McGill DataSphere Lab proving to be good for business

Published: 10 October 2025

At McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management, the DataSphere Lab is transforming how companies use data and how students learn....

McGill Desautels offices earn new sustainable workplace ratings

Published: 5 June 2025

This winter, three of the ten McGill offices awarded new Sustainability Workplace Certifications for their sustainable practices were from the Desautels Faculty of Management. Notably, a...

Tariff loophole fuelling Canadian warehouse sector

Published: 26 June 2025

Tariffs drive up prices for businesses, but some companies are finding a creative loophole to avoid some US tariffs. When a company imports a tariffed good, it pays a tariff. But it doesn’t pay a...

Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ does away with de minimis exemption for impots from all countries

Published: 30 July 2025

The de minimis exemption has played a major role in the rise of Chinese fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu. The exemption works like this: if an imported good has a value of less than $800, it...

Despite rise of chatbots, people still prefer human customer services

Published: 23 July 2025

Until recently, the most common way that customers interacted with a company’s customer service was via human agents on the telephone, the web or a mobile app. But increasingly, customer service is...

Public pension funds deliver higher returns when they use a capitalized model

Published: 22 October 2025

Some national pension funds operate on a ‘pay as you go’ model, meaning that retiree pensions are primarily funded by current workers. But other national pension plans—including the Canada Pension...

Mid-market brands to benefit from consumers’ renewed focus on the basics

Published: 21 May 2025

2024 was a rough year for retail in Canada, and 2025 doesn’t look much better, writes Charles de Brabant in Retail Insider. The Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management noted...

Emerging tech can help make business’ more resilient

Published: 13 June 2025

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence have the power to boost business’ efficiency, but they can also make an organizations more resilient....

Businesses need to adapt to change to grow

Published: 10 July 2025

For Quebec, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are an engine of economic growth. Many SMEs have grown into prosperous companies, writes Bensadoun School in Retail Management student William...

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