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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 acumen, and a lot of friends.

In this podcast interview, Professor Tony Masi joins Eric Dicaire to discuss unions, social ties, and how they impact society. They begin by talking about the role of unions in some of the major victories of the past century. Then they get into how unions align themselves with other social organizations, and what kind of tensions this can cause for union leaders. They conclude the conversation with a look at the current state of union membership and behaviour in North America.

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From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada), by Lorenzo Frangi, Anthony Masi, and Bénédicte Poirier.

In the interest of everyone? Support for social movement unionism among union officials in Quebec (Canada), by Lorenzo Frangi, Sinisa Hadziabdic, and Anthoni Masi.

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McGill Delve is the official thought leadership platform of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Eric Dicaire hosted, produced, and edited this episode. Saku Mantere is McGill Delve’s editor-in-chief and produced all the original music.

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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_Communities_in_the_Firm

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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 greed, power, and corruption – insights that are as relevant today as they were in the 16th century.

Learn more about Antoni Cimolino and the Stratford Festival: https://bit.ly/3WNMNO8

McGill Delve is the official thought leadership platform of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. This episode of the McGill Delve podcast was hosted by Saku Mantere. He is a professor of strategy and organization at McGill University and McGill Delve’s editor-in-chief. He also produced all the original music.  Eric Dicaire produced and edited this episode.

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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 the opportunities and risks of putting your products on sale.

Rim Harris is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Desautels Faculty of Management. This episode was inspired by her paper titled “Markdown Pricing with Quality Perception.” Read it here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3634129

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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 course on financial literacy. Learn more here: https://www.mcgillpersonalfinance.com/

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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 lives.

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Study: The Governance of Non-Profits and their Social Impact: Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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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 cultivated new knowledge networks, which include domestic and international organizations, with the goal of improving their innovation capabilities in healthcare. These efforts could provide a template for other nations hoping to do the same.

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Creating innovation capabilities for improving global health: Inventing technology for neglected tropical diseases in Brazil

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McGill Delve is the official thought leadership platform for the Desautels Faculty at Management of McGill University. Dr. Sabine Dhir hosted this episode of the Delve podcast. Eric Dicaire edited and mixed the show. Saku Mantere composed the original music.

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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. So what does this mean for marketers in the pharmaceutical sector? And how does this affect the delivery of care for patients with rare diseases?

Professor Vakratsas shares his insights on this episode of the McGill Delve podcast.

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McGill Delve is the official thought leadership platform of McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. This episode of the McGill Delve podcast was hosted and produced by Eric Dicaire, Assistant Editor at Delve. Professor Saku Mantere is Delve’s Editor-in-Chief and produced all the original music.

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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 roles in target portfolio companies. She shares her findings on the latest McGill Delve podcast episode.

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Professor Yavuz’s study: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P5PRykJ_eV60X3iFnPzOmnAx6n6aeD-E/view

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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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Full study: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/mnsc.2021.01379

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This episode of the McGill Delve Podcast was hosted and edited by Eric Dicaire. Saku Mantere is McGill Delve's editor-in-chief. He also produced all the original music.

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