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A new initiative at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business will give its CGA co-op students the chance to participate in a co-op work term on the sunny island of Barbados. The Beedie School of Business & CGA Co-op Global Careers Program is part of a new partnership between the Beedie School of Business, CGA-BC and CGA Caribbean. It will allow for one SFU CGA co-op student to be placed in a work term […]

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On the eve of London’s Summer Olympic Games, a business study from Simon Fraser University shows that the persistent effectiveness of ambush marketers leaves Olympic sponsors and those of other major sporting events particularly vulnerable – costing them not only their financial investment, but ultimately their customers.

Professors Leyland Pitt and Michael Parent from SFU’s Beedie School of Business examined data from the 2008 “Li Ning affair”, which saw Olympic sponsor Adidas ambushed by lesser-known Chinese sportswear company Li Ning at the Beijing Summer Olympics.

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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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VANCOUVER– As British Columbia moves to have manufacturers and retailers take increasing responsibility for the recycling and responsible disposal of consumer products, opportunities are being created for new businesses and products to facilitate this environmental and social trend. To this end, students at SFU’s Beedie School of Business are using their sustainability in business acumen to help the City of Vancouver and other BC jurisdictions reach their zero waste goals. Annually, SFU’s MBA students undertake […]

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Students from the MBA program at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business have been pounding the pavement in an effort to bolster business prospects in the Heritage District of downtown Vancouver during evenings and weekends – when thousands of area office workers have gone home. The district – the historic commerce and banking area of Vancouver’s West Hastings Street – is a dynamic area for retailing and includes some world-renowned brands in addition to numerous small- and […]

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Two graduate business students at Simon Fraser University are putting their business acumen to work for the benefit of young women hoping to make positive strides as future leaders, managers and entrepreneurs. Alannah Cervenko and Alice Longhurst, graduate students in the MBA program at Simon Fraser University, created the Graduate Business Women’s Council for the Beedie School of Business in 2011. To date, their primary focus has been raising awareness amongst the membership about upcoming […]

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Surrey, BC – On Tuesday, May 29th from 5:30-8pm at Eaglequest Golf Course, the Surrey Board of Trade will award 25 winners in their second annual Surrey’s Top 25 Under 25 Awards event.   The event will celebrate the incredible initiatives of Surrey’s youth under the Age of 25. The winners were chosen based upon a subjective analysis of their business or community achievements, leadership ability, community involvement, professional achievements and uniqueness of their business or […]

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A new award honouring the memory of a greatly-admired Management of Technology MBA student will provide financial support for graduate students at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. The Cecelia Suragh Memorial Graduate Award in Business will provide support to individuals with an undergraduate degree in life sciences who are pursuing graduate degrees at the Beedie School of Business. The award has been established in the memory of Cecelia Suragh, a Management of Technology (Biotechnology) MBA candidate, who […]

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The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University has announced the establishment of the Dr. Rick Iverson Memorial Fund. The fund has been set up to honour the memory of a very special faculty member at the business school. Rick Iverson, a Professor of Human Resource Management at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, passed away this past May. Joining SFU’s Faculty of Business Administration in 2001 from the University of Melbourne, Rick become an admired and […]

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Students from SFU’s Beedie School of Business finished amongst the top three teams at the recent APEX Biz-IT Global Case Challenge. The competition, hosted by Singapore Management University from 29 April to 3 May, featured 19 teams from top universities across the globe. Each team was tasked with developing working strategies for growth for Brand Karma, a tech start-up company based in Singapore. The Beedie team finished in third place in this year’s competition and […]

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Will Mitchell didn’t come by his decision to attend business school lightly. As an 18 year old, he was pouring lead slag into a furnace for a living at a lead-zinc smelter in Trail, BC when he decided to heed the call of higher learning – from Simon Fraser University.

Mitchell, whose parents were both teachers, grew up in the scenic West Kootenay communities of Trail and Fruitvale. Geographically, he was hundreds of kilometres from the West Coast and the top of Burnaby Mountain. Psychologically, the distance was even further.

But the lure of SFU was neither dulled nor diminished by distance or geography.

At the time, Simon Fraser University was a young institution with a reputation for flexibility and radicalism. The young Mitchell couldn’t resist the mix – and in a matter of days he had made the transition from the smoke-belching smelter to classes in political science, sociology, anthropology, English and math.

“At SFU,” he says, “you could do very interesting things.”

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The 2012 SFU Nancy McKinstry Awards for Leadership in Diversity is issuing a call for nominations for the Corporate Diversity Award. Nominations are open to all companies with operations in British Columbia, and recognizes one that excels in the area of diversity. The winner of the Corporate Diversity Award will be announced at the awards breakfast on September 19. Nominations and finalists will be confidentially held and resubmitted with future nominations for a period of […]

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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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Beedie School of Business Professor and former MBA program director Judy Zaichkowsky took advantage of a recent trip to Shanghai to reconnect with a group of MBA alumni. Zaichkowsky was visiting Shanghai to explore the possibility of hosting an SFU undergraduate field school at the EMLyon Asian campus at East China Normal University. While there, she took the opportunity to engage with several of her former students now based in China. Beedie alumni Sven Gebhard, […]

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Contact: Shawn Smith, Beedie School, 778.782.9262, ssmithe@sfu.ca Derek Moscato, Beedie School, 778.782.5038, derek_moscato@sfu.ca Chantelle Buffie, 604.763.7211, clb14@sfu.ca Sonam Swarup, 604.809.5477, slswarup@sfu.ca Lorraine Wilson, 778.837.0394, mediarelations@vancity.com Students at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University can further their social venture ideas with the launch of the new Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (SEA) program, starting this semester at the SFU Surrey campus. The program provides students with the resources to generate feasible business models, meet with clients to discuss project details, and gain an […]

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Rick Iverson, a Professor of Human Resource Management at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly last Thursday . Born Roderick Dale Iverson on September 3, 1959, Rick received his PhD in Industrial Sociology from the University of Iowa in 1992, and eventually joined SFU’s Faculty of Business Administration in 2001 from the University of Melbourne. Rick would go on to become an admired and highly-respected scholar, teacher and colleague within the business faculty […]

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Students from Simon Fraser University showed Canada what they “dared to do” when they finished among the top ten teams at the SIFE National Championship. The competition, part of the 2012 ACE National Exposition held from May 7 to 9 at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary, Alberta, featured over 50 schools from across Canada competing for the title of national champions. After successfully negotiating the opening round, the SFU team advanced to the final ten and […]

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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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A Beedie School of Business undergraduate student has placed in the top three in the recent Focus 2040 case competition by predicting what the business world will look like in the year 2040. Focus 2040 is open to undergraduate and graduate business students and is the first competition of its kind in the HRM and organizational strategy sector. Entrants have one task: to predict the world of work in the year 2040. Beedie undergrad student […]

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A group of Beedie School of Business undergraduate students have been using SustainableSFU as a model to develop their business plan writing skills – and planning a more sustainable campus in the process. In his class focused on ethics in marketing, Beedie School of Business PhD student and lecturer Todd Green set for his students the task of drafting marketing plans based on a real-life, non-profit organization that operates on SFU’s Burnaby campus. After the […]

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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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For many people, the notion of investing in a business involves an eventual return of capital and ultimate profitability. However, financial gain was the last thing on the mind of Beedie School of Business lecturer and PhD student Adam Mills when he made his latest investment in BBA student projects – ultimately leading to funds raised for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities. In his Business 478 strategy class, Mills tasked his students with starting […]

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New marketing research from SFU professor Leyland Pitt, focused on the relationship between luxury wine branding and social media, has been awarded the Outstanding Paper prize for 2012 by the Emerald Literati Network.

The article, entitled “Luxury wine brand visibility in social media:  An exploratory study” and published in International Journal of Wine Business Research, garnered the top billing as part of the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012.

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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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A pair of students at Simon Fraser University has cooked up an idea that may help more immigrant women land jobs – and give profile to their cultural cuisine. Fusion Kitchen’s goal is to develop the transferable skill sets, work experience and self-confidence of recent female immigrants through teaching ethnic cooking classes focused on dishes from their culture. Chantelle Buffie and Sonam Swarup, both actively involved with Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Simon Fraser, decided […]

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A ranking of international business schools has rated the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University as among the best in the world for business and management research. The measure, published by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a leading repository of business academic papers, shows that based on article downloads by institution, Beedie ranks 54th in the world out of more than 1000 business schools included in the survey.

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Submitted by Salina Siu, National Director of Communications, AIESEC Canada VANCOUVER– Students around the world will be putting business theories into practice during AIESEC’s Global Public Relations Conference held on April 23 to 26, 2012. The international conference will be hosted in eight different countries, with AIESEC SFU being the host for North America. The event takes place in downtown Vancouver at SFU’s Segal Graduate School, sponsored by the Beedie School of Business at Simon […]

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The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is hosting some of the world’s foremost experts in the areas of entrepreneurship and social capital at the Segal Graduate School in downtown Vancouver this week at a special academic conference.

Entitled Social Capital and Entrepreneurship: Catalyst or Retardant?, the two-day event takes place on April 20 and 21, bringing together outstanding international and Canadian scholars. They will workshop a series of interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed manuscripts on the relationship between various form of social capital and entrepreneurial activity in commercial, social and cultural contexts.

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    A hot tub water care system, an employee wellness solution for companies and a sustainable recycling initiative aimed at helping Vancouver achieve its goal of zero waste for 2020 were the big winners at a Beedie School of Business social entrepreneurship competition. Opportunity Fest 2012 gave SFU business undergrads the opportunity to showcase their class-produced ventures to judges from industry, academia and the wider business community. Held at SFU’s Surrey campus on April 11, […]

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The following article was published by BC Business Magazine on April 2, 2012 as part of their MBA guide. BY KRISTEN HILDERMAN, BC BUSINESS MAGAZINE Craig Ryomoto, Director, Online Customer Acquisition | HootSuite Media, Inc. @craigryomoto hootsuite.com Where did you get your MBA? SFU Beedie School of Business What year did you graduate? 2010 Why did you want to get your MBA? I chose to pursue an MBA because I was looking for a career […]

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The following article was submitted by Beedie School of Business graduate Esther Chang: As you learn in any introduction to economics course, life has a lot of tradeoffs. So if your goals are to travel around the world to get a deeper appreciation of life and culture, you will most likely have to trade off a lot time from developing your career. By participating in an international internship with AIESEC, however, you can make the […]

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The following article was published by BC Business Magazine on April 2, 2012 as part of their MBA guide. BY KRISTEN HILDERMAN, BC BUSINESS MAGAZINE Mike Underell, Account Manager | 6S Marketing @mikeunderell 6smarketing.com Where did you get your MBA? SFU Beedie School of Business What year did you graduate? 2009 Why did you want to get your MBA? To better prepare myself for more demanding job roles and/or higher responsibility. What do you think […]

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by Joanne Leung “Uh huh, you know what it is. Simon Fraser, Simon Fraser, Simon Fraser, Simon Fraser.” It’s the mantra that has morphed into Simon Fraser University’s unofficial and irreverent refrain over the past two months. And right along with it, Beedie School of Business undergraduate student Matthew Tse, one of the creators of the immensely popular “Sh*t SFU Says” video, has been along for the viral video ride. His YouTube video garnered 50,000 […]

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The following article was published by BC Business Magazine on April 2, 2012 as part of their MBA guide. BY  LANA MADOR, BC BUSINESS MAGAZINE The compelling tweets of SFU MBA professor Ian McCarthy earned him a spot on OnlineMBA’s international list: “50 Business Professors You Should Follow on Twitter.” Business professor Ian McCarthy started out as a techie, working for several years as a manufacturing engineer before earning a PhD in operations strategy from […]

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The following article was published by BC Business Magazine on April 2, 2012 as part of their MBA guide. BY KRISTEN HILDERMAN, BC BUSINESS MAGAZINE Jessica Oman, Owner | Write Ahead Consulting @writeahead writeahead.ca Where did you get your MBA? SFU Beedie School of Business What year did you graduate? 2009 Why did you want to get your MBA? I felt I needed a graduate degree to move my career forward. I had been working […]

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The following article was published by BC Business Magazine on April 2, 2012 as part of their MBA guide. BY REBECCA TAY, BC BUSINESS MAGAZINE Local schools broaden their international focus to include Brazil, Russia, India and China. Say “BRIC” to any economist, analyst or politician and the response will almost invariably be that the countries represented by the acronym – Brazil, Russia, India and China – will dominate the global economic landscape in coming […]

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The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that it has maintained its accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for a period of five years. The business school, with campuses in Burnaby, Surrey and downtown Vancouver, is home to Canada’s first Executive MBA program and one of Canada’s largest undergraduate programs. It was first accredited by AACSB in 2006. Since that time, it has continued to grow its reputation as one of the country’s leading teaching and learning settings, and for producing global-class research for the knowledge economy.

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MSc in Finance students from the Beedie School of Business have won a major award at the prestigious RISE investment competition hosted at Dayton University, Ohio. The students won first place in the Balanced Investment Style category for their work on the Student Investment Advisory Service (SIAS) fund, the student-run investment fund which sees Beedie students managing over $10 million of the university’s endowment portfolio. Bill Dennis, Jared Wolk, Mehdi Saedi and Jon Lo attended […]

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A course that was launched less than a year ago at SFU’s Beedie School of Business has provided students with unprecedented focus on analyzing and optimizing the value of social media for organizations and businesses. Through community-building projects, undergrad students applied the social media lessons of the course to new and established not-for-profits and social agencies on a wide range of issues, from life-saving transplants to disability in sport. The course, Social Media & Business, was taught at SFU’s Surrey campus by assistant professor Jan Kietzmann and instructor Ashish Gurung. Students used Facebook and the Twitter hashtag #BUS450 to engage with each other and their teachers, and to collaborate on assigned projects and readings. Throughout the semester, Kietmann and Gurung invited industry thoughts leaders, entrepreneurs and businesses to share their insights and expertise in social media.

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A group of undergrad students from the Beedie School of Business have taken it upon themselves to feed their fellow students – with a focus on healthy eating. The Fruit Dealers are providing hungry staff and students with healthy and nutritious fruit cups delivered throughout SFU. Each fruit cup is priced at $4, contains three portions of fruit, and is made with the team’s special secret sauce for added flavour. The team consists of BBA […]

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An upcoming event at Simon Fraser University Surrey and hosted by the Beedie School of Business will enable entrepreneurially-minded students to present their venture ideas to industry experts. The second annual Opportunity Fest will be held on Wednesday April 11 from 6pm to 9pm in the Mezzanine of SFU’s Surrey Campus. Building on the success of last year’s event, over 100 students from seven different Beedie School of Business classes will participate in the marketplace-style […]

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Rik Crutzen, a researcher from the Department of Health Promotion at the CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care in the Netherlands, is a visiting scholar at the Beedie School of Business this year. He is working with award-winning Beedie School of Business faculty member Dianne Cyr on e-loyalty and website content issues in the context of health care and health promotion and marketing.

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The following article was published by the Financial Post on March 27, 2012 as part of their MBA issue. BY DENISE DEVEAU, FINANCIAL POST As a long-time entrepreneur, Ward Black is a firm believer that international exposure is a good thing in an MBA program. “It’s just a bad decision not to have international experience on your resumé,” he says. “The fact is you will either be working with a company operating overseas or competing […]

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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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CNN | Stars Of Science – Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod. SFU MBA alumna Wahiba Chair was featured in a recent CNN article discussing reality television shows on Arab television after winning the first season of the Arab docu-reality television show Stars of Science. Stars of Science is the first Arab television program to create a worldwide competition where contestants competed for the commercial launch of a product of their own design. It features 16 young […]

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The following article was published by the Financial Post on March 27, 2012 as part of their MBA issue. BY REBECCA WALBERG, FINANCIAL POST Most business students realize the future holds more options than Bay Street and the FP500. While multinational corporations and the business world elite get the most attention, the scope and importance of Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make them vitally important to the domestic economy, the export sector, and current […]

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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 […]