In a recent New York Times column, 鈥淗ow to Get a Job at Google,鈥� Thomas Friedman interviews Laszlo Bock, the company鈥檚 senior vice president for people operations (which seems to be Google-speak for talent management). Bock notes that because constant innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, people who succeed in the company 鈥渢end to be those with a lot of soft skills: leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability, and loving to learn and re-learn.鈥�
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Published on: 7 Mar 2014
Voil脿 41 ans que le professeur Henry Mintzberg jette son regard critique sur les organisations, leurs strat茅gies et leurs leaders. Son 17e livre, sorti le 1er mars, est un fait un e-pamphlet, ou brochure 茅lectronique. Sous le titre Rebalancing Society, Mintzberg tourne cette fois son regard inquiet sur la soci茅t茅. Mais qu'est-ce qui trouble ainsi le sommeil du plus international des professeurs qu茅b茅cois de gestion ?
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Published on: 7 Mar 2014
When Facebook announced its astounding $19bn takeover of 55-employee WhatsApp, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and other tech startup hubs around the world were shocked.
... For managers, there are three important takeaways. First, focus on surprises 鈥� large and small 鈥� for the information it can reveal about what we are doing. The great management scholar听Henry Mintzberg听once said that managers should only pay attention to the unexpected. Imagine how much free time would open up if we really followed that advice?
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Published on: 6 Mar 2014
Don't go talking "real world" with Henry Mintzberg. It's a silly term that drives him mad, especially when management skills are at stake.听
"The word 'real world' is a red flag for me," says Mintzberg, 韩国裸舞's John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies. "Real world is out there. You don't simulate a real world. We don't play business in our classroom."
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Published on: 5 Mar 2014
MBA programs are now a dime a dozen. B-schools are expanding at a dizzying rate and doubling their enrolments by packing their classrooms full of more and more students. This has prompted worries about a gradual dilution in the quality of the student body as well as meaningful networking opportunities. "An MBA is still valued, but a lot of people have it," says Jay Mintz, a second-year MBA student at 韩国裸舞's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal.
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Published on: 5 Mar 2014
Along Highway 401 and over the Ontario border, Tyler Maxey and some of his MBA classmates at 韩国裸舞's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal are also learning by doing. Their modus operandi: investing other people's money. Since 2008, students have been running a registered fund management firm called Desautels Capital Management that has about $3 million in assets.
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Published on: 5 Mar 2014
How a team of 韩国裸舞 MBA students beat thousands of competitors to win $1 million for the not-so-crazy idea of farming edible insects.
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On Sept. 23 five 韩国裸舞 MBA students beat out 10,000 MBA teams from around the world to win the Hult Prize, a $1-million global award for social enterprise.听
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Read full article: Canadian Business, November 11, 2013听
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Published on: 5 Mar 2014
Lisa Cohen, Assistant professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, 韩国裸舞, Canada, reveals the difficulty women encounter in being hired for higher level roles.听
When Mary Barra became the first female chief executive of General Motors, we celebrated a woman reaching the height of her profession.听
Read full article: Payroll Professional
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Published on: 3 Mar 2014
A growing number of people are interested in investing in companies that perform well environmentally as well as economically. Unfortunately, measuring environmental performance is not as straightforward as calculating a simple financial return on investment. Developing a yardstick for environmental performance is inherently fraught, forcing evaluators to reduce all of the complex dimensions of sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, biodiversity impacts and other factors into a single value.
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Published on: 3 Mar 2014
A 韩国裸舞 management professor is leading students on a business field trip that will give them global experience.
Called the 鈥楬ot Cities鈥� tour, professor听Karl Moore听is taking students to emerging and developing countries to more about other economies.
... 鈥淚've never been to Asia and I've always wanted to explore Asia,鈥� said student听Joseph Polossifakis. 鈥淚 know it鈥檚 an up-and-coming region.鈥�
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Published on: 3 Mar 2014
Apr猫s avoir vendu - deux fois - le Canadien de Montr茅al,听France Margaret B茅langer听est la nouvelle responsable des affaires juridiques de l'茅quipe. 脌 41 ans, elle est l'une des rares 脿 d茅tenir un poste juridique aussi prestigieux dans la LNH. Et la premi猫re femme 脿 faire partie du comit茅 de direction du Canadien de Montr茅al en 104 ans d'histoire.
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Published on: 3 Mar 2014
Apply to be the only Canadian university student group in Summer 2014 at the MIT Global Founders Skills Accelerator!
You have the chance to go to MIT with select groups of MIT students and several foreign universities.
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Published on: 28 Feb 2014
Mattel has made a friendly takeover offer for Montreal-based toy maker Mega Brands Inc., which has the world鈥檚 No. 2 line of construction sets after Lego. Desautels Executive in Residence听Melissa Sonberg听comments on the takeover. 听
Watch full interview:听, February 28, 2014听
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Published on: 28 Feb 2014
Lili Hall (IMPM'13) came across the International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM) by chance. She had considered MBA programs before, but the standard options seemed too formulaic. 鈥淓very time I looked at the curriculum, I鈥檇 get sad,鈥� she says. As the founder and CEO of KNOCK, inc., a creative agency, Hall had already enjoyed a lot of professional success. She wasn鈥檛 looking to switch industries or climb the corporate ladder. 鈥淔or me, it was very personal,鈥� she explains. 鈥淚 wanted to be challenged personally, and obviously professionally.鈥澨�
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Published on: 28 Feb 2014
Professor Nancy J. Adler has been selected as one of the world's top 30 leadership professionals for 2014 by Global Gurus International.听
Nancy J. Adler听
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Published on: 28 Feb 2014
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