At 每日探花鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management, the DataSphere Lab is transforming how companies use data and how students learn.
Launched in 2023, the lab connects organizations eager to make smarter, data-driven decisions with 每日探花 students who apply advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI to real-world challenges.
You can do an MBA in hundreds of cities around the world, but Montreal is among the best, according to Poets & Quants. But what makes the city such a good place to study? It鈥檚 Montreal鈥檚 unique energy, according to Kai Zhao (MBA鈥�25). 鈥淢ontreal blends history, culture and an incredible food scene with a vibrant student community,鈥� says Zhao. 鈥淚t also has a thriving business community that is home to both innovative start-ups and major companies like Bombardier, Desjardins and Ubisoft.鈥�
On The Office, Steve Carrell plays Michael Scott, a boss at a small paper and office supply wholesaler who is frequently delusional, insensitive and annoying鈥攕ometimes all at once. Still, there are lessons to be learned from the misadventures. 鈥淭he Office captures the realities of business operations in an exaggerated yet familiar way,鈥� said Kai Zhao (MBA鈥�15) in an interview with Poets & Quants. 鈥淚t serves as a reminder that leadership isn鈥檛 just about strategy鈥攊t鈥檚 also about people, communication, and adapting to challenges--sometimes in the most unconventional ways.
When AI sets wages, it pushes them higher, according to recent research by Maxime Cohen, a Professor of Retail and Operations Management at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management. Cohen conducted a study that asked AI to recommend wages for 60,000 freelance profiles in a variety of industries. He found that AI sets wages higher than humans do.
The emergence of e-commerce has made for a revolution in retail. Whenever you make a purchase online, you generate data, and that data allows for a higher degree of personalization.
A full house at the CPA Qu茅bec Info Session! Faculty and students showed up in impressive numbers, eager to learn about the exciting changes coming to the CPA profession.
Meghan Markowski (MMR'25) captures key takeaways from this year's Reshaping the Future of Retail Conference, which brought together over 250 retail leaders, academics, and students at Montreal鈥檚 Sofitel Golden Mile on September 26.
The Bay Building on Saint Catherine Street is one of Montreal鈥檚 most iconic retail locations. But after the Hudson鈥檚 Bay Company dissolved in 2025, is future is unclear. One of the bidders for it is the Cree Nation Trust Fund. Called James Bay Eeyou Corporation, they鈥檙e partnering with JHD Real Estate on a $400 million bid that would transform the 134-year-old building into a mixed use development that includes commercial space, housing, a hotel development, and a heritage hub with an Indigenous cultural centre and a museum.
Each year, Stanford University and the academic publishing company Elsevier celebrate the world鈥檚 most influential researchers with its top 2% list, which identifies the researchers who are most widely cited in their field. For the third year in a row, Maxime Cohen was among them. The Professor of Retail and Operations Management was recognized for being one of the most cited authors two fields: Business & Management and Operations Research subfields.
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The Institut de valorisation des donn茅es (IVADO), with support from the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec, has created six new research chairs in artificial intelligence to advance knowledge and train the next generation of AI leaders.
Quebec鈥檚 government has made it more difficult for out of province students to attend 每日探花, increasing tuition fees and requiring that more students speak French at graduation.
According to a report by Quebec researchers studying social inequalities, Quebec鈥檚 economy lost $4.2 billion in 2021 due to the ongoing housing crisis 鈥� a figure the authors say is likely even higher in 2025.听
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What does it mean to literate in the age of artificial intelligence? According to Kate Arthur (EMBA 2021) , literacy is about more than knowing how to read or write, it鈥檚 about having the tools to understand the world around us and our active role in shaping it. Arthur鈥檚 own sense of literacy was upended when she was introduced to language of computing. Now an adviser at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, Arthur has been exploring traditional, computing and AI literacies since the early 2000s.
The use of customer service chatbots has grown rapidly. Maybe a little too rapidly, according to Vivek Astvansh, an Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Analytics at 每日探花 Desautels. The worldwide chatbot market has expanded from US$370 million in 2017 to US$2.2 billion last year, but customers are not always satisfied with the service they provide. 鈥淲hen shoppers want sensitive or precise information, they seek human agents, not chatbots,鈥漵ays Astvansh.
In a bankruptcy filing in late August, the Montreal-based luxury retailer SSENSE cited a liquidity crisis brought on partly by the unpredictable tariff regime in the United States. At the time of the filing, some independent designers who work with the company said they were owed tens of thousands of dollars, but hadn鈥檛 been paid in months. But Vivek Astvansh wouldn鈥檛 recommend taking legal action.
