Examining Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policy development in early stage-venture capital firms.

How a company today contributes to the environmental and social well-being of society is becoming a more important part of their business activities. Many large companies have an environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy which guides them on making their business activities contribute to environmental and social sustainability of the planet. But what about businesses […]

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Baromètre canadien des achats durables

La façon dont les gestionnaires intègrent les principes du développement durable dans la fonction achat est un sujet encore peu abordé dans le domaine de la gestion. Ce stage s’intéresse tout particulièrement à l’approvisionnement responsable des organisations en réalisant le premier Baromètre canadien des achats durables. Ce projet a pour objectif de définir les tendances […]

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Centre for Operations Excellence Industry Projects 2019

The Centre for Operations Excellence Industry Projects 2019 consists of seven sub-projects sponsored by five different industry partners. Each sub-project represents an important challenge for its sponsor. These sub-projects include Extracting data from unstructured text of NOTAMs to assess relevance (Boeing 1), Developing a fix effectiveness engine to perform data-driven predictive maintenance (Boeing 2), Initial […]

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Attraction et rétention de la main-d’oeuvre manufacturière : repenser les pratiques et mesures de gestion pour favoriser l’engagement organisationnel

Bien qu’un nombre grandissant d’acteurs socio-économiques tentent de sensibiliser les employeurs à l’importance d’offrir des ressources favorisant la conciliation travail-vie personnelle (CTVP), l’état actuel des connaissances sur les mécanismes psychologiques expliquant leur effet sur la CTVP et, plus globalement, sur le bien-être des employés se montre fort limité. Par conséquent, la présente recherche vise à […]

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Stations as Living Labs: Converting an environment into an ecosystem

The aim of this research project is to focus on several key train stations and to evaluate the regional environment the station is situated in order to identify and characterize the various stakeholders involved and assess the potential for the creation/activation/participation of new partnerships along the primary axes of sustainable mobility, customer and community experience. […]

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Enhancing Compliance of Financial Service Industry Through Understanding and Predicting Employees’ Conduct Risk

Conduct risk management is a topic of great importance to financial service firms. Misconduct from staff members in financial institutions can result in substantial costs. However, compared to other types of risk faced by financial institutions (e.g. credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk), conduct risk and the related reputational risk have been understudied. One of […]

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Portfolio management by reinforcement learning

This project is addressing the problem of portfolio optimization by using reinforcement learning, an area of machine learning that has recently attracted many researchers. Its advantages compared to the conventional models of portfolio optimization are coming from its ability in incorporating many features of the assets into the asset allocation problem without relying on the […]

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Comment optimiser les impacts du bâtiment durable en gestion immobilière ?

Ce projet a pour but de fournir aux propriétaires d’immeubles existants une analyse des meilleures pratiques visant à mieux valoriser les impacts d’un projet d’amélioration de la performance environnementale écoénergétique de leurs bâtiments et leur permettant de mieux justifier leur décision d’investir les sommes nécessaires pour le réaliser. Une étude détaillée des meilleures pratiques mises […]

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Research Visit – Environment and Development Economics

While at Berkeley, I would mostly be working on my sole-authored paper. This paper links trade and the environment in Brazil. Using the major trade liberalization episode in the early 1990s as a plausible source of exogenous variation, my paper investigates two hypotheses. First, increased international competition in manufactured goods negatively impacted the least productive […]

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Projet de recherche applique dans la gestion de marketing

L’elaboration d’un plan de marketing et la mise en ceuvre programmee des ressources marketing font partie d’un processus qu’il faut mettre en place pour atteindre les objectifs de I’entreprise Charlebois. La planification marketing est susceptible d’avoir un impact majeur sur les resultats commerciaux de Charlebois. II s’agit donc d’evaluer la situation concurrentielle de I’entreprise et […]

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