ƬƵ University News - MBA Program /channels/news_feeds/all/term/mba_prog/rss en Two ƬƵ Desautels graduates named to 2024 MBAs to Watch by Poets & Quants /channels/channels/news/two-mcgill-desautels-graduates-named-2024-mbas-watch-poets-quants-359271 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Poets &amp; Quants has named its MBAs to Watch list for 2024, and two Desautels graduates have made the cut! The magazine and website asks business schools to nominate some of their top students for consideration for the list, and from those nominations, 126 students have been selected as MBAs to Watch. They represent many of the world’s top universities, and MBAs to Watch have often gone on to careers at top consulting firms. This year we celebrate <strong>Anna Schniepp </strong>and <strong>Omar Ba Mashmos</strong> for being selected!</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/poetsampquants_mbas_to_watch_2024_1200x630.png?itok=L8zY8q1A" width="160" height="84" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">3 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:54:22 +0000 webfull 202218 at /channels Asking the right questions can help leaders understand their business /channels/channels/news/asking-right-questions-can-help-leaders-understand-their-business-353403 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>After working in investment banking in Amsterdam, New York and Tokyo, <strong>Sarab Hans (MBA’00)</strong> returned to Canada to take the reins of the family business. Mississauga-based Hans Dairy specializes in South Asian dairy products, but Hans didn’t have experience in dairy food and beverage production and needed to learn about the manufacturing process. “Sometimes, when we come into a position where we’re expected to be a leader, we feel like we need to show we know everything,” Hans says in interview with Food in Canada.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">8 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:36:19 +0000 webfull 195521 at /channels ƬƵ Desautels represented at MBA World Summit 2023 /channels/channels/news/mcgill-desautels-represented-mba-world-summit-2023-352023 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Six second-year MBA students had the opportunity to attend this year’s MBA World Summit in Silicon Valley, considered the ultimate international gathering for the global MBA community. Annually, 100 hundred inspiring students from the world’s leading business schools are selected to participate.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">13 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:04:03 +0000 webfull 193956 at /channels ƬƵ Desautels MBAs win Global Goals Jam case competition /channels/channels/news/mcgill-desautels-mbas-win-global-goals-jam-case-competition-352022 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Three <strong>ƬƵ MBA</strong> candidates took home top prize at this year’s Global Goals Jam case competition, hosted by Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. The challenge? Find an inclusive approach to boost staff diversity at Smith.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">13 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:01:38 +0000 webfull 193955 at /channels Three ƬƵ Desautels graduates named to MBAs to Watch by Poets & Quants /channels/channels/news/three-mcgill-desautels-graduates-named-mbas-watch-poets-quants-350408 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Poets &amp; Quants has named its MBAs to Watch list for 2023, and three Desautels graduates made the cut. The magazine and website asks business schools to nominate some of their top students for consideration for the list, and from those nominations, 135 students have been selected as MBAs to Watch. They represent many of the world’s top universities, and MBAs to Watch have often gone on to careers at top consulting firms. This year, we celebrate ƬƵ’s <strong>Matias Font, Shahriar (Sha) Asadi and Larry Komrower </strong>for being selected!</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/poets_quants_2023_mbas_to_watch_1200x630.png?itok=iG0qt-RY" width="160" height="84" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">31 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:22:56 +0000 webfull 191737 at /channels Free cloud storage for students via Microsoft OneDrive /channels/channels/news/free-cloud-storage-students-microsoft-onedrive-240232 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span>Did you know... ƬƵ students have access to </span><strong>20 GB FREE personal file space on OneDrive</strong><span>, Microsoft’s cloud file storage component of the Office 365 package.</span></p> <p><strong>Important:</strong> New OneDrive storage capacity</p> <p>Please note that students receive 20GB of storage for ƬƵ's OneDrive as well as 20GB storage for ƬƵ's email (Outlook).</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/onedrive-for-business-logo-300.png?itok=dYHMDMeF" width="160" height="47" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">9 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2022</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:08:32 +0000 webfull 185215 at /channels Poets and Quants celebrates ƬƵ MBA alumna for IWD /channels/channels/news/poets-and-quants-celebrates-mcgill-mba-alumna-iwd-338413 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>For International Women's Day last week, <i>Poets and Quants</i> spoke with a number of female business school graduates who have successfully started their own enterprises. <b>Aurélie Hélouis</b> (MBA’16), Founder and CEO of infinityQ, a quantum analog computing start-up, shared how her time at Desautels helped her discover how to apply the skills she acquired as a former senior officer and CTO in the French Navy to her entrepreneurial endeavours and develop her own business.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/aurelie_helouis.png?itok=dU5g1dUF" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">15 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2022</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:17:07 +0000 webfull 178743 at /channels Crickets: a healthy food choice that’s tasty too /channels/channels/news/crickets-healthy-food-choice-thats-tasty-too-278288 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Former MBA student <strong>Mohammed Ashour</strong> and the Aspire Group have come a long way since winning the Hult Prize in 2013 for their vision of creating a high-tech cricket farm to produce foods for human consumption.</p> <p>The Aspire Group has since erected a 25,000-square-foot building in Austin, Texas, which produces roughly 22 million crickets every month.</p> <p>Despite great headway, Ashour recounts his plans for further expansion, along with the nutritional benefits of crickets.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/icon-mba-340.jpg?itok=cJEnEnz1" width="160" height="160" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">16 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2017</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:43:50 +0000 webfull 131979 at /channels For women in business, a culture change is underway /channels/channels/news/women-business-culture-change-underway-217984 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Jaclyn Luft and Lauren Merkel have at least two things in common: they’re both studying for their MBA at ƬƵ University and they both come to the program from non-traditional undergraduate degrees.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/217984_cover_2_392.jpg?itok=KUfS8uCu" width="160" height="121" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">6 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2012</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:37:13 +0000 webfull 130049 at /channels Best Business Schools 2015 /channels/news/best-business-schools-2015-256472 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Business school has been called a two-year job interview, and with good reason: For more than $100,000 and two years of study, MBAs hope to gain access to vast alumni networks, top-tier internships, and the very best jobs. Our annual ranking of full-time MBA programs now focuses on what most people hope to get after business school: a satisfying, well-paying job.<br /> Full-Time MBA: International<br /> #16 <strong>ƬƵ (Desautels) </strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">2 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2015</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:44:43 +0000 webfull 113679 at /channels