Desautels Faculty of Management

The Desautels Faculty of Management is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. The Faculty has been host to the McGill Management International Case Competition (MMICC) since 2001. It has been hailed as a top business school in Canada by the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Le Figaro and America Economia.

History

Officially founded in 1906 as the McGill School of Commerce, the faculty originated from a two year commerce program first offered in 1906. The faculty expanded in 1968 by incorporating the Graduate School of Business Administration which graduated McGill's first MBA class.

In 2005, the Faculty of Management was named in honor of Marcel Desautels, a retired executive from the credit reference industry, who made several gifts of more than $32 million total to the faculty. With the funding, several improvements were made to modernize the faculty facilities during 2007 and 2008. In 2007, Marcel Desautels received an honorary McGill doctorate in recognition of his outstanding contributions to business education. In July 2008, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the highest civilian honours bestowed by the Canadian government.

Rankings

Desautels Faculty of Management has consistently been ranked as one of the best business schools in the world. For example, its MBA program was rated as "top 16 outside of USA" in Business Week; "11th outside of USA" in Forbes 2007; "57th in the world" in Financial Times 2011; and "2nd in Canada" and "29th in North America" in the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report^[2], topping other notable Canadian business schools such as Sauder School of Business and the Schulich School of Business.[1]

• In 2010, the Desautels School of Management was ranked first in Canada and 8th in the world by the Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking ^[3]

• In the most recent publication of The Aspen Institute's biannual ranking of MBA programs, Desautels was ranked #31 among the top 100 business schools in the world, above reputable institutions such as London Business School, Dartmouth College, Northwestern University and HEC Paris .^[4]

Academics

The faculty offers a range of undergraduate and graduate-level business programs including the Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy in management degrees. The faculty also offers joint programs with the Faculties of Law and Medicine. The MBA program was redesigned in 2007.

Core Programs

BCom Majors and Concentrations

BCom International Management Program

Executive Education

• McGill Executive Institute

Research Centers

• Business and Management Research Centre
• Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations (CSSO)
• Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies
• e-Social Lab
• Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre
• Management Science Research Centre
• McGill Institute of Marketing (MIM)
• Power Corporation Centre for International Management Studies

Notable faculty

• Henry Mintzberg – Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies
• Reuven Brenner – REPAP Professor of Economics
• Karl Moore – Associate Professor of Strategy & Leadership

Notable alumni

• John Cleghorn - Former chair and CEO, RBC Royal Bank Financial Group
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - Chair of the Seagram Company
• Seymour Schulich - Founder of Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation and Chairman of Newmont Capital Limited
• Darren Entwistle - President and Chief Executive Officer of Telus
• Paul Desmarais, Jr. - Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada

• Jennifer Heil

References

External links

• Desautels Faculty of Management
• FT - Business school rankings