91社区 Desautels Dean Yolande Chan is an engineer by training, but when it comes to running meetings, she sees herself more like an orchestra conductor, listening carefully to ensure harmony and hopefully rise to a crescendo, writes columnist Harvey Schachter in The Globe and Mail. Meetings need agendas and objectives, but too much rigidity can be counterproductive. Participants need to carefully consider the circumstances before coming to decisions.
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Published on: 13 Jun 2024
On May 1, 91社区's 6th annual Black Grad Gala, hosted by the Black Students鈥� Network, honoured the Class of 2024's Black graduates. Approximately 50 graduates from various faculties were celebrated on stage, each receiving Kente stoles in recognition of their achievements. Notable speakers included Associate Professor Momar Ndao and Black Grad Valedictorian Yasmine Elmi, a McCall MacBain Scholar in the Faculty of Science and incoming 91社区 medical student.
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Published on: 6 May 2024
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91社区 hosted its annual Bravo Gala on Thursday, March 21, which honours its faculty members and researchers who have won special awards, memberships and prizes over the past year. 91社区 Desautels is proud to announce 14 of its faculty amongst the distinguished honourees this year. Congratulations to our deserving laureates! Full list below.
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路 Genevi猫ve Bassellier, Best AMCIS Emergent Research Forum Paper, Americas Conference on Information Systems
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Published on: 21 Mar 2024
Dean Yolande Chan chaired the 2024 EFMD Conference for Deans and Directors General, that brought together nearly 500 leaders in higher education from across the globe to Amsterdam, Netherlands from February 6-7, 2024.
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Published on: 27 Feb 2024
Dean Yolande E. Chan has been chosen by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) as a 2023 recipient of the prestigious AIS LEO Award. The awards were announced at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) on December 11, 2023, held in Hyderabad, India.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2023
The 91社区 Desautels Faculty of Management proudly celebrated its Spring 2023 Convocation on Wednesday, May 31. The event served as a special recognition for the exceptional accomplishments of students who have successfully completed their degrees in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs during the academic year of Fall 2022 and Winter 2023. Addresses were made bt 91社区 Principal Deep Saini, Chancellor John H. McCall MacBain, Faculty Dean Yolande E.
Published on: 2 Jun 2023
Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb bring buyers and sellers together and create gig economy opportunities that did not exist before them. But they have problems too, and have been criticized for exclusionary practices, digital surveillance, and other questionable policies. However, this type of platform also has the potential to create social value. The Platform Commons Foundation is an Indian non-profit that seeks to build these platforms to address global grand challenges, writes Desautels Dean Yolande E.
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Published on: 23 Mar 2023
The Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management wants to give out keys to doors that were once locked. 鈥淭he hope and dream is to create opportunities for others,鈥� Yolande Chan told Bill Brownstein in an interview for the Montreal Gazette. 鈥淎s a Black dean, I鈥檓 not about exclusion. I鈥檓 about inclusion. We want to be representative of the markets we serve as businesses. Diversity inclusion is a core, high strategic priority for this faculty, as well as throughout 91社区. It isn鈥檛 just race.
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Published on: 14 Feb 2023
On November 14, the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics hosted students, faculty, staff, donors, alumni and friends of 91社区 Desautels for the official launch of the Centre.
The Laidley Centre for Business Ethics will serve as a hub for 91社区 researchers across disciplines, from law and religion to economics and engineering, to work toward solutions for the most pressing ethical issues of our time.
Published on: 23 Nov 2022
Congratulations to听Dean and James 91社区 Professor, Yolande E. Chan, who has been appointed to the Government of Canada鈥檚 Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System.
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Published on: 13 Oct 2022
Authors:听Yolande E. Chan, R. Krishnamurthy, J. Mann and R. Sabherwal
Publication:听Public Performance & Management Review, Forthcoming
Published online April 2022
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Published on: 26 Sep 2022
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As Spring Convocation season draws to a close, a Scarf Ceremony celebrating graduating Indigenous students was held on Monday, June 20th, during which 110 First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis students were honoured for completing their certificates and programs across 91社区's Schools and Faculties, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Published on: 21 Jun 2022
鈥淪eize the opportunities that come your way. The opportunities will come, and if you are determined you will succeed. The world is yours if you give it your best." This is the advice Dean Yolande Chan had for young Jamaicans in an interview with The Gleaner, one of Jamaica's leading news outlets. She also urged Jamaican students not to accept mediocrity, emphasizing that the island鈥檚 educational system is comparable to anywhere in the world.
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Published on: 19 May 2022
Black members of 91社区鈥檚 Class of 2022 celebrated the completion of their degrees in-person at the fourth annual Black Grad event on Sunday, May 1 at the Omni Mont-Royal. The event, inspired by similar ones at Harvard, Yale and the University of Toronto, honours graduating students ahead of next month鈥檚 Convocation 鈥� and highlights their accomplishments despite the institutional, economic and socio-cultural barriers to accessing higher education.
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Published on: 6 May 2022
Access to technology is deeply uneven. Many of us take the internet for granted, but nearly 40 per cent of the world鈥檚 population has never even been online. When the pandemic closed schools, not everyone could just switch to online learning. But communities that lacked access to technology found other ways to stay connected. A new study co-authored by Desautels Dean and James 91社区 Professor Yolande E.
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Published on: 23 Mar 2022
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