GSoft’s new onboarding platform aims to improve employee retention

Published: 3 October 2022

Competition for top talent is fierce, and effective onboarding is key to employee retention. It is especially challenging to get this right in a digital-first environment. “If you miss your...

Solfium app makes it easier to understand the costs and benefits of installing solar panels

Published: 3 October 2022

Solar energy has a great deal of potential – but the areas where it is produced are not always the same places the energy is needed most. That’s a barrier to widespread adoption, and Canadian...

Negotiators can leverage shared interests to the mutual benefit of all parties

Published: 16 September 2022

Barry Nalebuff has advised the National Basketball Association in negotiations with the league’s players union, and provided consulting advice to over 50 multinational companies. But the professor...

To stay ahead of the game elite athletes and business leaders must embrace change

Published: 7 September 2022

When Tim Murdoch played lacrosse at Princeton in the 1980s, his coaches were prone to yelling and screaming. And Murdoch brought that coaching style to McGill’s lacrosse team, but when he had a...

Rio Tinto Aluminium hopes new smelting process can reduce emissions from smelting process

Published: 2 September 2022

To generate and store low-carbon energy, we will need large quantities of minerals and metals. Aluminum is among the most important. Its production accounts for 2% of human-produced emissions, and...

GM plans to use dealerships to upgrade charging infrastructure, accelerate EV adoption

Published: 2 September 2022

GM plans to eliminate all tailpipe emissions from light-duty vehicles by 2035 – but right now, we don’t have the electrical grid we need to power all the electric vehicles (EVs) that we would need...

At-work interactions can help build trust that transfers to remote work environments

Published: 2 September 2022

Nearly 90 per cent of Americans would choose to work remotely, and the trend holds true among different occupational categories, demographic groups, and geographical locations. But there are still...

Indigenous women are fastest growing group of entrepreneurs

Published: 2 September 2022

There are about 60,000 Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada, and Indigenous women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs. “They are outpacing all other segments” says Monica James, a member...

Kalina Newmark brings an Indigenous lens to management in a Fortune 500 company

Published: 25 July 2022

As a brand manager for Starbucks’ Instant packaged coffee business, Kalina Newmark seeks to make each team member feel that their contribution is valued at the same level. It’s just one of the ways...

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