Power Friending (Book Review)

July 5, 2010

As more organizations face the reality that social media is integral in building successful relationships with their audiences/customers, the challenge at hand is how to achieve meaningful relationships.

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How We Won: SIFE Ryerson Reveals its Secret Formula

July 3, 2010

This year, our 100+ members worked on 49 projects that impacted over 4,000 individuals and created over $3.3 million in new economic opportunity. You can imagine how hard it was to compact all of that information into a 24-minute presentation.

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Rebooting the World: a Job For the New Generation

June 23, 2010

The good news, graduates, is that you are finishing school in a country with a strong economy, consistently rated one of the best in the world to live in. But the bad news is that the world my generation is passing on to you is broken.

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Creating Healthy Organizations (Book Review)

June 22, 2010

How Vibrant Workplaces Inspire Employees to Achieve Sustainable Success
Employee empowerment
That term is being thrown around so often these days, that any connotations surrounding it seems to lose its importance and value.
Many organizations have used employee empowerment as leverage to exhibit a sense of organic workplace structure, but most have not successfully invested enough resources to [...]

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Marketing 3.0 (Book Review)

June 21, 2010

Ushering in a new era in marketing

Product, Price, Place and Promotion.
These four P’s build the foundation of marketing that every marketing student has been taught in the last few decades.
But that is all about to change, thanks to one man – Philip Kotler.

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Road to Singapore

June 14, 2010

We first met Olivia Lee in the fall of 2008 when she was president of the McGill Accounting Society (MAS) at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management.
A year later, she was president of the McGill Consulting Association (MCA). After graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in December 2009, she joined the Singapore Exchange as an [...]

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Postcard From France

June 1, 2010

A semester abroad can be one of the most incredible, eye-opening experiences of your university career. It provides a once in a life time opportunity to live in a completely new environment, immerse yourself in a new culture, and study at some of the world’s most renowned business schools. It often forces one to leap out of their comfort zone, and under these circumstances one learns a great deal about themselves that would not otherwise be possible. It also proves to be an incredible opportunity to travel the world!

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From Big Man on Campus to the Big Apple

May 17, 2010

At the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), Derrick Fung was known as a bright student and a leader.

After all, he was president of the Management and Economics Students Association (MESA). Its events attract recruiters from the worlds of accounting, IT and finance.

It’s a world that Fung was very comfortable in: business, money and ambition.

But after graduating in December 2009, he wanted to see what the other side of life was like and joined the Clinton Foundation as an intern.

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Reflections of a Top Economist

May 11, 2010

Don Drummond, chief economist and senior VP of TD Bank, is set to retire at the end of June, at the age of 56.

Following retirement, he will contribute to Queen’s University, where he did his Masters of Arts in economics, as a newly appointed fellow and visiting scholar. Having worked for the federal Department of Finance for 23 years and for TD Bank for the past 10 years, Drummond has gained widespread exposure to both public and private sector economics and was responsible for the recruitment process in both.

This makes him one of the most qualified and knowledgeable sources of guidance for students aspiring to become economists.

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Establishing relationships from the bottom up

May 7, 2010

Steam Whistle continues to succeed because of their holistic approach to relationship management.
by Michael Chu
Successful organizations are only as good as their employees, and while it seems natural that as a company continues to expand, the more structured and hierarchal it usually tends to become, this has not been the case at all with Steam [...]

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Brewing a Passion For Steam Whistle

May 6, 2010

Completing an undergraduate and post-graduate degree in chemical engineering, Steam Whistle is probably the last place you would expect one with these degrees to end up.

But Trish Yee has defied the status quo and landed straight into the working environment of Steam Whistle.

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From Coffee Beans to Yoga; Christine Day on the Retail Environment

April 25, 2010

As the CEO of one of Canada’s most beloved brands, Christine Day is as warm and friendly as the staff who greet you at lululemon stores. But Ms. Day is no stranger to the retail and hospitality market. Before joining lululemon in 2008, she worked for Il Giornale (Starbucks’s predecessor) as an administrative manager and then president of the Starbucks International Group, helping to push the iconic coffee chain to international success. And despite the recent recession, Ms. Day has maintained a strong and loyal lululemon culture among its customers and employees. Her advice to retail management students is simple: gain as much practical experience on the floor as you can.

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