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Business Career Passport launched for undergrads
May 18th, 2012
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University will this fall launch a new career preparation program for undergraduate students – Business Career Passport.
The program will focus on career management and preparation and is intended to help students successfully launch their careers upon graduation.
Students admitted to the BBA degree at the Beedie School of [...]
Project managers project positive community change
May 8th, 2012
Hands-on experience in project management is now delivered with community impact through social engagement and sustainability at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. And in one case it has meant the advent of recycling robots.
In Beedie Professor Blaize Reich’s project management class, undergraduate students were asked to take on a project of any shape or size [...]
Creating a Vision for Beedie’s Teaching and Learning Group
April 30th, 2012
On February 6, a wine and cheese gathering was held to get our teachers involved in creating a vision for the Beedie School’s new Teaching and Learning Group. There was a great turnout, with 22 people in attendance. Shauna Jones, Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Group, gathered input on the following questions:
1. What would [...]
Beedie Teachers are Leading Change @ SFU
“Beedie will be well-represented at this year’s Symposium on Teaching and Learning, which takes place at SFU Burnaby on May 16-17. The theme of this year’s conference is Leading Change @ SFU, and sessions will explore ways to improve student learning experiences in courses and programs. Several sessions will cover topics of interest to Beedie faculty members and staff”
Jan Kietzmann on Designing SFU Mobile
“SFU Mobile will emphasize the skills students have learned in their respective disciplines, demanding that they coordinate their talents with other specialists in service of a larger goal”
Interactive Polling and Student Engagement
April 27th, 2012
A Beedie School Teaching and Learning Group Event
Would you like to learn more about interactive polling and ways to use classroom response systems to engage with your students and to informally assess their learning? Are you curious about Poll Everywhere and how colleagues at Beedie have been experimenting with it over the last year?
Shauna Jones, [...]
Special Presentation: Using Professional Development to Support Organizational Change
March 30th, 2012
The Teaching and Learning Center is sponsoring Ann E. Austin, a leading US scholar on organizational change in higher education and faculty development to speak at SFU on Monday, April 16. The presentation will take place at the Halpern Centre on Burnaby Campus, but will also be webcast and archived for those who wish to participate at Surrey [...]
Professor Carolyn Egri awarded for teaching and learning excellence
Dr. Carolyn Egri, a professor of management and organization studies at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, has been announced as the recipient of the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award for 2012 from the Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society for Management Educators (OBTS).
The OBTS aims to enhance the quality and promote the importance of teaching and learning across the management disciplines with a focus on the dynamics within and at the interface of individuals, groups and organizations and cultures.
Beedie launches social venture accelerator program
March 21st, 2012
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is launching a new social venture accelerator program, the SFU Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (SEA), designed specifically for entrepreneurial students with social impact ideas or an interest in helping teams launch social ventures.
Sponsored by Vancity, the SEA will help students move ideas from concept to reality, and [...]
The Globe and Mail: As Beedie School grows, dean puts his strategy skills to work
March 13th, 2012
The following article was published by the Globe and Mail on March 13, 2012 as part of their 2012 Report on Business Education.
BY GORDON PITTS, GLOBE AND MAIL
As a scholar of corporate strategy, Dan Shapiro likes nothing better than to dive into an intriguing case study of an organization in the throes of fast, complex [...]
Professor Carolyn Egri to receive Bradford Outstanding Educator award
March 12th, 2012
Dr. Carolyn Egri, a professor of management and organization studies at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, has been announced as the recipient of the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award for 2012 from the Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society for Management Educators (OBTS).
The award, named after David L. Bradford, the founder of [...]
Andrew Gemino on his Excellence in Teaching award
March 28th, 2011
March 24, 2011. SFU News Online
It’s not unusual for business professor Andrew Gemino to encounter former students who still remember the concepts he taught them almost 20 years ago.His quirky demonstrations of abstract concepts are always engaging and are one of the reasons he received a 2010 SFU Excellence in Teaching award last month.
He recalls, [...]
SFU Excellence in Teaching Award winner Andrew Gemino on sharing with students
Good instructors recognize that sometimes simply knowing the content is not enough. You also need to understand how to effectively share your knowledge with your students. For Andrew Gemino, one of this year’s three Excellence in Teaching Award recipients, being a good teacher is about, “creating an environment where students want to learn and have [...]
Business prof teaches sustainable practices
October 5th, 2010
Stephanie Bertels teaches her students to go the extra mile when it comes to integrating sustainability into business practices.
An assistant professor of business, Bertels is teaching two undergraduate courses—Sustainable Innovation (BUS453) next spring and Managing for Sustainability (BUS489) next summer—along with an MBA class in sustainability.
“There’s more and more happening at the business school related [...]
Business Ethics Pioneer Honoured
May 25th, 2010
From SFU News Online.
While most people tend to shy away from ethical dilemmas, Mark Wexler has spent 30 years seeking them out.
The Segal Graduate School of Business professor pioneered teaching ethics at SFU in one of Canada’s first MBA ethics programs.
That, and a lifetime commitment to applying scholarly work to practical problems and engaging the [...]
SFU Business professor Leyland Pitt wins American Marketing Association Innovation in Education Marketing prize
May 10th, 2010
Leyland Pitt, Professor of Marketing in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University, has been awarded the 2010 Pearson Prentice Hall Solomon-Marshall-Stuart Award for Innovative Excellence in Marketing Education. The teaching prize is given annually by the American Marketing Association (AMA).
Pitt won for his marketing classroom proposal entitled “Case Teaching in the Age [...]
SFU, UBC and UNBC Profs Honoured for Research-Based Community Contributions
April 8th, 2010
An SFU professor who has devoted his career to helping others deal with thorny ethical dilemmas, a UBC professor who developed an innovative therapy to assist people with schizophrenia, and a UNBC professor who is a tireless educator, researcher, and advocate for improving health outcomes of Aboriginal peoples receive this year’s CUFA BC Distinguished Academics [...]
Business Prof Has One Foot in Oil Patch
October 23rd, 2009
From SFU News Online.
By Barry Shell
In April 2009, Alberta oil-sands giant Suncor Energy was fined $675,000 for not installing pollution-control equipment at one of its plants near Fort McMurray.
But in a gratifying turn for academics, the provincial court applied something new called creative sentencing, which in part resulted in a $315,000 [...]
TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award 2009 Winners
July 21st, 2009
It is my pleasure, as Chair of the Teaching Effectiveness Committee, to announce the winners of the 2009 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards: Mr. Kamal Masri and Dr. John Peloza.
Student Participation in Case Competitions
June 2nd, 2009
How can you improve critical thinking and presentation skills? Experience emotion, from heart-pounding tension to exhilaration? And do this all in as little as three hours? The answer of course, is to participate in a student case competition.
It has been my pleasure over the last six years, to assist many accounting student teams in their [...]
Organizational Theory and Teamwork in the Classroom
In 1938, John Dewey, the influential philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer wrote that “All genuine education comes through experience.” Along with many other business educators I take his words very seriously, so much so that I designed a course on Organization Theory that simulates the experience of real organizations for undergraduate business students. The basic [...]
The Elevator Exercise
A common problem among beginning research students is the inability to state their research question succinctly. The answer to the question of, “What is your research about?” often takes a torturous route through ontological assumptions, alternative epistemologies, tangential literature reviews and arcane research methods rarely actually getting to the point. A strategy to help students [...]
Iverson awarded 2008 SFU Award for Excellence in Teaching
April 24th, 2009
Good teaching is an art. SFU’s 2008 Excellence in Teaching award winners exemplify that art, sharing their enthusiasm, knowledge and time in a way that encourages their students to learn and grow.
Mentoring Case Competitions – Royal Roads 2008
I believe mentoring in case competitions is one of the best ways for faculty to engage students and make memorable experiences during their academic careers. I have made many lasting friendships which continue years after the competitions are over and the students have left SFU. Time and time again, I hear from students that case [...]
TD Canada Trust Award Winners for 2008
Scott Powell and Stephen Spector have won this year’s TD Canada Trust distinguished teaching awards, given annually to two SFU Business instructors. The awards, worth $3000, are based on teaching-related activities such as course development and preparation of teaching materials and on nominees’ statements and student comments.
Fun and games don’t normally spring to mind when [...]