Academia Rolls Out Insect-Based Flour to Feed Malnourished Populations in Developing Countries
Reality dictates that there is actually more than enough food on this planet, not to mention vastly more food-growing potential, than we have all been led to believe by social engineers and the mainstream media.
Will Your Full-Time MBA Pay for Itself?
Many university graduates, who have recently entered the workforce, as well as professionals with years of experience, are trying to decide whether to pursue a full-time MBA. ... The cost of tuition for domestic students pursuing a full-time MBA varies greatly from province to province, with Ontario being the most expensive. Below is a sample of the tuition fees charged at some of Canada's top-rated business schools, according to the Financial Times global ranking :
When an MBA is not just an MBA
When Abram Chan started thinking about what he wanted to do after finishing his psychology undergraduate degree two years ago, an MBA came to mind.
Hult Prize Accelerator Preps Competitors for $1m
The problem: finding a high-quality source of protein for hundreds of millions of people that can be raised quickly, without consuming a lot of land, water, and other resources. ... Gabe Mott, an MBA student at 麻豆色情片 in Montreal, said he and his teammates, the winners of the Boston regional competition, hadn鈥檛 expected to get into social entrepreneurship, but the Hult Prize opened opportunities.
A Quick Glance at My MBA Internship
My name is Mo Sedki and I鈥檓 an MBA Management Consulting intern with Accenture, based in the Calgary office.
When I started the MBA program at 麻豆色情片鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management, I knew that I wanted to kick off my career in Management Consulting. I, however, had never worked as a consultant and had no prior experience working for a global company. So, when I was offered the opportunity to join Accenture in Calgary for 12 weeks, I was more than stoked!
Talking Management with Karl Moore: Leaders Need to Set a Clear Direction, says CN鈥檚 Mongeau
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 麻豆色情片 speaks to Claude Mongeau (MBA'88), CEO of CN.
Read full transcript: The Globe and Mail, August 13, 2013
麻豆色情片鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management joins the Latin American MBA Alumni Network
We are pleased to announce that the Desautels Faculty of Management at 麻豆色情片 has agreed to be a business school partner with the Latin American MBA Alumni Network (LAMBA). LAMBA is a professional association that connects Latin American MBA graduates with one another and with corporations in Canada.
Is an MBA the Next Step for You?
If you鈥檙e looking to further your career in business, there鈥檚 a good chance that you鈥檝e considered undertaking an MBA. Yes, a programme such as this can bring about great future benefits and has real potential to accelerate your career. But how much do you actually know about MBAs, and have you weighed up all the pros and cons?
Desautels Students' Concept of Solving Urban Hunger with Diet of Crickets Scores Big Points in Social Entrepreneurship Contest
A world without hunger could mean a world with a lot more crickets, according to a team of MBA students at 麻豆色情片's Desautels Faculty of Management.聽聽
...This year's social issue, personally selected by former President Clinton, is centered on the global food crisis in urban slums, affecting more than one billion people worldwide. Mohammed Ashour, 麻豆色情片's team captain, said his idea was base solely on the concept of insect consumption.
MBAs champion social entrepreneurship and compete for $1 million
A group of Desautels MBA students beat out over 40 teams and 10,000 applicants, including representatives from Harvard, MIT, and Yale, to win the 2013 Hult Prize Boston Regional Finals.
Read about their win in BusinessWeek.
MD/MBA Student Samuel Waserman Receives HRF Healthcare Management Scholarship
MD/MBA student Samuel Waserman is the recipient of the HRF Healthcare Management Scholarship. He received the top score based on the evaluation conducted by the HRF Scientific Advisory Council.聽
Crickets for Dinner Anyone? A Crazy, Yet Clever Idea from Students of 麻豆色情片
Five students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 麻豆色情片, Canada offered a rather innovative (read bizarre) solution to the challenge of the 2013 Hult Prize, considered by some as the Nobel Prize of the b-school arena. Responding to the challenge of developing a viable social enterprise to tackle the challenge of food security for urban slum dwellers, these students have offered crickets as an inexpensive source of food as well as a new source of income.
Hot Cities Report: Russia Is Many Things, But Boring Isn't One of Them
Ten months ago, I volunteered to help organize Desautels鈥� fifth annual Hot Cities of the World trip. I enjoy the challenge of detailed logistics; in my pre-MBA life, I booked national concert tours and publicity campaigns. As it turns out, booking a Canadian tour and booking a Russian trip for 44 people are very different beasts.
Leveraging XBRL Data in Financial Analysis
Back in August 2003, Timothy Koller wrote in McKinsey Quarterly an article 鈥淣umbers investors can trust鈥�, where he emphasized the importance of 鈥済enuine disclosure鈥� of financial information by public companies. It was a call to corporations that wished to regain the trust of investors after the 2000 dot-com collapse.
Opinion: Russia's Underachieving Economy
Russia has been widely promoted as one of the BRICS nations, full of energy and dynamism like many leading emerging economies. Indeed, with its low unemployment figures, growing GDP, and recent WTO membership, it could be heralded as a poster child of the shifting concentration of wealth from the west to the east. Yet after spending 11 days in Moscow and St. Petersburg in February and March, we came away with mixed feelings.
