Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 29
May 29, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 29, 2009.
Beedie School of Business News
Student stars in Arab reality TV show
May 29, 2009MBA graduand Wahiba Chair is just back from Doha, Qatar where she spent 10 weeks as one of 16 finalists on the Arab docu-reality program, Stars of Science. It is the first Arab TV program to create a worldwide competition in which finalists work in a televised lab with assistance from mentors and experts to develop their business ideas into a marketable product. The five-week show airs in Qatar on May 29, with the winner yet to be determined by an audience vote. Keep reading…
MBA Alumni Pub Night
May 27, 2009Date: June 11, 2009
Place: The Wicklow Pub (610 Stamps Landing, Vancouver)
Time: 6:30pm
Come learn what the SFU MBA Alumni Board is all about. The Board would like to share the year’s successes with you and hear about what you would like from your MBA Alumni experience.
Come join us for a drink and some appies and share your thoughts and ideas with the Board for the coming year.
Hope to see you all there!
Please RSVP to Marni Larson, Secretary/Treasurer for the Board at mlar@stargarden.com
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 22
May 25, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 22, 2009.
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 15
May 15, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 15, 2009.
RBC Professor of Technology and Innovation, Blaize Reich, delivered the luncheon keynote speaker at the CIO Executive Summit in Vancouver, BC. This was the 2nd annual Vancouver production of the North American series of summit conferences that support the needs of Chief Information Officers from the region’s largest organizations. The goal of each conference is to provide a dynamic and relevant peer-to-peer exchange that facilitates best practices in enterprise technology management.
Reich spoke to about 200 CIOs from the Northwest about “Governing IT Risk – A Board Level Perspective”. It was a very well-attended gathering of senior IT people from leading organizations in Alberta, Washington and BC. The CIO Executive Summits address today’s opportunities and challenges faced by CIOs and their peers.
For more information on Dr. Reich’s research, click here.
For more information on the CIO Leadership Network, click here.
For Dr. Reich’s presenation slides for “Governing IT Risk – A Board Level Perspective”, click here.
SFU Business student Milun Tesovic named 2009 National Student Entrepreneur Competition Champion
May 08, 2009
Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and founding sponsor CIBC are pleased to announce the 2009 National Student Entrepreneur Competition Champion – Milun Tesovic of Metroleap Media Inc. and full-time student of Simon Fraser University. Keep reading…
Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 8
May 08, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 8, 2009.
SFU Business Undergrads Claim First Prize at L’Oreal EStrat International Finals held in Paris
May 01, 2009
A undergraduate team from SFU Business came out First Place at the prestigious L’Oréal EStrat International Finals. EStrat is one of the world’s biggest online business simulation competition. In this 9th annual edition of EStrat, the competition attracted over 40,000 students from around the world. Keep reading…
Economist and business professor Daniel Shapiro is the newly appointed dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University, for a five-year term beginning May 1, 2009. Keep reading…