Rotman Management Magazine Celebrates 10 Years
Since 2007, the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto has provided thought leadership and management insight in the form of the Rotman Management magazine. Now, with its thirtieth issue out this spring, the magazine is celebrating ten years of bringing readers insightful articles and topics from experts in the areas of business, economics, psychology, design thinking and more. Continue reading…
Top Student Trading Competition Returns to Rotman School
For the 14th consecutive year, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management will host one of the world’s top student trading competitions. The Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) is an annual event that draws students and faculty from 52 universities worldwide—countries represented include China, Iceland, India and South Africa—for a three-day simulated market challenge. Continue reading…
3 Rotman Grads Named Canada’s Most Powerful Women
If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s that women are necessary for business. In fact, companies with a female on the board of directors, on average, have a 53 percent higher return on equity. The issue is that though women represent 47% percent of the workforce, they only represent 17 percent of boardrooms, and 4.8 percent of CEOs among the Fortune 500 companies, according to the Forté Foundation.
That’s why University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has made it a priority to promote women in business. And their efforts have recently been rewarded with both a Rotman professor and two alumni named to the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) list of Canada’s Most Powerful Women for 2016. The list featured 100 women in total, including several graduates of the Rotman School’s Judy Project and Executive Programs. Continue reading…
Top Sports Management MBAs in Toronto
Are you obsessed with sports? Did you find yourself cheering for the Cubs first World Series win in over a century? Did you watch every match of the last FIFA World Cup? Do you participate in every fantasy league and feel that you could make a better team, get better players and make better decisions than any current sports management person? Well, then you should consider an MBA in Sports Management. Continue reading…
A Rotman EMBA Diary: Classmates Become Family
Networking is something that every MBA understands. It’s either a necessary evil—if you’re apprehensive about meeting new people—or it’s just a way to meet new people, get a job, learn about various industries or simply get noticed. However, for Andrew Davidson and Abhimanyu Sood, two EMBA students at the Univeristy of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, networking didn’t just help them meet new people; it helped them to build a new family. Continue reading…
Payment Method Affects Perceived Value of Purchase, Rotman Professor Finds
The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management this week shared exciting new research published in the Journal of Consumer Research on the correlation between the ease of a consumer’s preferred payment method and the perceived value of the good or service purchased.
