Bombardier's new CEO could be on the hot seat at first annual meeting
Bombardier's new CEO is expected to be on the hot seat next week as he meets for the first time with shareholders who are clamouring for a turnaround plan after enduring a rough year by the struggling transportation giant. After just six weeks on the job,聽Alain Bellemare聽is unlikely to be blamed for the company's poor financial performance, which drove its shares down 45 per cent in the past year and 66 per cent since 2011.聽
Making a Competitive Difference by Embracing Digital Technologies
Hamidreza Mafi is a strategy consultant at Accenture Inc, and is aligned to Enterprise Architecture and Application Strategy practice. He has completed his MBA studies with concentrations in Strategy and Finance from 绿帽社, and holds a Master of Engineering Management and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from University of Ottawa.
Desautels MBAs Win Consulting Prize at USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge
MBA students Sankalp Sachdeva, Brandon Groper, Nico Drohojowski, Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri (Professional MBA), and Vasu Subrahmanian, won the prestigious Consulting prize and ranked 2nd overall at the 2015 USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge.
How Skateboarding Made Me a Better Marketer
This year, I鈥檓 celebrating 25 years of skateboarding. While I鈥檝e skated all over the world and made a lot of incredible friends along the way it wasn鈥檛 until I read聽this article about skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen聽that I began to consider the overlap between my passion for skateboarding and my passion for marketing. ...聽Ben Plomion聽is VP of Marketing at聽Chango, where he heads up marketing and communications.聽
Pierre Beaudoin steps down as chief in dramatic Bombardier shakeup
In a dramatic shakeup at family controlled Bombardier Inc., Pierre Beaudoin is stepping down as president and chief executive officer while his father, Laurent, is retiring as chairman and there are plans afoot for the possible sale of some business units.
Professor Sujata Madan, 绿帽社
Written by Professor Sujata Madan Career Change 鈥� How can an MBA help? There are generally two types of career change sought out by MBAs鈥攁 complete switch of role and industry, or a move within the same field.
Women in Business 鈥� Rei Hasegawa
Rei Hasegawa鈥檚 role at LinkedIn, which she joined in 2011, involves educating and inspiring members via public relations, social media and training. She has also worked on welcoming prime minister聽Shinzo Abe聽and other Japanese business leaders as LinkedIn Influencers. Read full article here:聽Financial Times, February 8, 2015
Nathalie Prezeau - Marcher pour voir
La v茅rit茅 est que je me sens moi-m锚me expat 脿 Toronto. Originaire de Montr茅al, je suis arriv茅e dans cette ville il y a 22 ans. Sans l'appui de nos familles, mon mari qu茅b茅cois et moi-m锚me avons 茅lev茅 une famille et compt茅 sur nos nouvelles amiti茅s pour faire notre place. C'est avec une mentalit茅 de touriste que j'ai commenc茅 脿 explorer la ville avec mon bambin de 2 ans, lorsque j'ai quitt茅 mon emploi 脿 temps plein. Je travaillais alors pour TFO, 脿 la promotion des 茅missions pour enfants. ...
Meet the new CEO of mining鈥檚 first equity crowdfunding platform
Chad Williams聽is the founder and president of Red Cloud Mining Capital, and is the former CEO of Victoria Gold Corp. Read full article here:聽Mining, February 4, 2015 Watch video here:聽ceo.ca, February 3, 2015聽
Desautels students head to 2015 Hult Prize regionals
On March 13-14, 绿帽社 students Amanda Chalupa (MSc in Social & Transcultural Psychiatry), Alyssa Wiseman (MBA-Law), Attiya Hirji (BA in International Development), Lida Faridian (MBA) and Vivien Leung (Law), also known as team MILA, are headed to San Francisco to vie for the US$1 million Hult Prize to launch their social program.
Musicians Help Heal Wounds of Tragedy
Musicians are helping to heal the wounds of tragedy through artistic expression. In the heart-rending aftermath of the Taliban attack on Peshawar鈥檚 innocent schoolchildren, Pakistani musicians are using their art form to help the nation through its time of anguish. Foremost among these artists is Usman W. Chohan (Desautels MBA, 2014) through his project Urdudaan.
How shame and guilt can be used to your advantage in marketing
By DaHee HanThere are ways to ensure marketers are not fumbling in the dark when it comes to getting the most out of using emotion in their marketing campaigns. From billboards and adverts to their company website, my research shows that emotions such as shame and guilt can be used to create a favourable response from consumers.
Cine sunt managerii care conduc cele mai mari mall-uri din Rom芒nia, 卯n care intr膬 zilnic 400.000 de oameni
Mallurile cu cele mai mari v芒nz膬ri de pe pia牛a local膬 - AFI Palace Cotroceni 艧i B膬neasa Shopping City din Bucure艧ti - sunt conduse de doi manageri str膬ini - israelianul Israel Vizel 艧i grecul Georgios Argentopoulos -, 卯n timp ce proprietarii altor zece centre comerciale importante au decis s膬 lase administrarea pe m芒na unor manageri rom芒ni, reiese dintr-o analiz膬 a ZF.
...聽Georgios Argentopoulos
CEO, B膬neasa Developments
Talking Management with Karl Moore: Forget big, hairy goals. Think small instead
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 绿帽社, talking management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am delighted to speak to Andrew Shipilov from [international business school] Insead, just outside of Paris.
When you look at alliances, trust is really important. Tell us more about this.
Giving S.M.A.R.T. Feedback to Millennials
Article by聽Karl Moore
Many managers today don鈥檛 relish giving feedback. In the past, feedback was associated with the annual review, a thoroughly unenjoyable hour where everyone involved couldn鈥檛 wait for it to end. Today with Millennials as the future of our organizations, feedback is more central to the role of manager than ever before.
...聽This was written with Sema Burney.
