Deadline Extended: 2019 Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health
۲ݮƵ University’s Desautels Faculty of Management and the ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) announced the call for applications for the 2019 Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health in early October.
The deadline to apply has been extended to Friday, December 7, 2018.
Meet our Queen Elizabeth Scholars!
As of October 2018, the ۲ݮƵ QES LINkIN program has incorporated eight awardees into the team coming from different disciplines and countries. Five are doctoral student researchers at ۲ݮƵ.
Call for Applications: 2019 Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health
۲ݮƵ University’s Desautels Faculty of Management and the ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) are pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2019 Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health.
A glowing victory at HEC case competition
MONTREAL, Quebec. On the evening of the HEC Social Business Creation competition, ۲ݮƵ start-up Kajou delivered, coming home with the First place prize of $15,000 for their business venture. Their business makes apple juice – with the apple of the cashew tree.
۲ݮƵ Student Team NutriPulse wins third place at 2018 Food Security Social Innovation Challenge
By Nii AddyAt the 2018 Social Innovation Challenge (SIC) held in Toronto on July 12, 2018, ۲ݮƵ team NutriPulse was adjudged the third place winner among eight finalists, with a $10,000 cash prize.
Yu Ma, Laurette Dubé and Nathan Yang awarded 2018 SSHRC Insight Grant
Congratulations to Yu Ma, Associate Professor in Marketing, Laurette Dubé, Professor in Marketing and Nathan Yang, Assistant Professor in Marketing, on being awarded the 2018 SSHRC Insight Grant “An Empirical Investigation of Digital Goods Consumption and Its Impact on Word-of-Mouth Marketing”.
Desautels and FAES interdisciplinary research with ۲ݮƵ food startup and Montreal community organization highlighted at the 2018 Montreal Summit on Innovation (MSI)
Joëlle Rondeau, Research Assistant, ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE)As part of C2 Montreal, the 2018 Montreal Summit on Innovation (MSI) showcased the social impacts of 10 collaborative research projects through an interactive circuit on May 23.
Low birth weight is associated with increased fat intake in school-aged boys
Authors: Adrianne R. Bischoff, André K. Portella, Catherine Paquet, Roberta Dalle Molle, Aida Faber, Narendra Arora, Robert D. Levitan, Patrícia P. Silveira and Laurette Dubé
Publication: British Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 119, No. 11, June 2018
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Meet the 2018 Food and Agribusiness Convergent Innovation Prize Winner
By Joëlle Rondeau, Research Assistant, ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and EconomicsThe ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at the Desautels Faculty of Management, together with the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (FAES) and Trussbridge, are proud to
۲ݮƵ Food Startups Connecting with Montreal’s Food and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
By Joëlle Rondeau, Research Assistant, ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and EconomicsOn the evening of March 21, 2018, ۲ݮƵ students and entrepreneurs from diverse horizons gathered at Esplanade, a collaborative space dedicated to entrepreneurship and social innovation in Montreal’s Mile-Ex neighbourhood.
CSR types and the moderating role of corporate competence
Authors: Xiaoye Chen, Rong Huang, Zhiyong Yang, Laurette Dube
Publication: European Journal of Marketing, Forthcoming
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Takeaways from the 2018 Manulife Prize winner
Distinguishing between healthy living and fitness fadsAt this year’s Manulife Prize ceremony, hosted at Maison Manuvie in collaboration with the ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), Manulife Prize winner Professor Jean-Pierre Després presented an overview of his research, emphasizing the prevailing gap between science and so-called healthy living practices. According to him, the difference between what we know and what we do is staggering.
Manulife Prize presented to researcher on a mission to combat lifestyle diseases
Dr. Jean-Pierre Després, Professor of Kinesiology at Université Laval and pioneer in developing screening techniques for visceral obesity, was presented with the 2018 Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health at a breakfast hosted my Manulife and in collaboration with the ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) on April 10, 2018.
Addressing Complex Societal Problems: Enabling Multiple Dimensions of Proximity to Sustain Partnerships for Collective Impact in Quebec
Authors: Nii Addy and Laurette Dubé
Publication: Sustainability, Vol. 10, No. 4, April 2018
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Jean-Pierre Després wins 2018 Manulife Prize
$50,000 award recognizes research pioneer who screened for abdominal obesity and acted to prevent it۲ݮƵ University, in association with Manulife and the ۲ݮƵ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), announced that Dr.