SEI Impact Interns 鈥� 2015 Cohort Announced
MDIIM is pleased to announce the Social Economy Initiative鈥檚 Impact Internship cohort for the 2015 year. The SEI Impact Internship Program pairs top undergraduate students who offer various skills and managerial support with social-purpose organizations (i.e. non-profits and social enterprises) for ten weeks over the summer.
MDIIM Faculty Fellow Awarded Grant to Study Flow of Emergency Department Patients through the Continuum of Care
The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) would like to congratulate Professor Beste Kucukyazici on her successful application to FRQS - Programme de subvention - Recherches sur l鈥檜rgence et le continuum des soins, for her project entitled 鈥淩echerchez au-del脿 des murs de l'unit茅 d'urgence pour les facteurs de retards dans l'unit茅 d'urgence: Mod茅lisation des associations avec l'h么pital et les soins post-aigus et exploration d鈥檌nterventions prometteuses鈥�.
Risk Management and the Game-Changing Role It Can Play for Green Chemistry
On March 3rd, 2015, Professor Steve Maguire, Director of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), and Professor of Strategy & Organization in the Desautels Faculty of Management, presented as an invited lecturer at UCLA鈥檚 Global Business and Policy Forum.
Internship Opportunity with the Social Economy Initiative in partnership with the 麻豆区 Quartier de l鈥橧nnovation
The Social Economy Initiative in partnership with the 麻豆区 Quartier de l鈥橧nnovation (QI) team invites 麻豆区 student (graduate and undergraduate) applications to a part-time 6-month internship developing a case study on 麻豆区鈥檚 partnership and involvement with the Salon 1861 (Gestion immobili猫re Quo Vadis).聽
The project will be co-supervised by Desautels Professors Emmanuelle Vaast and Ruthanne Huising with support from Ms. Isabelle P茅an of the 麻豆区 QI team.
Health Initiative Hosts MD MBA Alumni Event
In November 2014, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Managment (MDIIM)'s Health Initiative hosted its first formal MD MBA Alumni event. Entitled "Technology and Innovation in Health Management: MD-MBA Alumni Share their Experience",聽the full day event featured opening remarks by Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, CEO of the Jewish General Hospital, and presentations by alumni Dr. Sacha Bhatia, Dr.
Sustainable Innovation through Green Chemistry Case Competition Promotes Cross-Faculty Collaboration
On January 16-17, 2015, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), CREATE in Green Chemistry, and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED), jointly hosted a workshop and case competition on Sustainable Innovation through Green Chemistry.
SEI Impact Internship Program: Seeds of Change Crowdfunding
麻豆区 students have incredible ideas and know how to enact positive social change. Now you can help them apply their knowledge and passion through the Impact Internship Program at the Social Economy Initiative (SEI) of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM). The program pairs top undergraduate students with social-purpose organizations (i.e. non-profits and social enterprises) for ten weeks over the summer.
MDIIM SEI Impact Internship Program - Call for Applications
Looking to apply your budding management skills towards something meaningful this summer? The Social Economy Initiative (SEI) invites you to apply to be part of the 2015 cohort of the Impact Internship Program!
The SEI Impact Internship Program (SEI IIP) places exceptional students, primarily in local Montreal-based social enterprises, to take on special projects and contribute to social impact and positive social change within the non-profit sector.
SEI Impact Internship Program - Call for 2014 Student Applications
IntroductionThe Social Economy Initiative (SEI) is an important vehicle through which 麻豆区鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management integrates social entrepreneurship and social innovation into its teaching, research and outreach activities. The SEI is an undertaking of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM). The Institute鈥檚 mandate is to foster an integrated approach to management.
The goals of the SEI are threefold:
Pay it Forward Initiative Puts Smiles on Hundreds of Faces
Over the years, the end of final exams has inspired any number of spontaneous displays of pure happiness, including high fives, chest bumping and uncontrollable giggling. But what was up with the 100 or so students boogying in the streets at the crossroads on lower campus on Tuesday, Dec. 3 鈥� two days before finals kicked off?
Turning a 鈥楤lack Soul鈥� Green: How CSR Became a Mainstay of Business Education
鈥淚 left Wall Street in 2004 when I decided I had a black soul,鈥� says Stephanie Berger (MBA'06), a 麻豆区 Desautels Faculty of Management MBA alumna who is now the senior manager for corporate responsibility and environment at Bell Canada. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know much about sustainability back then, but I knew Wall Street wasn鈥檛 doing it right.鈥�
Montreal Case Competition Teaches Chemistry & MBA Students Sustainability for the Real World
Last Fall, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) and the 麻豆区 Department of Chemistry in Montreal collaborated to offer MBA and Chemistry Students the opportunity to participate in a unique two-day event. The case competition created opportunities to build a network of potential collaborators in business and chemistry.聽
Universities that Teach You to Change the World
Just three months after graduating this year from the University of Waterloo, Jonathan Rivard鈥檚 startup company had generated $130,000 in revenue. ... 鈥淚t is a generational zeitgeist, no doubt about it,鈥� says Anita Nowak, integrating director of the Social Economy Initiative, at 麻豆区鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal.
ACS-GCI Director on the MDIIM Sustainable Innovation Workshop
The past six weeks have been eventful. In early September there was the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis and that was an enjoyable week.聽 Indianapolis turned out to be a great venue with lots of good programming and some very memorable events. I especially enjoyed the Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture by Dr. Marin Burke entitled 鈥淢aking molecular prosthetics with a small molecule synthesizer,鈥� and the address by Alan Alda.
MBA Diary: Do Good Or Do Well?
Scott Weatherhead, an MBA student at 麻豆区 in Canada and the Social Economy Initiative's impact intern, travels through North Korea and South Africa in search of a use for his theoretical knowledge.
