Asper MBA News Archive

October 15, 2024 — 
The James W. Burns Leadership Institute has appointed Connie Walker O.M. as Leader-in-Residence (LIR), effective September 1, 2024.

September 13, 2024 — 
Instructor and newly appointed director of Indigenous business relations, Katherine Davis [MBA/20] has spent the last 10 years working in cross-cultural settings building relationships with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. She is the first Métis faculty member at the Asper School of Business as well as an alum of the Asper MBA and President’s Student Leadership Program.

July 22, 2024 — 
On an island less than half the size of Prince Edward Island (and former home to the dodo bird, no less), an engineer, a financial risk associate and 17 of their peers plant saplings at the Mondrain Nature Reserve, a unique way to earn credit in pursuit of their MBAs at the Asper School of Business. From April 22 to 26, 19 Asper MBA candidates travelled to the Republic of Mauritius, an island nation about 2,000 km off the coast of Madagascar, for the annual MBA study tour.

June 6, 2024 — 
Pinaz Mehta was prepared to climb the ladder from the laboratory to the boardroom, working as a criminalist assisting in the validation of AI software for the City of Tucson Arizona. With graduate training in forensic science and technology, Mehta excelled in research and began to detect the possibility of more. Suddenly, feeling even farther away from her family in Toronto amid lockdowns, Mehta realized that she needed a leap, not a ladder, to move forward. She began looking into MBA programs, seeking to develop her leadership skills closer to home.

April 23, 2024 — 
As Chief Clinical Operations Officer at CancerCare Manitoba, Asper alum Ken Borce [MBA/18] considers health equity a “guiding light” in his work.

January 16, 2024 — 
Asper MBA alum Pablo Reich [MBA/02] is the executive vice president of Arconas, a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of high-performance furniture for airports and passenger terminals in North America. Reich has built on the company’s legacy of sustainability, all while growing a successful business in a unique market.

January 10, 2024 — 
Kathleen BlueSky [MBA/15] has always been driven by a desire to uplift Indigenous people and create more sustainable, just systems in her community.

November 9, 2023 — 
Winnipeg Free Press: U of M establishes joint business, law degree

November 7, 2023 — 
The Faculty of Law and Stu Clark Graduate School, housed at the Asper School of Business, are launching the province’s first concurrent JD/MBA program at the University of Manitoba.

October 27, 2023 — 
Phill, a graduate of the Asper School of Business MBA program, is the founder and CEO of My Student Wellbeing, an online platform where university students can access virtual counselling sessions with qualified therapists. A former social worker who gained business knowledge and skills in his MBA, Phill strives to make mental health services more accessible for students.