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The Jeux du commerce took place January 2 to 4, 2015, at the Université de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Québec. The Jeux du Commerce competition is an interuniversity event that brings together 1,040 delegates from 13 Eastern Canadian universities to compete in academic, sporting and social events. A delegation of 83 students represented the Telfer School of Management. The year marks the 25th anniversary of the University of Ottawa’s participation in this competition.
Congratulations to students for winning the following:
Human Ressource (3rd place): Negar Jeyrani, Brooke Runions and Emily Slade
Coach: Professor François Chiocchio
International Business Case (3rd place): Drew Morash, Gabriel Rubio Maldonado and Jaclyn Tokarewicz
Coach: Anika Laperrière
Committee of the Year (1st place): Aghilas Chebini, Renée Leduc, Jaclyn Tokarewicz, Saxon Giddings, Gabriel Rubio Maldonado, Michel Bedard, Elizabeth Audette-Bourdeau, Drew Morash, Diana Kolesarova, Gina Chong, Dominic Franchi and Frédéric Desnoyers
Community Involvement: Recognition as one of the top three university delegations with the most outstanding community involvement initiatives leading up to the competition.
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Students from the Telfer School of Management have placed among the top student leaders in Canada at the Enactus National competition that was held in Calgary, Alberta from April 28-30, 2014. This success comes on the heels of many accomplishments this year, including huge success at the Enactus Regional Exposition.
Ajmal Sataar won Student Leader of the Year, and Kathleen Kemp was named the HSBC Woman Leader of Year, Central Canada, and was the runner up nationally. The team won 6 other awards, and was a Semi-Finalist among the Top 8 teams in Canada.
“These are tremendous accomplishments that speak to our students’ personal dedication and hard work” said Stephen Daze, the Telfer School’s faculty advisor for Enactus uOttawa.
Awards received:
- First Place in the TD Entrepreneurship Challenge Central Canada
- First Place in the Capital One Financial Education Challenge Central Canada
- First Place for Best Project in the RBC Newcomer Advancement Project Fund
- Third Place in the Scotiabank Ecoliving Green Challenge
- Third Place for Best Project in the Walmart Women's Economic Empowerment Grant
- Ajmal Sataar - Student Leader of the Year
- Kathleen Kemp - HSBC Women Leader of the Year, Central Canada, and Runner Up nationally
- Stephen Daze - John Dobson Fellow for his work with the team as a Faculty Advisor
- Semi-Finalist in the National Competition, Top 8 in Canada
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This country’s largest student leadership development organization, Enactus Canada, hosted their 2014 Regional Exposition – Central Canada at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto on March 13-14, 2014. The event inspired and celebrated the entrepreneurial action of student teams and student entrepreneurs across Central Canada.
The Regional Exposition brings together over 500 student leaders, academic professionals and top executives and entrepreneurs from Central Canada around the shared cause of transforming lives through entrepreneurial action.
During the event, post-secondary students competed for prestigious regional championship titles by showcasing their community outreach projects and business ventures to judging panels composed of business professionals.
Three team-based competitions focused on entrepreneurship, environmental issues and financial education, as well as an individual-based competition for full-time students operating full-time businesses, took place during the Regional Exposition.
Enactus uOttawa was named Regional Champion of the Capital One Financial Education Challenge and Regional Champion of TD Entrepreneurship Challenge in League A. The team also placed as second runner-up for the ScotiaBank Ecoliving Green Challenge. Enactus uOttawa Co-President, Kathleen Kemp, was recognized as one of the HSBC Woman Leaders of tomorrow for Central Canada.
Regional champions move on to the national level of competition taking place April 28-30 at the 2014 Enactus Canada National Exposition in Calgary, Alberta.
To learn more about Enactus uOttawa’s community projects, visit www.enactusuottawa.ca
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Procter and Gamble partnered with the Ted Rogers School of Management to create a national competition combining business and technological innovation, which sets it apart from existing competitions.
Teams from every Canadian province were extended an invitation to compete on March 1, 2014 in Toronto.
Congratulations to Roberta Kramchynsky, Bhumika Bakshi, Kimberly Barret and Sharon Thomas who came back with the bronze cup (3rd place out of 12 teams)!
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Ajmal Sataar, Kathleen Kemp, Neil Gangal and alumnus Adam Tomaszewski are hoping to clean up, in more ways than one, as they take unwanted cigarette butts and turn them into profits.
The venture is still at the idea stage, but a six-minute pitch on the idea won top honours over the weekend at Launch Some Good, an entrepreneurial competition with a world-betterment twist.
The group plans to create specialized cigarette collection bins and sell a collection service. For extra world-improvement points, the collection jobs will be held by mentally ill people through transitional employment programs. Options for unloading the butts include turning them into insulation or giving them to a company in New Jersey that makes furniture from them.
The company also hopes to create a revenue stream from advertising on its butt containers. In order to stimulate public interest, those containers would automatically count the number of butts going in and would be operated on solar power, the group says.
Cigarettes might not seem like a growth industry, but Sataar says at the moment butts are still the world’s most common type of litter, so there should be plenty of business to do. There’s also the question of how big a priority such environmentalism will be for smokers, but they’re hoping smokers’ guilt will be a powerful force.
Read the full article on the Ottawa Citizen’s website. [This link is no longer available]
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Jean-François Vincent-Rocan who is studying at the Telfer School of Management for the completion of his Graduate Diploma for Scientific Management and Leadership, as part of his PhD in Chemistry, entered the Walmart Green Student Challenge with another uOttawa student. Their innovative eco-friendly idea has enabled them to gain incredible support from the community and reach 3rd place in the contest.
However, the contest is not over and it is still possible to show support to the team by voting [This link is no longer available].
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Congratulations to undergraduate students Andrei Huranchyk, Tarik Aeta, Will Zhao and James Killoran who recently won 2nd place, representing the Telfer School, at the PRMIA Financial Risk Management Competition. They had to compete with 13 other teams at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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The Telfer School of Management would like to congratulate the members of our winning team: Pier Martin, Tom McColeman, Connor McGarry, and Igor Truffet, who finished first overall at the 7th annual TATA Sustainability Cup Case Competition. They were ably seconded by Rupert Johnson, who also attended on behalf of the Telfer School.
This event took place on November 19, and was hosted by Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management. This annual competition was co-hosted by TATA Consultancy Services. The participating 12 teams were presented with a real-life business case and their analysis was then presented to a panel of industry executives for judging. This is the 2nd time in 7 years that the Telfer School has won this competition!
Invitees to this year’s competition were: Dalhousie University, McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management, McMaster University - DeGroote School of Business, Queen's School of Business, Ryerson University - Ted Rogers School of Management, Simon Fraser University - Beedie School of Business, University of Alberta, University of Manitoba – Asper School of Business, University of Ottawa - Telfer School of Management, University of South Carolina, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, York University - Schulich School of Business
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The University of Ottawa would like to congratulate the team of 80 Telfer School of Management students that represented us at the Jeux du Commerce 2009 (JDC). This annual competition, featuring 13 universities from Eastern Canada, was hosted by l’Université du Québec à Montréal from January 2-5, 2009. This is the first time in the history of the JDC competition that the University of Ottawa has finished first overall, and the fourth time that it has finished in the top three.
The Telfer School won the following trophies:
1st place overall
1st place in these activities:
- Entrepreneurship Case
- Ethics Case
- Finance Case
- Human Resources Management Case
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Volleyball
- Contribution to the community
2nd place in these activities:
- Marketing Case
- Strategy Case
- Taxation Case
- Recognition Award : “Normand Fortier, University of Ottawa”
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