The Desautels Faculty of Management ranked among the 40 most sustainable MBAs in the world in 2022. The Better World ranking is conducted by Corporate Knights and considers criteria like sustainability research output and classroom teaching. Desautels made the cut in part because of its strengths in sustainability-related research intensity and the diversity of its faculty.
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Published on: 2 Dec 2022
How would definitions of business growth and success change if entrepreneurship ventures decided that instead of scaling up, they would 鈥渟cale deep鈥�? While scaling up allows an organization to pursue fast expansion with goals of going national or global, scaling deep lets an organization pursue enduring growth and sustainability anchored to its original location.
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Published on: 24 Nov 2022
Three projects will fill knowledge gaps about the environmental and economic impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen Canada's capacity to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Published on: 24 Nov 2022
On November 14, the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics hosted students, faculty, staff, donors, alumni and friends of 缅北强奸 Desautels for the official launch of the Centre.
The Laidley Centre for Business Ethics will serve as a hub for 缅北强奸 researchers across disciplines, from law and religion to economics and engineering, to work toward solutions for the most pressing ethical issues of our time.
Published on: 23 Nov 2022
The Government of Canada鈥檚 Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), is investing more than $4 million in three 缅北强奸-led projects through the Climate Awareness and Action Fund (CAAF). Nationally, the funding was part of a $58 million investment in research that will advance climate change science and technology, an announcement made by the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change today.
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Published on: 23 Nov 2022
Politics has pervaded the world of business, writes Prof. Karl Moore in Forbes.com. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and equity, diversity聽and inclusion (EDI) are both聽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聽qualities that have historically been concealed to entrench a leader鈥檚 authority.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2022
The World Health Organization鈥檚 are that over 4.2 million people die prematurely each year due to long-term exposure to fine particulate outdoor air pollution (often referred to as PM2.5,). A recent study involving 缅北强奸 researchers now suggests that the annual global death toll from outdoor PM2.5 may be significantly higher than previously thought.
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Published on: 8 Nov 2022
RBC has positioned itself as a champion of clean economic growth 鈥� but has continued to finance fossil fuel industry, according to a complaint filed with Canada鈥檚 Competition Bureau. The Bureau has opened an inquiry into greenwashing at Canada鈥檚 largest bank, but that鈥檚 only the first step according to Dror Etzion, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at Desautels.
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Published on: 31 Oct 2022
Ice buildup on powerlines and electric towers brought the northern US and southern Canada to a standstill during the Great Ice Storm of 1998, leaving many in the cold and dark for days and even weeks. Whether it is on wind turbines, electric towers, drones, or airplane wings, dealing with ice buildup typically depends on techniques that are time consuming, costly and/or use a lot of energy, along with various chemicals. But, by looking to nature, 缅北强奸 researchers believe that they have found a promising new way of dealing with the problem.
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Published on: 24 Oct 2022
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Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid
What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?
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Published on: 21 Oct 2022
Canadian scientists will contribute to assessing and addressing climate change thanks to a new satellite mission that has received more than $200 million from the Canadian federal government. This is Canada鈥檚 contribution to a major multi-satellite mission led by NASA, the (AOS) mission, and will improve extreme weather prediction, climate modelling, and the monitoring of disasters.
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Published on: 19 Oct 2022
Congratulations to Anna Kim,聽Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization, and Sustainability, who was awarded a聽2022 SSHRC Insight Grant
鈥淩esilience and Impact of Social Enterprises鈥�
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Published on: 13 Oct 2022
Two renewable resources 鈥� cellulose from wood pulp and chitin from the shells of crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans 鈥� are known to industrial chemists for their potential for creating highly versatile nanocrystals, useful for making pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, industrial additives and much more.聽
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Published on: 3 Oct 2022
Blue-green algae (AKA cyanobacteria) have a superpower which likely helps them be highly successful as invaders of waterways. They have an extraordinary ability to store energy and nitrogen in their cells for times of need. But how exactly they do so remains only partly understood.
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Published on: 30 Sep 2022
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Published on: 28 Sep 2022
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