�鶹Լ�� Desautels Faculty of Management - Mehmet Gumus's Recent Media Coverage

�鶹Լ�� Desautels professors and lecturers recognized at Faculty Awards

�鶹Լ�� — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:33:56 +0000

Across programs and subject areas, the �鶹Լ�� Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that research, teaching, service and media engagement play in enriching the student experience and inspiring the next generation of leaders through the annual Faculty Awards. This year we recognize the following outstanding members of our faculty:

Research

�鶹Լ�� expands its business analytics degree with online delivery

�鶹Լ�� — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:53:35 +0000

�鶹Լ��’s Desautels Faculty of Management is launching an online version of its top-ranked Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) program. The 18-month online offering will feature the same high-quality curriculum and content as the in-person, full-time program, providing a balance of advanced statistics, technology and business strategy, and giving students a broad range of practical skills to turn data-driven insights into actionable solutions.

Delve: AI-griculture, A High-Tech Approach to Decarbonizing Agricultural Food Supply Chains

�鶹Լ�� — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:21:59 +0000

One of the largest contributors to climate change worldwide, the agricultural food supply chain crosses international borders and reaches across industries and sectors. Reducing its environmental impact requires complex, high-tech solutions like artificial intelligence—and the people to implement them at the right time, in the right places.

�鶹Լ��-led MiXR platform will connect Canada’s food and beverage sector

�鶹Լ�� — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:04:24 +0000

Thousands of restaurants and retailers across Canada sell food and beverages, and the logistics of getting these products where they need to be are complex. A new platform is using data to make it all more efficient. Led by Professor Laurette Dubé, Scientific Director of the �鶹Լ�� Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), MiXR will optimize resources throughout the food and beverage sector.

Offering a signing bonus can help companies recruit new worker’s, but industry-wide worker shortages remain

�鶹Լ�� — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:05:47 +0000

Canada’s trucking industry has a worker shortage, and competition for qualified drivers is high. The last-mile delivery company Sysco is offering truck drivers up to $30 an hour – with a $10,000 bonus once they meet all of the company’s service standards. This type of incentive can help address a company’s need for employees in the short-term, but it doesn’t address the larger problem, said Prof. Mehmet Gumus in an interview with CTV News.

Delve podcast: New Normal: How the Pandemic Changed Shopping Forever with Mehmet Gumus

�鶹Լ�� — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:51:12 +0000

How we shop today certainly isn’t the same as it was before March 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic launched a swift if unsteady shift in shopping habits—and retailers quickly learned that adaptation was essential to survival. Today, a hybrid retail approach is leading the way to increased sales.

Turning data into decisions

�鶹Լ�� — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:02:16 +0000

Professor Mehmet Gumus, Academic Director of the Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) program, joins SAP’s On-Demand Webcast to highlight how data interpretation impacts business decisions at every level of an organization. According to Gumus, the primary goal in teaching data analysis to MMA students at Desautels is to help them understand “what just happened, what will happen, and what should happen” in a business setting.

QS ranks �鶹Լ�� MMA best in Canada, 10th in the world

�鶹Լ�� — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:18:13 +0000

Only two years since the program launched in 2018, the Master of Management (MMA) program at �鶹Լ�� has carved a spot in the top 10 business analytics programs in the world and taken the top spot in Canada.

Released today, the QS World University Rankings places the �鶹Լ�� MMA 10^th in the QS Masters in Business Analytics Rankings 2021.

�鶹Լ�� team creates COVID-19 dashboard to monitor Montreal and Quebec cases

�鶹Լ�� — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:51:56 +0000

Under the supervision of Professors Juan Serpa and Mehmet Gumus, a team of �鶹Լ�� Desautels students have partnered with students from the Faculty of Engineering to develop a dashboard that tracks COVID-19 cases in Montreal and Quebec.

Desautels students create dashboard to track COVID-19 cases in Canada

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:23:34 +0000

�鶹Լ�� Desautels students Venkatesh Chandra and Ramy Hammam recently developed an analytics-based COVID-19 dashboard to monitor cases across Canada in an effort to combat the spread of panic and misinformation.

Delve: How to Keep Suppliers Honest—Instead of Allowing them Every Opportunity not to Be

�鶹Լ�� — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:37:33 +0000

New research from Prof Mehmet Gumus explores the challenges that companies face when monitoring product quality in distant factories, and how choosing the right contract structure can incentivize suppliers to deliver higher quality products.

This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of �鶹Լ��'s Desautels Faculty of Management.

MMA Students Gain Hands-on Experience at Pratt & Whitney Canada

�鶹Լ�� — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:09:37 +0000

As core to the Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) program, the EXP Analytics Consulting module has MMA students working alongside industry professionals over a 10-month period solving a significant Data & Analytics problem, aimed to boost the client’s top or bottom lines.

Take a look at what our MMA students have to say after working with partner Pratt & Whitney Canada.

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�鶹Լ�� meets rising demand for specialty business degrees

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:16:11 +0000

Masters degrees in fields like finance and big data are quickly becoming a popular alternative to the traditional MBA for students looking to specialize. Professor Mehmet Gumus, Academic Director for the Master of Management in Analytics (MMA), and Rida Mehdi (MMA'19) weigh in on the unique advantages of a specialty degree.

Mehmet Gumus appointed to Editorial Board of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

�鶹Լ�� — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:53:18 +0000

Mehmet Gumus, Associate Professor in Operations Management, was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM).

MMA students find inspiration on inaugural Study Trip in San Francisco

�鶹Լ�� — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:36:37 +0000

The �鶹Լ�� Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) degree is a pre-experience, twelve-month specialized program in the evolving field of management analytics with a strong emphasis on experiential learning.

As part of this hands-on learning, the first cohort of MMA students went on the program's inaugural Study Trip to San Francisco in June.

Welcoming a new MMA advisory member

�鶹Լ�� — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:47:25 +0000

The Masters of Management in Analytics program is pleased to announce that Wemba Opota, National Technology Strategist at Microsoft, has joined the program’s Advisory Board.

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Welcoming a new MMA advisory member

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:25:20 +0000

The Master’s of Management in Analytics program is pleased to announce that Richard Hines, Senior Director, Data and Digital Enablement at Air Canada, has joined the program’s Advisory Board.

MMA assembles accomplished advisory board

�鶹Լ�� — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:48:45 +0000

This fall, the Masters of Management in Analytics (MMA) kicked off its first Advisory Board meeting to discuss the future directions of the MMA curriculum, which will benefit its inaugural cohort.

The MMA Advisory Board comprises senior industry leaders from a wide variety of educational and skills backgrounds who have excelled in their given fields.

Masters of Management in Analytics: Meet the inaugural class

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:18:41 +0000

Diversity of students strengthens classroom experience

The Desautels Faculty of Management welcomed its inaugural cohort of Masters of Management in Analytics (MMA) students on August 3.

The thirty-five students (14 female, 21 male) originate from 12 nations across five continents and have an average entering CGPA of 3.40, bringing diverse cultural perspectives and strong academic credentials.

As Lush expands, pressure on producers mounts

�鶹Լ�� — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:19:21 +0000

According to the Globe and Mail, times are good for UK-based bath-bomb producer Lush. Right now, all of its North American stores are supplied from two Canadian production centres, but as business picks up in the southern US, the company is looking at opening a US factory to supply that market; since Lush is all about sustainable, preservative-free products, it needs a production facility to be near a given area’s retailers.

Supply-chain tests and solutions for growing Lush handmade cosmetics

�鶹Լ�� — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:56:21 +0000

Lush’s North American factories in Vancouver and Etobicoke are putting out bath bombs at a frenetic pace to keep up with the demands of the rapidly-growing company — and the extremely short turnaround that a preservative-free product line entails. But as the company and the wider organic and Fairtrade industries grow, they put increased strain on suppliers and growers.

Kabtek improves production throughput up to 20% with CablePlan

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:43:22 +0000

CablePlan Plannica reduces the planning cycle from days to minutes. It enhances and improves the decision making of production planners. CablePlan reduces the manual workload and releases the decision makers’ valuable time, enabling them to regain responsiveness and flexibility in the planning cycle. CablePlan enables planners to increase their planning horizon, enables smarter optimization and allows planning considering multiple objectives.

Spending defence budgets the wrong way risks major damage from terrorist attacks

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:09:16 +0000

Governments that fail to account for analysis of terrorists' personal information in allocating their defence budgets risk increased damage from terrorist attacks, new research from the Desautels Faculty of Management finds.
... Professor Mehmet Gumus and his PhD student Dr. Nikoofal find that there are two types of terrorists; either organised or unorganised. Organised terrorists observe the behaviours of governments and defence measures in place before they carry out an attack, while unorganised terrorists act without such planning.

Industry reacts to vote to renew US terrorism insurance act

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:05:41 +0000

Industry leaders have been reacting to the news that the US Congress has voted overwhelmingly in favor or reauthorizing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act for six years. The vote stalled before Christmas after a senator objected but passed through both houses of Congress on Wednesday.
... Meanwhile an academic has warned that policies on protecting locations need to be more flexible. Professor Mehmet Gumus of Desautels Faculty of Management says that governments need to allow funds for analysis of terrorists’ behaviours.