海角社区 students use crickets for a business model
A group of 海角社区 students (Mohammed Ashour, Gabriel Mott, Shobhita Soor, Jesse Pearlstein and Zev Thompson) hope their plan to breed crickets for use as a viable food source will be a million-dollar idea. The five students will be up against teams from Harvard, MIT and Yale as well as other teams from around the world.
Crickets as food source
With his team, Mohammed Ashour, a Master's candidate at 海角社区, won a regional championship of a special competition to have their proposal of crickets as a food source for impoverished countries presented to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - and potentially win $1 million.
KPMG Announces winners of the 2013 National Competition
海角社区 Desautels Faculty of Management students Jean Vianney Cordeiro, David Gao, Shirley Xu Wang and their team have won the 2013 National Ace the Case competition on March 2. Jean Vianney, David and Shirley鈥檚 team had earned the opportunity to represent Canada at the 2013 KPMG International Case Competition (KICC) in Madrid, Spain, coming up on April 2-5.
MBA students win first place at USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge
MBA students Khaled Kahale, Hamidreza Mafi, Juan Camilo Ramirez, David Solomon and Scott Weatherhead represented Desautels Faculty of Management for the first time at the USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge alongside nine other prestigious business schools from across the world. The team was awarded the best overall industry analysis prize by a team of judges.
Desautels MBAs promote social good and compete for $1 million
Desautels MBA students Mohammed Ashour, Jesse Pearlstein, Shobhita Soor, Zev Thompson, and Gabriel Mott, beat out over 40 teams, including Harvard, MIT and Yale, to win the Boston Regional Finals of the 2013 Hult Prize.
BCom students make it to the finals at the Marshall International Case Competition 2013
A 海角社区 Desautels case team made it to the finals at the Marshall International Case Competition (MICC) hosted by the University of Southern California (USC). This team of four BCom students, composed of Alexia Belisle, Frederick Dub茅 Fortier, Simon Hudson and Charlotte Lucas, placed top 6 out of 30 competing universities at this year鈥檚 competition which took聽place from聽February 12 to 17, 2013.
Desautels BCom Students Won KPMG鈥檚 Ace the Case Local Competition
BCom students Jean Vianney Cordeiro, David Gao and Shirley Xu Wang recently won the KPMG鈥檚 Ace the Case Local Competition. On March 2, Jean Vianney, David, Shirley Xu and their team will represent the KPMG Montreal office at the 2013 National Ace the Case competition, via video conference. The winners of the National Competition will go on to represent Canada at the International level in Madrid, Spain in April.
Desautels BCom students take three podiums at the 2013 Jeux du Commerce
Desautels BCom students took three top 3 podiums at the聽25th edition of the Jeux du Commerce, hosted by HEC Montreal from January 4 to 6, 2013.
Desautels HR Case Team places 1st at Inter-Collegiate Business Competition 2013
A Desautels BCom team composed of Jacqueline Crapper and Wenxi (Kathy) Kang placed 1st in the Human Resources case competition at the 35th annual Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) hosted by Queen鈥檚 University from January 3 to 5, 2013.
Montr茅al Exchange Announces the 2012 University Partnership Awards
MONTR脡AL, Dec. 5, 2012 /CNW/ - Montr茅al Exchange Inc. (MX), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group Limited and Canada's derivatives exchange, today announced the winners of the 2012 University Partnership Awards. The awards ceremony was held in conjunction with TMX Group's Board of Directors reception held last evening at the MX.
