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December 11, 2017

Ontario Should Revise Discriminatory Policy Against Refugee Drivers

Toron­to, ON – Ontario’s Min­istry of Trans­porta­tion should revise its pol­i­cy and allow expe­ri­enced dri­vers from war-torn coun­tries to skip the one-year wait­ing peri­od before their final dri­ving tests — an exemp­tion avail­able to oth­er new­com­ers in Ontario as well as refugees in oth­er provinces, the Inter­na­tion­al Human Rights Pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Fac­ul­ty […]

December 6, 2017

Team of Rotman Evening MBA Students Advances to Regional Finals for the Hult Prize

Toron­to, ON – A team of stu­dents from the Evening MBA pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have won the UofT quar­ter­fi­nal qual­i­fy­ing round to advance to the region­al finals of the Hult Prize, the world’s largest stu­dent com­pe­ti­tion for social entre­pre­neurs. Puri­fire, con­sist­ing of Daniel Weng, Andrea Lo, Niru­san Rajaku­len­dran, […]

November 21, 2017

New Financial Innovation Hub Established at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

Toron­to, ON – A new part­ner­ship has been launched at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment to pro­mote and devel­op ini­tia­tives for stu­dents and fac­ul­ty in the area of finan­cial inno­va­tion across all of the school’s pro­grams. The Rot­man Finan­cial Inno­va­tion Hub in Advanced Ana­lyt­ics (Rot­man Fin­Hub) will cre­ate new class­es and learn­ing […]

November 20, 2017

Rotman MBAS Win International Private Equity Competition

Toron­to, ON – For the sec­ond week in a row a team of Full Time MBA stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have won a pres­ti­gious inter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion. On Sat­ur­day, the Rot­man stu­dents won the Rot­ter­dam School of Man­age­ment Pri­vate Equi­ty Com­pe­ti­tion in Ams­ter­dam defeat­ing teams from INSEAD, IESE and George­town Uni­ver­si­ty […]

November 17, 2017

U of T celebrates the opening of One Spadina Crescent

Toron­to, ON – Today, the John H. Daniels Fac­ul­ty of Archi­tec­ture, Land­scape, and Design cel­e­brat­ed the offi­cial open­ing of its new home — the Daniels Build­ing — at his­toric One Spad­i­na Cres­cent. Locat­ed on the west­ern edge of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s St. George cam­pus just north of Col­lege Street, the icon­ic neo-goth­ic build­ing and […]

November 14, 2017

Rotman School Professor and Former Dean Named as Most Influential Management Thinker in the World

Toron­to, ON – A pro­fes­sor and for­mer Dean of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment was named as the num­ber one man­age­ment thinker in the world by Thinkers50, the pre­mier rank­ing of glob­al busi­ness thinkers. Prof. Roger Mar­tin, the for­mer Dean of the Rot­man School from 1998 to 2012, received the hon­our dur­ing […]

November 13, 2017

Rotman MBA Students Win Kellogg Business Design Challenge

Toron­to, ON – A team of MBA stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have won the Kel­logg Busi­ness Design Chal­lenge host­ed by the Kel­logg School of Management’s Inno­va­tion and Design Asso­ci­a­tion. The long-run­n­ing com­pe­ti­tion, which invites stu­dents to apply design think­ing to a real-world busi­ness chal­lenge, was opened up to teams […]

November 6, 2017

Canadian Gender and Good Governance Alliance Established to Advance Gender Diversity on Boards and Executive Positions

Toron­to, ON –Sev­en of Canada’s most active and influ­en­tial orga­ni­za­tions ded­i­cat­ed to advanc­ing good gov­er­nance and gen­der equal­i­ty in the work­place, includ­ing the Clark­son Cen­tre for Board Effec­tive­ness at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment, have come togeth­er to form the Cana­di­an Gen­der and Good Gov­er­nance Alliance (CGGGA). The new group aims to […]

November 1, 2017

Chair Established at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in Honour of BMO’s William Downe

Toron­to, ON – A new chair has been estab­lished in hon­our of William Downe, a grad­u­ate of the MBA pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. The chair was announced at the Rot­man Alum­ni Awards Din­ner on Octo­ber 18 where Downe received a Life­time Achieve­ment Award. Downe is the for­mer Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer […]

October 30, 2017

What Can Companies Do to Stay Alive Asks New Book from Strategic Management Faculty at UofT’s Rotman School Management

Toron­to, ON – From Volk­swag­on to BP, from Black­ber­ry to Bom­bardier, from Unit­ed Air­lines to Equifax, busi­ness­es — large and small — face threats to their sur­vival. These wor­ries keep cor­po­rate lead­ers awake and night. Is there any­thing busi­ness­es can do about it? This ques­tion and more is answered in new book, Sur­vive and Thrive: […]

October 25, 2017

Canadian Scientists and Organizations Honoured for Their Impact by University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab

Toron­to, ON – Orga­ni­za­tions and researchers whose work has had an impact on Cana­di­an com­pet­i­tive­ness in the areas of sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and com­merce have been hon­oured with the third annu­al awards pre­sent­ed by the Cre­ative Destruc­tion Lab (CDL) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. The awards are designed around the pri­ma­ry ingre­di­ents in […]

October 19, 2017

New Program in Management Analytics Launched at UofT’s Rotman School of Management

Toron­to, ON – A new pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment aims to equip grad­u­ates with the skills to suc­ceed in the field of man­age­ment ana­lyt­ics. The Mas­ter of Man­age­ment Ana­lyt­ics (MMA) is a rig­or­ous nine-month pro­gram aimed at recent uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ates and pro­vides stu­dents with advanced data man­age­ment, ana­lyt­i­cal and […]

October 18, 2017

Rotman Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to BMO’s William Downe

Toron­to, ON – William Downe, a grad­u­ate of the MBA pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment, will be hon­oured today at the Rot­man Alum­ni Awards Din­ner with a Life­time Achieve­ment Award. Downe is Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of BMO Finan­cial Group. He receives the award in recog­ni­tion of his out­stand­ing com­mit­ment to enhanc­ing […]

October 18, 2017

Survey Provides Rare Insight into the Governance of Private Family Businesses

Toron­to, ON – Fam­i­ly busi­ness­es, arguably the most impor­tant con­trib­u­tors to Canada’s econ­o­my, rec­og­nize the need for strong gov­er­nance, but approach board over­sight in a vari­ety of ways depend­ing on their size and stage of matu­ri­ty. A sur­vey con­duct­ed by the Insti­tute of Cor­po­rate Direc­tors (ICD) and the Clark­son Cen­tre for Board Effec­tive­ness (CCBE) at […]

October 17, 2017

Is the municipal electoral system in need of reform?

Toron­to, ON – With munic­i­pal elec­tions in Ontario, British Colum­bia, Man­i­to­ba, PEI, and the Ter­ri­to­ries just one year away, it is a good time to look at the way we vote. Is it in need of reform? In a new paper released by the Insti­tute on Munic­i­pal Finance and Gov­er­nance at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Munk […]

October 10, 2017

U of T’s Creative Destruction Lab Announces Expansion to New York City

Toron­to, ON – Today one of the world’s pre­mier seed-stage pro­grams for mas­sive­ly scal­able sci­ence-based ven­tures at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment announced its lat­est expan­sion. The Cre­ative Destruc­tion Lab will part­ner with the Stern School of Busi­ness at New York Uni­ver­si­ty to estab­lish the first Lab out­side of Cana­da – CDL New […]

October 6, 2017

U of T’s Creative Destruction Lab Appoints Inaugural Executive Director

Toron­to, ON – The first Nation­al Exec­u­tive Direc­tor has been cho­sen to lead one of the world’s pre­mier seed-stage pro­grams for mas­sive­ly scal­able sci­ence-based ven­tures at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Sonia Sen­nik is the inau­gur­al Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the UofT’s Cre­ative Destruc­tion Lab and its nation­al net­work of pro­grams.  She will be […]

October 4, 2017

“Nudge-a-thon” at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management Tackles Public Transit Fare Evasion

Toron­to, ON – Fare evaders are a prob­lem faced by pub­lic tran­sit sys­tems in cities across the world. Evaders are will­ing to break the law and risk a sig­nif­i­cant penal­ty for the free ride. In Toron­to, fare eva­sion is esti­mat­ed to cost around $20 mil­lion a year in lost rev­enue. An event at the Uni­ver­si­ty […]

September 25, 2017

Scholarship in Honour of JosepRotman Awarded at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

Toron­to, ON – For the sec­ond year, a Joseph L. Rot­man Schol­ar­ship has been award­ed to an incom­ing stu­dent in the Full-Time MBA pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Heather Beat­ty is the recip­i­ent of the full tuition schol­ar­ship, which she received, based on the strength of her over­all appli­ca­tion to […]

September 20, 2017

Fujitsu Laboratories and University of Toronto Enter Strategic Partnership

Toron­to, ON – Kawasa­ki, Japan and Toron­to, Cana­da, Sep­tem­ber 20, 2017 Fujit­su Lab­o­ra­to­ries Ltd. and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to have entered into a new part­ner­ship, with Fujit­su Lab­o­ra­to­ries estab­lish­ing a new research cen­ter in Toron­to focused on bol­ster­ing R&D into break­through quan­tum com­put­ing tech­nolo­gies. In a wide vari­ety of fields, includ­ing health­care, finance, logis­tics, pub­lic pol­i­cy, […]