberg sits down with Le Devoir to discuss lessons learnt during the pandemic, from the surprising intimacy of remote work to the three pillars of a prosperous democracy.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2020
In the race to produce masks amid the current health crisis, Montreal brothers Mark and Jordan Owen (BCom’16) and friend Sean Tasse founded Bien Aller, a mask manufacturer with a sustainable edge.
Professor Karl Moore speaks to the founders of Bien Aller about forming a business during a pandemic and how their business model aims to give back to the community.
Published on: 12 Jun 2020
In an environment of uncertainty, business schools have a unique opportunity to fill in the gaps and help businesses evolve to meet the demands of a post-pandemic world. As North America starts to slowly reopen the economy, Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou shares how business schools can support the industries most impacted.
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Published on: 11 Jun 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has upset both introvert and extrovert habits, but these six tips from McGill University’s Professor Karl Moore may be useful as we continue to practice physical distancing.
This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management.
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Published on: 10 Jun 2020
Desautels alumna and vice president of RBC RH&N Kathy Fazel (BCom’91) has received the Inspiration-Andrée-Corriveau Award from the Association des femmes en finance du Québec.
Fazel, whose finance career spans 25 years, credits her early career mentors with ensuring she never felt disadvantaged as a woman in a field still dominated by men. She is now inspired to give back through causes close to her heart.
Published on: 8 Jun 2020
COVID-19 has permanently altered the way the world does business. Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, believes that business schools have a responsibility to empower students to thrive in this altered world.
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Published on: 8 Jun 2020
The recent police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked an uprising across the world with people from all walks of life coming together to fight against systemic racism and violence.
Joining CJAD 800’s The Aaron Rand Show, Patricia Faison Hewlin asserts that, although this is a global movement, reform must happen at the local level, with commitment from leaders to turn their words into tangible actions.
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Published on: 4 Jun 2020
Starting in Fall 2020, McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management will offer 12-, 16-, and 20-month MBA options to meet changing student needs.
“As we witnessed changes in what students are looking to get out of an MBA, we recognized the need for different lengths of programs,” explains Dr. John-Paul Ferguson, the Academic Director of the MBA Program at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management.
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Published on: 3 Jun 2020
COVID-19 has resulted in significant disruptions to the supply chain, particularly for necessities such as medical devices and personal protective equipment (PPE). Such large-scale disruptions have become a matter of life or death for some, with manufacturing and transportation systems almost coming to a global standstill.
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Published on: 3 Jun 2020
Three graduating McGill students, Anastasia Budaeva, Ysa Cao and George Oriokot, have been named in Poets and Quants’ 2020 MBAs To Watch list.
The three McGill students were among 142 students selected on the list, which focuses on distinctive, eclectic and “rarely conventional” students. According to Poets and Quants, individuals who make the MBAs to Watch list are “the students with the courage to bet on themselves”.
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Published on: 3 Jun 2020
Managing without soul has become an epidemic in society, according to McGill University’s Professor Henry Mintzberg. Many managers these days seem to specialize in killing cultures, at the expense of human engagement. Why do we tolerate this?
This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management.
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Published on: 2 Jun 2020
EMBA alumna Julie Lévesque (EMBA’16) has been promoted to Chief Information Officer at National Bank. Lévesque brings an abundance of experience to the table, having held various executive roles in IT at National Bank and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board across her extensive career.
Published on: 29 May 2020
In conversation with The New York Times, Professor Henry Mintzberg considers the implications of working from home. Most surprising to Professor Mintzberg is that very little is lost in the remote setting, with video conferencing strikingly similar to in-person meetings.
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Published on: 29 May 2020
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