John Molson School of Business | Concordia University
Concordia’s Faculty of Commerce became the John Molson School of Business following a generous donation from the Molson Family and the Molson Foundation in November 2000. The school proudly bears the name of the entrepreneur, John Molson, (1763 - 1836). He was an innovator and philanthropist whose contributions to Montreal have left an indelible mark on the city's history.
About John Molson
Born in Lincolnshire, England in 1763, John Molson was the eldest son of a farmer. At age eighteen, due to an illness requiring sea air, he embarked on an ocean voyage to the New World.
At a time when Montrealers drank wine, he founded and developed a thriving brewing business on the banks of the St. Lawrence. He founded one of the first commercial steamship enterprises and the first railway, developed one of Canada's first banking businesses, and built Montreal's first luxury hotel.
He built the city's first theatre, helped found the Montreal General Hospital, and sat on the Lower Canada Legislative Assembly.
Succeeding generations of Molsons have followed in his path, making the Molson name a national landmark: Molson's Bank, Molson Stadium, Molson Library, Molson Breweries, Molson Centre, and, most recently, John Molson School of Business. Read more on John Molson.
AACSB Accreditation
JMSB Facts
- 150 full-time faculty members from 35 countries. 175 part-time faculty
- 6,830 undergraduate students (5,111 full-time, 1,719 part-time)
- 1,196 graduate students (723 full-time, 473 part-time)
- 37,788 alumni world-wide
- Fivedepartments:
Research Centres and Institutes
JMSB research centres and institutes are dedicated to improving business knowledge and theories for entrepreneurs and managers.
- Bell Research Centre for Business Process Innovations
- Centre for Small Business and Entrepreneurial Studies
- Desjardins Centre for Innovation in Business Finance
- Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC)
- Interneg Research Centre
- Institute for Community Entrepreneurship and Development (ICED)
- Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations
- David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
For more information on the current research efforts of our faculty please read the JMSB Research Bulletin.
Rankings and Grants
- The John Molson MBA program offered by Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB) is 96th in the world according to the 2010 Economist ranking. Read more...
- The John Molson MBA program ranked 3rd in Canada for the second year in a row in the 2010 Corporate Knights Business Knight Schools Survey. JMSB's undergraduate program rose to 4th place in the country. Read more...
- Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranked JMSB 3rd in Canada in this survey which allows recruiters to identify the MBA graduates best equipped to lead business in the 21st century. Read more...
- In 2007-08 our faculty have been awarded external research grants from SSHRC, NSERC, and FQRSC, totalling $2.2 million. This is a remarkable achievement, albeit partly due to SSHRC’s special envelope for management, business and finance research of $11 million. JMSB’s faculty constitutes less than five per cent of business professors nationally, and yet we garnered over 12 per cent of this fund.
For more survey results, click here.
Beta Gamma Sigma
Each year a select group of Concordia University's top business students are elected to lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma honour society in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in an undergraduate or master's program at a school accredited by AACSB .
Tools and Technology
This site is a Content Management System (CMS) driven Website. It was produced based on Concordia University's Web template using Joomla! v. 1.5. Most tools and technologies used to produce the site are open source. We have used HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the site layout and characteristics, PHP to run the application, MySQL and FileMaker Pro to store the data, and PhotoShop to manipulate graphics.
Content
The content of this Website was collected, written, and edited by the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) External Affairs office under the direction of the JMSB stakeholders.
Design
This site was developed, designed, and constructed by the Centre for Instructional Technology's (CIT) Web Team. The templates used were inspired by the University Communications Services' (UCS) Web team.
Multi-Media
The videos that are included on this site were edited by CIT using videos originally produced by Concordia's Creative Media Services. Photographs and other images and logos are obtained from various internal and external sources.
