Professor Mehmet Gumus, Academic Director of the Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) program, joins SAP’s On-Demand Webcast to highlight how data interpretation impacts business decisions at every level of an organization. According to Gumus, the primary goal in teaching data analysis to MMA students at Desautels is to help them understand “what just happened, what will happen, and what should happen” in a business setting.
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Published on: 4 Mar 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
The experiential, real-world focus of McGill’s Master of Management and Analytics (MMA) program has catapulted the program to the top of the rankings list, marking it as one of the 10 best analytics programs in the world.
Published on: 14 Jan 2021
This year’s virtual Canada, Meet McGill event organized by the Desautels Career Services team helped students, staff, alumni and employers connect over the Faculty Blackout Period from November 18th to 20th, 2020.
Published on: 10 Dec 2020
Only two years since the program launched in 2018, the Master of Management (MMA) program at McGill University has carved a spot in the top 10 business analytics programs in the world and taken the top spot in Canada.
Released today, the QS World University Rankings places the McGill MMA 10th in the QS Masters in Business Analytics Rankings 2021.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2020
Students from the McGill Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) program recently teamed up with the Montreal Children’s Hospital to analyze telehealth services and plan personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies. As part of the program’s MMA Gives initiative, Omar Chehab, Katia Sory, Victoria McKeown and Kyle Gomes (MMA’20) gained meaningful experience helping the hospital plan and adapt to their new reality brought on by COVID-19.
Published on: 25 Aug 2020
On Friday July 31, the Desautels Faculty of Management welcomed a new cohort of 52 Masters of Management in Analytics (MMA) students, selected from among 608 applicants. The incoming cohort hails from 17 nations across the world. Their academic background is equally diverse, with students holding degrees in engineering, business, computer science, economics, science and mathematics.
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Published on: 4 Aug 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
Four Desautels professors have been awarded research grants by the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), a Montreal-based scientific and economic data science hub. The grants will fund three two-year research projects led by Desautels professors as part of IVADO’s Fundamental Research Funding Program.
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Published on: 1 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
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management, looks at how business schools are providing community outreach to reduce the economic burden of COVID-19.
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Published on: 5 May 2020
McGill students in the Master of Management in Analytics program are offering their expertise to help small businesses in Montreal bounce back in a post-COVID economy. Professor Shoeb Hosain joins City News to share more about the initiative.
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Published on: 24 Apr 2020
Under the supervision of Professors Juan Serpa and Mehmet Gumus, a team of McGill Desautels students have partnered with students from the Faculty of Engineering to develop a dashboard that tracks COVID-19 cases in Montreal and Quebec.
Updated daily, the new COVID QC website provides detailed information about the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in each Montreal neighbourhood, and throughout the province of Quebec.
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Published on: 17 Apr 2020
McGill Desautels students Venkatesh Chandra and Ramy Hammam recently developed an analytics-based COVID-19 dashboard to monitor cases across Canada in an effort to combat the spread of panic and misinformation.
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Published on: 31 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
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