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L’École de gestion Telfer souhaite féliciter les cinq professeurs qui ont reçu des subventions de recherche.
Pour de plus amples renseignements au sujet de leur recherche et de leurs subventions, veuillez cliquer les liens suivants :
Sylvain Durocher
« La légitimité du normalisateur comptable canadien dans l’ère de la globalisation »
Scott Ensign
« Developing Case Studies about Entrepreneurial Experience in the North »
Mirou Jaana
« Adoption and Use of an Expert System: User Acceptance and Usage Outcomes »
Leila Hamzaoui
« Building Trust in Organic Food Products: Crossing Consumers, Distribution and Certification Organizations’ Perspectives »
Kaouthar Lajili
« Exploring Modern Human Resource Accounting and Financial Reporting in the North-American Financial Services Industries »
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By Tanya Hume
Imagine a place where biotechnology businesses incubate and small start ups have a chance to conduct research and thrive. This is the San Jose BioCenter, a non profit organization that is a leader in accelerating new life enhancing technologies to the public, and was our first stop of the day. Erika Kula, Director, Business Development, explained this unique model of commercializing innovation with flexible lab space and access to state of the art equipment 24/7. It provides business support and scale advantages, allowing companies to direct money at research rather than equipment. Success stories such as BrighTex Bio-Photonics and Edison Pharmaceuticals were hatched here and the San Jose BioCenter is a true economic development initiative.
We heard from two companies currently residing at the BioCenter. Laxminarayan Bhat, PhD, President and CEO of Reviva Pharmaceuticals, explained that they are in Silicon Valley because of the highly qualified people that can be hired as consultants rather than employees and the ability to leverage the BioCenter facilities, allowing 70% of its funds to be directed at product development and 30% at infrastructure (opposite of their norm). Richard Jorgensen, Vice President, Business Development of Single Cell Technology Inc. is in Silicon Valley for its “smarts and innovation” and hopes to be acquired by a pharmaceutical company. Both guest speakers raised funds through angel investors; this is the recommended vehicle for raising capital in the biotechnology industry.
Our next stop was the IBM Almaden Research Center located in the hills of the Almaden Valley. This was a secluded paradise that sat on 691 acres. The guest speakers were impressive and spoke of education, analytics and simulation of the brain. Carolyn Wallace, Client Relationship Management, talked about the eight research labs around the world and the highly diverse employees representing over 50 countries.
Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director, Global University Programs, spoke of IBM’s Global Universities relation program and “the employee of the future” who should know business, technology, social science and public policy – a T-shaped professional who can communicate with everyone at all levels, but has a deep knowledge in one area. The philosophy is that “you should hire someone better than you.” Another large marketing plan is “Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent – Let’s Build a Smarter Planet” where intelligent systems are constructed to reduce waste, expand capabilities and create sustainable innovation.
Dr. Ying Chen introduced patent analytics technology and the concept of explore, understand and analyze. The possibilities using SIMPLE and COBRA for leveraging text and data mining capabilities seem endless.
The IBM values of:
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Dedicate to every client’s success;
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Innovation that matters for our customers and the world;
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Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships;
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were actually created from jam sessions involving thousands of IBM employees and using IBM analytics.
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John Arthur, Research Scientist, discussed Cognitive Computing and the synapse project where they’re trying to create human behavior by working in virtual environments. Using the BlueGene, in May 2009, they had created the cat scale brain (a tool) and the pure optimism that behavior will be replicated in the next five years was, in itself, inspiring. This level of optimism has been so prevalent in Silicon Valley and the “can do” attitude is contagious.
The final destination was the Sheraton Palo Alto for an Alumni Reception which was hosted by Alain Doucet, Assistant Dean External Relations, Telfer School of Management. There were Alumni from the Telfer School of Management who now work in Silicon Valley, and other distinguished guests. The alumni espoused the pace of SV, the level of collaboration and quick decisions, as key success factors, and part of the draw, to the Valley. Our guest speaker was Chris Albinson, Managing Director, Panorma Capital – a Kingston native who has been in Silicon Valley for a decade. He spoke of failure as “something never to fear, but rather to embrace.” His most important point was that of transparency – the theme that has been developing throughout this trip.
Passion, a high level of curiosity, pride, taking risks and learning from failures, have been direct attributes we’ve seen in working with our entrepreneur in SV and these have also been mirrored in the companies we have had the fortune of being exposed to.
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By: Michelle Couturier
The Executive MBA class of 2011 has officially been re-introduced to Silicon Valley (SV). For the “grand opening” of this trip, the class headed to paradise, a vineyard called Savannah-Chanelle. Sitting in the middle of Santa Cruz Mountains, this place was incredibly inspiring. As we walked across this site, we felt calmness, an overwhelming feeling of simplicity and a way of life that we could only imagine wanting to live. This first experience was just the beginning of what we were about to experience in “the Valley”. Since our arrival on Saturday, this vision has expanded, we can truly feel the cultural differences of SV and it is really starting to sink in. Interestingly enough, it seems that an impressive number of people from the Valley have extended their careers and their lives to their 80s and even 90s, by thriving to experience more of this greatness, year after year after year.
A student from a previous year came back from the SV trip and once said, if the entire Executive MBA program would have to be limited to this week, it was worth the entire program investment. I will attest to that and raise it by saying, this is Monday, and we already feel like the value of this week is priceless.
The best word to describe the Valley; Innovation. Few words to describe how they do it; Openness, Trust, Collaboration, Networking, Questioning, Risk-taking and Patience. How to do business in Silicon Valley is very different than the traditional hierarchical models that most of us live in our current work environments. Innovation cannot be made possible by following our traditional ways of doing business. Silicon Valley has been a laboratory for developing a business culture that strives to share information and knowledge. The following message became clear to us: “failure is an experience of unplanned outcomes”. In order to assimilate this, you probably have to experience what our class is experiencing this week, or perhaps you already have.
A “bottom-up” approach that “rewards risk-taking and tolerates failure”, as Mr. William Miller, Professor at Stanford University quoted today.
Issues, problems, failures, are open discussion topics here in SV, people are not afraid to say these words, they are actually very comfortable in talking about it, they believe that innovation is impossible without collaborating in this way, and should you ever feel threatened by sharing ideas and solutions fearlessly, you probably don’t belong here.
Regis McKenna, a marketing guru, a pioneer of the Valley, spoke to us today and I wish we could have spent an extra twenty hours with him as the information he conveyed to us within one hour was truly overwhelming. This published author grew up with companies like Intel and Microsoft as they made their first steps as start-ups and as they pulled off breakthrough events in ridiculously short timeframes, realizing the future of these companies as we know them today.
The atmosphere in SV is an Ecosystem of its own, it is “green”, it is “clean”, and it is truly hard for me to say this as a proud Canadian, but I am already convinced that this is the “Centre of the Universe” as people here believe it truly is. One would hope that not only this way of doing business but this way of life will influence the rest of the business world around us. SV is not only a laboratory for technology; it is also a lab for developing markets and abilities, enabling people to vision possibilities and opportunities.
I leave it to my colleagues to provide you with further insight in the next articles of this series, as we will be expanding our comparator of Silicon Valley versus the world we know. Stay tuned for more on our adventure in the Valley.
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This is a week long blog series inspired by the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management Executive MBA class trip to the Silicon Valley. The trip is part of the EMBA curriculum on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, which includes a consulting project and holding meetings with Valley firms on behalf of client organizations, as well as special events and discussions at key Valley innovation centres, such as the San Jose BioCenter, IBM Almaden Research Center, Apple, Cisco, Adobe, eBay and Stanford University.
Michelle Couturier, Tanya Hume, Natalie Kahalé and Marc Lamarre are EMBA participants and they will be writing daily updates for the Ottawa Business Journal, to share their experiences and lessons learned in the Silicon Valley.
Le mardi 11 mai 2010
« Blogging from Silicon Valley: Day one »
Le mercredi 12 mai 2010
« Blogging from Silicon Valley: Day two » [Ce lien n'est plus disponible]
Le jeudi 13 mai 2010
« Blogging from Silicon Valley: Day three » [Ce lien n'est plus disponible]
Le vendredi 14 mai 2010
« Blogging from Silicon Valley: Day four » [Ce lien n'est plus disponible]
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Les récipiendaires du prix Forty Under 40 du Ottawa Business Journal ont été annoncés le 3 mai dernier. Les récipiendaires ont été nommés par leurs pairs et d’autre membres de la communauté. Ils sont reconnus pour leur esprit de communauté, de leadership et d’entrepreneuriat. L’École de gestion Telfer aimerait féliciter tous les récipiendaires, dont 7 sont des anciens de l’École Telfer.
Félicitations à :
- Samer Forzley, MBA 2006
- Geoffrey Gilbert, B.Adm 1993
- Eric Lang, EMBA 2007
- Cathy Lewis, EMBA 2007
- Carl Nappert, B.Com 1998
- Adam C. Nihmey, B.Com 1998
- Kirk Wrinn, B.Adm 1994
Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site Web www.obj.ca/FlyingPage/40/Forty-Under-40 (lien plus disponible)
(Ce site n’est disponible qu’en anglais)
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Brian Malcolmson apporte au programme de maîtrise en gestion des services de santé (MGSS) plus de 30 années d’expérience en gestion dans le domaine de la santé, ayant notamment été vice-président associé aux affaires universitaires à l’Hôpital Montfort, cadre supérieur en administration hospitalière à l’ancien Hôpital Riverside d’Ottawa et expert-conseil privé en gestion des services de santé et sociaux à CGO Montréal.
Il a également travaillé en administration de services de santé pour les gouvernements de l’Ontario et du Manitoba et en planification de services de santé communautaire à Orléans et à Ottawa.
À titre de président de l’Association des anciens de la MGSS de l’Université d’Ottawa, qui compte un millier de membres, M. Malcolmson a établi dernièrement un partenariat avec le Collège canadien des directeurs de services de santé relativement à son programme de formation des chefs de file du domaine. En tant que cadre en résidence, il cherche à collaborer aussi bien avec le corps professoral, afin de resserrer les liens de ses membres avec le secteur de la santé, qu’avec les étudiantes et étudiants, pour mieux les orienter tout au long de leurs études et dans leur choix de carrière.
Diplômé de la MGSS de l'Université d'Ottawa, Brian Malcolmson a conservé ses liens étroits avec le programme des années durant, que ce soit en tant que précepteur, qu’ancien professeur à temps partiel ou que chargé de cours. Bilingue et résolu à proposer de nouvelles possibilités de cours en français, il se réjouit de revenir aux sources dans le programme de MGSS et d’ainsi contribuer à la formation des ressources humaines nécessaires pour gérer notre système de santé.
Le programme des cadres en résidence de l’École de gestion Telfer illustre sa marque de service « liée au leadership ». Les personnes choisies transmettent à nos étudiants des renseignements importants sur des sujets d'actualité et les exposent à une expérience professionnelle réelle dans divers domaines des affaires, notamment le commerce international, les soins de santé, la politique, les technologies de pointe, la finance, l’entrepreneuriat et le droit.
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Félicitations au professeur Gilles Levasseur qui est le récipiendaire du prix Personnalité de la semaine LeDroit-Société Radio-Canada pour son engagement envers la communauté francophone de l'Ontario.
Regardez son entrevue au site web de Radio-Canada (le lecteur Real Player est nécessaire)
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L’École de gestion Telfer de l’Université d’Ottawa a nommé Sophie L’Hélias boursière principale. Celle?ci apporte à l’établissement un riche bagage de connaissances et d’expérience dans le domaine de la gouvernance.
Experte en gouvernance d’entreprise, Mme L’Hélias a entamé sa carrière en France auprès d’investisseurs commerciaux désireux d’améliorer leur dossier à cet égard. De 1998 a 2000, elle est directrice déléguée d’un fonds spéculatif activiste parmi les plus importants de New York avant de fonder en 2001 L’Hélias LLC, société de gestion et de communication stratégique ayant son siège aux États-Unis.
Sophie L’Hélias a rédigé de nombreux articles sur la gouvernance d’entreprise et publié un ouvrage comparant les pratiques en la matière employées en France, au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis (Le retour de l’actionnaire, éd. Gualino, 1996). Elle est actuellement chroniqueuse pour la version américaine du magazine Corporate Knights, axé sur l’écogouvernance.
En vue de resserrer les normes de gouvernance à l’échelle mondiale, Sophie L’Hélias cofonde par ailleurs en 1995 l’International Corporate Governance Network (www.icgn.org), réseau ayant son siège à Londres et gérant plus de dix trillions de dollars d’actifs pour ses membres investisseurs. En 2010, elle cofonde également l’Organisation mondiale de la gouvernance francophone, sise à Ottawa.
Avocate reconnue par les barreaux de Paris et de New York, Mme L’Hélias est titulaire d’une maîtrise en administration des affaires de l’INSEAD et diplômée en droit de l’Université de la Pennsylvanie, de l’Université Panthéon-Sorbonne et de l’Institut européen de l’Université de Sarrebruck, en Allemagne.
Sophie L’Hélias est boursière principale au Centre Samuel Heyman de gouvernance d’entreprise de l’École de droit Cardozo, à New York.
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Les Séminaires sur la recherche en gestion des systèmes de santé vous invitent à une conférence qui sera donnée par la professeure Vimla Patel, directrice du Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making, School of Health Information Sciences à la University of Texas at Houston
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