AIESEC/University of Calgary Leadership Development Event
May 1, 2019 - University of Calgary
Rockmount Financial Corporation operates a family business office that manages investments for a multi-generational family. In addition, Rockmount is active as a volunteer and a donor, supporting curriculum development in business education. Our finance curriculum development desk was the biggest draw at this event. Rockmount's Vice President of Research, Khalid Asaria was swarmed by interested students!
May 1, 2019 - University of Calgary
Rockmount Financial Corporation operates a family business office that manages investments for a multi-generational family. In addition, Rockmount is active as a volunteer and a donor, supporting curriculum development in business education. Our finance curriculum development desk was the biggest draw at this event. Rockmount's Vice President of Research, Khalid Asaria was swarmed by interested students!
Three courses were featured at the presentation desk:
INNOVATION FINANCE is a course designed for an MBA student interested in launching a start-up. It involves ten steps beginning with the spark of an idea - drawn from serious research - and emerging as a standalone public company. The course will be presented in ten sessions, accompanied by a ten-chapter handbook and an algorithm-based “app”.
FLAMES encompasses the core prerequisite education to operate in a capitalist economy. Surprisingly, despite all the hype surrounding innovation and technology commercialization, one sees much evidence of the phenomenon we call “techie entitlement”:
“I’m a scientist, technologist, intellectual property owner, so I want to be boss, but don’t bother me with all that business stuff - let someone else do it.”
He won’t be boss for long. Our suggestion is an intense one-week (6 days) called Introduction to Business that could be offered at most colleges and universities. For such a person, who is probably impatient, a quick, intense six-day course would cover Finance, Law, Accounting, Marketing, Economics and Strategy hence FLAMES.
MORTGAGE BANKING. Experience in Canada and U.S. has demonstrated a serious deficiency in Canada that could be covered by an approach contained in a business model we call Mortgage Banking. It emphasizes a primary focus in the risk assessment on the fundamentals of property market risk and construction risk, and secondarily on the credit risk of the borrower. The reverse which tends to be the norm in Canada.
INNOVATION FINANCE is a course designed for an MBA student interested in launching a start-up. It involves ten steps beginning with the spark of an idea - drawn from serious research - and emerging as a standalone public company. The course will be presented in ten sessions, accompanied by a ten-chapter handbook and an algorithm-based “app”.
FLAMES encompasses the core prerequisite education to operate in a capitalist economy. Surprisingly, despite all the hype surrounding innovation and technology commercialization, one sees much evidence of the phenomenon we call “techie entitlement”:
“I’m a scientist, technologist, intellectual property owner, so I want to be boss, but don’t bother me with all that business stuff - let someone else do it.”
He won’t be boss for long. Our suggestion is an intense one-week (6 days) called Introduction to Business that could be offered at most colleges and universities. For such a person, who is probably impatient, a quick, intense six-day course would cover Finance, Law, Accounting, Marketing, Economics and Strategy hence FLAMES.
MORTGAGE BANKING. Experience in Canada and U.S. has demonstrated a serious deficiency in Canada that could be covered by an approach contained in a business model we call Mortgage Banking. It emphasizes a primary focus in the risk assessment on the fundamentals of property market risk and construction risk, and secondarily on the credit risk of the borrower. The reverse which tends to be the norm in Canada.