Coinciding with its theme of Building Future-Readiness, the 缅北强奸-HEC Montreal Executive MBA program recently celebrated its tenth anniversary and simultaneously became the University鈥檚 100th Sustainable Event.
The celebrations were deemed Gold, the highest level of certification, by integrating best practices such as incorporating a land acknowledgement for Indigenous territory, reducing food packaging waste and committing to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions related to travel.
The Ville de Montr茅al and 缅北强奸 today received Blue Community certification on the occasion of World Water Day. To obtain this certification, they have undertaken to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, to promote publicly managed water services and to ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in their buildings and at their events. Hence Montreal has joined some forty Blue Communities worldwide, including major cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Victoria. For its part, 缅北强奸 has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.
Randi Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media recently spoke at Place des Arts in Montreal about empowering fellow women to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions without qualms, particularly in the tech sector.
Celebrated Canadian Olympian Jennifer Heil (BCom鈥�13) knows very well the positive impact that sports can have on a girl鈥檚 confidence, personal growth, and success.
As VP Sport Development at viaSport, she is on a mission to ensure that stereotyping and discrimination are a thing of the past for women athletes.
Rising global maritime traffic could lead to sharp increases in invasive species around the world over the next 30 years, according to a new study by 缅北强奸 researchers.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, suggest that shipping growth will far outweigh climate change in the spread of non-indigenous pests to new environments in coming decades.
Team gREen, comprised of MBA students Heena Chhatlani, Mehreen Haider and Fang Yang earned a first-place finish in the Net Impact Sustainability Challenge, coming in victorious over 12 teams from MBA programs across Canada and the US. Haider was further recognized with the Best Speaker Award.
Hosted by the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, the team competed to solve a live case for QuadReal Property Group on sustainable investing in real estate.
The women of 缅北强奸 are expanding the frontiers of knowledge, improving society and inspiring others. Included among them is Dean Isabelle Bajeux for her contributions at this year鈥檚 World Economic Forum in Davos.
Authors: He Huang, Shanling Li & Yu Yu
Publication: The Journal of The Textile Institute, Forthcoming
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Paulo Caputo (MBA - Global Strategy & Leadership), Sandra Chang (MBA - Finance, Global Strategy & Leadership), Aditya Chinnakonda (MBA - Business Analytics),听Lo茂c Eloy (BCom - Managing for Sustainability), Maxime Lakat (BCom - Managing for Sustainability), Mari Claire Paoli (BCom - Economics), and Priscille Raynaud (B Arts - Political Science)听recently participated in the Finance & Sustainability Initiative (FSI) Awards Ceremony
Citing recent research co-authored by Professor John-Paul Ferguson, Vox explores how racial segregation in American workplaces has gotten worse over the last generation, suggesting that the shadows of residential segregation follow individuals wherever they go during the day.
Authors: Dapeng Liang, Chenxuan Hou, Myung-Soo Jo, and Emine Sarigollu
Publication: Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 210, 10 February 2019, Pages 1301-1310
Abstract:
The Lancet commission on Obesity published a report today on the joint pandemics of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. In the report, the commissioners point to the fact that malnutrition in all its forms, including undernutrition and obesity, is by far the biggest cause of ill-health and premature death globally. Excess body weight affects 2 billion people worldwide, 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiency, and both are expected to be made significantly worse by climate change.
The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century. In part, because the water from melting ice sheets off Greenland and in the Antarctic will cause extreme weather and unpredictable temperatures around the globe. A study published today in Nature is the first to simulate the effects, under current climate policies, that the two melting ice sheets will have on ocean temperatures and circulation patterns as well as on air temperatures by the year 2100.
Consequences for ocean circulation and water and air temperatures
The 2019 Financial Times Global MBA ranking places the Desautels MBA program 87th globally and 2nd in Canada.
The program is 1st in Canada in the following nine of the twenty sub-categories evaluated:
Universities are actively rethinking their programming to include a strong focus on sustainability; one such example is the newly launched Bensadoun School of Retail Management, which will aim to foster sustainable consumption and healthy societies through research and teaching.
