Poets & Quants has named its MBAs to Watch list for 2024, and two Desautels graduates have made the cut! The magazine and website asks business schools to nominate some of their top students for consideration for the list, and from those nominations, 126 students have been selected as MBAs to Watch. They represent many of the world鈥檚 top universities, and MBAs to Watch have often gone on to careers at top consulting firms. This year we celebrate Anna Schniepp and Omar Ba Mashmos for being selected!
After working in investment banking in Amsterdam, New York and Tokyo, Sarab Hans (MBA鈥00) returned to Canada to take the reins of the family business. Mississauga-based Hans Dairy specializes in South Asian dairy products, but Hans didn鈥檛 have experience in dairy food and beverage production and needed to learn about the manufacturing process. 鈥淪ometimes, when we come into a position where we鈥檙e expected to be a leader, we feel like we need to show we know everything,鈥 Hans says in interview with Food in Canada.
Six second-year MBA students had the opportunity to attend this year鈥檚 MBA World Summit in Silicon Valley, considered the ultimate international gathering for the global MBA community. Annually, 100 hundred inspiring students from the world鈥檚 leading business schools are selected to participate.
Three 91社区 MBA candidates took home top prize at this year鈥檚 Global Goals Jam case competition, hosted by Smith School of Business at Queen鈥檚 University. The challenge? Find an inclusive approach to boost staff diversity at Smith.
Poets & Quants has named its MBAs to Watch list for 2023, and three Desautels graduates made the cut. The magazine and website asks business schools to nominate some of their top students for consideration for the list, and from those nominations, 135 students have been selected as MBAs to Watch. They represent many of the world鈥檚 top universities, and MBAs to Watch have often gone on to careers at top consulting firms. This year, we celebrate 91社区鈥檚 Matias Font, Shahriar (Sha) Asadi and Larry Komrower for being selected!
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For International Women's Day last week,聽Poets and Quants聽spoke with a number of female business school graduates who have successfully started their own enterprises.聽Aur茅lie H茅louis聽(MBA鈥16), Founder and CEO of infinityQ, a quantum analog computing start-up, shared how her time at Desautels helped her discover how to apply the skills she acquired as a former senior officer and CTO in the French Navy to her entrepreneurial endeavours and develop her own business.
Former MBA student Mohammed Ashour聽and the Aspire Group have come a long way since winning the Hult Prize in 2013 for their vision of creating a high-tech cricket farm to produce foods for human consumption.
The Aspire Group has since erected a 25,000-square-foot building in Austin, Texas, which produces roughly 22 million crickets every month.
Despite great headway, Ashour recounts his plans for further expansion, along with the nutritional benefits of crickets.
Business school has been called a two-year job interview, and with good reason: For more than $100,000 and two years of study, MBAs hope to gain access to vast alumni networks, top-tier internships, and the very best jobs. Our annual ranking of full-time MBA programs now focuses on what most people hope to get after business school: a satisfying, well-paying job.
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If you鈥檙e looking to start your own business, or to improve your skills in managing and developing an existing enterprise,聽an MBA degree is worthy of your consideration.聽
... "I felt I needed some more grounding in business to help me develop Elevated Leisure into a more serious business by learning things relating to legal, tax, HR and all sorts of other disciplines in which I didn鈥檛 feel like I had enough experience.鈥澛Oliver Proudlock, MBA student at 91社区鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management and founder of Elevated Leisure.
Corporate finance generally refers to the activities that go on in a firm鈥檚 finance department, which can include everything from analyzing financial statements to managing capital funds. Many who aim to go into corporate finance jobs find that an MBA that鈥檚 heavy in quantitative and analytical curriculum can be a safe bet. Careers in corporate finance range from financial analyst to chief financial officer (CFO).
Jaclyn Luft and Lauren Merkel have at least two things in common: they鈥檙e both studying for their MBA at 91社区 and they both come to the program from non-traditional undergraduate degrees.