MIF Interns: Tips for Teams
Managing interns may seem like a simple activity for researchers, but this is less the case when it comes to working with people who have different skill sets. How do you determine the quality of the work? How to ensure the intern is motivated and engaged? What are some red flags that might be missed when dealing with non-technical positions? This session will help MIF teams get the most from their interns.
ɬ-HEC Montréal EMBA Online Information Session: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
This ɬ-HEC Montréal EMBA information session will feature the Executive MBA’s:
[EVENT POSTPONED TO FALL 2025] SGI student spotlight luncheon
Join us for a lunch session featuring a ɬ student team that recently participated in the ENGCOMM World 2025 competition. ENGCOMM is the first and only global case competition that challenges teams to tackle real-world problems through a combination of engineering and commerce perspectives, working with cases provided by industry sponsors.
The ɬ team will share their experiences, insights, and takeaways from the competition, followed by a Q&A session.
Startup Finances
In this workshop, you'll learn how venture capitalists (VCs) typically value an early-stage innovation-driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.
Startup Finances
In this workshop, you'll learn how venture capitalists (VCs) typically value an early-stage innovation-driven venture.
MIF + MSSI: Graduate entrepreneurship panel
While there is a growing awareness and interest in entrepreneurship, for many people it remains an undiscovered country. Full of promise, but completely unknown. In particular, students in sustainability may feel they have even fewer options than their counterparts in business school.
Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre (DGFRC) Seminar: Bo Sun
Prepayment Option and Firm Risk-taking
Date: Friday, May 2, 2025 Time: 10:30-11:45 am Location: Bronfman Bldg. (1001 Sherbrooke St. West), Room 245
All are cordially invited to attend.
2025 ɬ Desautels inter-area EDI research conference
Join us on Thursday, May 8th, 2025, for a day dedicated to exploring and discussing cutting-edge research in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). This conference aims to provide researchers with valuable opportunities to learn about diverse EDI research works from various fields and foster scholarly interactions that can lead to impactful collaborations.
ɬ Institute of Marketing (MIM) Seminar: Johannes Boegershausen
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Limiting Accessibility: How Targeting Consumers with Disabilities Constrains Acceptable Prices for Innovations
Date: Friday, May 8, 2025 Time: 10:30 am-12:00 pm EST Location: Bronfman building, room 045
All are cordially invited to attend.
Startup Funding
Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what a venture capital fund is, its structure and how they operate, and what venture capitalists (VCs) look for in an early-stage innovation-driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs), and caveats when raising money.
Startup Funding
Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal".
Organizational Behavior Area Research Seminar Series: Bill McEvily
Transient Boundary Spanning as a Connective Current in Organizations
Date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Time: 10:30 AM -12:00 PM Location: Armstrong building, Room 155A
All are cordially invited to attend.
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CSSO Speaker Series: Suntae Kim
Date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Location: Bronfman building, Room 310
MIF Lunch & Learn 20: From researcher to entrepreneur
The road from researcher to entrepreneur can be filled with roadblocks and pitfalls, but it can also be filled with rewarding successes. But how to know when the timing is right to take the plunge? And what to expect when you do? Join us to hear from the experiences of researchers who have founded their own companies which are still running today. Our panelists are Nancy Mayo and Alina Venereo-Sanchez.
MMA Online Information Session: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Join Shoeb Hosain, Program Director, for a one-hour information session outlining the Master of Management in Analytics program at ɬ's Desautels Faculty of Management.
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (EST)