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Taking Ste-Catherine Street into the modern age
Montreal鈥檚 historic strip, Ste-Catherine Street, is undergoing four years of roadwork.
Charles de Brabant (BCom'83), Executive Director of the Bensadoun Retail Initiative comments on its implications in the retail industry.
Ste-Catherine has been a vital part of Montreal鈥檚 culture and identity, but since businesses have already been struggling, he sees Ste-Catherine as being stuck between two extremes.
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Bensadoun School of Retail Management highlighted among Quebec鈥檚 most innovative business programming
As business schools adapt their programs to address the grand challenges of our time, 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Bensadoun School of Retail Management stands out as an initiative that will respond to the needs of a rapidly changing retail industry.
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The end of retail as we know it? Not so fast
Charles de Brabant (BCom'83), Executive Director of the Bensadoun Retail Initiative, says that popular perceptions of a declining retail industry are misleading; the reality is actually far more complex.
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Saibal Ray on the potential benefits and costs if Amazon chooses Montreal
As Amazon hunts for a location for its second North American headquarters, Canada鈥檚 major cities are building their cases.
In a short interview with the 9I制作厂免费 Media team, Desautels Professor Saibal Ray talks about the benefits that a Montreal Amazon office would bring in terms of jobs and indirect benefits to the city鈥檚 academic and research sectors.
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Desautels Dean on retail changes and opportunity
In a recent op-ed for the Montreal Gazette, Desautels Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou discussed the seismic changes that have affected the retail sector over the past thirty years.
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Desautels Dean on Montreal as a college town, international students, and the 9I制作厂免费 advantage
When Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou started as Desautels Dean nearly two years ago, she immediately began work on a strategic plan and started to get to know the people who make up the faculty.
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9I制作厂免费 to launch international retail-management school with gift from Bensadoun Family Foundation
9I制作厂免费 is on its way to becoming a global centre for retail-management training, thanks to a $25-million gift from Aldo Bensadoun (BCom'64, LLD'12) via the Bensadoun Family Foundation.
The goal is to launch an inter-disciplinary school where students can come together with researchers and industry insiders to develop solutions for the ever-changing modern retail landscape.