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by David Rubeli, Educational Consultant On behalf of the Teaching and Learning Centre, I would like to thank the Beedie students and faculty who contributed to the success of this year’s Symposium on Teaching and Learning: • Sanistha Bhujun and Doris Zhang, who shared their experiences as “Generation 1.5” and English language learners at SFU; • Stephanie Bertels , who participated in a fascinating panel discussion on engaged scholarship and education for sustainable development; and […]

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Whether it’s in the delivery of state-of-the-art smart phones or innovative health care, design thinking is an increasingly critical element for businesses and organizations in 2012. For David Dunne, Beedie School of Business Adjunct Senior Fellow, the intersection of design and business translates into major challenges and opportunities for managers, entrepreneurs and other leaders.

Design thinking is defined as approaching management problems as designers approach design problems. Though it has been traditionally associated with product and service design, it also has important implications for management, something recognized increasingly by both academic research and the business press.

Dunne, an award-winning management educator, author and consultant who is jointly appointed with the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, joined Simon Fraser University earlier this year. He combines international experience as a senior executive with an outstanding record as an academic.

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The Teaching and Learning Group’s Interactive Polling Session took place on May 24 at 2:30pm. Andrew Gemino opened the presentation with questions about engagement and how students learn at our university. The 16 attendees were split into smaller groups to discuss more deeply the questions about how our students learn and the types of skills our School should develop. It’s clear from their discussion, that our teachers feel there is no singular technique to use […]

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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 Business from fall 2012 and thereafter will be required to complete a series of six mandatory workshops focusing […]

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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 to develop the project management skills taught in the class. After being split into groups, the students were given […]

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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 you envision for the Beedie School’s Teaching Group for the next three years? 2. What do you want from […]

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“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”

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“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”

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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, Andrew Gemino and David Rubeli will be co-hosting a session on May 24 (from 2:30-4:30pm) to explore best […]

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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 and Segal. This presentation is relevant to Beedie faculty because Austin’s research and frameworks could inform the School’s forward-looking efforts […]

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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.

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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 aims to develop entrepreneurs that will help address tomorrow’s social, environmental, and economic challenges. Designed for students looking to […]

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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 growth. But what happens when that case is the institution he runs, the Beedie School of Business at […]

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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 OBTS, recognizes an individual or group demonstrating lifetime achievement with a focus on teaching and learning excellence, who impacts […]

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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, for example, a rainy summer semester when he told students of the uncanny correlation he had noticed between […]

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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 fun learning.” He makes a point of engaging his students by adopting a friendly attitude, breaking the ice with ‘fireside […]

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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 to sustainability,” she says. “Our students have told us this is a priority and we are responding by […]

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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 public in dialogue about ethics earned him the Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award in April from the […]

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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 of Technological Sophistication.”  The competition was open to full-time marketing educators who are also members of the AMA, and […]

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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 Awards. SFU’s Professor Mark N. Wexler received the Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award for his 30 years of applying his […]

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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 research project for SFU Business assistant professor Stephanie Bertels and colleagues at the University of Calgary. The project will examine the […]

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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.

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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 preparation.  The actual competition may occur over a few hours or a few days but teams spend many advance […]

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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 structure of the class is as follows. Before they arrive in class on the first day, every student is assigned […]

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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 in this regard is to impose time restrictions on their response. I have seen this take a number of forms, […]

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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.

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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 competitions are the one chance for them to take all the stuff they get in class and apply it in […]

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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 considering SFU’s executive MBA program. But a playful approach to learning is big part of what earned adjunct program […]

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Congratulations for outstanding teaching performance. The Teaching Honour Roll is based on evaluation ratings distributed over different class size categories within three program level groups (pre-business, undergraduate and graduate). Those recognized as part of the 2007/2008 Teaching Honour Roll are in the top tier of instructors in the Faculty of Business Administration.