 | 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, […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsCongratulations to SFU Business PhD Candidate Stacey Fitzsimmons on being awarded the Paul Tai Yip Ng Memorial Endowment Award for Best Student Paper for 2008. Read More... |
| EQUISThe idea that good managers routinely gather and analyze information before making decisions is generally accepted as self-evident. Indeed, evidence-based decision making is so much in vogue that books such as Competing on Analytics and Supercrunchers top the list of business bestsellers. One would be hard pressed today to find a manager who does not advocate this approach. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 24Apr 28, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 24, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISGood 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. Read More... |
| EQUISMentoring Case Competitions – Royal Roads 2008Apr 24, 2009I 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 […] Read More... |
| EQUISTD Canada Trust Award Winners for 2008Apr 24, 2009Scott 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 […] Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Teaching Honour Roll 2007-08Apr 24, 2009Congratulations 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. Read More... |
| EQUIS“Provides an authoritative guide to evidence-based social policy by some of the leading scholars in the field. For anyone who wants to know what works, what’s worthwhile, and what research would have the greatest payoff, this book has benefits far exceeding the cost.”—Philip Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy, Duke University Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 17Apr 20, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 17, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISCongratulations to six SFU Business faculty members, four of whom are new scholars, in their successful Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant applications. These are results for the Fall 2008 competition which funds three-year research projects and will be awarded in the Spring of 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business assistant professor Stephanie Bertels has been named as a co-investigator in an 18-month study on regulatory compliance. As part of an experiment in creative sentencing, Suncor is funding an investigation into the antecedents of regulatory compliance and the creative sentencing process. The research study will housed at the International Resource Industries and Sustainability Centre (IRIS) at the University of Calgary and directed by Prof. Frances Bowen. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 9Apr 14, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 9, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 3Apr 14, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 3, 2009. Read More... |
| EQUISDavid Hannah Paper on Confidentiality Selected for 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper ProceedingsApr 14, 2009Dr. David Hannah and PhD candidate Kirsten Pankratz have co-authored a paper that will be presented at the 2009 Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, IL. The paper “Why Follow the Rules? An Empirical Examination of Employee Responses to Confidential Information Rules” has also been selected for publication in the Best Paper Proceedings for the 2009 meeting. Read More... |
| EQUISThe G20 and Global Approaches to the Regulation of Finance: Zeitgeist for the Times or Just Apparition of the MomentApr 09, 2009By Robert Adamson, Executive Director, CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management, Segal Graduate Business School, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver CANADA April 1, 2009 The winds of change are blowing in London as the G20 prepares to meet. Unfortunately no one knows when the winds will stop and who will be swept away. There are many views, however, on how and where to take cover. Many countries, particularly the European countries, are agitating for […] Read More... |
| EQUISMake It Warm and Sociable and It Will SellApr 07, 2009Why do some Web sites appeal more to the online consumer than others? Do women respond differently to e-commerce Web sites and online shopping than men? With a spotlight on gender differences and e-commerce, we already know men and women process information differently. For instance, men are selective processors, relying on highly available and salient cues. Read More... |
| EQUISG20, NATO summit – Issues, Experts & IdeasApr 06, 2009Reviving the global economy World leaders meeting in London have agreed to inject $1 trillion into the world economy in an attempt to curb the global financial crisis. SFU business professor Robert Adamson specializes in corporate governance and risk management and has just returned from London. Read More... |
| EQUISRebecca Walberg, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Originally a qualification possessed by relatively few, the MBA has increasingly become a prerequisite for executive jobs. Despite the trend toward gender equity in many fields, the most senior corporate jobs in Canada are still disproportionately male. Women hold only 13% of board-level positions in FP 500 companies, while 40% of these businesses have no women on their boards. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – March 27Mar 27, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of March 27, 2009 Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsMOT MBA ReunionMar 27, 2009Date: May 19th, 2009, 5pm Location: Room 1200, Segal Graduate School of Business, SFU, 500 Granville Street Read More... |
| EQUISSFU Business Professor David C. Thomas Awarded Academy of HR Development Book of the Year 2008Mar 24, 2009The 2008 award has been given to Dr. David C. Thomas, Professor of International Management, for his book Cross-Cultural Management: Essential Concepts, 2nd Edition. This continues Dr. Thomas’ work on cultural intelligence in the areas of international business and management. Read More... |
| EQUISGervase Bushe Project on Family Businesses Awarded SSHRC Research Development Initiative FundingMar 19, 2009Associate Professor Gervase Bushe has recently received project funding through SSHRC’s Research Development Initiatives (RDI), which supports ground-breaking high-risk research initiatives. This is the first time that a member of our faculty has applied for and received funding through this program. The specific objectives of the RDI are to help researchers: Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsTwo third-year commerce students from Simon Fraser University, Andy Leung and Raymond Zhang, took first place in the 2nd Annual Western CA (Chartered Accountant) Case Competition, held March 6 and 7 in Calgary, Alberta. Read More... |
| EQUISAssistant Professor Andrew von Nordenflycht‘s article co-authored with Greg J. Bamber, Jody Hoffer Gittell, and Thomas A. Kochan titled “Contrasting Employment Relations Strategies in European Airlines” is forthcoming in the Journal of Industrial Relations. Read More... |
| EQUISMy research interest in the how firms address social issues led me recently to engaged in a research project to investigate the relationship between the level of firms’ acknowledgment of outside entities– broadly referred to as stakeholders, and including various groups such as shareholders, employees, customers, communities, NGOs, governments – and firms’ likelihood of long-term survival. Read More... |
| EQUISIn the strategy literature, corporate governance is an “important factor affecting the firm’s performance and long-term survival” (Filatotchev, Toms & Wright, 2006: 257). Research on board size and independence – posited to help firms reduce managers’ self-interested behavior, and manage transaction costs and resource dependencies (Boone et al., 2007; Filatotchev et al., 2006; Lynall, Golden & Hillman, 2003) – has focused on the showing that positive effect of these variable on firm performance (Forbes & […] Read More... |
| EQUISJon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer – Exposing the role of the stock tip in the current financial crisisMar 18, 2009I am a religious follower of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His succinct and insightful summaries of important topics enable ordinary people like me to get at issues which seem otherwise purposely complicated to keep us in the dark. In watching the recent media-created “feud” between Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Jim Cramer I was able to articulate my frustration with the stock market in the current financial crisis. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsComing Out On TopMar 18, 2009An SFU Business undergraduate team is among 16 finalists in L’Oréal EStrat, the world’s biggest online business simulation competition. Read More... |
| EQUIS“And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management’s miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience.”–The New York Times, December 22, 2007 Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – March 5Mar 06, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of March 5, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISThe Measure of ResponsibilityMar 03, 2009by John Peloza Corporate social responsibility has become commonplace in business plans. Studies regularly report that consumers would switch to support a socially responsible business over one that is not responsible. Read More... |
| EQUISMedia Matters – SFU Business in the News – Feb. 26Feb 27, 2009How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of February 26, 2009 Read More... |
| EQUISPeter Klein Recognized for Outstanding Contribution as a Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Administrative SciencesFeb 26, 2009Professor of Finance, Peter Klein has been named as a reviewer that has gone above and beyond that which is expected of him by providing outstanding comments to authors of several manuscripts that he has reviewed for the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (CJAS). Read More... |
| EQUISMichael Parent and Blaize Reich have had a paper accepted by the California Management Review. Read More... |
| AccountingSSHRC Small (Fall 2008 competition) ResultsFeb 24, 2009The results from the SSHRC Small Fall 2008 competition have been announced. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsBurnaby, BC (February 17, 2009) – Milun Tesovic, Co-Founder of “Metroleap Media Inc.” and full time student at Simon Fraser University, has been named the 2009 British Columbia Student Entrepreneur Provincial Champion by national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship “ACE” and proud program supporter, CIBC. Read More... |
| EQUISAssistant Professor John Peloza’s paper co-authored with Katherine White titled “Self-Benefit Versus Other-Benefit Marketing Appeals: Their Effectiveness in Generating Charitable Support” was recently accepted by the Journal of Marketing. Read More... |