Advancing Canada's Competitive Advantage – A national forum on management

Thursday October 1st

Are Graduates Ready for Business?: The Role of Management Education in Preparing Managers to Build Canada’s Competitive Advantage

Achieving Canada’s competitive advantage in innovation and commercialization success depends as much on management leadership as it does on scientific and technological advances. Innovation requires not just the capacity to generate good ideas, but the ability to execute effectively. Consequently, Canada’s economic and social performance rides on how well management education fares in producing future generations of managerial talent. How are management programs doing so far in producing that talent?

In this presentation, Dr. Michael Bloom will discuss what is required for innovation and entrepreneurial excellence; identify what is needed in management to achieve such excellence; and highlight some findings from the Conference Board’s Report Card on Management, Business, and Finance Education in Canada: Are Graduates Ready for Business? which presents the perspectives of leaders in business, government, and non-profit organizations on how well-prepared graduates are to lead and manage innovation and organizational excellence. Reflecting on the gaps between what is needed and what is being produced in management programs, Dr. Bloom will offer some ideas about what changes and resources might be required to close the gaps.

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Mr H. Allan Conway, Dean at the Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, will be moderator of the conference.

The conference will take place at the Amphitheatre IBM at HEC Montréal, at 8:30 am.