Rotman Commerce Admissions

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/university-of-toronto-best-school-canada

Maclean's ranks University of Toronto the best school in Canada | News The University of Toronto has been ranked the best school in the country, while Waterloo and UBC round out the top three.

RISE Youth Small Business Program http://www.riseassetdevelopment.com/programs/youth-small-business-program/.

Might be of interest.

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Philip Harrington has a BCom from Rotman http://www.investmentexecutive.com/-/manager-monitor-bmo-manager-sees-dividend-renaissance-?redirect=%2Fsearch

Products - Manager monitor: BMO manager sees “dividend renaissance” - Article -... BMO Asset Management’s Phillip Harrington doesn’t venture to the wild side

Ikram Al Mouaswas was studying life sciences at the University of Toronto before discovering a knack for accounting and switched to the commerce program at the Rotman School of Management http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/life-at-work/this-accountant-is-mining-her-potential/article13007867/

This accountant is mining her potential Ikram Al Mouaswas says after seven years as an accountant she’s still learning every day

A nice piece on graduation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pie89nyV1MM

University of Toronto: Convocation 2013 Staff and students at the University of Toronto discuss what Convocation means to them.

Bill McFarland has a BCom from University of Toronto; trained as a chartered accountant http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/to-bill-mcfarland-business-is-a-team-sport/article12161886/.

To Bill McFarland, business is a team sport Just as a good offence is nothing without a solid defence, the PwC head knows the importance of every member of his 6,000-strong staff

An amateur video of St. George campus popped up in my Google Alerts. If you have not been able to visit campus, it's worth a view (4.5 minutes) http://vimeo.com/66483826

University of Toronto A walk through the campus of University of Toronto on a Saturday morning

Some news from the Rotman MBA:

Rotman Team Wins International Entrepreneurship Competition.



Toronto – A team from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has won the inaugural event of the MBA World Trophy held in Dublin over the past weekend. The event brought entrepreneurs from seventeen different universities around the world to compete against each other with their start-up businesses in front of venture capitalists and other business leaders.



Jason Mitakidis, MBA’14, Kate Rootman, MBA’14, and Elizabeth Chak, MBA’15, who are students in the Rotman School’s Morning and Evening MBA programs, won the top prize for best business for Cyclica Inc, a life sciences technology company leveraging big data to develop new medicines, more cheaply. Their start-up was selected to represent the Rotman School at the event by the Rotman Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Association. The Association’s outgoing president, Chris Siemieniuch, MBA’13, also attended the event.



“We are very excited to have been chosen as the winners of the MBA World Trophy by such a distinguished judging panel from the global VC and entrepreneurship community! We are also thankful to the Rotman School of Management and the University of Toronto for their generous support in developing Cyclica as a business. This support has included mentorship and angel investments from faculty members and Dean Roger Martin,” says Jason Mitakidis , who is Founder & CEO of Cyclica Inc.



Further information on the MBA World Trophy is online at mbaworldtrophy.com.



Cyclica is a big data technology company that is developing indexed, multi-scale biological databases and software for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company's core technology is an innovative and proprietary data integration and drug testing platform – The Ligand Explorer™ Computing Environment – that is addressing the rising cost of R&D in drug discovery and low regulatory approval rates of pre-market pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products. For more information, visit, cyclicarx.com.

Our Dean in The Economist http://www.economist.com/whichmba/disruption-line?fsrc=scn%2Ftw_ec%2Fdisruption_on_the_line

Disruption on the line Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.

Colleagues at the Rotman / India Innovation Institute have submitted an application to Grand Challenges Canada to develop health apps targeted to women in the global south (starting off with India). One component of the evaluation process is public voting on short videos describing the project. The video is at http://applications.grandchallenges.ca/en/viewVideo/28735E6AA6ED38B3E2153795. Feel free to vote and support it by clicking the “like this application” button. And if you really like it, please do share the link with others!

Grand Challenges Canada | Rising Stars Application Microsite A: We will develop visual health apps (VHAs) to convey medical concepts in an easy to digest visual and interactive, yet privately consumed format. Multiple versions (language, medical conditions) will be distributed on the Aakash tablet computer.

http://news.utoronto.ca/student-conference-brings-sports-business-experts-u-t?utm_source=Bulletin&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Student

Student conference brings sports business experts to U of T | U of T News Heavy-hitters from the sports-business community will offer their advice to students at the second annual Sports Industry Conference, hosted by the University of Toronto Sports and Business Association (UTSB) at the Royal Ontario Museum March 22, 2013.

Rotman Commerce is participating in March Break Open House http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/futurestudents/events/MBOH2013 tomorrow. We hope to see you there!

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