Exploring the complexity of ecosystems
by John Allemang
Elena Bennett听delights in uncertainty.
Elena Bennett听delights in uncertainty.
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November 11, 2022 | In the opinion column by Alison Clement and Sandrine Desforges, Master of Public Policy candidates at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, they talk about the听news of Hockey Canada using 7.6 million dollars from a reserve fund of registration fees to cover nine sexual assault or abuse claims. An aditional 1.3 million dollars was paid through Hockey Canada's insurance to settle听
November 3, 2022 | A Quebec superior court judge has authorized Sainte-Justine Hospital to extubate a 5 year old boy, who has been in a coma breathing with the help of a tube. In this case a young boy drowned and his parents wanted him to have certain medical treatment whereas the hospital said the treatment was not going to work and that the child will never recover.
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Many households are heavily, or even exclusively, invested in real estate. That鈥檚 a lot of听money to have tied up in a single type of investment, but people don鈥檛 think of houses听like other investments, according to research from Associate Professor听Sebastien Betermier. Whether听they appreciate or not, they can still give you shelter, and some investors consider this听more valuable than portfolio diversification.
Finding talent is a challenge for many businesses, and some of the most common approaches are not necessarily the best ones. The 鈥楶ost and Pray鈥 strategy banks on posting a job description, and hoping the best candidates will find you. The 鈥楻each-out and Pray鈥 strategy involves a manager leveraging their network to find candidates who might be suitable. But since most hiring managers are not human resources professionals, their network won鈥檛 necessarily land them the best candidate either. In an article in Medium.com, Desautels Prof.
Quantum technology has largely been confined to the lab, but it is moving ever closer to听the world of business, writes Karl Moore in Forbes.com. With $35.5 billion in government and business investment globally, technologies like quantum computers have the potential to transform multiple sectors of the economy. 鈥淚t's like science-fiction come to life,鈥 says Scott Crowder, Vice President of IBM Quantum Adoption and Business Development.
M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res (MSF) introduced a new business model for charitable giving. 鈥淲e听were the first ones to create the regular donation model," said Dr. Joanne Liu听(MDCM'91, IMHL'14, DSc'16), an emergency听physician, a professor at the School of Population and Global Health at 黑料不打烊 University, and the听13th President of MSF (2013-2019). 鈥淥ne of our first fundraising campaigns was 1 euro per day,鈥澨齃iu said in an interview with Prof. Karl Moore for Forbes.com. 鈥淎nd another big innovation was听the no opt-out approach.
Politics has pervaded the world of business, writes Prof. Karl Moore in Forbes.com. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and equity, diversity听and inclusion (EDI) are both听changing corporate practices.
Business leaders still need to have a strategic vision, but they also need to demonstrate compassion, empathy, and vulnerability on behalf of their company 鈥 all听qualities that have historically been concealed to entrench a leader鈥檚 authority.
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Brittany Williams has been appointed to the roles of assistant dean (students) and dean鈥檚 lead, Black and Indigenous flourishing, as of 1 November 2022.听
Authors: Lisa E. Cohen and Sara Mahabadi
Publication: Organization Science
Volume 33, Issue 5, September-October 2022, Pages 1938-1963
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Congratulations to听Gregory Weitzner, Assistant Professor in Finance, whose paper听鈥淏ank Loan Markups and Adverse Selection鈥 has won the听2022 John W. Ryan Research Award.
Congratulations to Warut Khern-am-nuai,听Associate Professor in Information Systems, who has won the ISS Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award.
Professor Warut Khern-am-nuai has been chosen by the Information Systems Society (ISS) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) as a recipient of a 2022 INFORMS - ISS Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award. The awards were announced at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting held October 16-18, 2022, in Indianapolis.
Authors: Max Biggs, Rim Hariss and Georgia Perakis
Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming
First published online: September 2022
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