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Tariff loophole fuelling Canadian warehouse sector

webfull — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:38:07 +0000

Tariffs drive up prices for businesses, but some companies are finding a creative loophole to avoid some US tariffs. When a company imports a tariffed good, it pays a tariff. But it doesn’t pay a tariff if the goods are only passing through on the way to a final destination. This creates an incentive for US companies to store inventory in Canada. They can park products here until they sell them, and only pay tariffs on goods that are actually bound for the US market.

Published: 26 June 2025

Stephanie Shaw on leading global HR at Eldorado Gold

webfull — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:34:53 +0000

��ɫֱ�� MBA alumna Stephanie Shaw (MBA’10) is vice-president of human resources at Eldorado Gold, where she leads a global team supporting 5,000 employees. Based in Vancouver, Shaw is driving a new people strategy focused on inclusive leadership, employee experience and digital transformation.

Published: 26 June 2025

��ɫֱ�� Desautels finance students expand horizons with small-cap fund

webfull — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:50:08 +0000

Thanks to a generous donation from Montreal finance leader J. Sebastian Van Berkom, students in the Honours in Investment Management (HIM) program at ��ɫֱ��’s Desautels Faculty of Management will now manage a newly launched small-cap fund through Desautels Capital Management (DCM)—Canada’s first university-owned registered investment firm.

Published: 19 June 2025

MMF ranked #1 in North America by Financial Times

webfull — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:05:47 +0000

The ��ɫֱ�� Master of Management in Finance (MMF) has placed on the 2025 Financial Times (FT) (pre-experience) Masters in Finance rankings list, coming in 38th out of 70 schools globally.

Published: 16 June 2025

Clarity is key when passing control of a family business to the next generation

webfull — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:27:40 +0000

Even the most successful family businesses often don’t withstand the march of time. Just because one generation had what the right skills and temperament to run a business doesn’t mean their grandchildren will. But the Vancouver-based chocolate maker Purdys Chocolate bucks the trend, with a third-generation leader poised to take the helm.

Published: 13 June 2025

Emerging tech can help make business’ more resilient

webfull — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:23:31 +0000

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence have the power to boost business’ efficiency, but they can also make an organizations more resilient.

Predictive analytics are one way that companies can help ensure they’re prepared for whatever comes next. Predictive analytics can turn raw data into, writes Karl Moore in Forbes.com.

Published: 13 June 2025

MBA graduate learned the art of networking at ��ɫֱ��

webfull — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:20:18 +0000

For Renaud Thomassin, being a francophone at ��ɫֱ�� unlocked a new way of being Quebecois--one in which you can navigate easily between cultures.

“Beyond the knowledge and skills that I gained, I also discovered the art of networking--and it’s already opened doors for me,” says Thomassin, a MBA graduate. He encourages others who have only studied at francophone schools to consider ��ɫֱ��. “The university offered me an incredible experience and unique opportunities.”

Published: 13 June 2025

Intermingling of business and corporate affairs makes governing country as “CEO” impossible

webfull — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:06:07 +0000

After the federal government’s speech from the throne in May 2025, Bloc Québecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet accused Prime Minister Mark Carney of seeking to centralize power and act as Canada’s CEO. But running a country like a CEO may not be possible. After all, a country is simply not the same as a company.

Published: 13 June 2025

Hamid Etemad earns global recognition

webfull — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:13:49 +0000

Hamid Etemad has been named a 2024 Top Scholar by Scholar GPS. Over a long and distinguished career, the Associate Professor of Marketing has been recognized for his excellence in teaching and research, Scholar GPS recognized Etemad as being in the top 0.5% of scholars in his field. Etemad’s research has probed the role of technology in business and its impact in emerging market economies.

Published: 6 June 2025

Leedana is bringing agriculture to the desert--and it got its start at Desautels

webfull — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:54:52 +0000

Egypt’s Nile River Valley has some of the most fertile land in the world. But most of the country is a barren desert where few plants can grow. Hassan Elrakhawy (BCom’24) wants to change that. The Egyptian-born entrepreneur founded Leedana, a startup that uses a technique called sandponics, which can reduce the amount of water needed to cultivate crops by up to 90%. The company already has farms in Egypt that grow cherry tomatoes, peppers, kale, lettuce and more. And other farms are under construction elsewhere.

Published: 5 June 2025