GCPA student, Jennifer Nguyen, awarded prestigious C. Douglas Mellor Prize
Jennifer Nguyen (BCom‘22, GCPA’23) student of the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program, has been selected among her graduating class as this year’s recipient of the C. Douglas Mellor Prize for academic excellence.
Announcing the Inaugural Recipients of the Arthur D Ruby Prizes in Management
Congratulations to Loïc Brassard (BCom’22), Tian Cheng Huang (BCom’22), Kyra Swift (BCom UOttawa’21), Sandra Gagnon (BCom’21), Arielle Gregoire (BCom’22), Gabriel Ouellet (BCom’22), John-Anthony Salvo (BCom’22), Louis-Philip Massicotte (BCom’22), Claudia Guay (BCom Concordia’21) and Evelyne Jean (BCom’22) who were awarded the Arthur D Ruby Prizes in Management by the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program.
Brian O’Neill (BCom’51), former NHL Executive Vice-President and McGill Hockey alum dies at 94
Brian O'Neill (BCom’51), a cornerstone of the National Hockey League since joining its executive offices in 1966, died Friday morning at his care home in Montreal, the league announced Friday. He was 94.
Born and raised in Montreal, O’Neill earned a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College before coming to McGill, where he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics while playing hockey for the McGill Redbirds.
McGill Desautels conferred second EQUIS re-accreditation by EFMD
At its June 27 meeting in London, the Accreditation Board of the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) rendered its decision to re-accredit the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management for a second five-year period – the maximum term granted by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) through EQUIS.
MMA welcomes local business collaboration at Industry Partnership Breakfast
The McGill Desautels Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) program, ranked 1st in Canada for three consecutive years and top 10 in the world by the 2023 QS Masters in Business Analytics Rankings, proudly welcomed Montreal businesses in June to an Industry Partnership Breakfast.
Delve: What Can Boomers Learn About Leadership from Millennials and Gen Z? with Karl Moore and Dax Dasilva
What can older generations learn from Millennials and Gen Z about leadership, strategy, and dealing with crisis? And how can these younger generations unlock their professional potential by engaging in meaningful work and taking larger roles in organizational strategy and change?
IMPM scholarship helps 2sLGBTQIA+ students promote diversity and inclusion
Business has an important role in the economy, and in shaping culture. Businesses set the norms, and can foster inclusivity. McGill’s International Masters Program for Managers (IMPM) recently took steps to help 2sLGBTQIA+ people do this by launching a scholarship of up to $10,000 USD for leaders actively involved in promoting diversity and inclusion in their organization, communities, country, or region.
Reverse mentoring can help bridge workplace generation gaps
Young people entering the workforce today have a worldview that can be profoundly different than senior leaders. Education has shifted from a modern approach to a postmodern one, and that results in a workplace generation gap. The onus to bridge it lies largely with older generations, said Prof. Karl Moore to Oliver Wyman Forum.
New book by Prof. Henry Mintzberg brings together decades of observation and analysis
Prof. Henry Mintzberg has been observing, advising and researching organizations since the early 1970s, and has had a profound influence on their study. The most recent book from the John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies is Understanding Organizations…Finally! Structure in Sevens, and it synthesizes decades of analysis to understand the forces that shape organizations.
WestJet takes over Sunwing, but competition from Air Canada will limit negative impact for consumers
In May 2023, WestJet completed a takeover of Sunwing, a Canadian charter airline and the following month, it announced it was shutting down Swoop, its own discount carrier. The company’s CEO says it’s a good thing for customers, but some think it could push prices higher. Prof. Karl Moore told CBC News that while mergers typically aren’t great for consumers, Canada’s airline industry remains highly competitive.
Inaugural McGill Transformative Business Law Academy brings together student-fellows to consider pathways toward change
In business, short-term thinking often predominates. But the profit maximization often comes at the expense of long-term interests, such as limiting the effects of climate change or alleviating global inequality.
EMBA alumnus Jacques Farcy moves from SQDC to SAQ
After two years as the President and CEO of the Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC), Jacques Farcy (EMBA’21) is assuming the same titles at the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), a Quebec government crown corporation that sells and distributes alcohol.
Delve: Are Digital Tech Workers Coding Themselves Out of Existence? with Emmanuelle Vaast and Alain Pinsonneault
What if just doing your job causes you to lose your job? New technologies have constantly replaced old technologies for hundreds of years, but new digital technologies, namely artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies, are doing more than replacing old tech—they’re replacing the people who create those technologies in the first place.
Indigenous Graduate Spotlight: Leon Picha (BCom’23)
"I want there to be a day where there’s more than just two red scarves [at the Faculty of Management convocation] and that’s what I’m going to continue to work to achieve," says Leon Picha (BCom’23).
Couche-Tard's Retail Innovation Lab is the store of the future
AI's impact on retail is set to revolutionize the industry, from crowd measurement to price management, changing the in-store experience significantly. Certified analytics and marketing intelligence professional Christian Bourque explains how infrared technology is currently used to analyze foot traffic levels and reveal the upcoming technological frontier in retail, stating that McGill’s Retail Innovation Lab in the Bronfman pavilion exemplifies the store of the future.
