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Inauthenticity in the workplace can harm diversity and inclusion

Leaders are often faced with being their authentic self or doing what it takes to succeed. Decisions taken by senior management in the face of this authenticity dilemma can set a negative example for their juniors. This can be particularly insidious for people from underrepresented groups who may feel the need to suppress their identity to progress in their career.

Published: 31 Oct 2022

More guns and drugs on the street fuel perception of increased violent crime in Quebec

Quebec’s homicide rate is lower than it was a decade ago, but a slight majority of people that live in cities aren’t feeling as safe as they used to. This rests in the public’s perception that there is a lack of organization, according Fady Dagher (EMBA’12), Chief of Police in Longueuil, in an interview with TVA’s Le monde à l’envers.

Published: 28 Sep 2022

Indigenous women are fastest growing group of entrepreneurs

There are about 60,000 Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada, and Indigenous women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs. “They are outpacing all other segments” says Monica James, a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and the regional manager for client diversity at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Indigenous women have been in business for many years, said James in an interview with Prof.

Published: 2 Sep 2022

鶹ýվ team wins honourable mention at EDI case writing competition

Congratulations to 2023 BCom Jaslie Denault and MBAs Alfonso Rodriguez Gomez, David Iacono and Kriti Pradhan, in collaboration with Faculty Lecturer Tatiana Gauvin, for their honourable me

Published: 3 Aug 2022

Chafik Hamad establishes RAFAH bursary to honour his mother’s memory by helping students who face systemic barriers

鶹ýվ celebrated its bicentennial in 2021, and as the university community began looking toward the next hundred years, it launched the Third Century Challenge Fund. Created by Chancellor Emeritus Michael Meighen, it encourages others to give by matching funds. Forty-eight new scholarships and bursaries have been created since the launch of the fund in 2019, and Chafik Hamad (MBA’15) is one of the donors who took up the call.

Published: 25 Jul 2022

Kalina Newmark brings an Indigenous lens to management in a Fortune 500 company

As a brand manager for Starbucks’ Instant packaged coffee business, Kalina Newmark seeks to make each team member feel that their contribution is valued at the same level. It’s just one of the ways that Newmark seeks to incorporate Indigenous teachings into her work. For Newmark, who is Shúhtagot’ı̨nę and Métis from the Tulita Dene First Nation, the idea of valuing each person’s contribution at the same level is really important, writes Prof.

Published: 25 Jul 2022

Spotlight on EMBA Scholarship for Managers of Indigenous Origin recipients

Kimberly Quinn (BA’99, BA’01, EMBA’21) was on the lookout for new opportunities to learn when she came across the 鶹ýվ-HEC Montréal Executive program, which stood out for its bilingual structure and its Scholarship for Managers of Indigenous Origin.

Published: 28 Jun 2022

Scarf Ceremony marks end of Spring Convocation season

As Spring Convocation season draws to a close, a Scarf Ceremony celebrating graduating Indigenous students was held on Monday, June 20th, during which 110 First Nations, Inuit and Métis students were honoured for completing their certificates and programs across 鶹ýվ's Schools and Faculties, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Published: 21 Jun 2022

Government of Canada Deputy Minister encourages employees to seek practical ways to encourage reconciliation

Talking about racism in the workplace can be uncomfortable, but that’s how you know that it is working, according to Gina Wilson, the Deputy Minister, Diversity and Inclusion and Youth and Senior Associate Deputy Minister, Canadian Heritage. Wilson encourages managers and employees to talk about practical things that encourage reconciliation.

Published: 8 Jun 2022

Desautels alumnus is accelerating accessibility at Procter & Gamble

Thibault Trancart (BCom'15), Desautels Faculty of Management's first blind graduate, is helping make one of the world’s biggest consumer goods companies more accessible. Trancart is a Manager in Responsible Beauty for Europe Hair Care at Procter & Gamble, and has become one of its Accessibility Champions. “Originally, I didn’t want to be the blind guy working on accessibility,” he says.

Published: 2 Jun 2022

Economics graduate Teresa Tolo selected as valedictorian for Black Grad 2022

As Teresa Tolo addressed Black Grad 2022 as valedictorian, she was overcome with emotion. The 4th annual edition of the event brought together a cohort of students who have excelled in a wide range of pursuits in academia and beyond.

Published: 18 May 2022

Dean Chan addresses 2022 graduates at 4th annual Black Grad

Black members of 鶹ýվ’s Class of 2022 celebrated the completion of their degrees in-person at the fourth annual Black Grad event on Sunday, May 1 at the Omni Mont-Royal. The event, inspired by similar ones at Harvard, Yale and the University of Toronto, honours graduating students ahead of next month’s Convocation – and highlights their accomplishments despite the institutional, economic and socio-cultural barriers to accessing higher education.

Published: 6 May 2022

Tech giants' business ecosystems transcend traditional economic sectors

Technology is always evolving, and keeping up with the pace of change is an ongoing challenge for business leaders. Companies can be vulnerable to competition from entirely different sectors—consider how Apple made a MP3 player called the iPod and killed the compact disc forever. It was the first time the computer hardware company had even ventured into the music business.

Published: 7 Apr 2022

Urban planner brings Indigenous worldview to architecture and developments

Regardless of who owns the land, we have a shared responsibility toward it. At Montreal’s Sid Lee Architecture, Pascal Harvey is bringing an Indigenous lens to urban planning, and believes this worldview can be reconciled with real estate development by treating land occupation with collective responsibility–even when land is privately owned. The Innu sociologist, urban planner and entrepreneur shared insights about how Indigenous world views can inform urban planning with Prof.

Published: 7 Apr 2022

To get inclusion right, companies need to ask what they’re doing wrong

Inclusion isn't a warm and fuzzy feeling of belonging. Inclusion means being an integral part of an organization, and having the resources to get the job done, said Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour Patricia Faison Hewlin in Business Insider. In order to achieve it, organizations need to listen.

Published: 7 Apr 2022

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