Last year, 25 McGill University’s Desautels business students went to Dubai as part of the 5 Hot Cities tour. This year, 27 of us – led by McGill University’s Professor Karl Moore – are going to India.
This year, the objective of this project is for this class of students to creatively harness the power of social media for social good. This project challenges students to raise money to sponsor the education of underprivileged young girls in India using social media tools and their own experiences while travelling, to spread their positive message using mediums such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Blogs.
Donate to the MoGills now - it's still not too late!
We chose to do our MBA in McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management because we wanted to change the world in our own little way. We wanted to show the world how giving a little love every single day of your life can be the start of something big. And this video was born.
Like the song goes, "You've got to give a little love" - we hope to inspire you to do the same by giving love in any little way you can. Let's start with Movember. Help our MoGill Team, headed by MBA Candidate Neil Perk, by donating any amount you can, so we can raise awareness for the invaluable research for prostate cancer. We chose to film our lipdub video in the month of November, with our moustaches growing in full strength. Try and spot how many of us have our moustache on!
Donate to our MoGill team now!
https://www.movember.com/ca/donate/your-details/team_id/102496
A little bit about the Movember Movement | Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men's health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean-shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men's health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for prostate cancer. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days. In 2009, global participation of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas climbed to 255,755, with over one million donors raising $47 Million for Movember's global beneficiary partners. Last year's Canadian campaign was the second largest in the world behind Australia, with 35,156 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas coming together to raise $7.8 million for Prostate Cancer Canada.
http://ca.movember.com
Check out other caring initiatives by
our MBA students
McGill MBA Women's Association | The MMWA's mission is to maximize the professional development of female students and alumni of the McGill MBA program through strategic engagement with the McGill community and broader Montreal networks.
For more information, visit
McGill Sustainable Health Care Initiative | The McGill Sustainable Health Care Initiative (McGill SHCI) was founded in September, 2010 by Desautels MDMBA students Artem Luhovy, Jordan Isenberg and Judy Cai. It is a joint initiative between the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Medicine.
The Sustainable Health Care Initiative will assess the economic and political feasibility of introducing various technologies and novel managerial techniques to the multitude of health care enterprises; investigate economic and climate related forces in terms of patients’ best interest, and their effects on the health care enterprise as well as across its boundaries of supply, demand and waste; and demonstrate examples of leadership in the financing and management of public health care in a low carbon economy and propose viable policy options to stakeholders.
For more information, visit
Contact Artem Luhovy at
or Jordan Isenberg at
Net Impact | Net Impact's mission is to improve the world by growing and strengthening a network of new leaders who use the power of business to make a positive social, environmental, and economic impact. With more than 120 student and professional chapters around the globe, a central office in San Francisco, and partnerships with leading for- and non-profit organizations, Net Impact enables members to use business for social good in their graduate education, careers, and communities.
For more information, visit
Contact Shrey Ahuja at
or Maria Ponomareva at
Right To Play McGill | Right To Play’s mission is to improve the lives of children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world by using the power of sport and play for development, health and peace. Right To Play McGill (RTP McGill) works within the student community to fundraise and spread awareness of the foundation. They plan athletic as well as social events in order to raise as much as possible for the international Right To Play organization and expose the McGill community to a worthy cause.
For more information, visit
Contact Brendan Simeson at
Minilectores Ecuador | Minilectores Ecuador (MiniReaders Ecuador) is an initiative started by MBA student Jose Miguel Luzuriaga to collect used children books and disseminate them to rural schools in relegated provinces in Ecuador. Within one month of starting Minilectores Ecuador, Jose collected over 1,700 books which were delivered successfully to four marginal schools in the province of Loja, Ecuador.
For more information, visit
or contact Jose Miguel Luzuriaga directly at
Desautels McGill MBA
LipDub Video
The LipDub project was dreamed up on 30 September 2010 by MBA student Jun Yeo, and together with fellow student Charlie Bern, she formed the LipDub X-Team committee consisting of Anurag Thakur, Artem Luhovy, Carmen Marron Lopez, Daniel Kramer-Stein, Hernan Ciechanowiecki, Juan Cuello, Judy Cai, Kent Turner, Maria Ponomareva, Molly Holmes, Pat Tenneriello, Raman Sodhi, Saurabh Malhotra and Wissam Shaar. In less than 2 months, the X-Team planned, choreographed and mobilized over 80 participants, which included MBA First-Year students, MBA Second-Year students, MBA exchange students, MBA Alumni, and Desautels Professor Omar Toulan, Professor Tamer Boyaci, Professor Sujata Madan, and Professor Jui Ramaprasad.
The video moves through the MBA floor (Level 3) of McGill’s Bronfman Building on 1001 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, to the beat of Tom Jone’s infectious single “Give A Little Love”.
The Desautels McGill MBA LipDub video is organized and directed by Jun Yeo, a First-Year MBA student, and is filmed and edited by Charlie Bern, a Second-Year MBA student.
Jun Yeo on LinkedIn:
Charlie Bern on LinkedIn:
Jun Yeo (left) and Charlie Bern (Right)
X-Team Credit List (By Scene)
Scene 1 - Harry Potter goes to McGill
Wissam Shaar - Most Patient Species In The Universe
Scene 2 - Medical Love
Artem Luhovy - Comfort-Giver (In-More-Ways-Than-One)
Jordan Isenberg - Doctor Love
Judy Cai - GamePlan Sharpener
Scene 3 - Corporate/Sports Corridor
Kent Turner- The MO-Hot-MO Ghandi
Maria Ponomareva - Silent Killer
Scene 4 - Super McGill Bros.
Molly Holmes - Most Creative Being Who Ever Walked The Earth
Scene 5 - Professor Awesomeness
Hernan Ciechanowiecki - Genius Idea Implementer
Scene 6 - Try to Understand!
Daniel Kramer-Stein - The Link
Scene 7 - Diversity
Anurag Thakur - The Acting Prime Minister
Scene 8 - Locker Slammin
Raman Sodhi - Grand-Plan GameMaster
McGill MBA Participants Who Gave Some Love!
(In Alphabetical Order)
Adrian Cook
Alex Snider
Alvaro Aragon
Andres Araya
Anna Seltzer
Arnaud Revert
Arturo Cardenas
Brendan Simeson
Bri Cardenas
Carmen Marron Lopez
Charmaine Lam
Craig Buntin
Daniel Kramer-Stein
Dave O’Brien
David Hogarth
Dayana Sojo
Eileen Tang
Eric Snoddy
Gabriella Gal
Geoffrey Githaiga
Greg Illson
Guillaume Blondel
Irina Navarrete
Jakub Kucmierz
JingJing Xu
Jose Miguel Luzuriaga
Jean-Philip Provencher
Juan Cuello
Juan Sebastian Lopez
Julie Fetherstonhaugh
Julie Holland
Kris Kyritzopoulos
Kristian Ayre
Laurence Villion
Mariana Anez
Mathieu Bernier
Matthew Corbett
Maximilian Burkhardt
Mayank Kukreja
Melanie Walsh
Michelle Redler
Moses Mamore
Neil Perk
Nisha Shankar
Noam Rabinovitch
Olivier Rioux
Pat Tenneriello
Piyush Maheshwari
Rafael Alencar
Raoul Mendonca
Rebecca Chen
Renee Lawrence
Rich Doyle
Roger Rushemeza
Saloua Benkhouya
Sanna Ahmad
Saurabh Malhotra
Sebastien Gerega
Shrey Ahuja
Sujata Madan
Sushant Mahajan
Tariq Barwani
Zhao Wei
Yasmine Khader
Special Thanks to the Desautels Staff and Faculty
(in Aphabetical Order)
Professor Don Melville
Professor Jui Ramaprasad
Leilani Ku
Professor Omar Toulan
Ron Duerksen
Ryan Beaupre
Professor Sujata Madan
Professor Tamer Boyaci
and all the Desautels Security Staff
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