��SM�� Desautels Faculty of Management - Leslie Breitner's Recent Media Coverage

International Masters for Health Leadership prepares health care workers for leadership in clinical environment

��SM�� — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:13:38 +0000

From drug delivery to patient treatment, the healthcare sector contributes significantly to economic activity, but there are unique dynamics to managing people in a clinical setting. “Just as we expect clinicians to appreciate the daily work of healthcare managers, we need managerial leaders to grasp the clinician’s perspective,” says Leslie Breitner in an interview with Forbes.

Prognosis: The future is bright for the next generation of healthcare leaders

��SM�� — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:39:16 +0000

New ��SM�� program champions real world training to address leadership and management skills gap among healthcare professionals

Trois programmes dans l'air du temps

��SM�� — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:55:41 +0000

Des milliers d'étudiants de partout dans le monde suivent gratuitement le cours en ligne Social Learning for Social Impact, travaillent en équipe et apprennent à réaliser des initiatives sociales qui auront des retombées. C'est la proposition du MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) de groupe, une première à l'Université ��SM��.

Read full article: LaPresse, November 10, 2015

A different kind of MOOC

��SM�� — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:43:51 +0000

The Desautels Faculty of Management launched a world’s first on September 16, coining a new word in the process. According to the people who put the course together, “Social Learning for Social Impact” is the very first GROOC (Group MOOC), a new massive open online course that’s designed to foster social collaboration, interaction and learning.

��SM�� lance un premier «GROOC» sur l’entrepreneuriat social

��SM�� — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:46:19 +0000

Le 16 septembre prochain, le début des cours se fera en ligne pour les élèves inscrits au premier « GROOC » (pour Group MOOC) de la faculté de gestion Desautels de ��SM��. À travers un MOOC (massive open online course, ou cours en ligne ouvert à tous) pour groupes, les professeurs derrière le projet, Henry Mintzberg, Leslie Breitner et Anita Nowak , révolutionnent les codes de la classe traditionnelle pour initier une discussion sur l’initiative sociale.

The IMPM Innovations & Teaching Approach

��SM�� — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:45:49 +0000

The International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) programme is 18 years old but continues to be seen as one the world’s most innovative senior management degree programmes. Leslie Breitner and Dora Koop explain how the programme has retained its freshness for so long.

A Management Approach to Healthcare

��SM�� — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:15:59 +0000

The demands in today’s healthcare environment require those clinically prepared to have managerial and leadership skills that are not learned in traditional training. The delivery of healthcare services is ever more complex, interactive and team-oriented. A thorough understanding of the whole field and all aspects of delivery are critical to contain costs and errors as well as to improve patient outcomes.

Low-cost water purifier wins Canadian $100,000 grant

��SM�� — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:06:51 +0000

In developing countries, particularly in rural villages and urban slums, people can hardly afford water-purification systems. The consequences are fatal, with infectious diarrhoea causing around 2.2 million deaths every year, most of which are children under the age of five from countries like Kenya and India.

IMHL Collaborators Win Grand Challenges Canada Grant

��SM�� — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:05:01 +0000

Students in ��SM��’s International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) program -- Drs. Padma Venkat, Caroline Kisia and Ahmad Firas Khalid -- are pleased to announce that a low-cost copper device, which has been proven in the lab to kill deadly water-borne pathogens, will be field-tested in poor urban and rural households in India and Kenya with a $100,000 Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) Phase I Proof-of-Concept Grant as part of the 2013 Global Health Stars.

����SM���� Desautels Faculty of Management - Leslie Breitner's Recent Media Coverage