For small businesses 鈥� and aspiring businesspeople -- banks have been a financial gatekeeper. Without assets and a business credit profile, businesses are often out of luck. But peer-to-peer lending services are beginning to disrupt an industry that is very set in its ways. Fintech lending platforms like October assign businesses a credit score based on a company鈥檚 financial history, default probability, and projected profit margin. Then, they allow their users to participate in lending to the companies 鈥� and collecting interest.
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Published on: 2 Nov 2022
Remote work promised office workers more freedom and flexibility, but digital surveillance tools are already eroding that. Some employers use digital surveillance tools that monitor employees鈥� computer activity by logging the keystrokes on their keyboard, and even taking web cam photos to ensure that they are dutifully staring at their screens. But this is short-sighted, says Desautels Prof Jean-Nicolas Reyt, as it may cause office relationships to take an unhealthy turn.
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Published on: 2 Nov 2022
Canada鈥檚 pension plans consistently outperformed their peers between 2004 and 2018, largely thanks to their diversified their assets, which include investments in real estate and infrastructure assets. 鈥淗ere, the funds are doing it themselves,鈥� says Professor Sebastien Betermier in an interview with Benefits Canada. 鈥淭hey are on the ground, building projects themselves in Toronto, in Montreal and abroad.鈥�
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Published on: 31 Oct 2022
RBC has positioned itself as a champion of clean economic growth 鈥� but has continued to finance fossil fuel industry, according to a complaint filed with Canada鈥檚 Competition Bureau. The Bureau has opened an inquiry into greenwashing at Canada鈥檚 largest bank, but that鈥檚 only the first step according to Dror Etzion, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at Desautels.
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Published on: 31 Oct 2022
Leaders are often faced with being their authentic self or doing what it takes to succeed. Decisions taken by senior management in the face of this authenticity dilemma can set a negative example for their juniors. This can be particularly insidious for people from underrepresented groups who may feel the need to suppress their identity to progress in their career.
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Published on: 31 Oct 2022
How can Artificial Intelligence augment and even improve management of and within organizations? In the interdisciplinary arena of management, AI is being applied to big-picture issues of organizational strategy and supply chain operations, as well as the ethical details of human resources and the many moving parts of the retail industry.
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
When a parent pays a tutor directly, they are helping their own child succeed. But not every parent can afford to do that, and Montreal-based EdTech company Paper has a vision to address this inequity. The academic support platform, a finalist in the 2014聽Dobson聽Cup, sells its services directly to school boards, so that all students in a district are able to access them. 鈥淐harging students鈥� families doesn't align well with our values,鈥� said Paper co-founder Philip Cutler (BEd鈥�13) in a story by Prof.
Published on: 20 Oct 2022
Dubai and Abu Dhabi are household names in the west, but there are five other emirates in the United Arab Emirates vying to establish themselves on the world stage. One of the fastest growing is Ras Al Khaimah. It鈥檚 home to RAKEZ鈥攖he Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone, a major business and industrial hub, which claims to be home to over 15,000 companies in over 50 sectors.
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
The war in Ukraine jeopardizes the European Commission鈥檚 bid to become climate neutral by 2050, according to Eric Reguly, the European Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail. 鈥淭his crisis in Europe exposed the shortcomings of renewable energy,鈥� said Reguly in an interview with Prof. Karl Moore for Forbes.com. 鈥淭here just was not enough of it around to make up for the gas shortfall when Vladimir Putin turned off the taps. This crisis really showed, to me anyway, that green energy is just not there yet.鈥�
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
MBAs have their advocates 鈥� and their detractors. Over the years, the MBA has suffered from comparisons with professional degrees that have more defined outcomes, like medicine and law. But management is part art and part science, and an overemphasis on the science side is partly to blame for this perception. As evidence of this, MBA News cites the work of Desautels Prof. Henry Mintzberg, who argued that successful business leaders need to exercise both analysis and intuition.
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
What regulations are at play when financial institutions, hedge funds, mutual fund managers, and others invest in stocks and businesses in another country鈥攁nd who do those regulations ultimately benefit? Despite protecting both foreign investors and countries鈥� domestic markets, regulatory constraints still present certain barriers to foreign investment, especially in times of market stress, inflation, and increased interest rates. What level of risk will foreign investors take today in the name of diversification of their portfolios?
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Published on: 14 Oct 2022
Desautels Associate Professor of Marketing Hamid Etemad wants to make it easier for people to learn the concepts of digital transformation in their second language and is working with researchers from Universit茅 du Qu茅bec en Outaouais (UQO) on a $150,000 initiative that will develop bilingual digital teaching tools for university classrooms.
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Published on: 13 Oct 2022
About a year ago, Poche et Fils conducted a trial of the four-day work week that has since become permanent. Employees at the Montreal-based clothing companies receive the same pay as when they were working five days a week, and the company has sought to maintain the same productivity too. The first step was identifying tasks that were time-consuming and useless -- and eliminating them. But there are other ways that a shorter work week can save time too. A new generation of workers is negotiating not on salary, but on hours, said Desautels Prof.
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Published on: 6 Oct 2022
Everyone should have basic financial knowledge, even if they have not yet accumulated much wealth, according to Benjamin Croitoru, Finance Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Desautels. The course is a good place to start, Croitoru told CTV News Edmonton.
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Published on: 6 Oct 2022
About 11,000 satellites have been launched since the Sputnik went in to orbit in the 1950s, but less than a third of them are currently active. The coming years will see a proliferation, with an estimated 70,000 satellites going in to orbit 鈥� largely to bolster communications networks, writes Desautels Prof. Karl Moore in an article for Forbes.com.
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Published on: 6 Oct 2022
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