Global public relations firm delivers McGill course content to staff in 12-week boot camp

Published: 2 July 2025

Being happy doesn’t just make life more enjoyable, it can help you get things done. In 2024, McGill Desautels Adjunct Lecturer Anita Nowak co-designed a course on the power of positive psychology...

Taking stock of social business activities in academia

Published: 3 May 2019

An interview with Desautels lecturer Anita Nowak is featured in the 2019 Academia Report on Social Business, an overview compiled by the YY Foundation of the diverse social business activities that...

A lifetime in academia

Published: 17 February 2016

When Anita Nowak, GrDip 99, studied in the graduate diploma program of Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies, she says “a whole new world of cultural studies opened up to me.”...

McGill lance un premier «GROOC» sur l’entrepreneuriat social

Published: 18 September 2015

Le 16 septembre prochain, le début des cours se fera en ligne pour les élèves inscrits au premier « GROOC » (pour Group MOOC) de la faculté de gestion Desautels de McGill. À travers un MOOC ...

McGill business students focus on helping Syrian refugees

Published: 28 April 2016

Every semester, McGill University faculty lecturer Anita Nowak challenges her students to come up with projects for her social entrepreneurship and social innovation class based on a theme that she...

A different kind of MOOC

Published: 2 October 2015

The Desautels Faculty of Management launched a world’s first on September 16, coining a new word in the process. According to the people who put the course together, “Social Learning for Social...

Trois programmes dans l'air du temps

Published: 19 November 2015

Des milliers d'étudiants de partout dans le monde suivent gratuitement le cours en ligne Social Learning for Social Impact, travaillent en équipe et apprennent à réaliser des initiatives sociales...

Debate: What is the Role of Business in Humanitarian Issues?

Published: 20 November 2015

What is the wider role of business in society? While it has long been acknowledged that big businesses in particular have a part to play – by virtue of their place in society as well as the people...

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