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Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ does away with de minimis exemption for impots from all countries

Published: 30 July 2025

The de minimis exemption has played a major role in the rise of Chinese fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu. The exemption works like this: if an imported good has a value of less than $800, it...

Kai Zhao (MBA’25) recognized as 2025 MBA To Watch

Published: 3 September 2025

McGill Desautels MBA student Kai Zhao (MBA’25) has been recognized by Poets&Quants as one of its “MBAs To Watch” for the Class of 2025....

Confused by the pace of economic change? Mathematical models are too

Published: 11 April 2025

In times of great economic uncertainty, even institutional traders can be at a loss for how to manage a portfolio. At large pension funds, portfolio managers use data-driven models to assess risk...

McGill to award honorary degree to Don Lewtas for contributions to global finance & student learning

Published: 7 May 2025

Ƭ֦Ƶ will award an honorary degree to Donald William Lewtas (BCom’75), a McGill alumnus, at the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management convocation this spring....

Leedana is bringing agriculture to the desert--and it got its start at Desautels

Published: 5 June 2025

Egypt’s Nile River Valley has some of the most fertile land in the world. But most of the country is a barren desert where few plants can grow. Hassan Elrakhawy (BCom’24) wants to change that. The...

Despite rise of chatbots, people still prefer human customer services

Published: 23 July 2025

Until recently, the most common way that customers interacted with a company’s customer service was via human agents on the telephone, the web or a mobile app. But increasingly, customer service is...

Reimagining legal frameworks for sustainability: The 2025 TBLSA Impact Paper

Published: 7 August 2025

Earlier this summer, from May 4th through May 9th, McGill’s Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI) and Faculty of Law co-organised the 2025 McGill SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy (TBLSA).

US trade policy changes present challenges and opportunities

Published: 16 April 2025

Among the many changes to U.S. trade policy announced during the early days of the second Trump administration was the intention to eliminate the de minimis exemption on shipments to the United...

Women of Desautels: past, present and future

Published: 14 May 2025

The Laidley Centre for Business Ethics and Equity and the McGill Desautels EDI Initiative recently hosted a panel for Women's History Month to honour the past, present, and future of women of the...

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