My mentor had sharp elbows

Media: The Globe & Mail
Faculty: Joe Martin

I remember Doreen McKenzie Saunders well from the 1980s, when she was editor of the Business Quarterly and I was partner in charge of the Canadian consulting practice of what is now Deloitte Consulting (before that, it was Touche Ross Consulting and, even before that, P.S. Ross & Partners). Our practice had a strong association with what is now the Ivey School, because we were the first Canadian practice to recruit MBAs rather than technical specialists from industry. This practice was begun by our founder Gerry Fisch and continued by my predecessor Sandy Aird. Sandy also established a link with Doreen that I had the pleasure of continuing, wrote Joe Martin, director of Canadian Business History in a column in The Globe & Mail on December 6 on the passing of Saunders.