Sustainable Innovation through Green Chemistry: Engaging Graduate Students Outside of Disciplinary Silos
Green chemistry is a rapidly growing area of interest for industry as companies face increased regulatory requirements, supply constraints, and consumer demands for sustainable products. Business innovation is a powerful means to achieve sustainable development, but challenges associated with marketability of clean technologies must be considered for effective implementation.
麻豆AV Innovation Week Features Social Innovation Initiatives On and Off Campus
The third installation of聽麻豆AV Innovation Week took place in聽November 2015, featuring聽nineteen events which integrated聽麻豆AV students and faculty with the local Montreal innovation community.聽
Teaching the impact of climate change to the leaders of tomorrow
The environmentalists and green groups at the 2015聽United Nations Climate Change Conference, which starts today in Paris, will inevitably call for better leadership on sustainability issues. They will not have to travel far to find those willing to teach them.
Green topics become the norm
Social Entrepreneurship Workshop: Designing your career, your enterprise, and your impact
On November 13, 2015, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) and the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship co-sponsored a half-day workshop on social entrepreneurship. Entitled 鈥淪ocial Entrepreneurship: Designing your career, your enterprise, and your impact鈥�, the event featured a broad range of attendees 鈥� from those new to the concept of entrepreneurship to established entrepreneurs.
Multidisciplinary Pre-COP21 Gathering of 麻豆AV Researchers
On November 12, 2015, researchers from across 麻豆AV campuses convened to聽promote connection and collaboration on the topic of climate change in advance of the potentially historic Conference of Parties (COP)聽in Paris, France.
The Possible Nation: Social Innovation and the Art of Unleashing Human Potential
On October 23, 2015, the 麻豆AV community welcomed David Bornstein聽to speak to a captive audience on social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and the power of solutions based journalism. Part of 麻豆AV's Homecoming events, this 4th installment of the SEI Keynote was entitled "The Possible Nation: Social Innovation and the Art of Unleashing Human Potential".
Bringing 鈥榠ntegrated management鈥� to students across 麻豆AV through new Integrated Management Essentials courses
In September 2015, MDIIM launched the first of two new courses for undergraduate non-management students:聽INTG 201 (Integrated Management Essentials 1) & INTG 202 (Integrated Management Essentials 2).聽The courses聽present the essentials of management (accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, operations, organizational behaviour and strategy)聽using an integrated approach, highlighting how organizations function as a whole and the importance of b
麻豆AV鈥檚 Social Innovators鈥� Integration Lab (SIIL) Awarded Major Development Grant
September 10, 2015
Now Accepting Applications for the Integrated Management Student Projects Fund (IMSPF)
The most important challenges faced by society and managers in contemporary organizations, be they private, public or not-for-profit, are closely related. They do not respect disciplinary boundaries and cannot be adequately tackled with knowledge from just one management function or university faculty.
MDIIM Student Associates Program: Call for 2015-16 Applications
Full-time Desautels students are invited to apply to the 2015-16聽MDIIM Student Associates Program.聽Each fall, a select few MBA and BCom students receive an award of $5,000 and become formally affiliated with M
MDIIM Associate Director Awarded 2015 Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory
MDIIM Associate Director, Professor Saku Mantere, was recently awarded the聽2015 Best Published Paper聽in Organization and Management Theory for his paper "The contraction of meaning: The combined effect of communication, emotions and materiality on sensemaking in the Stockwell shooting鈥� with co-authors Joep P.
Desautels' New Programming in Managing for Sustainability Wins Page Prize Award
We are pleased to announce that the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) and Desautels faculty members were recently named recipients of the 2014 Dr. Alfred N.
Teaching the business of sustainability
A team led by Steve Maguire, Director of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) , has been named winner of the 2014 Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Integration of Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula, for conceiving and implementing the new Managing for Sustainability Major and Concentration (MSUS) programs for Bachelor of Commerce students at 麻豆AV.
New Undergraduate Program Wins Award for Sustainability in Business Curricula
The Desautels Faculty of Management congratulates the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) and Desautels faculty members who were recently named recipients of the 2014 Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Integration of Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula, for conceiving and implementing the new Managing for Sustainability Major and Concentration (MSUS) programs for Bachelor of Commerce students at 麻豆AV.
Postdoctoral Research Associate at 麻豆AV and the Social Innovators鈥� Integration Lab (SIIL)
To download the job description in English and French, please click here.
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Start Date: January 2016, possibly adjustable
Duration: 2 years, with possibility of 1 year extension
