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

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“… If you earn $300,000 a year, sitting on the audit committee of a top company, do you have much incentive to blow the whistle on the firm that’s offering you this nice sideline? And did you know that in the U.S. there is no law to stop a nefarious CEO from papering his audit team with his golf buddies? The University of Tennessee’s Joseph Carcello has tales of negligent audit committees, conflict of interest and fraudulent incidents, with studies to back them up”. Read complete post and follow the forum, day by day.

We now have all the relevant information concerning the Innovating Enterprises: Video Gaming and the Arts workshop. It will take place on Friday October 2nd, at 9:15 am. Among the guests will be Francis Baillet, Vice President of Human Resources at Ubisoft Montréal, who will discuss innovation in management. Both sessions of the workshop will allow us to discover how creative businesses can create bridges between artists and industry, and the new management models that can be developed to stimulate creativity, a major engine of economic development.

The keynote speaker Michael Bloom will give some answers to the essential question ‘Are Graduates Ready for Business?’ on Thursday October 1st, 2009 during his morning presentation.

In effect, “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 of Canada’s Report Card on Management, Business, and Finance Education in Canada: Are Graduates Ready for Business?“.


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The Conference Board of Canada has recently published a new report entitled: Report Card on Management, Business and Finance Education in Canada: Are Graduates Ready for Business? This report is based on a survey of managers in the private and public sectors. The result presents the grades which these managers assign to management, business and [...]

The event will take place in a week’s time and the list of speakers is now complete. You can find summaries of all the keynote speakers’ respective presentations by following the many links on our website. Recently, conference summaries for the presentation of Chad Gaffield, as well as Sheila Brown and Jean-Marie Toulouse, have been added to our website. Chad Gaffield will stress the importance of human capital in the innovation process on September 30th, while Sheila Brown and Jean-Marie Toulouse will present the conclusions of the Council of Canadian Academies’ report: “Better Research for Better Business”, on October 1st.

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 [...]

Thursday October 1st “Better Research for Better Business”: Report of the Council of Canadian Academies The Council of Canadian Academies has mandated a group of experts to evaluate the situation of MBF research (management-business-finance) in Canada, to compare the Canadian performance with other countries and to propose new courses of action, priorities and political orientations. [...]

Mr Howard Thomas, Chair of the AACSB International and of the Association of Business Schools, will open a day-long series of workshops grouped under the theme “Emerging Issues”, on Friday October 2nd at 8 am. During his presentation entitled Business Schools and Management Research: Evaluation, Impact and Future Evolution, Mr Thomas will reflect on the current debates about research in management.

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Wednesday September 30th Rethinking Innovation for the 21st Century: Putting People in the Picture It has become increasingly clear that innovation is driven by people—their viewpoints and knowledge. At the heart of this appreciation of “human capital” is an understanding of the importance of a strong civil society with a sophisticated capacity for global engagement, [...]

Friday October 2nd Business Schools and Management Research: Evaluation, Impact and Future Evolution Ongoing debate about research in business schools suggest tensions between the research goals of rigour and relevance. This has led to a perceived problematic gap in the relationship between theory and practice in management research. This controversy is examined and it is [...]