In this year’s 6th annual “Best & Brightest Executive MBAs” by the Poets and Quants for execs, two of our very own were selected and featured amongst 100 selected executive profiles. Lindsey Kettel (EMBA 2020), Executive Vice-President Chantier Davie Canada Inc. is a Mechanical engineer, and “an avid [...]
Wouldn’t our best business partners be our biggest competitors? Should we make a deal with the enemy? Radio-Canada brought together panelists and speakers from diverse backgrounds to present inspiring examples of collaboration, partnership and trust, as they are more than ever part of our reality: Louis Hébert, co-director, McGill-HEC Montréal [...]
Ten years ago, the leaders of two of Canada's most prestigious business schools, McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management and HEC Montréal took up the ambitious challenge of joining forces to launch the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program. Professors Alain Pinsonneault (McGill) and Louis Hébert (HEC Montréal), pedagogical [...]
Corey Phelps is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Marcel Desautels Faculty Fellow, and Associate Dean of Executive Education at the Desautels Faculty of Management. He teaches frequently in the McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA program. Professor Phelps recently launched a new book: Cracked it! How to solve big problems and sell solutions [...]
Robert Dutton, who’s been involved with the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program since its inception, first as a guest speaker, then as Class Patron, and now as the Co-director of the EMBA Reflective Mindset module, has recently published his biography. In the biography, Robert Dutton, the former CEO of RONA, covers [...]
"You can be trained by the best communication specialists, read all the books on the subject and watch the best speakers in action, but if you really want to improve, you have to practice," says Michel Filion. “And that’s what Toastmasters focuses on." The McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA Program has been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On June 22nd Alain Pinsonneault, co-director of the EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal, will be inducted into the Ordre national du Québec, by Prime Minister Philippe Couillard, as a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre. This is the most highest honour that the Government of Québec awards to a citizen. Professor Pinsonneault receives [...]
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 [...]