Assistant Prof. Mike von Massow helps to deliver the Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Scholarship Program which is offered by the Partnership Agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and the Ministry of Rural Affairs. A recent At Guelph article highlight's from a grad student's perspective, how this program which integrates science, business and marketing, and helped prepare her for work in her industry.
HTM professor Bruce McAdams explores the absurdity of the idea of tipping based on the amount of the cheque and not the level of service. After a New York restaurant instituted a no tipping policy and instead increased prices 15 per cent to pay staff fair wages and benefits, the industry wonders if this is the beginning of the end for tipping. Did you get great service? Don't leave a tip.
Featured in today's Globe and Mail, Ph.D. Candidate, Rita Hansen Stern is first came across the sprawling academic get-together known simply as Congress in 1986, and remembers thinking, “These people have got their heads in the clouds.” But she doesn’t think that any more. Academic conference brings community to campus.
Professor Sean Lyons' research on millennials in the workplace is highlighted in today's Globe and Mail, specifically on how to attract and retain this generation in the workforce. Wooing the millennial worker.
Today's Guelph Mercury writes that Paul Martin was gracious, humorous and spoke passionately about his work trying to improve education and business opportunities for aboriginal youth, as he received the Lincoln Alexander Outstanding Leadership Award last night. Paul Martin receives leadership award.
CME is pleased to honour Paul Martin tonight with the Lincoln Alexander Outstanding Leader Award for his tireless work, both in political office and beyond, to advocate for Canadian Aboriginal people by fostering entrepreneurial skill development for Aboriginal youth, as well as creating business opportunities for Canadian Aboriginal leaders and communities.
Sylvain Charlebois addresses the need for dairy farmers to rethink strategy around supply management in the Guelph Mercury. Article on dairy farmer supply management strategy.
Master's student Justin McManus is studying the link between emotion and gambling and how advertising can affect behaviour. In an At Guelph article, Justin also explains the increased prevalence of gambling due to the fact people don't have to go to a casino, but can go online and even use their phones. Study Looks at Effects of Gambling Advertisements
Ross McKitrick along with Kenneth P. Greene, as guest columnists in the Toronto Sun, discuss how the Ontario government's Green Energy Act is costing more than $5 billion annually but its environmental benefits are negligible. Conventional pollution control measures at less than one-tenth the cost could have achieved equivalent or or greater benefits they propose. Toronto Sun article Green Energy Act: Ontario Government still sees no evil.
Sylvain Charlebois writes in La Presse about a unique marketing model in Quebec around the selling of sap and maple syrup in that province that has become a source of embarrassment around the image of Canada as a major source of maple syrup in the world. Governed by the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, the Act subjects producers to a quota system and all must market their crop through a single point. Although they may sell directly to consumers, they must report their sales to the Federation, thus creating a maple cartel of sorts.