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Updated: Thu, 02/13/2025 - 09:17

Due to today’s storm, º«¹úÂãÎè classes are cancelled. Please note that campuses remain open, including Libraries, according to their schedules. For details, see the Alert email.


En raison de la tempête, les cours à º«¹úÂãÎè sont annulés aujourd’hui. Veuillez noter que les campus restent ouverts, y compris les bibliothèques selon leurs horaires. Pour plus de détails, voir le courriel d'alerte.

Parental leave is available to both mothers and fathers, but men often do not take this time off–even though it helps them bond with their children and support their partner. This is partly due to work culture, but competition for top talent could help change this, according to Prof. Karl Moore. By encouraging male employees to take parental leave, companies can differentiate themselves.

Classified as: Karl Moore, Strategy and Organization (C)
Published on: 8 Apr 2022

First-year Bachelor of Commerce Haris Elezovic helped the º«¹úÂãÎè Redbirds win this year’s Quebec men’s basketball championship, and was named to U Sports All-Rookie team for his efforts. In his first year with the team, Elezovic averaged 11.2 points and 7.4 rebounds per game, and was the only player from a Quebec university to earn the All-Rookie honour.

Classified as: Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

¶Ù±ð²õ²¹³Ü³Ù±ð±ô²õ’ Clement Secchi excelled at the 2022 U Sports Swimming Championships, earning four gold medals and two silvers. Secchi led the º«¹úÂãÎè Redbirds to a third-place overall finish, and set three national swimming records in the process. The fourth-year management student from was named swimmer of the year at the event, and was the most decorated individual male swimmer of 2022.

Classified as: Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

Technology is always evolving, and keeping up with the pace of change is an ongoing challenge for business leaders. Companies can be vulnerable to competition from entirely different sectors—consider how Apple made a MP3 player called the iPod and killed the compact disc forever. It was the first time the computer hardware company had even ventured into the music business.

Classified as: PhD Alumni, PhD Program in Management, Karl Moore, Strategy and Organization (C), Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

Gabriel Gervais (MBA’08) has been named the President and CEO of Club de Foot (CF) Montréal, the city’s Major League Soccer team. Between 2002-08, Gervais was a player for the Montréal Impact, a predecessor of CF Montréal that played in the United Soccer League and later, the North American Soccer League. After his playing career, Gervais completed his MBA at º«¹úÂãÎè Desautels, and went to become a partner at Deloitte.

Classified as: Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA Alumni
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

When Bombardier announced it exiting the commercial aviation business in 2018, its stock price tanked. But the company has forged a path forward with its focus on private aviation, writes Prof. Karl Moore. The pandemic proved to be an unexpected boon for the company. As travel restrictions were imposed, demand for private aircraft soared. And with few used aircraft available, buyers turned to Bombardier, according to company President and CEO Éric Martel.

Classified as: Karl Moore, Strategy and Organization (C)
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

Regardless of who owns the land, we have a shared responsibility toward it. At Montreal’s Sid Lee Architecture, Pascal Harvey is bringing an Indigenous lens to urban planning, and believes this worldview can be reconciled with real estate development by treating land occupation with collective responsibility–even when land is privately owned. The Innu sociologist, urban planner and entrepreneur shared insights about how Indigenous world views can inform urban planning with Prof. Karl Moore.

Classified as: equity, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Karl Moore, Strategy and Organization (C), Sustainability
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

Inclusion isn't a warm and fuzzy feeling of belonging. Inclusion means being an integral part of an organization, and having the resources to get the job done, said Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour Patricia Faison Hewlin in Business Insider. In order to achieve it, organizations need to listen.

Classified as: Patricia Hewlin, Organizational Behaviour (T), Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Sustainability
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

Prof. Morty Yalovsky started teaching at º«¹úÂãÎè in 1969 - the same year that the Montreal Expos played their first Major League Baseball game. The Expos moved on nearly two decades ago, but Prof. Yalovsky has been enriching university life ever since. On March 28, he was honoured with a Desautels Lifetime Service Award for more than five decades of service to the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Classified as: Morty Yalovsky, Operations Management (T), Faculty Awards
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

The complex issue of authenticity at work isn’t only about people within an organization—it’s connected to the organization’s own integrity, including policies on equity, diversity, and inclusion. The value of authenticity for employees, customers and clients, and management is linked to a diversity of people and innovative ideas suited to today’s world.

Classified as: delve, Thought Leadership, Patricia Hewlin, Organizational Behaviour (T), Sustainability
Published on: 7 Apr 2022

The 9th edition of HEC-º«¹úÂãÎè Winter Finance Workshop as a special edition in collaboration with Goethe University successfully concluded on March 29, 2022. The conference, sponsored by the Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre, took place March 27-29 in Ischgl, Austria, and featured presentations of academic papers in all areas of finance, including interdisciplinary work in law and finance.

Classified as: Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre, finance, Patrick Augustin, Jan Ericsson
Published on: 1 Apr 2022

Today’s consumers demand and expect a wealth of choices in everything from sneakers to potato chips, but while large product lines provide abundance and variety, they don’t always result in sales—and can even take away from a company’s bottom line. In new marketing research, Desautels Professor Demetrios Vakratsas explores breadth and depth in product lines to determine their role in consumer choice-making today.

Classified as: delve, Thought Leadership, Demetrios Vakratsas, Marketing
Published on: 31 Mar 2022

The º«¹úÂãÎè Desautels Faculty of Management has been ranked 37th in the UTD Top 100 North American Business School Rankings Based on Research Contributions 2017-2021, placing it 2nd in Canada. This positions Desautels 46th in the University of Texas-Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Worldwide annual list, released March 14. The rankings are based on the number of academic research publications a business school has published in 24 leading business journals over the last five years.

Classified as: desautels research, rankings
Published on: 29 Mar 2022

In the summer of 2020, the financial crisis in Lebanon deepened when a major explosion rocked the port of Beirut, causing extensive property damage and loss of life. By that time, Lebanese students studying at º«¹úÂãÎè were already in a bind – banking restrictions were limiting the ability of their families to access savings, and provide financial support. Jade Dagher (BSc’89, DipManTour’92, MBA’98) wanted to do something to help.

Classified as: MBA Alumni, Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Published on: 29 Mar 2022

Everybody buys stuff. And in order to reach us all, advertising agencies need to be able to speak effectively to people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs. To do that effectively, an agency must be diverse itself. Dentsu Canada views diversity as an ongoing process, writes Professor Karl Moore in Forbes.

Classified as: Karl Moore, Strategy and Organization (C)
Published on: 29 Mar 2022

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