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Montreal team nets $50,000 for its green housing design

Published: 11 April 2017

A joint 91˿Ƶ-Concordia effort has won a $50,000 federal grant to bring its innovative row-house design to the International Solar Decathlon in China next year. TeamMTL’s design takes aim at the...

Winning Dobson Cup team on entrepreneurship, plans for the future and head movement as disease indicator

Published: 11 April 2017

Startup Saccade Analytics was the first place winner of the 2017 91˿Ƶ Dobson Cup Health Sciences Track. The team’s pitch involved analyzing eye and head movement to help diagnose neural diseases....

Is Bombardier too big to fail? A TV panel discusses the seminal Quebec company

Published: 11 April 2017

Desautels Associate Professor Karl Moore appeared on an April 7th Breakfast Television panel to address the question of whether or not Bombardier is too big to fail. Professor Moore stated that, in...

Desautels alumnus named Exec VP at PNG Gold

Published: 5 April 2017

West Vancouver-based PNG Gold has announced the appointment of Wesley Marstaller (BCom'05) as Executive Vice President of the corporation. Before coming on board at PNG Gold, Mr. Marstaller served...

A refreshing take on healthcare

Published: 6 April 2017

Dr. Anoop Kumar (IMHL’15) has published a new book, Michelanglo’s Medicine: how redefining the human body will transform health and healthcare. The book offers a refreshing look at the human body...

Aldo founder passes the torch to his son

Published: 8 March 2017

Aldo Bensadoun (BCom'64, LLD'12) is stepping down as chairman of the company that bears his name, as is CEO Patrik Frisk — but continuity won’t be a problem: Bensadoun’s son, David, is taking on...

Public outrage over executive pay raises forces Bombardier into damage control

Published: 4 April 2017

Bombardier’s recent executive pay raises have caused heavy public criticism in the face of recent cash injections from the federal and Quebec governments. In an interview on BNN, Desautels...

James Rickards and the end of the economy

Published: 4 April 2017

A recent Forbes book review delves into James Rickards’ The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan For The Next Financial Crisis, which makes the case that there is a big-ticket financial...

Mintzberg on why the US can’t be run like a business

Published: 4 April 2017

In a recent piece for the Harvard Business Review, Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg takes aim at US President Trump’s attempts to run the United States like a business, then demolishes them....

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