Congratulations to BCom students Shelley Sorkin, Dixon Wong, and Angel Miao who won the National Finals of the Accuracy Business Cup case competition. The team will be representing Canada at the virtual international finals on March 12 to compete against seven other countries. Thanks to Melissa Sonberg, Desautels Professor of Practice, for coaching and mentoring the team.
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Published on: 22 Feb 2021
The Financial Open Case Competition, the second largest case competition across eastern Canada, reunited over 350 participants from 11 universities to compete on accounting and finance related academic cases. Congratulations to the Desautels delegation, led by Antoine Bertrand and Bruno Provencher, who captured four podiums:
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Published on: 12 Feb 2021
Congratulations to Desautels BCom students for their outstanding performance at this year’s Jeux du Commerce (JDC), the largest student case competition in Eastern Canada. For the first time, JDC took place fully online and brought together 700 participants from 11 universities.
The Desautels delegation of 57 BCom students was led by Guillaume Ouimet and Sonam Levasseur as part of Desautels Management Case Competitions (DMCC). McGill finished with a total of nine podiums including two first place wins.
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Published on: 29 Jan 2021
A team of Desautels students and alumni has reached the semifinal round of impact200, McGill’s Bicentennial Sustainability Challenge for students and recent alumni. The winning team, which includes analytics BCom students, Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) students, Desautels alumni, and a software engineer student, created a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance food security in Montreal. They will join 29 other teams for the semifinal round of the competition on March 16-18, 2021.
Published on: 16 Jan 2021
BCom student Tania Kuoh, Executive Director of the McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC), makes the case for impact investing following the recent success of the first virtual MIPC event this year. Since 2015, the MIPC has granted students from around the world a unique opportunity to tackle the Triple Mandate through integrated asset allocation. Learn more
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Published on: 10 Dec 2020
The fourth annual McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC) drew a record number of teams to solve a complex portfolio construction problem designed by Desautels students. This year’s case study, which focused on themes of social inequality and protectionism, was more relevant than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2020
The fourth annual McGill International Portfolio Challenge invited 93 student teams from 18 countries to compete to solve a complex portfolio construction problem. This year’s case study challenged participants to invest a fictitious sovereign wealth fund in a way that addressed social inequalities and protectionism in the wake of Brexit.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2020
McGill graduate student Michael Bourkas (MBA’22) has taken home first place in the Global Goals Jam Case Competition at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, with peers Conor Grieve (MBA’21) and Nandini Biswas Jain (MBA’22) following close behind in second and third places, respectively.
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Published on: 8 Oct 2020
Hosted by the Bensadoun School of Retail Management, the first-ever Retail Innovation Challenge concluded on June 21 with a McGill MMA student bringing home the top prize.
Bringing together 80 teams from 20 universities across Canada, the event challenged students to aid the economic recovery of small and medium businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on the food sector, the event drew four companies from the restaurant and grocery industries.
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Published on: 13 Jul 2020
Two teams from the McGill Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) are heading to the semi-finals of the Microsoft Discover AI Challenge on May 27. Hosted by Microsoft, Agorize and McGill University, the case competition aims to leverage AI and analytics to create smarter and more sustainable economies using Microsoft’s Cloud and AI tools.
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Published on: 26 May 2020
A team of MBA students from McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management took the top prize at the Net Impact Case Competition on February 29.
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Published on: 5 Mar 2020
Four McGill students took home second place at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Global Case Competition, the largest case competition in the world, over the weekend.
BCom students Ariane Dusablon, Raphael Roel, Anne Sophie Levee, and Quentin Amaudry represented McGill University in the case competition, which invited students to solve a real-life business challenge faced by Novo Nordisk, the second largest insulin producer worldwide.
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Published on: 2 Mar 2020
On January 31, the Masters Office hosted the annual Desautels Cup. The event brought together nine teams from the MBA, Master of Management in Analytics and Master of Management in Finance programs and welcomed back MBA and Executive MBA alumni as distinguished judges.
Published on: 14 Feb 2020
Congratulations to Desautels students Olivier Arsenault (MMF’20), Pier-Olivier Laflèche (MMF’20), Sai Kanthasamy (BCom’20), and Mitch McEwen (MMF’20) for placing first in the Quebec regional CFA Research Challenge.
“It was a great experience and privilege to represent McGill and the MMF program,” says McEwen. “We owe a great deal to our advisors Professor Vadim di Pietro and Rebeca Yang, CFA.”
The team will head to New York in April to compete in the North America finals.
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Published on: 12 Feb 2020
A team of five McGill students secured second place at the International Youth Leadership Finance Summit, hosted by the Master of Finance program at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from January 11–14. The event brought together 27 teams from universities across the world, including Stanford University, Columbia University and the London School of Economics, to explore how sci-tech companies are empowered through innovation and finance.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2020
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