From dropout to airline mogul: how Wow Air鈥檚 CEO made his own success
Desautels Professor Karl Moore writes in the Calgary Herald that Icelandic businessman Sk煤li Morgensen鈥檚 low-cost carrier Wow Air is only the latest company that he has founded since he started his first business while he was still a student.
Bombardier鈥檚 past haunts it as NYC blocks it from bidding on new subway cars
According to a story in the Montreal Gazette, Bombardier has been frozen out of a bidding process to build up to 1,695 new subway cars for the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority due to cost overruns and late delivery on an earlier MTA contract. The beleaguered company鈥檚 early performance on a contract for Toronto鈥檚 new streetcars was similarly poor, though Bombardier says that it has been meeting deadlines for the past year.
Karl Moore on Air Transat: the company needs to learn from its mistakes
Desautels Professor Karl Moore recently appeared on BNN to discuss the hearings into the stranding of two Air Transat flights in Ottawa last month.
During the discussion, Prof. Moore brought up several points, but ultimately said that Air Transat needs to show that it has learned from the event.
Karl Moore traces brands, from ancient Rome to today
A recent piece at Appsforpcdaily.com delves into The Birth of the Brand: 4000 Years of Branding History, a study by Desautels professor Karl Moore and Susan E. Reid that contends that brands are as old as civilization.
Three keys for introverted leaders
Desautels professor Karl Moore writes in The Globe and Mail that, though most business leadership writing is aimed at extroverts, introverted leaders are becoming more evident every day. He goes on to describe ways in which introverted leaders can effectively manage extroverts.
To realise your potential, be fully engaged.
A piece in Forbes co-authored by Desautels professor Karl Moore and Sandoz executive Vincenzo Ciampi (BCom鈥�94) says that it takes a sense of purpose to realise one鈥檚 career potential.
Karl Moore nominated for Thinkers50 prize
Desautels Professor Karl Moore has been nominated in the leadership category of this year鈥檚 Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards.
BRP largely immune to malaise afflicting Bombardier
Since being sold off by Bombardier in 2003, BRP has enjoyed a string of successes while its parent has staggered under the weight of economic, management and public relations woes. And though the worst might be behind Bombardier, its stock price has dropped by almost 50 per cent while BRP鈥檚 has climbed by 80 per cent.
How interviewing CEOs informed Adam Bryant鈥檚 views on leadership
According to a Financial Post article by Desautels professor Karl Moore and BCom undergrad Sara Avramovic, New York Times journalist Adam Bryant has spent the past eight years interviewing some of the world鈥檚 biggest-name CEOs for his column, Corner Office.
Karl Moore and Kat Garcia talk business and acting on Australian radio
Desautels professor Karl Moore and actor-cum-management consultant Kat Garcia (BCom'16) recently appeared on ABC Radio in Australia to talk about skills that CEOs can borrow from actors to improve their own performance.
Ambiverts and success, Karl Moore鈥檚 advice
Desautels professor Karl Moore writes in Forbes that, in-between extroverts and introverts, the ambivert pulls benefits from both social situations and alone time, giving them the best of both worlds.
Being able to talk and listen naturally makes ambiverts great at jobs where the give-and-take of a normal conversation plays into success.
Boomers, millennials and today鈥檚 workforce: a conversation with Karl Moore
In a recent piece in Mind This Magazine, medical doctor Sven Jungmann talks with Desautels professor Karl Moore about generational stereotypes. As a millennial, Dr. Jungmann takes issue with the generalizations that come with generational discussions.
Karl Moore鈥檚 advice to Gen Y extroverts
As students, young extroverts love to talk, to bounce their ideas off of colleagues and to be the centre of attention. But as energetic gen-Y-ers enter the workforce, a whole new set of rules comes into play, rules that don鈥檛 always reward an extrovert鈥檚 style.
Introvert execs in extrovert masks: Karl Moore on the importance of game-face
Desautels Professor Karl Moore writes for Thinkers50 that introverts and extroverts in leadership roles must, on occasion, take on one another鈥檚 characteristics as a form of game-face.
Innovation at law firms? Depends on who you ask
A recent Lexpert Magazine article looks at a study by Aly H谩ji, a joint MBA- Law student supervised by Professor Karl Moore. The paper, The Illusion of Innovation at Canadian Law Firms, exposes the difference of opinion between law firm partners and associates about what innovation actually means.
