Celebrating accomplishments of women within the Desautels community

Published: 10 March 2022

On International Women’s Day we highlighted some of the outstanding and accomplished women within the Desautels community, who positively impact our students through their teaching, research,...

McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship unveils program dedicated to women entrepreneurs

Published: 19 November 2021

On November 19, the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship announced the creation of the Entrepreneurial Women Lean Startup Program, slated to launch in the Fall of 2022. The reveal was a grand...

Dobson Centre surpasses $1-billion milestone in startup seed funding

Published: 8 April 2021

Over the past three decades, the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship has catalyzed the creation of 450 active startups that have generated more than 6,000 new jobs. Now, the McGill Dobson...

Reimagining tutoring models in public schools

Published: 22 September 2021

McGill alumni Philip Cutler (BEd’13) and Roberto Cipriani (BSc’08) are combatting academic inequity in over 110 United States public schools and counting. In 2014, their tutoring company, Paper,...

Developing breakthrough patient care solutions

Published: 9 September 2021

The pandemic prompted hospitals across Canada to implement new technologies that minimized human-to-human contact, such as a text messaging service provided by the University of Montreal Health...

Homecoming: So you think you have the next big idea? Vous pensez avoir une idée géniale?

Thursday, September 30, 2021 14:30to15:30

So you think you have the next big idea? You think you have what it takes? The McGill ecosystem has quietly produced a series of successful companies over the past years./desautelsCategory:...

Former Dobson startup aims high

Published: 5 May 2021

Sonder, an industry-disrupting hospitality company created by former McGill student and McGill Dobson Centre alumnus Francis Davidson, aspires to become a “hosting Amazon” through an IPO. The new...

Turning hobbies into business opportunities

Published: 8 March 2021

In response to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians are turning their pastimes into online businesses. Marie-Josée Lamothe, Academic Director of the McGill Dobson Centre for...

Start-ups taking off in Quebec

Published: 25 March 2021

Although the pandemic has generated significant economic uncertainty, startups are thriving at McGill’s Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship, according to its director, Marie Josée Lamothe....

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