/desautels/taxonomy/term/293/all en /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-students%E2%80%99-plans-help-rebuild-lac-megantic-win-praise-237230 <p>One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-Mégantic, igniting and razing much of the town’s commercial centre, three ���ϲ����� University students with a passion for social entrepreneurship have become part of the town’s efforts to rebuild.</p> Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:13:32 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62875 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/bold-ideas-take-flight-mcgill-dobson-cup-237302 <p><span>One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014 </span><span>���ϲ����� Dobson Cup</span><span>, the annual start-up competition hosted by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Desautels Faculty of Management. The Centre provides resources and support to all entrepreneurs across ���ϲ����� and Montreal communities.</span></p> Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:53:11 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62885 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/taking-stock-social-business-activities-academia-296865 <p>An interview with Desautels lecturer <strong>Anita Nowak</strong> is featured in the 2019 Academia Report on Social Business, an overview compiled by the YY Foundation of the diverse social business activities that take place at academic institutions around the world.</p> <p> </p> Fri, 03 May 2019 17:39:03 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 74393 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-business-students-focus-helping-syrian-refugees-260661 <p>Every semester, ���ϲ����� University faculty lecturer <strong>Anita Nowak</strong> challenges her students to come up with projects for her social entrepreneurship and social innovation class based on a theme that she finds particularly timely and relevant.</p> <p>For this semester, it was helping Syrian refugees integrate into Canadian society.</p> Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:10:23 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 65999 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/lifetime-academia-259126 <p>When <strong>Anita Nowak</strong>, GrDip 99, studied in the graduate diploma program of Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies, she says “a whole new world of cultural studies opened up to me.”</p> <p>Upon graduation, she helped launch the Social Economy Initiative (SEI) at ���ϲ�����’s Desautels Faculty of Management, serving as its integrating director for two years. The SEI was launched to integrate social entrepreneurship and social innovation into the faculty’s teaching, research and outreach.</p> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:24:48 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 65645 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-students-give-future-syrian-newcomers-english-lessons-online-257614 <p>Many people are offering help to Syrian refugees after they arrive in Quebec, but students are reaching out to refugees while they remain overseas.</p> <p>... <span>"We're filling that void," said <strong>Anita Nowak</strong>.</span></p> <p>The Mentor-in-Residence at ���ϲ����� said the image of Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian boy who drowned trying to make it to Turkey, motivated them to reach out overseas.</p> <p>Read full article: <a href="http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mcgill-students-give-future-syrian-newcomers-english-lessons-online-1.2724614">CTV News</a>, January 5, 2016</p> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:30:04 +0000 veronique.beaulieu-fowler@mcgill.ca 65436 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/debate-what-role-business-humanitarian-issues-256916 <p>What is the wider role of business in society? While it has long been acknowledged that big businesses in particular have a part to play – by virtue of their place in society as well as the people directly affected by their supply chains – just how much of a role and in what capacity is the subject of much debate.</p> <p>A debate much like the one you’re about to read, between <strong>Anita Nowak</strong> of ���ϲ����� University’s Desautels School of Management and Frank Wijen of the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University…</p> Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:07:05 +0000 arifa.nitol@mail.mcgill.ca 65304 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/trois-programmes-dans-lair-du-temps-256867 <p>Des milliers d'étudiants de partout dans le monde suivent gratuitement le cours en ligne <strong>Social Learning for Social Impact</strong>, travaillent en équipe et apprennent à réaliser des initiatives sociales qui auront des retombées. C'est la proposition du MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) de groupe, une première à <strong>l'Université ���ϲ�����</strong>.</p> <p>Read full article: <a href="http://affaires.lapresse.ca/portfolio/programmes-universitaires/201511/10/01-4919281-trois-programmes-dans-lair-du-temps.php" target="_blank">LaPresse</a>, November 10, 2015</p> Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:55:41 +0000 arifa.nitol@mail.mcgill.ca 65279 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/different-kind-mooc-255846 <p>The Desautels Faculty of Management launched a world’s first on September 16, coining a new word in the process. According to the people who put the course together, “<strong>Social Learning for Social Impact</strong>” is the very first <strong>GROOC</strong> (Group MOOC), a new massive open online course that’s designed to foster social collaboration, interaction and learning.</p> Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:43:51 +0000 arifa.nitol@mail.mcgill.ca 64888 at /desautels