These Four Letters Could Make You the Best...Boss...Ever
The modern workplace is full of abbreviations: KPI, ROI, SWOT. But it’s a bit of alphabet soup from decades ago that could prove most critical to the success of managers in the digital age.
Making the business case for climate change and the bottom line
As climate change and sustainability become higher priorities for companies across all sectors more chief financial officers have been given responsibility for how the issues impact the bottom line.
Heroes and Zeros of the Year 2015
Here is my 20th annual column of the past year’s heroes and zeros.
Desautels MBA Delivers the Global Leadership Lecture in Sydney, Australia
Usman W. Chohan, a graduate of Desautels MBA in Strategy and Leadership (2014) delivered the 2015 Foreign Affairs Lecture in the Global Leadership Program (GLP) at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The lecture was titled "The World Bank and the New Dynamics of Development", and drew on Mr. Chohan's WB experience to map the development field, particularly in the context of emergent institutions such as AIIB.
Two Desautels alumni receive the Meritorious Service Medal
Two Desautels alumni – Rob Fetherstonhaugh, BCom78, DPA ’80, and Marc Balevi, BCom 77, DPA 78 – received the Meritorious Service Medal last week from the Governor General.
View the ceremony: Youtube, December 11, 2015
Learn more about this award.
Physician with a mission
Joanne Liu has treated patients in the most dangerous parts of the globe as a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor. Now, as MSF’s international president, she is holding the world’s leaders to account for the way they handle medical crises.
The body of a six-year-old Syrian refugee is on the cover of every newspaper arrayed in the lobby of the Montreal restaurant where Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, has just arrived.
In memoriam: H. Arnold Steinberg, Chancellor Emeritus
(Editor’s Note: The following is a message from Principal Suzanne Fortier.)
Dear members of the McGill community:
Porter Airlines ‘assessing’ after expansion plan nixed
Porter Airlines would not elaborate on the airline’s future strategy at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport now that its expansion plan is dead. ... McGill University professor and aviation expert Karl Moore said the news was a blow to Porter’s future strategy.
Read full article: Yahoo News, December 14, 2015
Ultimate Campus Celebrity: Professor Ashesh Mukherjee
It's a busy time for both students and professors as final exams and grades loom upon us. But this week, Her Campus McGill was lucky enough to get a hold of Desautels's renowned consumer behaviour professor and DJ for an interview - Professor Ashesh Mukherjee!
Read full article: Her Campus, December 12, 2015
Why ‘behavioral economics’ is neither ‘behavioral,’ nor ‘economics’
Written by Reuven Brenner
Canadian bank CEO on his different approach to managing people
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University with Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am delighted to sit down with Peter Aceto, who is the CEO of Tangerine, an innovative Canadian Bank.
McGill to Offer a Master of Management in Finance
Canada's McGill University will launch a Masters of Management in Finance program beginning in 2016. Read full article: Find MBA, December 8, 2015
End of hierarchy boosts front line managers' power
The transition of work structures from 20th century hierarchical org structures to the more flexible, collaborative, networked work structures emerging in various organizations may herald the end of hierarchy but it does not mean a flat world of work, nor does it mean the end of management.
Who’s on the move: December 7, 2015
Van de Water-Raymond, a family-owned 3PL logistics and management services company, appointed Claude Hardy to the role of vice-president and general manager, sales and Marketing for the Quebec market. He will take on the management of the entire sales team. Read full article: Materials Management & Distribution, December 7, 2015
Bureaux partagés
Entrevue avec Jean-Nicolas Reyt, professeur à la Faculté de management de l'Université McGill. Voir l'entrevue complet: RDI Economie, le 7 décembre 2015
