The Photons take 2022 Desautels Cup case competition
Congratulations to 9I制作厂免费 MBA students聽Shivansh Srivastava, Bingquan (Roger) Wu, Nimesh Mittal, Sundeep Ahuja, and Horacio Aguilera Salinas for winning the 2022 Desautels Cup Case Competition, the first in-person Desautels Cup since the pandemic!
Why the CAQ鈥檚 proposed economic incentives may not be all they cracked up to be
鈥淢any of the drivers of the inflation we are seeing today are coming from the supply and production side of the economy,鈥� says Associate Professor of Finance聽Sebastien Betermier聽in an interview with CTV News. The war in Ukraine, post-pandemic recovery and supply side frictions are all factors outside our control contributing to inflation.
Personal Financial Essentials course teaches key investment concepts concisely
Personal finances should be important to everyone, and over the past three years, more than 200,000 people have signed up for 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 free Personal Financial Essentials online course. Desautels鈥� Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs Benjamin Croitoru spoke with The Just Word podcast about how the course fills an unmet need.
When a recession is coming, investors need to keep a level head
How should investors react to a looming market downturn? Don鈥檛 panic, says Prof. Sebastien Betermier, an Associate Professor of Finance at Desautels. This sounds simple enough, but it鈥檚 easier said than done.
RBC, 9I制作厂免费 and The Globe and Mail team up to offer free Personal Financial Essentials course
It is never too early to learn good financial habits, according Jamie Sioui, the vice president at Digital Channel Management at RBC. The bank is implementing a suite of initiatives that are designed to help youth prepare for the future.
More guns and drugs on the street fuel perception of increased violent crime in Quebec
Quebec鈥檚 homicide rate is lower than it was a decade ago, but a slight majority of people that live in cities aren鈥檛 feeling as safe as they used to. This rests in the public鈥檚 perception that there is a lack of organization, according Fady Dagher (EMBA鈥�12), Chief of Police in Longueuil, in an interview with TVA鈥檚 Le monde 脿 l鈥檈nvers.
Delve: How Cities Can Make Ride-Hailing Services Environmentally Sustainable, with Animesh Animesh
What if using a ride-hailing app like Uber or Lyft could help decrease a city鈥檚 carbon emissions? Combined with public transit use and municipal policy changes, that鈥檚 beginning to happen. However, the bigger, less understood question is what motivates people to choose their cars over the bus, or Uber over walking to work.
Alberta politician who is spreading conspiracy theories could become premier
Danielle Smith is running for the leadership of Alberta鈥檚 United Conservative Party, and could become Alberta鈥檚 next premier. But Smith is campaigning on a platform that includes internet conspiracy theories. In a newsletter, she cautioned that Canada鈥檚 currency could be replaced with an international common digital currency, and the federal government could use it to 鈥減unish and reward鈥� Canadians.
Aspire Food Group is making pet food more sustainable with insect protein
Insects have always been part of the diet of cats and dogs 鈥� but they haven鈥檛 always been a part of the pet foods that we feed them. That鈥檚 changing, and a company with 9I制作厂免费 roots is helping drive a transformation in the industry. Aspire Food Group cultivates crickets to produce high-quality protein with a low environmental footprint.
Negotiators can leverage shared interests to the mutual benefit of all parties
Barry Nalebuff has advised the National Basketball Association in negotiations with the league鈥檚 players union, and provided consulting advice to over 50 multinational companies. But the professor at the Yale School of Management doesn鈥檛 advise negotiators to project aggressiveness. 鈥淵ou don't have to be a jerk to succeed,鈥� Nalebuff told Prof. Karl Moore for an article in Forbes.com.
Desautels MBAs make Poets&Quants list
Our fantastic students are receiving some well-deserved recognition yet again! Congratulations to Scott Brereton and Yehya Siddiqui for being named to the Poets&Quants 2022 MBAs to Watch list, which highlights outstanding individuals from across 75 top full-time MBA programs.
Delve: Lessons on Economic Growth from the Informal Economy, with Robert Nason
What does the word 鈥渆ntrepreneurship鈥� immediately bring to mind? Risk and reward, innovation and hard work, funding and financial growth, filling gaps in the market? In truth, that answer looks different around the world, in both formal and informal economies, depending on how the local, state, and national economies function and on how the culture views business ownership.
AI-driven automated checkouts are coming soon to Couche-Tard鈥檚 Quebec locations
Over the next two years, Alimentation Couche-Tard is installing more than 7,000 automated check-outs that use artificial intelligence to recognize the products that customers want to purchase, without having to scan each item individually. There are already more than 500 of these point-of-sale units in place 鈥� including at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management鈥檚 Retail Innovation Lab, where Alimentation Couche-Tard tested the technology.
After unionization, corporate foot-dragging is a challenge to contract negotiation
Unionization is having a moment. Employees at Amazon, Starbucks and Apple have all held successful union drives. But forming a union and negotiating a contract are not the same thing. In a 2008 study, Desautels Prof. John-Paul Ferguson found that union election victories resulted in first contracts only 56.3 per cent of the time. 鈥淚t鈥檚 even harder now,鈥� says Ferguson.
