Independent fashion designers likely to lose out in SSENSE bankruptcy

Published: 10 September 2025

In a bankruptcy filing in late August, the Montreal-based luxury retailer SSENSE cited a liquidity crisis brought on partly by the unpredictable tariff regime in the United States. At the time of...

Starbucks’ choice to shut pick-up only locations could hurt bottom line

Published: 23 October 2025

Beginning in 2026, Starbucks will be phasing out its mobile order pick-up only locations, abandoning an approach built for speed and efficiency. In an earnings call, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said...

Patrick Augustin sets the record straight about Luxembourg

Published: 15 May 2025

Luxembourg is best known as a wealthy tax haven--if people know it at all. The tiny and wealthy country is a significant financial centre, but it also has the reputation of being a little dull. But...

Leedana is bringing agriculture to the desert--and it got its start at Desautels

Published: 5 June 2025

Egypt’s Nile River Valley has some of the most fertile land in the world. But most of the country is a barren desert where few plants can grow. Hassan Elrakhawy (BCom’24) wants to change that. The...

Complicated crypto products recall derivatives at the centre of the global financial crisis

Published: 2 July 2025

Cryptocurrencies are volatile, risky and lack transparency. For banks and investors alike, that’s risky. “Some like to think ‘this time it’s different’,” Prof Patrick Augustin told PaperJam.lu. But...

Sustainability Academic Network connects sustainability researchers

Published: 30 July 2025

Big problems demand collaboration—and climate change is one of the biggest problems we face. The Sustainability Academic Network (SUSAN) is a collaborative place where researchers from around the...

Transforming urban mobility at the SGI sustainable transportation roundtable

Published: 9 May 2025

Explore the insights from the second Sustainable Transportation Roundtable hosted by McGill University's Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI). This year's event, sponsored by Alstom, focused on road...

C. Douglas Mellor Prize for academic excellence awarded to two GCPA students

Published: 28 July 2025

Hugo Deslandes (BCom‘24, GCPA’25) and Veronica Hall (BCom‘24, GCPA’25), students of the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program, have been selected among their graduating...

Maxime Cohen named to world’s most cited researcher list for third straight year

Published: 2 October 2025

Each year, Stanford University and the academic publishing company Elsevier celebrate the world’s most influential researchers with its top 2% list, which identifies the researchers who are most...

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