Asper School of Business News Archive

January 21, 2025 — 
Matt Schaubroeck [MBA/17] is Principal and CEO of Leverage Point Consulting, where he works with start-ups and founders seeking to pursue business that has a positive impact on the world—fellow entrepreneurs with the drive not just to start a business but to do business differently. The role is a natural fit for Schaubroeck, a founder who thrives in the execution.

January 16, 2025 — 
Last year 99 students represented the Asper School of Business around the world, gaining insights in global business, supply chain, finance, marketing, and more across five continents. In 2024, the Asper Exchange Program signed 12 new partnerships, continuing to expand options for students with over 60 business school partners in over 30 countries around the world.

January 16, 2025 — 
Premier Kinew calls for 'Team Canada' long-term economic strategy

January 8, 2025 — 
Update from President Benarroch on public statements

January 6, 2025 — 
When Lily Francis is presenting a case in competition, something clicks into place, and suddenly it’s just her and the judges. She isn’t thinking about the hours of practice and case preparation; she isn’t worried about being “too much” (a holdover from a lifetime of being a big talker); she isn’t fixated on the ideas that didn’t make the cut; and she isn’t second-guessing her delivery. No, as Francis puts it, when she is presenting, everything else goes away.

January 3, 2025 — 
New train detection system on track to alert motorists, first responders about railway traffic

December 20, 2024 — 
What if scholars could capture how a country collectively feels and thinks about a subject, even in an age of information overload? Wenxi Pu (Associate Dean, Assistant Professor, The Associates Fellow in Innovation) has spent about eight years working to do just that in a piece now published in the FT50-ranked Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

December 19, 2024 — 
BComm student Habiba Mohamed saves everything. With each new country she visits, Mohamed keeps train tickets, postcards, and keychains. When she gets back home, she arranges them carefully into a single scrapbook page, a glimpse of another Asper adventure.

December 19, 2024 — 
Can Manitoba really have a balanced budget in a couple of years?

December 16, 2024 — 
Canada’s maple syrup harvest up 91% — but it may not sweeten prices