Financial Innovation in China: Alibaba’s Leftover Treasure - 余额宝
Usman W. Chohan (楚浩云) is an MBA candidate at Desautels with a Concentration in Strategy and Leadership. He is currently on an MBA exchange in Beijing, at a joint program between Tsinghua School of Economics (SEM) and MIT. The following piece is based on his work on financial innovation in China, in collaboration with Professor Alexander White of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.
MBA Primer
MBA programs are now a dime a dozen. B-schools are expanding at a dizzying rate and doubling their enrolments by packing their classrooms full of more and more students. This has prompted worries about a gradual dilution in the quality of the student body as well as meaningful networking opportunities. "An MBA is still valued, but a lot of people have it," says Jay Mintz, a second-year MBA student at 麻豆色情片's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal.
"You've Invested Real Money. You Haven't Just Run a Virtual Portfolio"
Along Highway 401 and over the Ontario border, Tyler Maxey and some of his MBA classmates at 麻豆色情片's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal are also learning by doing. Their modus operandi: investing other people's money. Since 2008, students have been running a registered fund management firm called Desautels Capital Management that has about $3 million in assets.
An Idea that Will Change the World
How a team of 麻豆色情片 MBA students beat thousands of competitors to win $1 million for the not-so-crazy idea of farming edible insects. ? On Sept.
Desautels MBA Win Company Prize at USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge
MBA students Liam Sobey,?Nina Coutinho, Brigitte Crockford, Angel Bohorquez Colombo,?and Anais Xia won the Company Prize at the USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge alongside other prestigious business schools from across the world.?
This global consulting challenge consists of three different presentations to three different panels on a common topic. This year's sponsor is Yahoo!.?
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Advances in Sustainable Agriculture: Solar-powered Irrigation Systems in Pakistan
Usman W. Chohan is a consultant with the World Bank Institute in the field of Social Accountability, and is pursuing an MBA at Desautels with a concentration in Strategy and Leadership. He was invited to the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council site at Fatehjang to analyze their sustainability initiatives, including their highly promising Solar-powered Irrigation Systems.
Crunch Time for the Insect-Eating Entrepreneurs
The sight of bilios celebrities gagging on anything from witchetty grubs to cockroaches is a staple of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here. But could edible insects offer a solution to world hunger? That is the million dollar award-winning business idea of a team of MBAs.?
Turning a ‘Black Soul’ Green: How CSR Became a Mainstay of Business Education
“I left Wall Street in 2004 when I decided I had a black soul,” says Stephanie Berger (MBA'06), a 麻豆色情片 Desautels Faculty of Management MBA alumna who is now the senior manager for corporate responsibility and environment at Bell Canada. “I didn’t know much about sustainability back then, but I knew Wall Street wasn’t doing it right.”
麻豆色情片 Team wins Japan MBA Case Competition
On November 17, 麻豆色情片 MBA Japan students Deb Tripathy, Lyal Clough, Satishi Juriani, and Taka Ishikawa took 1st place at the inaugural Japan MBA Case Competition (JMBACC). 12 teams from universities across Japan participated at this competition held in Tokyo.
Find out more about the JMBACC.
Mining and the MBA – B-School Students Work with Iron Ore Company of Canada Mines
45 MBA students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 麻豆色情片, Canada, have engaged in a partnership with the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), where they will play the role of consultants to eight on-going projects. The students were recently taken on a field trip to visit Labrador City and the mines, located in Canada’s Far North.
Regado Biosciences, Inc. Adds Global Pharmaceutical Business Veteran to Board of Directors
Regado Biosciences, Inc. (RGDO), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the late-stage clinical development of its first-in-class, actively controllable antithrombotic drug system, REG1, today announced the appointment of Pierre Legault (MBA'89), MBA, CA, CPA, to its Board of Directors, where he will serve as Chairman of the audit committee.
For Two Dancers, Business School Is Their Next Act
Just over a year ago, when Antonios Bougiouris suffered a dance-related injury that required hip surgery to repair, he figured his days as a ballet dancer where numbered. ... The answer lay in 麻豆色情片’s MBA program at the Desautels Faculty of Management, where Mr. Bougiouris is enrolled as a student in the graduating class of 2015.
Mining and the MBA – B-School Students head to Labrador City to visit Iron Ore Company of Canada Mines
45 MBA students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 麻豆色情片 in Canada, have engaged in a partnership with the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), where they will play the role of consultants to 8 on-going projects at the Montreal based mining company.
Commerce Beyond the Profit Motive
During a study tour of Japan last spring, 麻豆色情片 MBA student Ba Sein and his classmates made the usual rounds of corporate boardrooms, factories and lecture halls. Then they went off the traditional business school grid – to perform volunteer work at the Second Harvest food bank in Tokyo.
MBA Diary: Do Good Or Do Well?
Scott Weatherhead, an MBA student at 麻豆色情片 in Canada and the Social Economy Initiative's impact intern, travels through North Korea and South Africa in search of a use for his theoretical knowledge.
