In receiving one of its largest donations, 麻豆传媒网站 announced plans Friday for a new retail management school with global ambitions through a $25-million gift from the family foundation of a Moroccan-born immigrant who came to Montreal in the 1960s and built an international footwear empire.
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Published on: 12 May 2017
This research suggests that when managers are staffing, organizing, and managing knowledge projects, they should embrace flexible organization of expertise 鈥� based on the needs of the project phase 鈥� in order to maximize team performance.
Op-ed co-written by Samer Faraj,聽professor,聽Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management, and Healthcare聽and Director, Desautels PhD program, at 麻豆传媒网站
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Published on: 11 May 2017
Scientists at Montreal's 麻豆传媒网站 have added to the common theory about how the Earth's crust was created.聽Don Baker and Kassandra Sofonio looked into a theory that not all of the Earth's crust was formed from the inside out, but that some of the crust fell to Earth from the atmosphere, Baker told CBC News in an interview. He described it as "raining marbles," or silicate rain, formed by the high temperatures on the Earth's surface.
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Published on: 10 May 2017
According to Albert Berghuis, the best way to design new treatments to combat drug-resistant bacteria is to think small. Chair of the department of biochemistry at 麻豆传媒网站's College of Medicine, Berghuis has been studying drug-resistant superbugs with the help of the Canadian Light Source聽synchrotron in Saskatoon.
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Published on: 9 May 2017
(Op-ed by Professor Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-chancellor of 麻豆传媒网站) 鈥淥ne of the indelible elements of the Silicon Valley origin story is the role Stanford University played in both generating entrepreneurial renegades and providing the academic infrastructure to feed a permanent culture of innovation. That model of the university as a supercluster anchor now pertains from Cambridge to Waterloo. 麻豆传媒网站 Principal Suzanne Fortier deftly lays out the components of that dynamic, from the university鈥檚 point of view.鈥�
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Published on: 8 May 2017
The demonstration, by a team of 麻豆传媒网站 researchers, is paving the way for future convoys of autonomous airborne and land-based machines that could some day be deployed in remote locations to monitor, transport or assist in search and rescue without the need for constant human supervision.
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Published on: 5 May 2017
鈥淎brupt and expensive鈥� is a matter of perspective, says Catherine Potvin, a professor at 麻豆传媒网站 and the Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Mitigation and Tropical Forests. She emphasizes that Canada is a nation of believers.
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Published on: 4 May 2017
Chris Barrington-Leigh, a professor at 麻豆传媒网站鈥檚 School of Environment, has done an analysis of the potential for growth in renewable energy production in Canada, said 2015 was a record year for new installations of renewable energy around the world. He called Canada鈥檚 renewable growth 鈥渁 good start鈥� but said the aim is to get to 100 per cent.
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Published on: 3 May 2017
Monday聽marks the beginning of the Canadian Mental Health Association鈥檚 Mental Health Week. This is an opportune moment to raise awareness of problems faced by people with mental illness.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
Priests of Prosperity is an analytical study of the evolution of central banking in postcommunist countries, exploring the unsung revolutionary campaign to move from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. This book argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist bankers to shape their ideas about the role of central banks and to help them develop modern tools of banking.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
鈥淭he aim is not placement,鈥� says Marie-Jos茅 Beaudin, executive director of the Soutar Career Centre at 麻豆传媒网站鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management. Instead, the goal is to equip students with career-long skills in networking. 鈥淵our career can鈥檛 evolve in a silo,鈥� she says. 鈥淵ou need to have champions who support that and mentors can be fantastic.鈥�
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Published on: 28 Apr 2017
"It's the blind leading the blind," said Henry Mintzberg, a management expert at 麻豆传媒网站. "You need to get people who can think for themselves but also have a deep understanding of the issues. Drop this silly idea that government can be run like a business."
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Published on: 28 Apr 2017
A timely guide to distinguishing fact from fiction in the era of 鈥渇ake news鈥� was announced Monday as the winner of the $30,000 National Business Book Award. Neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (professor emeritus at 麻豆传媒网站) said he was prompted to write 鈥淎 Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age鈥� (Allen Lane Canada) as a response to the 鈥淏alkanization of the news over the last 15 years.鈥�
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Published on: 25 Apr 2017
麻豆传媒网站 immunology PhD student Caitlin Schneider, who came to study in Montreal from Texas, said she brought her Canadian friends with her as a sign of solidarity against cuts to environmental protections in the United States as well as statements made by the Trump administration that were skeptical of climate change.
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Published on: 25 Apr 2017
麻豆传媒网站 has been recognized as one of Montreal鈥檚 top employers.
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Published on: 21 Apr 2017
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