BCom alum’s paper on the financial literacy of immigrants an FCAC finalist
McGill Desautels graduate Avneet Bhabra (BCom’23)’s research paper “23% and Counting, but Not ‘One Size Fits All’: Helping Canada’s Immigrants Strengthen Their Financial Knowledge” has been published by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) on Canada.ca. Focusing on financial literacy amongst immigrants in Canada, the paper was selected as a finalist in the undergraduate category of the FCAC’s 2023 Building Better Financial Futures Challenge.
Two BCom students selected for the National Bank Financial Young Women Student Mentorship Program
Selected from over 220 applicants, two McGill Desautels undergraduate students will be joining the National Bank Financial (NBF) Young Women Student Mentorship Program’s 2023-24 cohort.
IMSF empowers students impact in community
The Integrated Management Student Fellowship (IMSF), offered by the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), is an experiential leadership development program that aims to bridge the gap between the classroom and the community.
Experiential Learning: McGill Desautels gives rise to discovery
In 2021, thanks to the generosity of alumnus Don Lewtas, we saw the launch of the Lewtas Office of Experiential Learning. Since the office’s inception, the team at the Lewtas Office, led by Leigh Korey, PhD, has been hard at work creating powerful hands-on learning opportunities that play a vital role in the student journey.
Delve: Why Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Standards Need an Indigenous Perspective
In the high-stakes realm of finance and investment, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria play a larger role than ever in companies’ decision making and commitment to creating shared value. In this accelerated transition toward cross-sector economic change, whose interests are centred and whose concerns are left out of the sustainability conversation?
International Management Student Fellows present creative solutions to societal challenges
Bread and grain waste is a leading cause of food waste in Canada, and but this can be reduced by transforming spent brewing yeast and stale bread into flour that can be sold to businesses or directly to the consumers.
Integrated Student Management Fellowships apply academic learning to real-world challenges
The Graphix Project is creating an intellectual history of human rights in graphic novel form – over 3,000 years of conflict and social movements. Third-year student Nada Al Mgharbel has been contributing research to the initiative, which is a collaboration between McGill and Yale University, and will be the centrepiece of a human-rights education program.
New scholarship honours Devon Haye
A new scholarship has been launched in honour of Devon Haye (BCom’20), who passed away after a long and courageous battle with lymphatic cancer.
Call for Integrated Management Student Fellows
Are you a Desautels student who would like to gain experience addressing organizational and societal challenges?The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) will appoint its first cohort of Integrated Management Student Fellows in the winter 2018 term.
