Vacations out for Canadian chief of aid group Doctors Without Borders
Vacations are a time for relaxing at the cottage or sunning on a beach – unless you’re Joanne Liu, the Canadian physician who is the loudest and most insistent voice in the global rally to contain the Ebola epidemic.
... “She wants to save the world,” said her good friend Conrad Sauvé, the Red Cross Canada CEO who studied with her at McGill for a master’s degree in health leadership.
Addressing Client Objections To EHR
Are your healthcare IT customers concerned about the cost of a new EHR (electronic health records) system? Make sure you let them know they’ll probably get their money back in less than a year.
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Discussing The Client Investment
Talking Management with Professor Karl Moore: Consultants should park their attitudes at the border
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am delighted to speak to Tarun Khanna from the Harvard Business School.
What do you think is important for a [business] person going to an emerging country? How do we know we have someone who will do well there?
Developing a global leadership mindset
From using smart machines and big data to adopting cross-cultural management and understanding diversity, there are many ways to lead with a global mentality. Changeboard asks four leading academics for their insights.
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AndeanGold Announces Board of Directors Appointments
AndeanGold Ltd. ("the Company" or "AndeanGold") (TSX VENTURE: AAU)(LMA: AAU) is pleased to announce that Messrs. Diego Angulo and Alexander Pena have been appointed to AndeanGold's board of directors.
The power of not-for-profit ventures
Elizabeth Law FCPA first understood the power of not-for-profit ventures during her university days in Montreal, Canada, where she saw communities that were crying out for help.
The boom-and-bust Fed's rental society
Article By Reuven Brenner Now, as during World War II and up to 1951, the US Federal Reserve practiced what is now called quantitative easing (QE). Then, as now, nominal interest rates were low and the real ones negative: The Fed’s policy did not so much induce investments as it allowed the government to accumulate debts, and prevent default.
Talking Management with Professor Karl Moore: What makes for a charismatic leader?
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am delighted to speak to Raina Brands [assistant professor of organizational behaviour] from the London Business School.
... Raina, you have been looking at charismatic leaders. Do men and women differ in respect to charismatic leadership?
Business schools work to bridge the gap between academia and industry
There’s a story Julian Barlow likes to tell people when he’s making a presentation.
In 1995 he was teaching a transformational leadership course when a student asked if Barlow would lead a training session for his staff.
The Gate-Crasher in the Front Row
In mid-September, during another busy day at London Fashion Week, the fashion world made its way from the Tom Ford show and a cocktail party at 10 Downing Street over to dinner.
Feeling Guilty or Ashamed? Think about Your Emotions before You Shop
Suppose you grabbed a few cookies before heading out to the grocery store and start to feel guilty or ashamed about breaking your diet. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, feeling guilty might find you comparing calories in different cartons of ice cream. Feeling ashamed might keep you from buying any ice cream in the first place.
Zhejiang University, Desautels's partner school, is again ranked top in professors' research capability.
Zhejiang University, Desautels's partner school for The Master in Global Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management (MGMSCM) program, is again ranked top in professors' research capability.
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NJBIZ CFO of the Year Awards 2014 winners announced
The NJBIZ CFO of the Year awards program on Friday celebrated New Jersey's financial executives at all levels who contribute to the success of New Jersey's economic growth and stability.
... LARGE NONPROFIT (51 or more employees) – WINNER:
Warren Tranquada
More Schools Say ‘No’ To The Economist
Economist’s list of the 100 best MBA programs in the world published yesterday (Oct. 9). The U.S. institutions that have bowed out include Babson College, the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School, Purdue University’s Krannert School, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
These dads say long work hours are costing them a full family life – so they’re opting out
At a time when dads are twice as likely as moms to think they don’t spend enough time with the kids, many employers continue to deny them the breathing room needed to get face time with their families. But a new wave of men is quietly (and not so quietly) finding new ways to lean out. It’s the latest thing in corporate corner-office chic: top male executives ditching work to hang out with their kids.
