McGill-HEC EMBA co-founder Prof. Alain Pinsonneault to step down as co-director; Professor John Paul Ferguson to take the helm
After more than two decades of leadership, Professor Alain Pinsonneault will conclude his mandate as academic co-director of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA this December. A co-founder of the program since its inception in the mid-2000s, Prof. Pinsonneault helped shape the distinctive learning experience supporting hundreds of executives.
Cyber attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI effectively, we must improve our anticipatory thinking
Authors: Simon Blanchette and Emmanuelle Vaast
Publication: The Conversation
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Social media debates can drive collective action
Online conflict may strengthen social movements rather than undermine them, according to research from McGill Desautels' Emmanuelle Vaast, Professor of Information Systems, Vice-Dean of Research.
New AAAI research examines AI’s impact on people, platforms and markets
Researchers affiliated with McGill Desautels’ Analytics, Advanced Digital Technologies and AI (AAAI) initiative are examining the growing influence of artificial intelligence on human behaviour, digital communities and economic outcomes.
McGill Desautels researchers secure $4 million in SSHRC funding
McGill Desautels researchers secured $4 million in funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SSHRC) 2025 and 2026 competitions. Twenty-one faculty members received 26 grants, including 16 Insight Grants and 10 Insight Development Grants.
Governing AI: why the public must set the moral limits
Who should decide what artificial intelligence is allowed to do to us?
Increasingly, choices about fairness, risk, and harm are made not by the public, but by the companies building these systems. Even industry leaders admit this is a problem.
Desautels’ Samer Faraj earns renewal of Canada Research Chair
McGill has been awarded $18.1 million in federal funding to support 16 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs. These appointments recognize leading scholars whose work advances discovery across disciplines, from fundamental science to pressing societal challenges. The program highlights McGill’s commitment to world-class research and long-term innovation with real-world impact.
Reimagining Canadian healthcare: McGill launches initiative to transform how care is delivered
McGill University’s Initiative for Transforming Healthcare (ITH) is rethinking how Canada delivers care by putting organization, management, and coordination at the forefront of reform.
Quebec digital health record project faces rising cost concerns
Quebec’s long-awaited digital health record rollout is being presented as a major step toward more connected, modern health care. The system promises to reduce fragmented patient information and make it easier for records to follow patients across facilities.
McGill Desautels scholars named among Canada’s Best Business and Management Scientists 2026
Canada’s Best Business and Management Scientists 2026 ranking highlights leading McGill scholars Yolande Chan, Henry Mintzberg, and Samer Faraj, recognizing their influential research in information systems, management theory and organizational dynamics that continues to shape business scholarship in Canada and int
McGill Desautels faculty honoured at Bravo Gala 2026
McGill University's annual Bravo Gala takes place on Thursday, May 7, celebrating research excellence and recognizing faculty members and researchers who have received awards, memberships, and prizes over the past year. McGill Desautels is proud to celebrate three distinguished faculty members among this year's honourees:
As work moves toward the metaverse, new concerns about employee monitoring emerge
As organizations explore new digital frontiers, Emmanuelle Vaast, Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, urges caution.
On the Delve podcast, she examines the prospect of working in the metaverse—a future that may be closer than we think.
Data held by US-based tech giants could make Canadians vulnerable to US government overreach
Tech giants play an increasingly important role in the economy and in our everyday lives, but companies like Alphabet, Amazon and Apple are all based in the United States. In an age of heightened geopolitical tensions, some are calling for greater domestic control over the digital infrastructure we’ve all come to rely on.
McGill launches Initiative for Transforming Healthcare
McGill University has unveiled the Initiative for Transforming Healthcare (ITH), a cross‑sector effort aimed at tackling some of Canada’s most pressing system‑level healthcare challenges. Supported by $5.75 million in funding from Power Corporation of Canada, Canada Life and IGM Financial, the initiative will mobilize expertise from management, medicine and public policy to develop technology‑enabled, evidence‑based solutions.
Lewtas Centre for Experiential Learning gives students hands-on opportunities
Some of our most important learning takes place outside of the classroom, and McGill Desautels has made it a priority for students to have access to experiential learning opportunities. The Lewtas Office of Experiential Learning launched in 2021, thanks to the generosity of alum Don Lewtas (BCom’75).
