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College of Business and Economics dean Julia Christensen Hughes recently facilitated a collaborative discussion with fellow business school deans from across North America about growing strong and sustainable businesses and business leaders. The discussion took place at the Responsible Management Education (RME) Affinity Group meeting at the recent AACSB International Deans Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Dan Sparrow came to the University of Guelph’s MBA program with decades of professional experience working with multinational corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox and Danaher in North America, Europe, and Asia. He decided to pursue the sustainable commerce field because he wanted an education that would enhance his understanding of how social and environmental policies can act as profit supporting strategies.

Fourth year BComm Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) students are putting their business skills to the test this winter through an intensive capstone course which has them solving real-world business challenges facing actual hospitality and food service businesses.

Taught in the Active Learning Classroom in Macdonald Hall, the Hospitality and Tourism Industry Consultation Course (HTM4190) brings significant industry partners to campus to collaborate on projects with Guelph BComm students.

This March, teams of Guelph high school students will get a unique opportunity to experience a university business case competition before starting their post-secondary studies.  The GryphBiz Case Competition, which will be held at Macdonald Hall - the University of Guelph’s newly-renovated home for business - will unite business-minded students from four local high schools to compete against each other in developing the best solution to a real-world problem.

As a long-time athlete, Gregory MacNeill has spent much of his life training for and competing in national and international track and field events. Now a graduate student at the University of Guelph, he is taking the skills he gained on the track and applying them to a new challenge: balancing his MA Management workload while competing as a member of the Gryphon Track and Field team. It is a program MacNeill says “felt like the best opportunity” and as he starts his second semester, he is most looking forward to working on his research on coach-captain relationships.

The University of Guelph’s DECA U team brought home multiple awards last weekend from Canada’s largest undergraduate conference. The DECA U provincials united 1400 delegates from 22 universities and colleges in Ontario to compete in multiple academic categories through written and oral cases.

War Child Canada founder and executive director Dr. Samantha Nutt has spent the last two decades leading change around the world in some of the most dangerous and corrupt countries in existence. During this time she has learned valuable - and sometimes unconventional - lessons in how to be an effective leader, wisdom she shared with about 100 MA Leadership students and alumni at the Leadership Call to Action Speaker Series event on January 18.