Danielle Smith is running for the leadership of Alberta鈥檚 United Conservative Party, and could become Alberta鈥檚 next premier. But Smith is campaigning on a platform that includes internet conspiracy theories. In a newsletter, she cautioned that Canada鈥檚 currency could be replaced with an international common digital currency, and the federal government could use it to 鈥減unish and reward鈥� Canadians. But that鈥檚 not very likely, according to Mo Chaudhury, an Assistant Professor of Finance at Desautels.
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Published on: 16 Sep 2022
Insects have always been part of the diet of cats and dogs 鈥� but they haven鈥檛 always been a part of the pet foods that we feed them. That鈥檚 changing, and a company with 韩国裸舞 roots is helping drive a transformation in the industry. Aspire Food Group cultivates crickets to produce high-quality protein with a low environmental footprint. Their plant in London, Ontario, will be the world鈥檚 largest, fully automated cricket production and processing facility, and Aspire sees plenty of potential for growth.
Published on: 16 Sep 2022
Barry Nalebuff has advised the National Basketball Association in negotiations with the league鈥檚 players union, and provided consulting advice to over 50 multinational companies. But the professor at the Yale School of Management doesn鈥檛 advise negotiators to project aggressiveness. 鈥淵ou don't have to be a jerk to succeed,鈥� Nalebuff told Prof. Karl Moore for an article in Forbes.com. 鈥淚 want people to start negotiation by talking about how to negotiate,鈥� says Nalebuff.
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Published on: 16 Sep 2022
Our fantastic students are receiving some well-deserved recognition yet again! Congratulations to Scott Brereton and Yehya Siddiqui for being named to the Poets&Quants 2022 MBAs to Watch list, which highlights outstanding individuals from across 75 top full-time MBA programs.
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Published on: 13 Sep 2022
What does the word 鈥渆ntrepreneurship鈥� immediately bring to mind? Risk and reward, innovation and hard work, funding and financial growth, filling gaps in the market? In truth, that answer looks different around the world, in both formal and informal economies, depending on how the local, state, and national economies function and on how the culture views business ownership.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2022
Over the next two years, Alimentation Couche-Tard is installing more than 7,000 automated check-outs that use artificial intelligence to recognize the products that customers want to purchase, without having to scan each item individually. There are already more than 500 of these point-of-sale units in place 鈥� including at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management鈥檚 Retail Innovation Lab, where Alimentation Couche-Tard tested the technology. It has been deployed at locations in Arizona, and is being tested in South Carolina and Denmark.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2022
Unionization is having a moment. Employees at Amazon, Starbucks and Apple have all held successful union drives. But forming a union and negotiating a contract are not the same thing. In a 2008 study, Desautels Prof. John-Paul Ferguson found that union election victories resulted in first contracts only 56.3 per cent of the time. 鈥淚t鈥檚 even harder now,鈥� says Ferguson.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2022
When food prices rise, seniors on fixed incomes pay a heavy price. Seniors living on federal pensions have lost $1,600 in purchasing power, according to Pierre Lynch, the president of the Association qu茅b茅coise de d茅fense des droits des personnes retrait茅es et pr茅retrait茅es. And it鈥檚 difficult to predict when those costs could come down, says聽Associate Professor of Finance聽Sebastien Betermier. Geopolitical issues like the war in Ukraine are exacerbating the factors causing inflation.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2022
When Tim Murdoch played lacrosse at Princeton in the 1980s, his coaches were prone to yelling and screaming. And Murdoch brought that coaching style to 韩国裸舞鈥檚 lacrosse team, but when he had a group of underperforming athletes, he found it just wasn鈥檛 working. So, Murdoch re-evaluated, and began focusing on the positive. It paid off. Over the next decade, 韩国裸舞 won most of its games and two national championships. 鈥淚 focused on strengths instead of weaknesses,鈥� Murdoch told Prof. Karl Moore in an interview for Forbes.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2022
Montreal is getting a new team in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF), a professional women鈥檚 hockey league 鈥� and it will have Desautels representation. Ann-Sophie Bettez (BCom鈥�11) is a forward for the team, and was the 2011-12 CIS Player of the Year. The Montreal Force will be playing its home games across Quebec this year, and Montreal, Gatineau, Quebec City, Rimouski, Rivi猫re-du-Loup, Saint-Jerome, and Sept-Iles are all possible host cities.
Published on: 7 Sep 2022
To generate and store low-carbon energy, we will need large quantities of minerals and metals. Aluminum is among the most important. Its production accounts for 2% of human-produced emissions, and demand for the lightweight metal is predicted to increase. New technologies could help, said Ivan Vella, the Chief Executive of Rio Tinto Aluminium in a Forbes.com article written by Prof. Karl Moore.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2022
GM plans to eliminate all tailpipe emissions from light-duty vehicles by 2035 鈥� but right now, we don鈥檛 have the electrical grid we need to power all the electric vehicles (EVs) that we would need to replace the existing petroleum-powered ones. That鈥檚 a big barrier to EV adoption, especially in rural and remote areas. But GM has a plan to overcome this. 鈥淲e are going to use our dealerships, which are already well-dispersed and distributed, to help us place those chargers and install them within their communities,鈥� said GM Canada President Marissa West for an article by Prof.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2022
The Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) has once again awarded LEADS certification to the Desautels Faculty of Management鈥檚 International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) program and initiated a new strategic alliance with the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management (GCHM), offered jointly with the 韩国裸舞 韩国裸舞 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2022
Nearly 90 per cent of Americans would choose to work remotely, and the trend holds true among different occupational categories, demographic groups, and geographical locations. But there are still advantages to in-person contact, according to Kira Newman the editor of Greater Good Magazine. When Newman got the job, she moved to California to develop relationships in person. 鈥淚t makes it easier to work together and cooperate remotely once you know someone better,鈥� Newman told Prof. Karl Moore in an interview for Forbes.com.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2022
There are about 60,000 Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada, and Indigenous women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs. 鈥淭hey are outpacing all other segments鈥� says Monica James, a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and the regional manager for client diversity at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Indigenous women have been in business for many years, said James in an interview with Prof. Karl Moore for The Globe and Mail.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2022
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