When Tim Murdoch played lacrosse at Princeton in the 1980s, his coaches were prone to yelling and screaming. And Murdoch brought that coaching style to McGill’s lacrosse team, but when he had a group of underperforming athletes, he found it just wasn’t working. So, Murdoch re-evaluated, and began focusing on the positive. It paid off. Over the next decade, McGill won most of its games and two national championships. “I focused on strengths instead of weaknesses,” Murdoch told Prof. Karl Moore in an interview for Forbes.

GM plans to eliminate all tailpipe emissions from light-duty vehicles by 2035 – but right now, we don’t have the electrical grid we need to power all the electric vehicles (EVs) that we would need to replace the existing petroleum-powered ones. That’s a big barrier to EV adoption, especially in rural and remote areas. But GM has a plan to overcome this. “We are going to use our dealerships, which are already well-dispersed and distributed, to help us place those chargers and install them within their communities,” said GM Canada President Marissa West for an article by Prof.

There are about 60,000 Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada, and Indigenous women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs. “They are outpacing all other segments” says Monica James, a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and the regional manager for client diversity at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Indigenous women have been in business for many years, said James in an interview with Prof. Karl Moore for The Globe and Mail.

With the specter of climate change looming large, the Securities and Exchange Commission has moved to standardize environmental and social governance reporting.

Many companies aren’t prepared for it. “This is coming fast and companies that have not really started on their corporate social responsibility journey need to get organized,” said Hélène V. Gagnon (LLB’93), the chief sustainability officer for CAE, a provider of flight training and simulation solutions.

As a brand manager for Starbucks’ Instant packaged coffee business, Kalina Newmark seeks to make each team member feel that their contribution is valued at the same level. It’s just one of the ways that Newmark seeks to incorporate Indigenous teachings into her work. For Newmark, who is Shúhtagot’ı̨nę and Métis from the Tulita Dene First Nation, the idea of valuing each person’s contribution at the same level is really important, writes Prof. Karl Moore in The Globe and Mail.

Publicly traded Canadian family businesses provide superior long-term performance, according to a new report by the National Bank of Canada. To better understand what makes these firms distinctive, the Bank analyzed 44 Canadian corporations under family or founder control.

A hit song can capture lightning in a bottle, but what is the exact mix of characteristics that make one song a global phenomenon - and another a hidden gem. There has always been a bit of alchemy to this formula, but HITLAB is using machine learning to demystify it. Led by Michel Zgarka (BEd’1975), the company has created the Music Digital Nuance Analysis (DNA) tool, writes Prof. Karl Moore in Forbes.com.