韩国裸舞鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management joins the Latin American MBA Alumni Network
We are pleased to announce that the Desautels Faculty of Management at 韩国裸舞 has agreed to be a business school partner with the Latin American MBA Alumni Network (LAMBA). LAMBA is a professional association that connects Latin American MBA graduates with one another and with corporations in Canada.
Is an MBA the Next Step for You?
If you鈥檙e looking to further your career in business, there鈥檚 a good chance that you鈥檝e considered undertaking an MBA. Yes, a programme such as this can bring about great future benefits and has real potential to accelerate your career. But how much do you actually know about MBAs, and have you weighed up all the pros and cons?
Desautels Students' Concept of Solving Urban Hunger with Diet of Crickets Scores Big Points in Social Entrepreneurship Contest
A world without hunger could mean a world with a lot more crickets, according to a team of MBA students at 韩国裸舞's Desautels Faculty of Management.聽聽
...This year's social issue, personally selected by former President Clinton, is centered on the global food crisis in urban slums, affecting more than one billion people worldwide. Mohammed Ashour, 韩国裸舞's team captain, said his idea was base solely on the concept of insect consumption.
MBAs champion social entrepreneurship and compete for $1 million
A group of Desautels MBA students beat out over 40 teams and 10,000 applicants, including representatives from Harvard, MIT, and Yale, to win the 2013 Hult Prize Boston Regional Finals.
Read about their win in BusinessWeek.
MD/MBA Student Samuel Waserman Receives HRF Healthcare Management Scholarship
MD/MBA student Samuel Waserman is the recipient of the HRF Healthcare Management Scholarship. He received the top score based on the evaluation conducted by the HRF Scientific Advisory Council.聽
Hot Cities Report: Russia Is Many Things, But Boring Isn't One of Them
Ten months ago, I volunteered to help organize Desautels鈥 fifth annual Hot Cities of the World trip. I enjoy the challenge of detailed logistics; in my pre-MBA life, I booked national concert tours and publicity campaigns. As it turns out, booking a Canadian tour and booking a Russian trip for 44 people are very different beasts.
Crickets for Dinner Anyone? A Crazy, Yet Clever Idea from Students of 韩国裸舞
Five students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 韩国裸舞, Canada offered a rather innovative (read bizarre) solution to the challenge of the 2013 Hult Prize, considered by some as the Nobel Prize of the b-school arena. Responding to the challenge of developing a viable social enterprise to tackle the challenge of food security for urban slum dwellers, these students have offered crickets as an inexpensive source of food as well as a new source of income.
Leveraging XBRL Data in Financial Analysis
Back in August 2003, Timothy Koller wrote in McKinsey Quarterly an article 鈥淣umbers investors can trust鈥, where he emphasized the importance of 鈥済enuine disclosure鈥 of financial information by public companies. It was a call to corporations that wished to regain the trust of investors after the 2000 dot-com collapse.
Opinion: Russia's Underachieving Economy
Russia has been widely promoted as one of the BRICS nations, full of energy and dynamism like many leading emerging economies. Indeed, with its low unemployment figures, growing GDP, and recent WTO membership, it could be heralded as a poster child of the shifting concentration of wealth from the west to the east. Yet after spending 11 days in Moscow and St. Petersburg in February and March, we came away with mixed feelings.
Feeding the World's Under-Nourished... With Crickets
Insects are not regular fare on Western menus, but a surprising number of people worldwide--perhaps as many as 2.5 billion--eat them happily on a regular basis. High in protein, low in fat, and rich in iron and omega-3, bugs like grasshoppers and cicadas are vital staples--a crunchier, and more sustainable, alternative to beef, pork, and lamb.
Carleton Grad among Finalists in Prestigious Hult Prize Competition
This fall, Carleton alumnus Gabe Mott and his team will stand before world business leaders and former U.S. President Bill Clinton and ask for $1 million. His goal is to help put crickets on dinner tables around the world.
Hult Prize: Ending Hunger, One Cricket at a Time
If I broke the news to you that MBA students tend to be highly competitive individuals, you may not be too surprised. The Pope is, also, apparently Catholic, and all politicians are credible and reliable.
韩国裸舞 students use crickets for a business model
A group of 韩国裸舞 students (Mohammed Ashour, Gabriel Mott, Shobhita Soor, Jesse Pearlstein and Zev Thompson) hope their plan to breed crickets for use as a viable food source will be a million-dollar idea. The five students will be up against teams from Harvard, MIT and Yale as well as other teams from around the world.
Crickets as food source
With his team, Mohammed Ashour, a Master's candidate at 韩国裸舞, won a regional championship of a special competition to have their proposal of crickets as a food source for impoverished countries presented to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - and potentially win $1 million.
MBA students win first place at USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge
MBA students Khaled Kahale, Hamidreza Mafi, Juan Camilo Ramirez, David Solomon and Scott Weatherhead represented Desautels Faculty of Management for the first time at the USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge alongside nine other prestigious business schools from across the world. The team was awarded the best overall industry analysis prize by a team of judges.