Brief History
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
- 144 full-time faculty members from 31 countries. 188 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
- Five departments:
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
- Corporate Knights School Ranking 2009 ranks JMSB's MBA program 3rd in Canada and 1st in Quebec. Read more...
- Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranks JMSB second in Quebec and eighth in Canada in this survey which allows recruiters to identify the MBA graduates best equipped to lead business in the 21st century.
- 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.
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 .
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