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Who makes a better leader, introverts or extroverts? The answer is neither and both. The key to successful leadership lies in ambiversion, in knowing when to listen like an introvert and when to network like an extrovert. In this Delve podcast episode, Professor Karl Moore and Gabriele Hartshorne-Mehl explain the importance of senior leadership adapting their communication style based on the needs of their employees and environment...

Generative AI is a powerful tool with huge potential for your business. But how can you use it effectively?

Professor Shoeb Hosain is a lecturer at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University and the director of the DataSphere Lab. In the Lab, he and his students develop data solutions for businesses that come to them for help. And these days, that often means helping implement AI into their operations.

In this e...

Rayan Sadri and Ali Rouzbayani are the co-founders of Carez AI, a startup building AI tools to generate high-quality synthetic medical images. On this episode of the McGill Delve podcast, they explain how their technology could support healthcare innovation — and why it’s crucial to prevent "model collapse" in the process.

Sadri and Rouzbayani sit down with managing editor Eric Dicaire to discuss the role synthetic data can play...

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Statistics Canada cites financial challenges as the leading cause of homelessness in Canada. Other factors, like health issues and domestic abuse, can also affect a person’s housing situation. But more than that, for Professor Jayne Malenfant and Hannah Brais, homelessness is a symptom of a flawed social and political system.

Malenfant is an assistant professor of Education at M...

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In Canada, one in five people doesn’t have a family doctor they see regularly. Emergency wait times can be as high as 22 hours. An ageing population threatens to strain an already burdened healthcare system. And while these numbers cover the situation in Canada, countries around the world face similar challenges. How did we get here? And what can be done about it? Samer Faraj, a pr...

Creativity is a joyous rage

Once upon a time, creativity was your superpower. Your ambition to succeed was unmatched and your creative drive was your guiding light. But now, after years of navigating deadlines, expectations, and maybe even a few hard-won successes, you find yourself wondering: Where did that creative spark go?

When creativity feels distant—lost to routine, burnout, or the sheer weight of responsibilities and expe...

Sometimes it’s difficult to do the right thing. What if managers made it easier?

Rob Glew is an assistant professor of Operations Management at McGill University. In this podcast interview, pulling on his own research and other cornerstone studies, he shares how small management choices can impact people’s motivations to do good.

Eric Dicaire interviews Rob Glew in this podcast episode. They begin by defining pro-social behav...

This week on the McGill Delve podcast, our editor-in-chief is in the hot seat. Saku Mantere is a professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Desautels Faculty of Management. Over the course of his career, he’s identified six ways to understand creativity. These frameworks can help you unlock the creativity that’s within you and your organization.

We begin this episode with an overview of Professor Mantere’s six pillars of creat...

Are unions for everyone?

Tony Masi is a Professor of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour at McGill University. In this podcast interview, he shows us unions attach themselves to social movements that benefit both their members and society as a whole, which has led to some of the biggest social changes of the 20th century. But this kind of work isn’t easy. If they want to win, union leaders need vision, political ac...

In this episode of the McGill Delve podcast, Professor Lisa Cohen talks about the fascinating and crucial process of job designing in startups. She explains how job creation impacts startups, the numerous challenges managers and founders face when hiring, and how startups differ from larger, more established firms.

Read Professor Cohen's paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5212434_Routines_and_Incentives_The_Role_of...

In this special edition of the McGill Delve podcast, editor-in-chief Saku Mantere sits down with Antoni Cimolino, artistic director of the Stratford Festival. Together they unpack leadership lessons from one of the most influential artists of all time: William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was not only a fantastic playwright, but he was also an entrepreneur. And his life and work have much to say about leadership and the perils of gr...

In this episode of the McGill Delve podcast, Professor Rim Hariss talks price strategies. Supply and demand, manufacturing costs, and other operational factors are important determinants of a product’s price. But beyond that, retailers can manipulate prices to tell a story about their brand.

Professor Hariss explains how price skimming affects relationships with consumers, how price anchoring influences consumer behaviour, and t...

Personal finance may seem complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. In this episode of the McGill Delve podcast, Professor Benjamin Croitoru walks us through how to control our finances, avoid common investing mistakes, and feel more comfortable speaking to financial advisors. 

Professor Croitoru is an associate professor of finance at McGill University and the academic director of McGill Personal Finance Essentials, a free c...

Anicet Fangwa is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management. In this episode of the Delve Podcast, he highlights three simple management tactics that can reduce infant mortality rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo: performance-based incentives, auditing, and feedback. With these management tools, institutional donors can maximize the impact of their funding and potentially save ...

Paola Perez-Aleman, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at McGill University, joins Dr. Sabine Dhir to discuss Brazil’s approach to building healthcare innovation capacity.

Brazil has been building innovation capacity and cultivating knowledge networks in its fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a public health issue that affects millions in Brazil and around the world. Since the 1970s, the country cult...

Demetrios Vakratsas is a Professor of Marketing at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. In a recent study, he found that physicians use scientific evidence to learn about new specialty drugs, rather than consulting traditional marketing materials.

They don’t need brochures. They don’t look at ads. Instead, specialists participate in word-of-mouth marketing to learn about drugs that could help their patients....

Activist hedge funds exert their influence in several ways, but recently they’ve been trying something new: acquiring board seats on their portfolio companies. Once there, fund representatives can advise and monitor company leadership to maximize the company’s value.

Ipek Yavuz, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management, studied the impact of activist board members who perform advisory and monitoring ...

Taha Havakhor, Professor of Information Systems at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, studied how retail investors used data from a financial APIs to inform their investment decisions.

What he found was striking. When using stock pricing data pulled from an API, consumer investors were prone to making riskier investment choices.

He tells us why in the latest episode of the McGill Delve podcast.

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In a recent study, Professor Mehmet Gumus learned that consumers are reluctant to pay more for sustainable clothing. This creates a conundrum for fast fashion companies. Sustainable manufacturing is expensive, so firms want to know their investment will be worth it. But, if they’re going to succeed, major stakeholders will have to join forces to make an impact.

Gumus believes companies, consumers, and public institutions can wor...