 | Beedie School of Business NewsBC Hydro Gets First McKinstry AwardOct 26, 2009BC Hydro, which has women in six of its 10 senior management team positions, is the first recipient of SFU’s new Nancy McKinstry award for leadership in gender diversity. McKinstry, now retired, is a former vice-president of Odlum Brown Limited and past chair of the SFU board of directors and of the Investment Dealers Association of B.C. Read More... |
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 | EQUISBusiness Prof Has One Foot in Oil PatchOct 23, 2009From 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 research project for SFU Business assistant professor Stephanie Bertels and colleagues at the University of Calgary. The project will examine the more » Read More... |
| EQUISHow SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending October 16, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISThe British Columbia Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) interviews Rick Colbourne, Executive Director of the Learning Strategies Group. Link to the Interview Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsSFU’s Business School Caters to LeadersOct 14, 2009John Turley-Ewart of the Financial Post recently interviewed Faculty of Business Administration Dean Daniel Shapiro about our MBA programs and our approach to business education. “We positioned ourselves as providers of relatively small cohort-based MBA programs that target very specific sectors or demographic groups, as opposed to a one-size-fits-all MBA.” – Daniel Shapiro. To read the interview, click here. Read More... |
 | EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – October 9Oct 13, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending October 9, 2009. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsThe Dean’s DreamSep 30, 2009SFU Business Dean, Daniel Shapiro, was recently interviewed by Business in Vancouver. The interview was published in BIV’s Colour Series – Blue Edition. The issue focuses on how business can use technology and innovation to improve profitability, growth and long-term staying power. “I don’t think to date there has been widespread acceptance or even understanding of how modern technology can be used by leaders to enhance leadership” – Daniel Shapiro, dean of SFU’s faculty of more » Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsAn Innovator’s MBASep 30, 2009MBA alumna Wahiba Chair was featured in a recent Financial Post article about universities, MBA programs and entrepreneurship. “I was an engineer and had no business skills when I entered the program in 2007,” says Ms. Chair. “I had a vision for my company but I did not have a refined product. I was able to tailor the courses to allow me to refine my concept and take it into a viable business. My thesis more » Read More... |
| EQUISHow SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending September 25, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar: Dr. Ian McCarthySep 28, 2009SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series at the IRMACS Centre Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009 Time: 11:30 – 12:20 Room: IRMACS Presentation Studio, ASB10900 Speaker: Dr. Ian P. McCarthy, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Operations Management, Segal Graduate School of Business Read More... |
| EQUISHow SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending September 17, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISMeasuring the Impact of ROI in HR Programs: A Knowledge and Networking Event with Dr. Jack Phillips and Dr. Patti Phillips September 30, 2009 Segal Graduate School of Business 500 Granville St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6C 1W6. Register at http://www.bchrma.org/content/events/ls/details.cfm?EventID=036-111 What will be discussed The morning tackles the key questions that often arise about this level of accountability. Why ROI? What’s the value of having this information? How do I implement ROI? What is more » Read More... |
| EQUISNew BookSep 15, 2009Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations Edited by: Thomas B. Lawrence Simon Fraser University Roy Suddaby University of Alberta Bernard Leca ESC Rouen http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521518550 The ‘institutional’ approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life – such as marriage and bureaucracy – act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong more » Read More... |
| EQUISRosalie Tung Speaks On ‘Boundary-less’ CareersSep 14, 2009Ming and Stella Wong Professor of International Business, Dr. Rosalie L. Tung was recently featured in a Vancouver Sun article by Joanne Lee-Young about her presentation on human capital, the knowledge economy and ‘brain circulation’ vs. ‘brain drain/gain’ at the David Lam Centre. Read More... |
| EQUISAcademy of Management Best Paper Proceedings awarded for Dave Hannah and PhD candidate Kirsten PankratzSep 11, 2009Dr. David R. Hannah and PhD candidate Kirsten Pankratz have co-authored a paper titled “An Empirical Examination of Employee Responses to Confidential Information Rules” that was accepted for the 2009 Academy of Management meeting. The paper has been judged by AOM reviewers as one of the best papers accepted and the Academy have awarded it the honour of being published as part of the Best Paper Proceedings for the 2009 conference. Read More... |
| EQUISDavid C. Thomas, prof of international management and director of the new SFU Centre for Global Workforce Strategy, was on BlogTalkRadio.com. He talked about how in a global economy the ability to interact across cultures is a fundamental job requirement for just about everyone. David describes a universal set of techniques and people skills that helps you to adapt quickly to and thrive in any cultural environment. He also addresses the interplay of race and more » Read More... |
| EQUISHow SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending September 4, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – August 28Sep 03, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending August 28, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – August 21Sep 03, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending August 21, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – August 14Aug 14, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending August 14, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – July 31Jul 31, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending July 31, 2009. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsLive Your DreamJul 29, 20092006 BBA graduate Terry Beech is on a mission to help others achieve their dreams. He and his twin brother, Doug, have created Twinbro.com, which through seminars, workshops and social media strategies, inspires students to pursue their goals, teaches strategies for improving scholarship and admissions applications and encourages leadership. Terry is also completing his MBA at Oxford University. Excerpted from the 2008/9 SFU Report to the Community. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsCatalyst for ChangeJul 29, 2009Fourth-year business/anthropology student Sean Peters is helping third-world entrepreneurs and their families escape poverty. As founder of the SFU chapter of Agents for Change (www.globalafc.org) and the organizer of a micro-credit fundraising competition, he inspired fellow business students to raise $6000 and use it to make loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsSFU Business student Milun Tesovic and co-founder of MetroLeap Media, which operates MetroLyrics, was recently profiled on Shaw Cable’s The Express and GlobalTV’s Morning News. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – July 17Jul 24, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending July 17, 2009. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsIt 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. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsSFU Business Students 1st Runner Up at APEX 2009Jul 03, 2009SFU Business students Courtney Eng, Lael Locher and Andrew Clements competed in the Singapore Apex Global Business Competition and came inches away from 1st place walking away with trophies and prizes for first runner up. Among a competitive field of 16 teams from 11 countries in four divisions, teams were given just 24 hours to develop a solution to problems facing real world energy company Vestas, a Danish wind turbine company. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – July 3Jul 03, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending July 3, 2009. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsKaplan’s Business School InsiderJun 22, 2009Date: Thursday, July 16th Location: Segal Graduate School of Business – 500 Granville St, Vancouver, BC Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – June 19Jun 22, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending June 12, 2009. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsThe Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University was awarded EQUIS accreditation on June 2nd. This takes the number of accredited schools to 117 across 34 countries. “We are delighted to have earned EQUIS accreditation. We have set high standards for ourselves and are proud of our world-class faculty, our innovative programs and our close ties with the business community. The accreditation process was an opportunity to benchmark our performance in various areas with very more » Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – June 12Jun 12, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending June 12, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – June 4Jun 05, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending June 4, 2009. National News Business prof Aidan Vining was quoted in a Canwest News Service story saying the federal finance department has flagged several prominent Crown corporations as entities that could (at least in theory) be sold as part of the government’s asset review—including the CBC and VIA Rail. “They’re not the classic privatization candidates, where you sell and walk away—unless, of course, more » Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsSFU Business Professor David C. Thomas presentation on Cultural Intelligence and CreativityJun 03, 2009When: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Facility: Segal Graduate School of Business Location: 500 Granville St. Vancouver, BC Room #2300 (Rix Boardroom on the 2nd floor) Ticket(s): Guests, $8.00; Associate Members, $5.00; Members, $0.00 Location is Wheelchair Accessible Light refreshments will be served. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsHave you ever wondered what high school students really think about post secondary education? Ten teams from five high schools in Surrey gathered this Saturday at the SFU Surrey campus to compete in the second annual Wideman Education Foundation (WEF) Project Management competition. The competition featured teams of high school students who produced short videos on why students like them should consider post secondary education. The event was jointly organized by the WEF, the Faculty more » Read More... |
| EQUISStudent Participation in Case CompetitionsJun 02, 2009How 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 preparation. The actual competition may occur over a few hours or a few days but teams spend many advance more » Read More... |
| EQUISOrganizational Theory and Teamwork in the ClassroomJun 02, 2009In 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 structure of the class is as follows. Before they arrive in class on the first day, every student is assigned more » Read More... |
| EQUISThe Elevator ExerciseJun 02, 2009A 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 in this regard is to impose time restrictions on their response. I have seen this take a number of forms, more » Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 29May 29, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 29, 2009. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsStudent stars in Arab reality TV showMay 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 more » Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsMBA Alumni Pub NightMay 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 more » Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 22May 25, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 22, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 15May 15, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 15, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISRBC 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 more » Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsSFU Business student Milun Tesovic named 2009 National Student Entrepreneur Competition ChampionMay 08, 2009Advancing 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 8May 08, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 8, 2009. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsSFU Business Undergrads Claim First Prize at L’Oreal EStrat International Finals held in ParisMay 01, 2009A 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. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsEconomist 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 30May 01, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 30, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISGervase R. Bushe and co-authour Robert J. Marshak of American University, Washington DC, have had their paper “Revisioning Organization Development: Diagnostic and Dialogic Premises and Patterns of Practice” accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. In this provocative paper, they argue that organization development (OD) has undergone a shift in practice that is under-recognized by academics and practitioners, and develop an outline for a new theory and practice of “Dialogic OD”. Richard more » Read More... |