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New Marketing Campaign: Who's behind Desautels?

This week, we replaced the exterior billboards along the Bronfman building fa莽ade. Our new bilingual campaign showcases a diverse selection of change-making students, professors, alumni and 麻豆传媒网站 Dobson Cup participants.

Desautels Professor named guest editor of major business journal

Desautels Professor Patricia Hewlin has been invited to serve as guest editor of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes鈥� (OBHDP) 鈥淎uthenticity at Work鈥� issue. Prof. Hewlin was co-author of a study on leader integrity and worker conformity.

OBHDP is one of the Financial Times鈥� top-50 business journals, and publishes on organizational behaviour and judgement in business.

How social innovation in universities will bring on a better business model

A recent Huffington Post article talks about how the old credo of 鈥渄oing well by doing good鈥� is becoming more integral to business, and quotes Desautels Professor Nancy Adler that we can no longer 鈥渃reate financially successful companies and an equitable 鈥� sustainable world by simply applying yesterday鈥檚 approaches to business.鈥� The piece goes on to describe how the Ashoka U initiative is bringing these next-gen business concepts to colleges

Desautels Professor presents at a major workplace-inequality conference

Over 30 academics from North America and Europe recently gathered at the Society and Organizations Center (SnO) in Paris for the first edition of the HEC Paris Inequality Research Conference.

The talks hit on subjects like why diversity efforts at most organizations fail and how to fix the issue, the differences in advancement speed between women and men, female tokenism at the board level, and how mental health issues can affect wages.

Alfred Jaeger, Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour wins Outstanding Paper

Professor Alfred Jaeger's paper entitled "Institution building and institutional voids: Can Poland鈥檚 experience inform Russia and Brazil?", which was published in the International Journal of Emerging Markets with co-authors S. M. Puffer and D. J.

Institution building and institutional voids: Can Poland鈥檚 experience inform Russia and Brazil?

Authors: Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J McCarthy and Alfred M Jaeger

Publication: International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2016

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Think that job tenure is evaporating? Not so fast

Experts keep saying that median job tenure has been in free fall for years; that switching careers and jobs is just the new reality. But the facts don鈥檛 necessarily support that position. It鈥檚 a more nuanced field than most people realise, and some segments are actually seeing less movement than before.

Paper by Prof. Suzanne Gagnon chosen as Organization Studies Editor鈥檚 Pick

The Desautels Faculty of Management is pleased to congratulate Assistant Professor Suzanne Gagnon for having her paper selected as Organization Studies鈥� Editor鈥檚 Pick for May.

Integrity: leaders who have it can reduce it in employees

A new study, authored in part by Desautels Associate Professor Patricia Faison Hewlin, explores how leaders who have greater integrity can have an inverse effect on the integrity of their employees. Essentially, followers can take on a fa莽ade of conformity, where they pretend to mesh with the company鈥檚 values in order to ensure their own success.

Jobs and youth: is the degree still the best start?

On a recent Breakfast Television youth employment panel, Desautels Assistant Professor Matissa Hollister said that, though it鈥檚 not necessarily an employment guarantee, 鈥渙n average, it鈥檚 very clear that the university degree is the smarter, the better way to go.鈥� But even so, the world has changed, and a degree by itself just isn鈥檛 enough.

Comment un petit PDG deviendra-t-il grand?

With each session at the Institute of Leadership, cofounder Eric Paquette helps turn 250 managers and executives into true leaders, developing rhetoric skills, personal awareness and methods for getting everyone working together towards a unified goal.

Mark Michaud Commended by the Quebec Government

Mark Michaud, MBA'14,聽Director of Administration, recently received a commendation letter from the Ministry of Education鈥檚 Director General of University Affairs, Jean-Fran莽ois Lehoux, thanking him for his outstanding contribution to the workgroup that spent over a year reviewing the academic classification system used by the Quebec Government.

How to attract top talent to engineering

...Sexism plays a role. Professor Brian Rubineau of 麻豆传媒网站 in Canada conducted a long-term study of 700 female engineering students. The survey included voluntary diary entries to log their experiences. Professor Rubineau concludes: 鈥淢any of the women in our study experienced blatant gender bias in their project teams and internships. Much of the hands-on aspects of engineering are treated as men鈥檚 work, with women relegated to more secretarial duties.鈥�

鈥淧ut the kettle on, love鈥�: how sexism is forcing women from engineering

According to Prof Brian Rubineau of Desautels Faculty of Management, 麻豆传媒网站, female engineers are leaving an already male-dominated engineering field due to a culture that does not take them seriously.

Read full article: The Engineer, November 11, 2016聽

Why female engineering students leave the field

Female engineers are leaving an already male-dominated engineering field due to a culture that does not take them seriously, according to Professor Brian Rubineau of Desautels Faculty of Management, 麻豆传媒网站.聽

Read full article: Times Higher Education, October 27, 2016聽