One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014 Dobson Cup, the annual start-up competition hosted by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Desautels Faculty of Management. The Centre provides resources and support to all entrepreneurs across and Montreal communities.
Board of Directors of Etisalat Nigeria has announced the appointment of Matthew Charles Willsher as its new chief executive officer.Willsher previously held the position of chief commercial officer and acting chief executive officer replacing previous CEO, Steven Evans in August 2013.
...Matthew Willsher, a physics graduate from the prestigious University of Oxford with a Masters in Management from , started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble. He joins Etisalat Nigeria with over 20 years in telecommunications.
BTB Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:BTB.UN) («BTB» or «Trust») is proud to announce the election ofLucie DucharmeandSylvie Lachanceas Trustees of the Trust, by a vote taken during its annual general meeting held in Montréal onJune 17, 2014.

Head of marketing at John Fluevog Shoes in Vancouver, Stephen Bailey scouts new store locations and conducts store visits across North America. When he's not working for one of Canada's favourite footwear brands (Air Canada rouge flight attendants wear Fluevog proudly), Bailey designs men's accessories with his wife for their company, Cursor & Thread.
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If investors needed another reason to distrust the stock market, here’s a doozy. A study by a trio of researchers in the U.S. and Canada intoinsider tradingfound that one-quarter of the big merger and acquisition (M&A) deals over a 15-year period—roughly 460 transactions in total—may have seen people profiting on information before it was public.
This IsKarl Mooreof the Desautels Faculty of Management at , Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am delighted to speak to Michael Useem, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Graduate Management Admission Test, better known as the GMAT, is hard.The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is celebrating 60 years administering the test in 2014. Nine million tests have been taken since its launch in 1954, and GMAC says test-takers spend upwards of 200 hours studying for it.
One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-Mégantic, igniting and razing much of the town’s commercial centre, three students with a passion for social entrepreneurship have become part of the town’s efforts to rebuild.
Cécile Branco,Ségolène RolinetBernard d'Arche,trois étudiants l'Université , ont conçu un projet de centre d'innovation qui pourrait bien voir le jour dans le nouveau centre-ville méganticois. Leur Centre magnétique, un incubateur entrepreneurial, offrirait une rampe de lancement unique en région pour ceux qui souhaitent se lancer en affaires.
Insider trading is a topic of intense public debate these days, but this debate must be framed in the context of a clear, objective definition of informed versus insider trading.
“People used to take a traits-based approach to defining entrepreneurs: they are risk-takers, for instance,” saysGreg Vit, BCom’80, director of the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in ’s Desautels Faculty of Management. “But that characterization has been challenged by a more recent approach that suggests you can create the underlying conditions to help entrepreneurs emerge.”
The CEO of a major multinational came to our MBA CEO Insights class and told us that, as an introverted leader, he had to put on his “game face” whenever he left his floor. That is, if you want to be a CEO of a big company, you need to act like an extrovert, at times. After studying introverts in the C-Suite, I [Karl Moore] have come to the conclusion that extroverts, like myself, must put on our “game face” and act like an introvert at times, in order to be effective leaders.
The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, today announced the appointments of Ms.Melissa SonbergofMontreal, and Ms.Deborah Robinson, ofToronto, to the board of directors of VIA Rail Canada, each for a three-year term.
Canada has excellent universities: for example, our share of highly cited publications is nearly 10 times our share of the world population. We also have great companies, and according to a 2014 Bloomberg ranking, Canada is the second-best country in the world in which to do business. Over the last 15 years, our governments have put in place many new investments in research and development, as well as innovation-friendly policies.
Éric Muller, 41 ans, conseille des entreprises françaises et étrangères, cotées et non-cotées dans le cadre d’opérations d’acquisition, de cession ou de rapprochement, notamment dans le cadre d’accord de joint-venture.