Desautels Centre For Integrative Thinking
The Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking is a research, development and educational centre at the Rotman School of Management. Its mission is threefold. First, it conducts fundamental research in the basic mechanisms of perception, inference, calculation and communication related to integrative thinking in business. Second, it develops new courses, course modules and interventions to teach the basic discipline of integrative thinking to MBA students. Third, it develops and offers executive education programs for developing the core skills of integrative thinking in the senior managers of business organizations.
The Director of the centre is Mihnea C. Moldoveanu.
The Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking was founded by a donation from Dr. Marcel Desautels, a Canadian entrepreneur and businessman. Desautels was trained in the Jesuit College of St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, and later at the University of Manitoba School of Law. After founding and running Creditel, a credit reporting agency, Desautels established the Canadian Credit Management Foundation as a charitable organization that has made significant contributions to higher education in Canada, endowing the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University and the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba. For his exemplary philanthropic efforts, Desautels was awarded the Order of Canada in 2008
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