Buy now, pay later loans promise to boost purchasing power—but can come with strings

Published: 4 September 2025

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) programs allow consumers to pay for items in instalments. And the market for these financial products has been growing at a 12% annual rate, and is projected to reach $7.5...

Insights from the Reshaping the Future of Retail Conference

Published: 7 October 2025

Meghan Markowski (MMR'25) captures key takeaways from this year's Reshaping the Future of Retail Conference, which brought together over 250 retail leaders, academics, and students at Montreal’s...

European Union is in the early stages of regulating AI’s use of sensitive data

Published: 23 October 2025

Artificial intelligence is still an emerging technology, and we are only in the early stages of its regulation. The European Union is at the forefront of the technology’s regulation, says Simon...

2025 McGill-FIAM Asset Management Hackathon pushes students to build AI-powered portfolio 

Published: 18 November 2025

Large language models are changing the way we do business - or at least that’s what the companies that make AI tools will tell you. In practice, many companies know that AI tools are very powerful...

Concrete policy steps could address issues with Canada’s pension system

Published: 2 July 2025

A well-designed pension system brings enormous social and economic values to its members and to society as a whole. Unfortunately, Canada’s doesn’t stand out. A 2024 report from Mercer ranks it...

Workshop on tackling food waste facilitates cross-sector collaboration

Published: 4 August 2025

On June 3, the McGill Sustainable Growth Initiative partnered with the Chinese University of Hong Kong to deliver a workshop called ‘Tackling Food Waste’. Professor Javad Nasiry spoke at the event,...

Rebranding of DEI initiatives is a reactive response to external pressures

Published: 29 August 2025

The pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs gained momentum in the first half of 2025. And while some institutions are eliminating DEI initiatives, others are rebranding them.

Maxime Cohen named to world’s most cited researcher list for third straight year

Published: 2 October 2025

Each year, Stanford University and the academic publishing company Elsevier celebrate the world’s most influential researchers with its top 2% list, which identifies the researchers who are most...

Hari Gopalan (MMA’25), MMA Online graduate harnesses data for healthcare innovation

Published: 16 October 2025

As part of the first graduating cohort of McGill’s Master of Management in Analytics (Online) program, Hari Gopalan (MMA’25) is using data to improve healthcare systems at the Children’s Hospital...

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