April 2024

Dear colleagues,

Summer is just around the corner! It was another busy term with lots of highlights that I will share with you here.

External recognitions

Congratulations to Sophie Audousset-Coulier, associate professor in the Department of Accountancy, on being named co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Comptabilité Contrôle Audit - Accounting Auditing Control (CCA-AAC).

Associate Professor in the Department of Finance Erkan Yönder was recently featured on CTV Montreal and in La Presse. He shared his expert commentary on the impact of flooding on residential mortgages. You can see the CTV clip here (begins at 10:20) and the La Presse piece here.

In the latest EdUniversal Best Masters Ranking, we ranked among the top in North America for our MSc programs. Our MBA and EMBA continue to move up in the rankings as well. Bravo!

Events

We were fortunate to host Ulric Jerome, BA 00, a distinguished entrepreneur and investor, in an event hosted by the National Bank Initiative in Entrepreneurship and Family Business on April 2. You can watch the video of the event and see photos here.

The next day, President Graham Carr was in conversation with one of our grads, Karen Hogan, who is the auditor general of Canada. I’m always thrilled to see our alumni move into such distinguished roles and return to our School to share their insights and experience. You can see photos from that event here.

It was a busy first week of April! The next day, the Concordia Real Estate Club (CREC) hosted Andrew Lutfy at an event off campus. Lutfy discussed his career journey, his insights on emerging trends and innovation in real estate and where he believes the market is going. The event was held in collaboration with the Jonathan Wener Centre for Real Estate with support from De Grandpré Chait. Photos from that event can be found here.

Internally, the JMSB Social Committee hosted an eclipse viewing party on April 8. Thanks to everyone who purchased solar glasses from Valentina. The money will go towards funding future social committee events.

And we were happy to co-host the second edition of Music in the MB on April 9 with the Department of Music. Thank you to the EDIB (L) committee for this beautiful initiative. The committee is made up of students, faculty and staff and its mandate is to improve the teaching and learning environment.

Sharing our success

IBECC

The MBA team placed 2nd at IBECC: The International Business Ethics Case Competition. 

Congratulations to Tim Field, the students and coaches. Tim also won the Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award, part of the Alumni Recognition Awards. This recognition is so well deserved. Whomever knows Tim will agree with me that his dedication to the MBA case competition is outstanding. Students who have the chance to compete under his leadership keep learning and gaining confidence in who they are and what they can do.

Staff changes

New staff

We have new staff members joining us.

A warm welcome to Jenessa Speed who joins us as advisor, student exchange and advising, undergraduate programs. Jenessa started in March. She joined us from GCS, where she was the graduate admissions advisor.

And we’re happy to welcome Michael Currivan who will be the department assistant in the Department of Finance, starting in May. He is coming to us from FAS where he was the technical coordinator.

Another new addition in May is Domenica Barreca, who will be the administrative assistant, MBA and GPBA, replacing Karen Fada. Domenica also comes from FAS where she was the service assistant in the Department of Economics. Welcome!

Departure

Karen Fada is retiring this year. She joined Concordia in 1999 in financial aid and awards and joined JMSB in 2003 in the PhD and MSc programs office. She moved to the MBA/GPBA office in 2014. Thank you Karen and we wish you a happy and restful retirement!

Closing remarks

One of the most important milestones in a scholar's life is convocation. The John Molson ceremonies will take place on Thursday, June 6 at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Place des Arts. I invite you all to participate by registering to be in the platform party at this link before Monday, May 20, 2024. We'll have lunch in between the two ceremonies. We'll communicate more about that soon.

Please continue to keep in touch about successes happening in your unit by contacting our Communications Manager Taylor Tower at taylor.tower@concordia.ca.

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Take care,
Anne-Marie Croteau, PhD, CDir
Dean