What Career Development Looks Like When AI Is in the Room
The video introduces an AI‑driven “career agent,” a digital companion that aggregates a student’s personal data, reflections, and goals to streamline career exploration and recruiting across borders. By prompting users to articulate strengths, aspirations, and values, the platform generates tailored job‑search recommendations, captures that insight for future reference, and helps students navigate an ever‑changing employment landscape without defaulting to familiar choices. Participants note the tool “spits out” potential paths and redefines growth as “being more of yourself,” while advisors observe that AI handles routine queries, freeing them to engage in deeper, nuanced conversations that machines cannot replicate. The result is a more efficient advising model, richer student experiences, and a scalable way for institutions to prepare future leaders equipped to tackle complex problems, ultimately enhancing talent pipelines for employers.
Dialogue with the Dean | Who's in the Boardroom? Examining Politics, Expertise, and Good Governance
The Ivy Impact Podcast episode features Dean Julian Burkenshaw interviewing Professor Guy Hoben, a leading authority on energy policy and corporate governance. The conversation centers on how Canada’s crown corporations—government‑owned utilities that manage billions in assets—are overseen, and why board...
Can Robots Improve Customer Service? | Ivey Classroom Demo
The Ivey classroom demo explored whether robots can enhance customer service, featuring speaker Johnny, a veteran of robotics in manufacturing and EV sectors, who highlighted the emerging role of autonomous machines in hospitality. Participants learned that robots function as change agents,...
Instant Impact | A New Way to Stand Out on the Shelf
The video introduces “package billboarding,” a tactic where individual product packages are designed to align on the shelf and form a larger, eye‑catching image. Marketers face fierce competition for consumer attention in the crowded consumer‑packaged‑goods aisle, and this approach reframes...
Ivey Business School’s Value Investing Program | Brian Chingono
Brian Chingono presented an out‑of‑sample replication of the seminal Chan et al. study on growth persistence, extending the original 1951‑1997 dataset to 1997‑2022 and covering U.S., European and Japanese firms. The analysis shows that companies with above‑median growth in one year retain...
Thomas D’Aquino Delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Leadership
The Ivy Business School hosted the 20th‑anniversary Thomas d’Aquino Lecture on Leadership, coinciding with the Business Council of Canada’s 50th anniversary. Dean Julian Burkenshaw introduced the event at the National Gallery, emphasizing the heightened demand for trustworthy leadership across business,...