Pierre Marcouiller, Patron of the EMBA McGill-HEC Montreal class of 2019, invited ‘his’ class, the current EMBA cohort, to breakfast, for a lively discussion of leadership and learning. Marcouiller is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Camso Inc. since April 2017, after having been Chairman of its Board [...]
Recommendations for an effective board How can you make sure to have an effective board of directors? Here are recommendations from: Louise St-Pierre, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Cogeco Connexion, president of the board of Domaine Forget; Josée Duplessis (EMBA 2016), Chief of Staff for the [...]
Alain Pinsonneault, co-director of the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA program and professor at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management, was ranked in first place in the 2016 research productivity ranking of Association for Information Systems (AISNET). Each year, AISNET ranks the productivity of IT researchers worldwide, based on a weighted score [...]
Over 40 outstanding women and men. The 2017 McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA Class mosaic featured in Newspapers and online nationwide gives a good overview of the individuals, the accomplished senior executives who have just completed the program, but it doesn’t tell you about the class. They are so much more than [...]
How to Be a Better Leader Learn to Be an Inspiring Mentor: Advice from Louise St-Pierre Leaders and experienced managers are often called upon to act as mentors for younger people, but they may also mentor more senior managers. Here are 4 tips to being an inspiring mentor, just like Louise [...]
This year’s McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA scholarship recipients presented what it is like to do business in their respective environments to their classmates. Leanne Bayer, the Executive Director of West Island Community Shares (WICS), spoke about her extensive experience in the non-profit sector and particularly of her ten years in Burundi, where she arrived shortly after the end of the civil war. Jason Annahatak, Director of the Kativik School Board, Post-Secondary Student Services, spoke about Nunavik and the Inuit culture and way-of-life, sharing advice on how to do business in the Arctic.
L’EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal, le programme d'Executive MBA offert conjointement par la Faculté de gestion Desautels de l'université McGill et HEC Montréal, accueille cette semaine 46 dirigeants, gestionnaires, professionnels et entrepreneurs dans sa classe, ils forment la neuvième cohorte de l’EMBA, en autant d’années. Chacun d’entre eux a de très grandes [...]
What does it take to manage change? Les gestionnaires d’aujourd’hui font tous face, à un moment ou à un autre dans leur carrière, à une situation où ils doivent gérer le changement. Selon Roman Oryschuk, président du CA de la Fondation Evenko, ancien CEO de GE Capital Canada et de [...]
After working as a section chief at Bombardier Aerospace for over five years, Jose Martin (EMBA 2015) joined Transport Canada as Engineering Supervisor and Program Manager in 2014, just as he was completing the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA program. More than two years later, we caught up with Jose to learn [...]
The integration phase that follows mergers and acquisitions is crucial to the success of the transaction, and it’s also where things often go wrong. Here are three tips highlighted by three experts invited to class during the EMBA’s Analytic Mindset module. Integrate people, not businesses “During an integration, it is [...]