/desautels/taxonomy/term/3407/all en /desautels/article/alumni-bcom-program-supporting-desautels-master-business-administration-mba-program/homecoming-2024-alumni-return-campus-nostalgia-and-networking <p>This October, we welcomed alumni from around the world back to campus to celebrate Homecoming 2024鈥攁nd what a success it was!</p> <p>Homecoming is always a great time to reminisce, expand your network, and reengage with your alma mater, and it was great to see some familiar faces back in town! Between October 24 and 26, the campus came alive as 91社区 Desautels alumni and friends converged for a special celebration filled with stories, memories, and plenty of laughs.</p> Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:06:20 +0000 91社区 Advancement 1528417 at /desautels /desautels/article/bcom-program-supporting-desautels-master-business-administration-mba-program/homecoming-2023-alumni-return-campus-reconnect-and-reminisce <p>This October, we welcomed alumni from around the world back to campus to celebrate Homecoming 2023鈥攁nd what a success it was!</p> <p>Homecoming is always a great time to reminisce, expand your network, and reengage with your alma mater and, it was great to see some familiar faces back in town! Between October 19 and 21, the campus truly came alive as 91社区 Desautels alumni and friends enjoyed a special celebration filled with stories, memories, and plenty of laughs.</p> Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:42:28 +0000 91社区 Advancement 481196 at /desautels /desautels/article/master-business-administration-mba-program-supporting-desautels/reuniting-person-homecoming-2022 <p>This October, we were pleased to celebrate our first in-person Homecoming since 2019, a terrific occasion for us to re-engage with our alumni 鈥渋n real life.鈥�</p> <p>Homecoming is always a great time to reminisce, expand your network, and to reengage with your alma mater and it was great to be back in person! The campus truly came alive in a way it hasn鈥檛 in quite some time. The Desautels family of alumni and friends enjoyed a memorable celebration filled with stories, memories, and plenty of laughs with graduates who traveled from around the world.</p> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:39:54 +0000 91社区 Advancement 87889 at /desautels /desautels/article/supporting-desautels/fetherstonhaugh-family-foundation-recognizes-teaching-excellence-desautels <p>In 2018, when the Fetherstonhaugh family envisioned an award to recognize and reward teaching excellence, they hoped for great teachers and at the Desautels Faculty of Management extraordinary teachers emerged.</p> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:24:08 +0000 91社区 Advancement 87891 at /desautels /desautels/article/supporting-desautels/laidley-centre-business-ethics-will-help-foster-ethical-leaders-challenges-future <p>Elizabeth Holmes sold investors on a vision of a machine that could run hundreds of blood tests with a single drop of blood. It is a tantalizing dream that would have revolutionized health care, and Holmes鈥� company Theranos had a market capitalization of more than $10 billion, at its peak. But there was a problem with Holmes鈥� product - called the Edison Machine. It didn鈥檛 actually work.</p> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:06:52 +0000 91社区 Advancement 87909 at /desautels /desautels/article/supporting-desautels/giving-time-desautels-students-classroom <p>Emerging markets have risen. Supply chains have gone global. And just about everything has gone digital. In recent decades, the way we do business has changed in profound ways, but even as it has rapidly evolved, the importance of knowledge and experience have remained paramount.</p> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:53:17 +0000 91社区 Advancement 86908 at /desautels /desautels/article/supporting-desautels/desautels-alumnus-david-laidley-donates-5-million-create-new-centre-business-ethics <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>鈥淲e鈥檝e all seen and read about situations where things go sideways because of ethical issues,鈥� says David Laidley, BCom鈥�67. 鈥淎 company veers off the path a few small steps at a time, and then it gets further and further into the woods.鈥�</p> <p>The Chairman Emeritus of Deloitte LLP retired back in 2007 after a successful 40-year career, but the topic of business ethics never left his mind. He currently sits on several boards, including EMCOR Group Inc. in the U.S. and Canadian Tire Real Estate Investment Trust.</p></div></div></div></div> Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:29:45 +0000 91社区 Advancement 87720 at /desautels /desautels/article/bcom-program-supporting-desautels/honouring-impact-and-legacy-devon-haye <p>Devon Haye (BCom鈥�20) believed that a business can do much more than make money -聽it can be a powerful force for social good. He refined this vision during his studies for a Bachelor of Commerce at Desautels, and brought it with him during an internship in South Africa and a student exchange at the National University of Singapore. But his strong sense of social justice had its roots in two tiny First Nations communities.</p> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:07:55 +0000 91社区 Advancement 84359 at /desautels /desautels/article/desmarais-faculty-scholar-awards-reward-leading-finance-research <h3>Examining different facets of value creation in mutual funds</h3> <h5>Do mutual fund managers create value for聽investors and the economy, and are they聽skilled at choosing the right companies to invest in, or not?</h5> Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:10:36 +0000 91社区 Advancement 83119 at /desautels /desautels/article/mba-stories-supporting-desautels/scott-jones-leading-nova-steel-through-transformative-growth-and-supporting-mba-students-next <p>Success, rebuilding and transformation. That鈥檚 the story of Montreal-based Nova Steel, a diversified steel manufacturing company with 20 locations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States and $1 billion in annual sales, founded by entrepreneur Bryan Jones in 1979.</p> Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:18:15 +0000 91社区 Advancement 81778 at /desautels /desautels/article/supporting-desautels/lewtas-office-experiential-teaching-and-learning-will-enhance-educational-opportunities-desautels <p>Management is both a science and an art. There is a lot that you can learn in a classroom, but there are certain things that you can only learn by doing.</p> <p>鈥�<span class="pull-quote">Theory is important. Learning is important. But doing is also very important</span>,鈥� says Dr. Liette Lapointe, an Associate Professor of Information Systems and the Vice-Dean of Programs at the Desautels Faculty of Management.</p> <p>鈥淭his generation of students craves that type of life experience, and the new Lewtas Experiential Learning Office will help us give it to them.鈥�</p> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:39:06 +0000 91社区 Advancement 81173 at /desautels /desautels/article/case-competition-professor-remembered <p>Professor Richard (Dono) George Donovan聽passed away suddenly on August 3, 2019,聽but his influence is still felt by countless聽colleagues, alumni and students, particularly those who participated in his Case Class.</p> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:41:02 +0000 Desautels Communications 81169 at /desautels /desautels/article/benny-cohen-raising-bar-real-world-learning-analytics-and-retail <p>When <b><a href="/desautels/benny-cohen">Benny Cohen</a>, </b>BCom鈥�82, launched KPI Digital 鈥� formerly KPI (Knowledge Providers Inc.) 鈥� in 2001, he saw an opportunity to provide companies with precisely the kind of analytical information and insights they wanted but weren鈥檛 getting from big investments in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software systems.</p> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:49:06 +0000 Mcgill University Advancement 81174 at /desautels /desautels/article/bcom-program-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-mba-stories-supporting-desautels/samira-sakhia-taking-helm-knight-therapeutics-and-supporting-desautels-student-leadership <p><b><a href="/desautels/samira-sakhia">Samira Sakhia</a>, </b>BCom鈥�90, DPA鈥�94, MBA鈥�01, entered the BCom program as a self-described 鈥渘umbers person鈥� and naturally gravitated towards earning a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation after graduation. 鈥淭he finance calculations and economic courses came easily for me,鈥� says Sakhia, who gained valuable early experience with Arthur Anderson auditing many different types of industries and companies.</p> Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:38:33 +0000 91社区 Advancement 81086 at /desautels /desautels/article/samer-saab-helping-desautels-mba-students-seize-opportunities <p>For Samer Saab, 91社区 provided more than an education. His studies in engineering and business were critical steps on his path to founding a successful company. Headquartered in Montreal, Explorance has built an experience management platform that provides feedback solutions to more than a thousand organizations globally, and it counts some of the world鈥檚 leading academic institutions among its clients.</p> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:25:03 +0000 91社区 Advancement 80846 at /desautels