Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Working Constructively with Family Members in a Business: Experts Provide Answers at the NXG Legacy Forum
Throughout 2022 and 2023, the Family Enterprise Legacy Institute (FELI) at the Telfer School of Management and the Family Business Network (FBN) are partnering to deliver the NxG Legacy Forums — a series of eight panel discussions addressing the key questions for next generation members of business families. Topic questions for the forums have been selected from a new book, Enabling Next Generation Legacies: 35 Questions that Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask, by Telfer professors Peter Jaskiewicz and Sabine Rau. Read more ›
When and How Should Family Members Be Promoted in the Family Business? - Excerpt from Enabling Next Generation Legacies
In the coming months, The Telfer Knowledge Hub is featuring select parts from Enabling Next Generation Legacies: 35 Questions That Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask. Read more ›
Future of the Family Enterprise: Preparing the Next Generation of Business Leaders
The Telfer School of Management is the proud presenting sponsor of a series of four webcasts powered by the Globe and Mail Events. Each webcast will highlight one of the four pillars in our Vision for a Better Canada — greener, healthier, happier, wealthier and more prosperous — through an interview with a Telfer professor, followed by a discussion with a panel of experts. Read more ›
To Empower Members of the Next Generation, We Need to Answer Their Questions
Answers are important, but asking good questions can be even more so. In our increasingly divisive world, the right questions can truly demonstrate our willingness to understand the needs of the other side. Read more ›
How Can I Prepare Myself to Work Effectively With My Fellow Family Owners? – Excerpt from Enabling Next Generation Legacies
In the coming months, The Telfer Knowledge Hub will be featuring select parts from Enabling Next Generation Legacies: 35 Questions That Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask. Read more ›
Properly Managed Traditions: A Vital Foundation for the Family Business
Family businesses pass more than ownership to the next generation – they also pass on traditions. And better management of these traditions can help family enterprises address two of their fundamental tensions: the need to modernize the business and the need to honour the founder’s vision. Read more ›
An Ottawa Startup's Journey from the uOttawa Entrepreneurship Hub to a ‘Million’ Dollar Deal
The balance between launching an Ottawa startup and being a student can be both a time-consuming and rewarding feat. University of Ottawa alumnus, Karim Alibhai, and Telfer alumna, Alina Jahani, know all about the student entrepreneurship lifestyle. Read more ›
Entrepreneurship isn’t just for business students anymore - all students can benefit
Entrepreneurs and their start-ups, and the subsequent growth of their firms, can have a vital impact on the health of an economy. What’s more, young adults in Canada have demonstrated a growing interest in entrepreneurship as a career choice. Although entrepreneurship has historically been associated with business schools and traditional start-ups, all students need to learn to create value in uncertain environments with limited resources. Consequently, regardless of their faculty or career path, every student needs to learn and practice the skills typical of entrepreneurship. Whether these students become entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, employees, or innovators, the question for educators is: How are we working toward this goal? Read more ›
Who is Considered Part of the Family? – Excerpt from Enabling Next Generation Legacies
In the coming months, The Telfer Knowledge Hub will be featuring select parts from Enabling Next Generation Legacies: 35 Questions That Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask. Read more ›
Addressing Water Advisories in Indigenous Communities with Student-Led Initiative, Nibi
The acknowledgement of the need for reconciliation through Truth and Reconciliation Day is a step in the right direction, but there is still more progress to be made as hundreds of Indigenous communities currently hold boil water advisories. Read more ›
Entrepreneurship Policies through a Gender Lens
Originally published on LinkedIn on May 14, 2021 Read more ›
Spend a Day with a top Canadian CEO through the CEOx1Day program
The CEOx1Day program from Odgers Berndtson offers student-leaders the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to spend a day with a top Canadian CEO. Read more ›
The Entrepreneurship Foundry Course Returns this Fall 2020 Semester
The Entrepreneurship Foundry course (ADM3396) is a cross-campus initiative that leverages University and community resources to help you grow your business venture in a for-credit 13-week long course. This course lets you earn credits while working on your existing business or social enterprise (not just an idea), acting as an accelerator for your entrepreneurial venture. Read more ›
Register Today: MBA or MHA Information Session
Have you been considering pursuing a Telfer MBA or MHA degree? The Telfer School of Management is holding an information session for each Masters program this month. If you would like to learn more about the programs, attend an upcoming session to interact with professors and ask one-on-one questions about the program. Read more ›
Formula uOttawa: New Student-Led Team Brings Collaboration Between Faculties
There are over 250 student associations at the University of Ottawa, which encourage students to work with their peers while discovering their strengths and passions. One of the newest teams, Formula uOttawa, continues to evolve and promote experiential learning opportunities in the STEM fields through a collaboration of multiple faculties, including the Faculty of Engineering and the Telfer School of Management. Read more ›
Desk Nibbles Lands Pre-Seed Financing To Fund U.S. Expansion
Telfer alumnus Cassy Aite (BCom 2015), and his co-founded company Desk Nibbles have landed pre-seed financing to fund U.S. expansion. Desk Nibbles uses Artificial Intelligence to make it easier for Office Managers to manage their office kitchens. With over 65 customers and a growing number of employees, Desk Nibbles is quickly expanding. Read more ›
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Benchmarking Small and Medium Enterprises as Suppliers to the Government of Canada
A new Telfer study, conducted in collaboration with Public Services and Procurement Canada, identifies action strategies to increase federal SME supplier diversity and inclusive innovation. Showcased at the Chatham House International Policy Forum in the UK, the report provides important benchmarks about the progress of women entrepreneurs in Canada, and sets a standard of reporting in examining gender of firm ownership, breadth and types of innovation and federal SME contracting. Read more ›
Enactus uOttawa named Entrepreneurship National Champion for the Growcer
"Enactus uOttawa has been named both the 2018 TD Entrepreneurship Challenge National Champion as well as the Scotiabank EcoLiving Green Challenge National Champion for their business, The Growcer. Read more ›
Telfer School of Management to deliver gender-sensitive training across Ontario entrepreneurship ecosystems
The Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership (CEL) at the University of Ottawa and Ryerson University’s Diversity Institute have collaborated to launch the Ontario Inclusive Innovation (I2) Action Strategy. Read more ›
The Future of Business Schools
MBA program Director Greg Richards talks about the current challenges in Business Schools today and how the MBA program at the Telfer School of Management will have to adapt to the changing world of business. Read the complete interview in the June 2018 edition of AMBA's Ambition magazine » Read more ›
Two uOttawa Alumni Help Communities Track Crime
University of Ottawa graduates Olivier Llorca (MBA 2016) and Siddhartha Garg (M. Sc. Electronic Business Technologies 2017) participated in an internship project — part of Telfer's MBA program — that gave them an opportunity to apply their knowledge and expertise. The two students, along with Ottawa-based company Beyond 20/20, were tasked with restructuring the existing "Crime Insight" program to make the user experience smoother and more interesting. The goal of the program is to make crime data in a given jurisdiction accessible to people looking for an accurate, up-to-date database. The students' internship was funded by the Business Innovation Access Program (NRC-IRAP). Read more ›
A simple simulation to demonstrate a complex topic about sustainable development
As part of the Leadership, Strategy and Sustainability course, nearly 150 Telfer School of Management students in courses ADM 4717, ADM 4317 and MBA 5211 participated in an interactive online simulation called Fishbanks. Read more ›
Leveraging the Expertise of our BCom Students from China
During the Winter Study Week (February 20th - 23rd, 2018), the Telfer School offered a four-day intensive course entitled Global Marketing & Innovation Strategy: Learning about and from China, taught by Amy Karam, a Telfer alumnus, who is the author of the book, The China Factor. The course addressed the topic of whether: “There is a global economic power shift and whether Western-based businesses are being challenged in different ways by the rapid growth of China and other emerging entrants and what can they do about it?” Read more ›
National Bank Elevator Pitch Competition
It was another great success for our Entrepreneurship Bridges Lecture Series, which brought together the co-founders and co-CEOs of Surmesur, François and Vincent Thériault, and the Elevator Pitch Competition presented by the National Bank. Read more ›
Entrepreneurship Foundry Course (ADM 3396 M) – Winter 2018
This page is for the 2018 Entrepreneurship Foundry Course. For information on the upcoming session, visit this year's page. Read more ›
Developing an entrepreneurial mindset
The University’s Co-operative Education Programs and the Entrepreneurship Hub have teamed up with RBC Royal Bank to launch an innovative CO-OP program designed to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Read the complete article in the Gazette » Read more ›
Celebrating Start-ups at uOttawa
Given the recent surge in entrepreneurial activity on the University of Ottawa campus, it is appropriate to recognize and celebrate the culmination of each annual cycle of teaching, competitions, workshops and hard work that lead to exciting start-ups. Read more ›
Exclusive Edition of Startup Weekend is coming to uOttawa
Startup Weekend is a non-profit organization headquartered in Seattle, Washington that brings people together for weekend-long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies. Read more ›
Entrepreneurship Leadership at the Telfer School and uOttawa
The Telfer School is pleased to announce that Stephen Daze has been appointed as the inaugural Dom Herrick Entrepreneur in Residence. Stephen Daze joined the Telfer School of Management in 2012 as the Entrepreneur in Residence, a position that has been renamed recently thanks to a generous donation from alumni Rob Ashe and Sandra Herrick. Read more ›
CigBins Will Represent the Telfer School at the Nicol Entrepreneurial Award
We're pleased to have once again participated in the Nicol Entrepreneurial Award. Our winners, CigBins, will now be entered into the National Competition to be held late March in Ottawa. Congratulations to our other finalists: AllergyFree and Knowline! Read more ›
Iconic Canadian Entrepreneur Shared his Insights with Students
W. Brett Wilson, iconic Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and three-season panellist on CBC's Dragons' Den, was invited as a guest speaker for the Entrepreneurship Bridges Lecture Series. Read more ›
Business and Engineering students work together to solve a case
On January 24 and 25, students from the Telfer School of Management and the Faculty of Engineering competed in the 4th annual Strat24 Case Competition. Strat24 Case Competition is a multidisciplinary competition run by Enactus uOttawa. The competition requires 2 engineering and 2 business students to work together for 24 hours to come up with a solution for the case at hand. This year’s case sponsor was Hydro Ottawa. “At Hydro Ottawa innovation is critical to our success as a leading and trusted energy service provider,” said Roger Marsh, Chief Energy Management Officer at Hydro Ottawa. “We’re proud to support events like uOttawa’s STRAT24 Competition that helps develop the talent that we need to meet the many challenges of the future.” Read more ›
Students will be Representing Telfer at the Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition
Ajmal Sataar and Kathleen Kemp will be attending the largest international undergraduate business plan competition in Canada: the Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition (QEC), presenting their startup: Cigbins. Read more ›
South Africa Taps Telfer Experience in Innovation Management
Telfer School professors shared their perspectives on innovation management with a South African delegation led by Dr. Phil Mjwara, Director-General of South Africa’s Science & Technology Department on September 13. Read more ›
