In honour of the late Professor Richard Donovan, the Desautels MBA Japan program recently hosted the McGill MBA Japan Case Competition. The internal event gives students a chance to put their knowledge to practice by bringing them together over 24 hours to solve a case competition.
Teams presented to a judging panel of McGill MBA Japan alumni before the winners—Hoson Kablawi, Naohisa Takahashi, and Hazuki Yamashita—were awarded the Richard Donovan Cup.
Desautels MBA candidates Tiffany K. Ellis, Kelly Gonzalez, Garima Singh, and Meghan McCoubrey placed third at the recent Creative Shock Case Competition. Initially competing against 600 teams globally, the Desautels team travelled to Vilnius, Lithuania from November 26 to December 2 to compete as one of the top 10 finalists in the social business case competition.
Congratulations to McGill student Yuan Chu Zi Lao (MBA’21) on her first-place win at the recent Deloitte Impact Case Competition. The competition kicked off at the Deloitte offices in Montreal on November 22, where eight teams were formed, and the case was presented to students. Yuan was grouped with McGill engineering student Dante Nesparoli and HEC Montréal students Thao-Anne Le and Felicia Élise Ngoma.
From November 21–23, twelve teams from across Canada participated in the Scotiabank Ethics in Action case competition at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Desautels MBA students Ajay Singh, Matthew Trecha, Yasmien Emara, and Ashna Agnihotri scored first place in the graduate category, taking home a cash prize of $2,000. The competition challenged students with complex ethical dilemmas that they were likely to face in today's corporate environment.
Congratulations to Ajay, Matthew, Yasmien, and Ashna!
With a focus on the sustainable investment of public pension funds, this year’s McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC) demonstrated students’ ability to realistically solve a key issue facing investors today. The winning team’s strategy proposed a progressive, partial divestment while pursuing investment in diverse green initiatives, according to Professor Sebastien Betermier.
Desautels students have placed second in the Ted Rogers Ethical Leadership Case Competition at Ryerson University.
On November 15–16, BCom students Darren Elias, Camille Thomassin, Dixon Wong, and Isabel Maier travelled to Toronto with Professor Melissa Sonberg to participate in the national invite-only competition. The case focused on aligning personal and corporate values and the ethical dilemmas faced by managers trying to balance the two.
Congratulations to Master of Management in Analytics students Anvita Shukla, Harsimrat Soin, Akash Sondhi, and Abinav Ramesh Sundararaman who won first place in the Ericsson Data Science Hackathon!
Hosted by Ericsson Montreal, participants are allocated one day to devise innovative approaches and tools to solve some of the real-world problems facing the telecommunications industry.
Congratulations to the Desautels Capital Management Team comprised of BCom students Ludovic Van den Bergen, Emilie Granger, Ian Jiang, and Roy Chen Zhang who won first place and $10,000 in prize money at the 2019 PRMIA Risk Management competition.
Congratulations to MBA students Kirill Gusev, Fiorella Rojas, and Sonia Torres who secured a third- place finish out of 11 international teams in the SDA Bocconi 5th Annual International Finance Competition in Milan, Italy.
Faced with the theme of Evaluation of Investments in the Renewable Sector, the team pulled together a fully dynamic financial model and were able to analyze each solar panel plant separately.
Congratulations to BCom students Michael Amar, Tanya Gandhi and Babet Nieman who took second place in the final round of the Accuracy Business Cup, which unfolded in Paris in partnership with LVMH.
Desautels was one of six teams out of 100 entrants who were selected to advance. Thank you to Roman Celac and Peg Brunelle who contributed as coaches.
Team gREen, comprised of MBA students Heena Chhatlani, Mehreen Haider and Fang Yang earned a first-place finish in the Net Impact Sustainability Challenge, coming in victorious over 12 teams from MBA programs across Canada and the US. Haider was further recognized with the Best Speaker Award.
Hosted by the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, the team competed to solve a live case for QuadReal Property Group on sustainable investing in real estate.
Congratulations to MBA students Julio Castañeda and Daniel Franco who were awarded 2nd place out of 18 local and international teams in the MBA Business Plan Competition.
Hosted by Ivey Business School, Castañeda and Franco were recognized for their solution involving the digitalization of small grocery stores in Latin America.
Congratulations to MMF students: Maud de Witte, Jean-Baptiste Foult, Pierre-Louis Patault, and Celec Soriano-Francis who won the Deloitte M&A Synergies Case Challenge.
The challenge was designed in part to help students understand how consultants estimate potential savings as a result of a merger of equals or acquisition, as well as how to provide relevant analysis on synergy targets (revenue, cost, dis-synergies).
Congratulations to Desautels BCom students who secured two 1st place wins and five 2nd place finishes at this year’s Jeux du commerce. McGill finished 2nd academically overall among 13 other universities.
Noah Tomas Petkau, Tamara Belair, Rachel Seo
Aleem Damji, Noemi Holczer, Laurie Carmichael
Jean-Philippe Roch, Raphael Roel, Zhao Kang Chen
MONTREAL, Quebec. On the evening of the HEC Social Business Creation competition, McGill start-up Kajou delivered, coming home with the First place prize of $15,000 for their business venture. Their business makes apple juice – with the apple of the cashew tree.
