Desautels ranked among world’s most sustainable MBA programs
Today Corporate Knights released its 2019 Better World MBA ranking. The Better World ranking, now in its 17th year, analyzes how business schools across the world fare in integrating sustainability into their MBA programs. With rising concerns of climate change, business schools are ensuring the next generation of business leaders have the environmental know-how to contribute to a cleaner, more sustainable […]
McGill Dobson Centre ranked among world’s top incubation programs
We are thrilled to announce that the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship ranked in the Top 20 of UBI Global’s World Top Business Incubators – Managed by a University category, for the second year in a row. The McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship is the hub of entrepreneurial activity at McGill University. Our team has been working […]
CRACKING THE CASE
On September 27, at the Embassy of Canada to Japan in Tokyo, Corey Phelps, associate professor of strategy and Desautels Faculty Fellow at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, delivered a talk based on his new book, Cracked It! How to Solve Big Problems and Sell Solutions Like Top Strategy Consultants. The event was […]
First-ever Henry Mintzberg PhD Teaching and Mentorship Award goes to Professor Alain Pinsonneault
Professor Alain Pinsonneault recently received the inaugural Henry Mintzberg PhD Teaching and Mentorship Award in recognition of his high-quality teaching and commitment to student progress. He was nominated for the honour by PhD students and alumni. The award was created in 2018 to recognize Professor Henry Mintzberg’s 50 years of service to McGill.
Desautels earns Eduniversal award
Angelica Potes, EMBA’18, accepted an Eduniversal award in Croatia on behalf of the Desautels Faculty of Management for placing among the Top-3 Business Schools in North America for 2018. Photo: Angelica Potes (right) personally delivers the award from Croatia to Montreal to celebrate with Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou (left).
Sonder Becomes Dobson Centre’s First Unicorn
Sonder, a hospitality startup founded by former McGill student Francis Davidson, is now a billion-dollar company. Sonder competed in the 2014 McGill Dobson Cup Startup Competition, where it attracted the attention and investment of judge Tim Tokarsky (BSc ’99). Read more in the McGill Reporter
Laura Younger: ‘You can’t go into a networking environment with a selfish perspective’
This article was originally published in The Globe and Mail.KARL MOORE AND DAN SCHECHNER Laura Younger is the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ). The organization works to develop business relations between the United States and Japan. I grew up in Grimsby, Ont., a small town in the Niagara Peninsula. My mom’s a […]
Professor Nancy J. Adler wins prestigious Academy of Management award
At the Academy of Management annual meeting in Boston this year, Desautels Professor Nancy J. Adler received the AMLE Decade Award for her journal article entitled “When Knowledge Wins: Transcending the Sense and Nonsense of Academic Rankings.”
