Beedie School of Business News

The Responsible Minerals Sector Initiative at the Beedie School of Business hosted the Global Exploration, Mining and Minerals Dialogue earlier this year.

The following article was first published by the Globe and Mail as a special information feature in the November 2012 issue of Report on Business Magazine.

Since launching Canada’s first Executive MBA in 1968, Simon Fraser University’s School of Business has gained a reputation for program development that meets the shifting demands of an increasingly global marketplace, as well as for its world-class research.

In 2011, the newly named Beedie School of Business built on that reputa­tion by growing a number of initiatives aimed at integrating sustainability principles with education.

Those efforts have occurred at every level of the institution, and incorporate a broad sustainability mandate, says Dean Daniel Shapiro. “A sustainable society is one that does not do harm to its environment, but is also sustainable socially and economically.” Keep reading…

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The November issue of Report on Business Magazine, published by the Globe and Mail, features a 2-page feature on the thriving environment for global responsibility and sustainability that exists at SFU’s Beedie School of Business.

The feature includes an interview with school Dean Daniel Shapiro, Glenn Sigurdson, Director of the Responsible Minerals Sector Initiative, as well as Mark Selman, Director of the EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership.

“Our aim is to be the connection between the global world of knowledge and our local community,” said Shapiro. “We have many courses in our programs that cover sustainability and social innovation, but we’ve also tried to link those courses to higher levels of experiential learning.”

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The following article was published by The Vancouver Sun on June 23, 2012.

Squamish Nation Chief Ian Campbell is one of several aboriginal leaders who have signed up for a new business degree program at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business. (Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost, PNG, Vancouver Sun)

Squamish Nation Chief Ian Campbell, like other aboriginal leaders across B.C., sees accelerated business opportunities as key to his com-munity’s future.

To that end, the 39-year-old chief is one of several first nations leaders signing on for a new business degree pro-gram offered by Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business.

“I see this as an opportunity to develop skills in business administration,” said Campbell, who will participate in the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership program – the first of its type in Canada – which starts this fall.

Keep reading…

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As Canada reflects on National Aboriginal Day and a new era for Aboriginal peoples in the country, Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business is moving quickly towards the September commencement of its Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership. The program is one of many indicators that First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are entering a new era in which their communities and nations can return to prosperity.

The new EMBA, the first of its kind in the country, meets a growing need for senior-level management education for Aboriginal managers and entrepreneurs, as well as individuals and organizations collaborating with Aboriginal communities. It will provide executive-level education that reflects the growing role of business development for First Nations.

Participants will study core management concepts and principles already included in the Executive Master of Business Administration program but will also examine business and economic issues from the perspective of First Nations. Keep reading…

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The following article was published by the Financial Post on March 27, 2012 as part of their MBA issue.

BY MARY TERESA BITTI, FINANCIAL POST

Jocelyn Ball knew she wanted to get her MBA sooner rather than later in order to give herself more control over her career. She also knew that she wanted to be able to hit the ground running after graduating.

That’s why shortly after earning her undergraduate degree she joined the first cohort of Dalhousie University’s Corporate Residency MBA, the only corporate residency program in Canada and one of only two in North America.

“There aren’t a lot of MBA programs where you get a full eight months to intern with a company and really immerse yourself in the culture and put management, presentation and conflict resolution skills into practice.”

And that’s exactly why Dalhousie University radically changed its MBA program. “About four years ago, we decided that the traditional 17, 18, 19 courses that make up an MBA wasn’t enough,” says Scott Comber, director of Dalhousie’s full-time MBA program. Keep reading…

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Submitted by Ahp-cii-uk, a Beedie School of Business-supported initiative

The Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht is the first aboriginal community to pursue funding under a system developed by the Aviva Insurance Company that involves online voting to select finalists for community grants.

Tseshaht has proposed a project to build an ocean-going canoe and a canoe shed, thereby reviving important traditions within the community (carving, paddling, visiting its traditional territories, interchanges with other coastal communities) and engaging its young people. Although Tseshaht was a whaling community in the past, for the last generation or so, Tseshaht has not had a canoe that is seaworthy enough to take on the ocean. This is an opportunity to renew that tradition.

Tseshaht is involved in this project because for the last three years, it has been one of the communities involved in Ahp-cii-uk, which means “going the right way” in Nuu-chah-nulth. Ahp-cii-uk is a unique partnership of First Nations, businesses, the federal and provincial government, and has been designed and managed by Mark Selman at the Beedie School of Business.

It is an attempt to find new ways to build relationships and support First Nations in making the changes they think will make them stronger and better places to raise their children. Ahp-cii-uk has worked with first nations communities to build trails, develop cultural tourism, engage young people in apprenticeship and job readiness programs, establish artists markets, road safety programs, build playgrounds and improve the transparency of their planning and governance processes.

More importantly, Ahp-cii-uk has built a sense of hope, trust, and mutual respect in communities and between partners.

The Tseshaht First Nation grassroots community is asking for your support and vote for this important “Going Home” Canoe and Canoe Shed Project. To vote for the project:

1. Click on the following link: http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf11193
2. click on “Vote Now” button
3. Register to vote by entering your name and email address. Create a password.
4. Receive a confirmation to your email, click on the link
5. Sign in with your email address and password
6. Click on the “vote now” button again.
7. You have a maximum of 15 votes but only one vote per day.
8. Voting for round 2 closes on 9 November 2011.
9. Vote now and help the community of Tseshaht make it through to the semi-finals.

For more information:

Lerato Chondoma
Ahp-cii-uk Community Liaison
778.862.8982

Mark Selman
Beedie School of Business
778.782.5070

Tags: Aboriginal, Ahp-cii-uk, First Nations, Mark Selman, Nuu-chah-nulth, Tseshaht

by Jennifer Lewington, Globe and Mail

In a 40-year history of executive MBA education at Simon Fraser University, only 10 aboriginal students came to the program. The abysmal record is typical of the under-representation of First Nations, Metis and Inuit students in higher education in Canada. Keep reading…

Tags: Aboriginal Executive MBA, Business and Leadership, Mark Selman