MBA Students awarded second place in the Business for a Better World case competition
Congratulations to MBA students, Aman Arora, Timothy Lane, Santiago Monroy, and Jose Nunez Gutierrez, who were awarded second place in the Business for a Better World case competition. The team has been working since October on designing a global equity portfolio that advances the UN鈥檚 sustainable development goals, which culminated with a presentation in Davos, Switzerland on January 19th to a panel of high-profile judges.
Eco Atlantic Announces Intention to Float on Aim
Derek Norman Linfield, aged 60 (Proposed Non-Executive Director)
Business schools heed the call for more data-literate graduates
Deloitte Analytics and other companies have been pushing Canadian universities for years to produce more data-literate graduates to fill their talent needs. Their efforts appear to be paying off, with business schools ramping up their offerings in data analytics.
In the Desautels MBA with a concentration in analytics, students take a five-course concentration that involves three sides: descriptive, predictive and a prescriptive.
Mark Michaud Commended by the Quebec Government
Mark Michaud, MBA'14,聽Director of Administration, recently received a commendation letter from the Ministry of Education鈥檚 Director General of University Affairs, Jean-Fran莽ois Lehoux, thanking him for his outstanding contribution to the workgroup that spent over a year reviewing the academic classification system used by the Quebec Government.
Heike Birlenbach appointed Vice President Sales Lufthansa Group for the EMEA sales region
Since 2014 Mrs. Heike Birlenbach holds the position of Vice President Sales Europe Lufthansa Group Airlines. As of next year, 2017, she will assume the role of聽Vice President Sales EMEA Lufthansa Group Airlines. In this position Birlenbach will not only be responsible for all sales and commercial activities in Europe but also in the Middle East and Africa.
SunExpress appoints Jens Bischof as new managing director
聽Jens Bischof has been appointed as managing director of聽SunExpress, a Deutsche Lufthansa/Turkish Airlines joint venture, with effect from January 1, 2017.
He holds a degree of business administration (Dipl. Betriebswirt) from the University of Applied Sciences (AKAD) in Rendsburg and a master鈥檚 degree in Management from 69热视频 in Montreal, Canada.
Canadian Perspectives on Hedge Funds in 2016
Jean-Fran莽ois Papillon:聽I have been a Wealth Advisor and Portfolio Manager with the Roux Papillon Blais team at BMO Nesbitt Burns for 15 years. I have a civil engineering background and hold an MBA from 69热视频. I earned the CFA聽designation in 2005. I have used hedge funds for approximately eight years. The reason is simple: they represent a diversification tool with little correlation to the other investment categories in my portfolio.
Desautels MBA Delivers the Global Leadership Lecture in Sydney, Australia
Usman W. Chohan, a graduate of Desautels MBA in Strategy and Leadership (2014)聽delivered the 2015 Foreign Affairs Lecture in the Global Leadership Program (GLP) at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The lecture was titled "The World Bank and the New Dynamics of Development", and drew on Mr. Chohan's WB experience to map the development field, particularly in the context of emergent institutions such as AIIB.
Le cabinet d'avocats Taj renforce son activit茅 juridique
Taj confirme son dynamisme et sa volont茅 de d茅velopper ses expertises juridiques en renfor莽ant ses 茅quipes en droit des affaires avec un nouvel associ茅 et deux nouvelles directrices.
Taj : arriv茅e de Thibaut Lasserre, Isabelle de La Gorce et Florence Th茅odose
Thibaut Lasserre, avocat Associ茅 sp茅cialis茅 en droit des soci茅t茅s, dipl么m茅 du MBA de聽l鈥檜niversit茅 69热视频, revient 脿 Paris pour renforcer l鈥檕ffre Corporate - M&A apr猫s avoir pass茅 deux聽ans au bureau de Marseille. Il intervient principalement sur des op茅rations de fusionsacquisitions聽et de private equity.
One-Year or Two-Year MBA: Is There a Simple Answer?
MBAs have become diversified products, catering to segmented clientele鈥檚 needs. Upon exploring whether a聽two-year MBA program聽is superior to a one-year program, there is, unfortunately, no simple answer to suit all circumstances.
Why Canadian MBA programs want to attract more international students
Gabriel Werkhaizer may have managed multi颅million-dollar budgets in his hometown of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, but it was only this year that he learned how to say some financial words in English, such as 鈥渁ccruals.鈥� The 30-year-old moved to Montreal last year with his wife and two-year-old daughter to earn his MBA degree at聽69热视频鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management.
4 S茅n茅galais dans le Top100 Africa
Quant aux S茅n茅galais, ils sont 4 nomin茅s parmi les top-leaders. Ainsi, Adrien Diouf, Directeur de l鈥橝gence UMOA Titres, figure 脿 la 17猫me聽place. C鈥檈st un financier pur et dur, dipl么m茅 de l鈥橴niversit茅 Paris I et d鈥檜n MBA de 69热视频 (Canada) avec une exp茅rience d鈥檜ne dizaine d鈥檃nn茅es dans le secteur bancaire o霉 il a plafonn茅 comme Directeur march茅 obligataire de Afreximbank.
鈥嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�婲adeem Velani named CP鈥檚 Chief Financial Officer
Canadian Pacific聽today announced that Nadeem Velani has been named Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Velani had been serving as Vice-President and interim CFO since September 9, 2016.
Velani holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Western University and an MBA in Finance/International Business from 69热视频.聽
Joanne Liu, Bertrand Cesvet to receive honorary degrees
Two inspirational 69热视频 alumni 鈥撀燘ertrand Cesvet, of the award-winning creative agency Sid Lee, and Joanne Liu, of M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res/Doctors Without Borders 鈥撀爓ill receive honorary doctorate degrees at the university鈥檚 fall convocation ceremonies.
