/channels/taxonomy/term/7408/all en /channels/channels/news/mcgill-desautels-bcom-wins-mccais-undergraduate-research-award-2024-357152 <p>Bachelor of Commerce student <strong>Nikki Tye</strong> is the recipient of the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS)’s Undergraduate Research Award (McURA) for Summer 2024. The $8,700 award, aimed at promoting interdisciplinary AI research in society, recognizes Nikki's project on "Protecting the Amazon Forest from Illegal Activity through Image Recognition and Operations Research: A Partnership with JungleKeepers and Peruvian Indigenous Communities."</p> Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:51:24 +0000 webfull 199850 at /channels /channels/channels/news/2023-sshrc-insight-development-grants-356629 <h4><b>Congratulations to the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Desautels professors who received 2023 SSHRC Insight Grants.</b></h4> <hr /> <p>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and training in the humanities and social sciences.</p> <p> </p> Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:04:00 +0000 webfull 199246 at /channels /channels/channels/news/desautels-developed-ai-app-helping-monkeys-avoid-injury-costa-rica-352140 <p>When endangered howler monkey populations cross Costa Rica’s roads, they are vulnerable to injury from electrical wires and passing cars. Associate Professor<a href="/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa"> Juan Camilo Serpa</a>, partnering with Reserva Conchal, is using artificial intelligence to help prevent these injuries from occurring.</p> Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:17:57 +0000 webfull 194112 at /channels /channels/channels/news/artificial-intelligence-helping-costa-rica-ngos-preserve-biodiversity-351756 <p>During a sabbatical year, <a href="/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa"><strong>Prof. Juan Camilo Serpa</strong></a> visited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Costa Rica, and found that while they were doing a lot of great work to help animals, they had little access to advanced technologies like data analytics and artificial intelligence. This inspired Serpa to re-focus his research toward the country’s NGOs, so he could help them implement new technologies that maximize the impact of their efforts.</p> Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:53:40 +0000 webfull 193680 at /channels /channels/channels/event/costa-rica-study-trip-information-session-november-10-350940 <p>Are you passionate about sustainability or analytics or both?</p> Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:55:05 +0000 webfull 192698 at /channels /channels/channels/event/costa-rica-study-trip-information-session-october-27-350938 <p>Are you passionate about sustainability or analytics or both?</p> Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:49:25 +0000 webfull 192696 at /channels /channels/channels/event/costa-rica-study-trip-information-session-september-29-350936 <p>Are you passionate about sustainability or analytics or both?</p> Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:41:04 +0000 webfull 192694 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgill-desautels-costa-rica-study-trip-applies-data-analytics-sustainability-projects-350670 <p>Æ»¹ûÒùÔº students are working with Costa Rican non-governmental organizations to safeguard howler monkeys from road hazards. Through their research, they’ve created a "Mono-SOS" website for accident reporting in partnership with a local NGO, SalveMonos.</p> Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:32:29 +0000 webfull 192379 at /channels /channels/channels/news/managing-airfares-under-competition-insights-field-experiment-344763 <p>Authors: <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/maxime-cohen"><b>Maxime C. Cohen</b></a>, Alexandre Jacquillat, <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa"><b>Juan Camilo Serpa</b></a> and Michael Benborhoum</p> <p>Publication: <i>Management Science,</i> Forthcoming</p> Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:52:47 +0000 webfull 185838 at /channels /channels/channels/news/celebrating-excellence-teaching-desautels-339890 <p>Across programs and subject areas, the Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that teaching plays in enriching the student experience and in inspiring the next generation of leaders.</p> <p>The Distinguished Teaching Award recipients <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/sujata-madan">Sujata Madan</a> and <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa">Juan Serpa</a> were honoured at Æ»¹ûÒùԺ’s 2022 Management Convocation ceremony on June 1, for their excellence in teaching.</p> Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:45:02 +0000 webfull 180512 at /channels /channels/channels/news/delve-using-international-supply-chains-peace-times-war-juan-camilo-serpa-338494 <p>Risk is a fact of life in business—it’s also an ever-present reality in times of war. Wars and armed conflicts embroil 60% of the developing world, and now Ukraine and Russia, posing a constant threat to commodity production, the flow of international supply chains, and the economic lifeblood of these nations.</p> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:35:59 +0000 webfull 178844 at /channels /channels/channels/news/desautels-juan-camilo-serpa-earns-principals-prize-excellence-teaching-335245 <p><strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa">Juan Camilo Serpa</a></strong>, Associate Professor of Operations Management, was recently recognized with the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching for an approach that engages students by asking them to use data analytics to see familiar data in novel ways.</p> <div class="bl-tpl"><a class="button--outline" href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/article/desautels-juan-camilo-serpa-earns-principals-prize-excellence-teaching">Learn more</a></div> Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:54:11 +0000 webfull 175220 at /channels /channels/channels/news/inventory-times-war-326251 <p><strong>Authors: </strong>Andres F. Jola-Sanchez and <strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa">Juan Camilo Serpa</a></strong><br /><br /><strong>Publication:</strong> <em>Management Science</em>, 67(10):6457-6479<br /><br /><strong>Abstract:</strong></p> <p>We study how armed conflicts affect inventory across firms’ production facilities. We track 38,916 production facilities—including plantations, livestock farms, and factories—in war-torn Colombian regions; we also collect the data of 5,138 attacks performed by the two rebel groups involved in Colombia’s civil war. To obtain exogenous variation in the conflict intensity, we use a difference-in-differences model that hinges on the peace process between the government and one of the guerrilla groups. We find that when the conflict intensity increases by one order of magnitude, inventory decreases by up to 10.38%. Firms, however, barely reduce finished inventory during war; they mainly reduce raw and work-in-process inventory. To offset this inventory reduction, firms increase their cash holdings—that is, they shift their working capital from physical inventory to liquid assets. The location of the facility moderates the effect of war: when a facility is close to a distribution center—hence, inventory travels short distances—the firm responds to violence by aggressively reducing inventory; when a facility is far from a distribution center, the firm reacts less aggressively to war.</p> <p> Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:02:37 +0000 webfull 165284 at /channels /channels/channels/news/covid-19-pandemic-spurs-growth-data-analytics-and-business-intelligence-326235 <p>As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, companies are relying more heavily than ever on data analytics and business intelligence applications to weather the storm. Led by Professor <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa"><strong>Juan Serpa</strong></a>, a student-run initiative called COVID-QC is providing approximate real-time information about infection, death, and recovery numbers in Quebec to help leaders make more strategic, data-informed decisions.</p> Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:47:29 +0000 webfull 165266 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-serpa-awarded-grant-monitor-covid-19s-impact-business-322083 <p>Æ»¹ûÒùÔº has awarded Professor <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa"><strong>Juan Serpa</strong></a> with MI4 Emergency COVID-19 Research Funding to monitor COVID-19’s impact on business in Canada and across the world. Titled <i>Quebec Data Central for Impact of Covid-19 on Society and Business and for a Post-Pandemic World</i>, the one-year project aims to support businesses, researchers and policymakers in making informed decisions in the post-COVID era.</p> Fri, 08 May 2020 16:20:41 +0000 webfull 160603 at /channels