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Announcing the 2025 Lionel Pelham Kent Scholarship recipients

Published: 2 June 2025

Congratulations to Harley Belfer (BCom’23), Isabelle Erb (BCom’24), Veronica Hall (BCom'24), Raphael Lafleur (BCom’24), Andrea Peck (BCom’24), and Dylan Winick (BCom’24) who were awarded the Lionel...

Clarity is key when passing control of a family business to the next generation

Published: 13 June 2025

Even the most successful family businesses often don’t withstand the march of time. Just because one generation had what the right skills and temperament to run a business doesn’t mean their...

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...

Infrastructure bank model can encourage investment in infrastructure projects

Published: 7 August 2025

Private market developers face an “investment catch-22” in getting infrastructure projects off the ground, Professor Sebastien Betermier wrote in a recent report for the C.D. Howe Institute....

How U.S.-Canada tariffs could hit Ƭ֦Ƶ York’s economy

Published: 21 March 2025

As U.S.-Canada tariff disputes escalate, Ƭ֦Ƶ York’s economy faces serious risks, with over $42 billion in trade at stake. Ƭ֦Ƶ professors Preetika Joshi and Vivek Astvansh warn that...

Chinese tech firm DeepSeek shows smaller firms can compete with tech giants in AI

Published: 1 April 2025

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, the hype around AI began building to a fever pitch. Big money poured in to big tech, sending the stock of companies like Microsoft and Nvidia soaring. But...

Tariff uncertainty interferes with business investment

Published: 2 May 2025

Ever since Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff announcement, stock markets have been volatile. The tariffs impact thousands of companies, and with the exact scale and scope of tariffs changing...

Mid-market brands to benefit from consumers’ renewed focus on the basics

Published: 21 May 2025

2024 was a rough year for retail in Canada, and 2025 doesn’t look much better, writes Charles de Brabant in Retail Insider. The Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management noted...

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...

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