Desautels Faculty of Management
Made by a commitment to leadership. Shaping the future of management education.
Your support is essential in helping the Desautels Faculty of Management solve global challenges and prepare the leaders of the future.
As a globally recognized Faculty of Management at the heart of a world-class university, we can create interdisciplinary synergies that lead to game-changing innovation. Our diverse faculty and student body, coupled with the international opportunities we provide, offer students first-hand global enterprise experience. Graduates leave our Faculty with the skills and the vision to build initiatives that bring both social and economic value.
In today’s interconnected global economy, delivering value and progress is more challenging than ever. Business will be a key driver in global success, and highly skilled leaders will play a leading role in ensuring positive social change and greater prosperity for all. Support our student-centred approach and our commitment to community impact and research excellence. Help us to train leaders with the creativity, global perspective and agility to drive progress around the world.
Discover our vision for the future
Attracting, educating and supporting future-ready leaders
We have nearly 100 years of experience training successful management professionals. Help us continue to be a launch pad for extraordinary leaders by strengthening our offering for undergraduates, enhancing our MBA and specialized masters programs, and supporting top-quality teaching.
Your support can:
- Open doors to opportunity and help attract a greater diversity of the world’s brightest minds with scholarships and bursaries
- Allow students to enrich their perspective and gain hands-on experience through travel, internship and exchange awards
- Enhance academic and career advising, and wellness initiatives
- Accommodate technologically advanced teaching and learning, and house a new student services hub in renovated facilities
- Fund fellowships and programs to support our MBA program and to expand our range of specialized masters programs
- Support top-quality teaching through the Desautels Teaching Initiative by providing academic leadership and instructional coaching experts, new teaching awards, and a seminar series
Supercharging entrepreneurship
The McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship provides an essential resource to students and faculty with innovative ideas. Since inception, it has helped launch more than 150 startups, which have collectively created over 1,350 jobs and raised more than $200M in funding. Help grow the Centre so it can serve as an even more dynamic catalyst for entrepreneurship across McGill.
Your support can:
- Help more students access support by scaling up core entrepreneurship programs like Lean Startup and the X1 Accelerator, and by creating a wider range of specialized tracks within the Dobson Cup, and new awards for startups
- Connect students with mentors and peers by enriching mentorship programs and networks
- Build a new entrepreneurship centre at the heart of campus to house state-of-the-art spaces for working, collaborating, and hosting meetings and events
Driving discovery in areas of key social and economic value
Our track record of excellence in research plays a crucial role in advancing our global reputation while generating knowledge that improves lives, economies and societies. Help us grow our research footprint in areas where we can maximize impact.
Your support can:
- Advance knowledge and expose students to cutting-edge research by supporting Chairs, Professors of Practice and Faculty Fellows who enhance Desautels’ reputation
- Attract and support the next generation of research leaders with PhD Fellowships
- Help us provide a sophisticated repository for aggregating and analyzing data to help businesses thrive through the Desautels Business Data Observatory
Shaping the future of retail
Established in 2017, the innovative Bensadoun School of Retail Management (BSRM) is an essential hub for students, researchers and practitioners to collaborate on solving the real-world problems facing retailers today. Help us develop the full spectrum of cutting-edge programs we need to help transform the retail industry.
Your support can:
- Drive retail research, teaching and thought leadership through Chairs and International Faculty and Research Fellows
- Support seminars and symposia to share knowledge within and outside the BSRM
- Ignite retail innovation through a Retail Innovation Fund dedicated to creating a global retail accelerator and supporting a retail-specific track at Desautels’ annual startup competition
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