Shaping socially responsible leaders: Professor Etzion’s course recognized by Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program has announced the winners of the 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award, an annual prize that recognizes teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels that is redefining excellence in business education.
The sustainability movement is strong
At the 8th annual Catalyst Awards Gala, the McGill Office of Sustainability awarded students, staff, and faculty who have made meaningful and enduring contributions to the sustainability movement at McGill.
Desautels wins big at trading competition
Marking the sixth year of participating in the 2018 Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC), a team of Desautels’ students took 1st place in the MATLAB Options Volatility Case.
Natalia Aguilar Delgado Finalist for the Emerald Best International Dissertation Award
The dissertation of Desautels PhD alumna Natalia Aguilar Delgado was selected as finalist for the Emerald Best International Dissertation Award of the Academy of Management 2017.
Professor Paola Perez-Aleman was the supervisor of her research.
Natalia graduated in June 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor of International Business at HEC Montreal.
Jose Carlos Marques Finalist for 2017 AOM SIM Dissertation Award
The dissertation of Desautels PhD alumnus Jose Carlos Marques (PhD'17) was selected as one of the three finalists for the Academy of Management Social Issues in Management Best Dissertation Award 2017.
5th Empirical and Theoretical Symposium for Canadian Marketing Strategy
“We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge”On May 25, 2017, more than 60 marketing academics in Canada gathered together for the 5th Empirical and Theoretical Symposium for Canadian Marketing Strategy at the Desautels Faculty of Management to present research ideas, provide feedback, and share commentaries.
Profile: Monia Mazigh embraces fiction as a political act
Amid the political anxieties of our time, Monia Mazigh’s latest novel, Hope Has Two Daughters, presents a historical milieu where some of the worst-case scenarios already exist. In 2010 Tunisia, press freedom is non-existent, with all major newspapers toeing the government line; human rights activists and journalists are often jailed; and Muslims are persecuted for openly practising their faith.
Eduniversal announces the 2014 Rankings of the Best 1000 Business Schools in 154 Countries
McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management remains but shares N°2 Business School in Northern America.
Disclosures: A weekly look at odds and ends from the business world
The website of the World Retail Congress, which just concluded its annual confab in France, asks “Why Paris in 2014?”
Why, indeed, British retail CEO Andy Street might have asked. The chief of department store chain John Lewis made his way to the conference last week to receive the award for Best Omnichannel Retailer (No, we don’t know what that means, either).
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