Published April 17, 2013 by The McGill Reporter Ten months ago, I volunteered to help organize Desautels’ fifth annual Hot Cities of the World trip. I enjoy the challenge of detailed logistics; in my pre-MBA life, I booked national concert tours and publicity campaigns. As it turns out, booking a Canadian tour and booking a [...]
Published April 16, 2013 by The Economist: MY FIRST impression of Russia was the same as everyone who visits in winter: even for a Canadian, it was nippy. I was visiting Moscow and St Petersburg as part of a programme called the Hot Cities Tour, organised by McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. I and [...]
Published April 8, 2013 by the Montreal Gazette MONTREAL — Russia has been widely promoted as one of the BRICS nations, full of energy and dynamism like many leading emerging economies. Indeed, with its low unemployment figures, growing GDP, and recent WTO membership, it could be heralded as a poster child of the shifting concentration [...]
Every year, Montreal’s McGill University takes a complement of students, faculty and alumni to a city considered an emerging economic power. Past trips have included tours of Israel, Dubai, India and South Africa. This year, the ”Hot Cities” tour took 34 students, plus faculty and alumni, to Moscow. To listen to the interview and read [...]
Last week, three trip participants ran a bake sale in the Bronfman Building lobby, and raised more than $300 for Kitezh Children’s Community. For more information about Kitezh Children’s Community, and to donate, please click here.
On March 26, 2013, Professor Karl Moore and Emma Bambrick were interviewed for Global’s Breakfast Television. You can view the video here:
TALKING MANAGEMENT KARL MOORE Special to The Globe and Mail KARL MOORE – This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University with Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am delighted to be with 44 McGill students in Moscow and we are meeting, this evening, with the chief [...]
Karl Moore sits down with Marina Treshchova, CEO of Fast Lane Ventures, Enterprises, to discuss the many opportunities for women leaders in Russia Click here for the video
By Alan Maishman The St. Petersburg Times Published: March 13, 2013 (Issue # 1750) Last weekend St. Petersburg hosted a group of 37 business students and alumni from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, as part of the institution’s “Hot Cities” initiative. The tour started in Moscow, with visits to the Skolkovo Business School, Fast Lane [...]
