Many banks in Canada are refusing to offer any banking services to companies engaged in the production and distribution of marijuana. Desautels Finance Professor and Investment Management Specialist, Ken Lester comments on the hypocrisy of this situation.
“If you call your broker at one of the major Canadian banks to buy the shares of an authorized [marijuana] producer, he will not refuse.”
After 22 years of leading a company, Isabelle Graveline (IMPM’17) attended the International Masters Program for Managers at Desautels to broaden her perspectives on management.
She discusses the importance of gaining hands-on experience in companies that operate in different countries and the lack of female representation in prominent positions.
“By working in the golden bubble of a single country, one ends up seeing things from a single clouded point of view.”
The Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, awarded the Sovereign’s Medal to Managing Director of Consilium Law Corporation, Franca Ciambella (BCom’84).
The medal recognizes exceptional volunteer achievements in a range of fields worldwide. Ciambella’s ongoing work, volunteer contributions and student mentorship over 25 years were recognized.
Students participating in the McGill International Portfolio Challenge presented hypothetical portfolios believed to achieve solvency to address the crisis that has been affecting Canadian pension funds.
Professor Karl Moore interviews CEO and son of the Founder of ALDO, David Bensadoun on what it means to work your way up the ranks and prove yourself on your own terms.
David further discusses the challenges and opportunities that the fashion industry faces and how ALDO is leveraging recent technological advances to ensure long-term survival.
Desautels Global Expert Yalmaz Siddiqui (BCom’92) has recently started an initiative to repurpose nutritional, wholesome food for the homeless, delivering it regularly and safely straight from the MGM Resort kitchens.
Working with Three Square food bank, they ensure maintenance and lengthened shelf life of the food throughout the donation process.
Knight Therapeutics is thrilled to lead a team in the 2018 Ride to Conquer Cancer®, benefiting the Segal Cancer Centre at the Jewish General Hospital.
Last year, Knight Therapeutics had 20 riders and raised over $100,000 for cancer research – a disease that touches 1 in 3 Canadians. This year, Team Knight is teaming up with McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management with the goals of fielding the largest team in Quebec and more than doubling last year’s fundraising total.
Social media has become a part of everyday life. We enjoy the contact Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., provide with friends and family, and, indeed, the world.
Sometimes we gripe about the downsides of the technology. People say it’s a time suck. There’s fake news. It’s hard to trust what you see.
Desautels Professor Karl Moore sits down with Mark Shapiro, CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays, to explore the blurred lines between running a sports team and a business.
Shapiro started as a cubicle dweller with no official job title and a low pay in his initial years in the sports industry.
Director of the Desautels MBA Japan program Philip O’Neill (BA’87, MBA’03) talks to The Japan Times about the opportunities that having a McGill degree can provide.
“There are doors you don’t even know are there, and they will open. And if you let them open, you’ll be surprised”
Read more about his journey and views in this article.
Montreal’s historic strip, Ste-Catherine Street, is undergoing four years of roadwork.
Charles de Brabant (BCom'83), Executive Director of the Bensadoun Retail Initiative comments on its implications in the retail industry.
Ste-Catherine has been a vital part of Montreal’s culture and identity, but since businesses have already been struggling, he sees Ste-Catherine as being stuck between two extremes.
As published by Business Because, the Desautels Faculty of Management is among the top five Canadian business schools that are leading innovation in their MBA programs.
“We have historically been working at the frontier of knowledge. The world just lives closer to that frontier today,” Dean Isabelle Bajeux comments.
Professor Karl Moore interviews CEO and Founder of Indigo Books to discuss Indigo’s business strategy and survival methods in a rapidly evolving and competitive industry.
Reisman discusses the challenges and successes faced over the years and reveals the strategy behind transforming Indigo stores into a cultural space, rather than a typical bookstore.
Desautels Professor Karl Moore makes an appearance on BNN to comment on the possibility of the U.S. pulling out of NAFTA and offers his expert advice on business strategy for businesses if this were to prevail.
He discusses the consequences that this move may have on the world, including on Canada, as well as on free trade and business growth.
In a recent project management blog, François Tremblay (EMBA’17) explores the dynamics of project management and the various overlooked components of strategic management.
He discusses the importance of cross-functional leadership and the weaving together of strategy, operations and project management.
