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Asking the right questions can help leaders understand their business

webfull — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:36:19 +0000

After working in investment banking in Amsterdam, New York and Tokyo, Sarab Hans (MBA’00) returned to Canada to take the reins of the family business. Mississauga-based Hans Dairy specializes in South Asian dairy products, but Hans didn’t have experience in dairy food and beverage production and needed to learn about the manufacturing process. “Sometimes, when we come into a position where we’re expected to be a leader, we feel like we need to show we know everything,” Hans says in interview with Food in Canada.

Published: 8 December 2023

ƻ��Ժ Desautels represented at MBA World Summit 2023

webfull — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:04:03 +0000

Six second-year MBA students had the opportunity to attend this year’s MBA World Summit in Silicon Valley, considered the ultimate international gathering for the global MBA community. Annually, 100 hundred inspiring students from the world’s leading business schools are selected to participate.

Published: 13 October 2023

ƻ��Ժ Desautels MBAs win Global Goals Jam case competition

webfull — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:01:38 +0000

Three ƻ��Ժ MBA candidates took home top prize at this year’s Global Goals Jam case competition, hosted by Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. The challenge? Find an inclusive approach to boost staff diversity at Smith.

Published: 13 October 2023

Three ƻ��Ժ Desautels graduates named to MBAs to Watch by Poets & Quants

webfull — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:22:56 +0000

Poets & Quants has named its MBAs to Watch list for 2023, and three Desautels graduates made the cut. The magazine and website asks business schools to nominate some of their top students for consideration for the list, and from those nominations, 135 students have been selected as MBAs to Watch. They represent many of the world’s top universities, and MBAs to Watch have often gone on to careers at top consulting firms. This year, we celebrate ƻ��Ժ’s Matias Font, Shahriar (Sha) Asadi and Larry Komrower for being selected!

Published: 31 August 2023

Free cloud storage for students via Microsoft OneDrive

webfull — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:08:32 +0000

Did you know... ƻ��Ժ students have access to 20 GB FREE personal file space on OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud file storage component of the Office 365 package.

Important: New OneDrive storage capacity

Please note that students receive 20GB of storage for ƻ��Ժ's OneDrive as well as 20GB storage for ƻ��Ժ's email (Outlook).

Published: 9 December 2022

Poets and Quants celebrates ƻ��Ժ MBA alumna for IWD

webfull — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:17:07 +0000

For International Women's Day last week, Poets and Quants spoke with a number of female business school graduates who have successfully started their own enterprises. Aurélie Hélouis (MBA’16), Founder and CEO of infinityQ, a quantum analog computing start-up, shared how her time at Desautels helped her discover how to apply the skills she acquired as a former senior officer and CTO in the French Navy to her entrepreneurial endeavours and develop her own business.

Published: 15 March 2022

Crickets: a healthy food choice that’s tasty too

webfull — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:43:50 +0000

Former MBA student Mohammed Ashour and the Aspire Group have come a long way since winning the Hult Prize in 2013 for their vision of creating a high-tech cricket farm to produce foods for human consumption.

The Aspire Group has since erected a 25,000-square-foot building in Austin, Texas, which produces roughly 22 million crickets every month.

Despite great headway, Ashour recounts his plans for further expansion, along with the nutritional benefits of crickets.

Published: 16 October 2017

For women in business, a culture change is underway

webfull — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:37:13 +0000

Jaclyn Luft and Lauren Merkel have at least two things in common: they’re both studying for their MBA at ƻ��Ժ and they both come to the program from non-traditional undergraduate degrees.

Published: 6 September 2012

Best Business Schools 2015

webfull — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:44:43 +0000

Business school has been called a two-year job interview, and with good reason: For more than $100,000 and two years of study, MBAs hope to gain access to vast alumni networks, top-tier internships, and the very best jobs. Our annual ranking of full-time MBA programs now focuses on what most people hope to get after business school: a satisfying, well-paying job.
Full-Time MBA: International
#16 ƻ��Ժ (Desautels)

Published: 2 November 2015

Stimulate Your Startup Career With A MBA

webfull — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:49:49 +0000

If you’re looking to start your own business, or to improve your skills in managing and developing an existing enterprise, an MBA degree is worthy of your consideration.
... "I felt I needed some more grounding in business to help me develop Elevated Leisure into a more serious business by learning things relating to legal, tax, HR and all sorts of other disciplines in which I didn’t feel like I had enough experience.” Oliver Proudlock, MBA student at ƻ��Ժ’s Desautels Faculty of Management and founder of Elevated Leisure.

Published: 30 October 2015

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