/desautels/taxonomy/term/178/all en /desautels/channels/news/desautels-mbas-promote-social-good-and-compete-1-million-225282 <p>Desautels MBA students <strong>Mohammed Ashour, Jesse Pearlstein, Shobhita Soor, Zev Thompson, and Gabriel Mott</strong>, beat out over 40 teams, including Harvard, MIT and Yale, to win the Boston Regional Finals of the 2013 Hult Prize.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.hultprize.org/" target="_blank">Hult Prize</a> is dedicated to launching the next wave of social entrepreneurs. With this year鈥檚 challenge centered on the global food crisis, the Desautels team鈥檚 business plan involves growing crickets into a viable food source.</p> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:16:05 +0000 trang.nguyen@mcgill.ca 58576 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/future-food-can-be-found-insects-283279 <p>Restauranteurs and entrepreneurs around the world are heeding the call for more sustainable food sources. Among them is the <strong>Aspire Food Group</strong>, which has recently doubled its production of crickets for human consumption at its Texas farm.</p> <p>And they are not the only ones to recognise the value of insects as food. The edible bug business is booming, with a global market of $33 million in 2015, according to the research firm Global Market Insights, which expects it to grow 40 percent by 2023.</p> Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:31:54 +0000 julie.lapalme@mcgill.ca 68159 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-law-grad-makes-forbes-30-under-30-list-257888 <p>Recent 黑料不打烊 University law grad<strong> Shobhita Soor</strong> says she is 鈥済rateful to be in good company,鈥� after being recognized by Forbes magazine as a breakout talent of 2016 30 Under 30 list.聽</p> <p>Along with her teammates 鈥� while studying in the joint civil-common law and MBA program 鈥� Soor helped create a company that addresses food security around the world with innovative technology.</p> Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:49:36 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 65469 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/fundraising-humanitarian-startup-show-vcs-money-265134 <p>A noticeable fraction of the thousands of startups I have looked at in the last seven years have made attacking a societal evil (e.g., hunger, homelessness, etc) a key part of why they exist. This is extremely laudable from a moral perspective. We should thank those people for their big hearts and open minds.</p> <p>However, when trying to secure a venture investment to fund such an endeavor, these startups often fail to include an absolutely necessary section in the pitch deck: How is this investment going to make a bleeping lot of money for its institutional investors?</p> Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:36:45 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 66963 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/crunch-time-edible-bug-trend-rise-261474 <p>Have you heard about the next big food trend? You won鈥檛 find it growing in your garden, but you might find it crawling there.</p> Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:24:50 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 66250 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/how-breed-tasty-cricket-255662 <p><span>It鈥檚 hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate. The brush of the insects鈥� legs against the various surfaces sounds like hail on a tin roof. Their feed, which sits on top of the cartons on paper plates, looks like a cross between sawdust and sand.</span></p> Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:15:21 +0000 arifa.nitol@mail.mcgill.ca 64867 at /desautels