07/15/2013
RISE Youth Small Business Program http://www.riseassetdevelopment.com/programs/youth-small-business-program/.
Might be of interest.
Rise | Youth Small Business Program
ProgramsIndividual Lending ProgramYouth Small Business ProgramGroup Lending ProgramEvent Lending ProgramContact UsRise Asset Development 105 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S 2E8Toronto & Ontario (Excluding Ottawa)local647 232 RISE (7473)toll free1 855 464 RISE (7473)[email protected]...
07/06/2013
Ikram Al Mouaswas was studying life sciences at the University of Toronto before discovering a knack for accounting and switched to the commerce program at the Rotman School of Management http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/life-at-work/this-accountant-is-mining-her-potential/article13007867/
This accountant is mining her potential
Ikram Al Mouaswas says after seven years as an accountant she’s still learning every day
06/10/2013
A nice piece on graduation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pie89nyV1MM
University of Toronto: Convocation 2013
Staff and students at the University of Toronto discuss what Convocation means to them.
05/28/2013
Bill McFarland has a BCom from University of Toronto; trained as a chartered accountant http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/to-bill-mcfarland-business-is-a-team-sport/article12161886/.
To Bill McFarland, business is a team sport
Just as a good offence is nothing without a solid defence, the PwC head knows the importance of every member of his 6,000-strong staff
05/24/2013
An amateur video of St. George campus popped up in my Google Alerts. If you have not been able to visit campus, it's worth a view (4.5 minutes) http://vimeo.com/66483826
University of Toronto
A walk through the campus of University of Toronto on a Saturday morning
05/22/2013
Some news from the Rotman MBA:
Rotman Team Wins International Entrepreneurship Competition.
Toronto – A team from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has won the inaugural event of the MBA World Trophy held in Dublin over the past weekend. The event brought entrepreneurs from seventeen different universities around the world to compete against each other with their start-up businesses in front of venture capitalists and other business leaders.
Jason Mitakidis, MBA’14, Kate Rootman, MBA’14, and Elizabeth Chak, MBA’15, who are students in the Rotman School’s Morning and Evening MBA programs, won the top prize for best business for Cyclica Inc, a life sciences technology company leveraging big data to develop new medicines, more cheaply. Their start-up was selected to represent the Rotman School at the event by the Rotman Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Association. The Association’s outgoing president, Chris Siemieniuch, MBA’13, also attended the event.
“We are very excited to have been chosen as the winners of the MBA World Trophy by such a distinguished judging panel from the global VC and entrepreneurship community! We are also thankful to the Rotman School of Management and the University of Toronto for their generous support in developing Cyclica as a business. This support has included mentorship and angel investments from faculty members and Dean Roger Martin,” says Jason Mitakidis , who is Founder & CEO of Cyclica Inc.
Further information on the MBA World Trophy is online at mbaworldtrophy.com.
Cyclica is a big data technology company that is developing indexed, multi-scale biological databases and software for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company's core technology is an innovative and proprietary data integration and drug testing platform – The Ligand Explorer™ Computing Environment – that is addressing the rising cost of R&D in drug discovery and low regulatory approval rates of pre-market pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products. For more information, visit, cyclicarx.com.
04/20/2013
Our Dean in The Economist http://www.economist.com/whichmba/disruption-line?fsrc=scn%2Ftw_ec%2Fdisruption_on_the_line
Disruption on the line
Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
03/19/2013
Colleagues at the Rotman / India Innovation Institute have submitted an application to Grand Challenges Canada to develop health apps targeted to women in the global south (starting off with India). One component of the evaluation process is public voting on short videos describing the project. The video is at http://applications.grandchallenges.ca/en/viewVideo/28735E6AA6ED38B3E2153795. Feel free to vote and support it by clicking the “like this application” button. And if you really like it, please do share the link with others!
Grand Challenges Canada | Rising Stars Application Microsite
A: We will develop visual health apps (VHAs) to convey medical concepts in an easy to digest visual and interactive, yet privately consumed format. Multiple versions (language, medical conditions) will be distributed on the Aakash tablet computer.
03/19/2013
http://news.utoronto.ca/student-conference-brings-sports-business-experts-u-t?utm_source=Bulletin&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Student
Student conference brings sports business experts to U of T | U of T News
Heavy-hitters from the sports-business community will offer their advice to students at the second annual Sports Industry Conference, hosted by the University of Toronto Sports and Business Association (UTSB) at the Royal Ontario Museum March 22, 2013.
03/13/2013
Rotman Commerce is participating in March Break Open House http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/futurestudents/events/MBOH2013 tomorrow. We hope to see you there!
http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/futurestudents/events/MBOH2013
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