 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe following article was published in 24 Hours on Tuesday, 1 July 2014. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe following story was published by SFU News on June 10, 2014. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe 21st century is going to see an unprecedented pace of growth in Asian countries, resulting in some 1.7 billion new middle class consumers being created in Asia alone. And while many organizations are unprepared for the change that is coming, B.C. is well positioned to play a significant role in the “Asian century”. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsAIB 2014 Annual Meeting: The war for talentJun 25, 2014Attracting and retaining talent has forever been an issue for organizations, yet new research suggests the competition to attract talent will reach unprecedented levels in the near future. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsVancouver Province: Canada’s anti-spam law to put the squeeze on B.C. businesses electronic promotionJun 25, 2014The following is an excerpt from the full article published in the Vancouver Province on June 20, 2014, and features commentary from Beedie School of Business professor Leyland Pitt. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsAIB 2014 Annual Meeting: How do MNEs overcome distrust and build legitimacy in host countries?Jun 24, 2014Foreign direct investment (FDI), particularly that from emerging markets such as China, has rocketed in recent years. Almost ten years ago Chinese outward investment was negligible, yet last year over $100 billion was invested. Yet with much distrust existing in the countries that are the beneficiaries of the investment, MNEs are increasingly looking to take action in order to get stakeholders onside. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsAs the host school of the Academy of International Business (AIB) 2014 Annual Meeting, the Beedie School of Business has partnered with the Globe and Mail to publish a special business report highlighting a small selection of the research papers that will be presented at the event. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsDaniel Shapiro, Dean of Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, has been honoured with the Academy of International Business (AIB) Fellows’ International Educator of the Year Award. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsRADIUS, the Beedie School of Business’ social venture lab and venture incubator, has launched two new venture accelerator programs aimed at nurturing early stage social initiatives and providing social entrepreneurs with the tools required to bring their ventures to market. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe Beedie School of Business is honoured to host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB). Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsA trio of Beedie School of Business alumni has been elected to the SFU Alumni Association Board of Directors for 2014/15 following the May elections. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsTwo Beedie School of Business undergraduate students have been selected as recipients of a prestigious international business scholarship in recognition of their commitment to building an international business career. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie School of Business students comprised almost a quarter of the recipients of this year’s Surrey Board of Trade’s Top 25 Under 25 Awards. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsAs the largest student-run business case competition in Western Canada, JDC West serves to provide teams of students from top business schools with case competition experience. Yet despite a proud history that had seen the Beedie School of Business crowned School of the Year in the 2007 competition, standards had slipped so far that Beedie teams did not place in a single category in 2012. Clearly, something had to change. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe Beedie School of Business will this weekend host the inaugural SFU Beedie Net Impact Sustainability Challenge Case Competition. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe following is an excerpt from the full article published in the Globe and Mail on May 23, 2014. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsDr. Blaize Horner Reich, the RBC Professor of Technology and Innovation at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, has been appointed to the Canadian Business Technology Management (BTM) Advisory Council. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsRADIUS venture go2gether launches pilot with VancityMay 15, 2014Real-time carpooling app go2gether, a client of The Beedie School of Business’ social innovation venture incubator RADIUS, has secured an eight-month pilot contract with Vancity credit union. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsVancouver Sun: Secrets to building business in ChinaMay 13, 2014Huge potential for B.C. companies that are willing to invest the time and adapt to culture differences. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe 2014 SFU Nancy McKinstry Awards for Leadership in Diversity is issuing a call for nominations for the Corporate Diversity Award. The award recognizes a company that excels in the area of diversity, with nominations open to all companies with operations in British Columbia. The winner of the Corporate Diversity Award will be announced at the awards breakfast on Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Nominations and finalists will be confidentially held and resubmitted with future nominations […] Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsA rare collection of historical business share certificates has been donated to the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University by former member of the Canadian Senate Jack Austin. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsA new report co-produced by a Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business initiative aims to help the City of Vancouver provide supportive housing for marginalized individuals. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie Talks: MBAs learning over lunchApr 23, 2014By Tako Young. On a typical weekday lunchtime, one can expect waves of MBA students at the Beedie School of Business to flood out of the lecture room to take a well-deserved lunch break. Recently, however, scores of eager students have stayed put in the classroom to continue their learning experience – this time to glean knowledge from their own classmates. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsOver the last 100 years, mankind has benefited from unprecedented exponential leaps in technology – and with the increasing use of incentive prizes to drive these radical breakthroughs, we can look forward to an era of abundance in the years to come. This was the message delivered by Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, and co-founder of Singularity University, in a special lecture for Beedie School of Business students and faculty at the Segal […] Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsSFU student innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration highlighted at Opportunity FestApr 11, 2014Undergraduate student entrepreneurs from across Simon Fraser University gathered to celebrate innovation at the fourth annual Opportunity Fest, a marketplace-style showcase of student creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsMSc in Finance students from Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business have brought home gold for the third year in a row at the prestigious RISE (Redefining Investment Strategy Education) competition. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsTaking steps towards economic development in indigenous communities would appear to be solely beneficial to all concerned. Yet often when the subject is raised, many of those concerned have reservations. Why would something with implicit positive connotations raise such doubts? Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsAQ Magazine: Aboriginal LeadershipApr 08, 2014The following article was published in the April 2014 issue of SFU’s AQ Magazine. By Diane Luckow. Vancouver-based Taseko Mines has long proposed a $1.5 billion open-pit gold and copper mine in B.C.’s Cariboo. But the company continues to encounter significant opposition from the region’s First Nations, and the project’s future continues to hang in the balance. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsGeek Speak: Chantelle Buffie, cofounder of FIXOApr 08, 2014The following article was published by the Georgia Straight on April 4, 2014 and features an interview with Beedie School of Business BBA student Chantelle Buffie. By Stephen Hui. If you’re a tenant, how do you contact your landlord? Simon Fraser University business student Chantelle Buffie is hoping that you’ll soon be using FIXO. A 24-year-old Surrey resident, Buffie is one of the undergraduates selected for the 2014 cohort of The Next 36 entrepreneurship program […] Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie School of Business alumnus Milun Tesovic, co-founder of MetroLyrics.com, the most comprehensive database of music lyrics in the world, has been named one of BC Business’ 30 Under 30. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie Group celebrates 60 years in businessApr 04, 2014Family that runs B.C.’s largest industrial property developer are also front-rank philanthropists. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie study finds dark side to rewarding ourselves with luxury goods. The following article was published by Canada.com on March 31, 2014. Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsA new student venture that will provide a dedicated communications channel for residential property managers and tenants has won the Newcomers category at the National Business & Technology Conference entrepreneurship competition. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie School of Business undergraduate student Tamara Hombrebueno has been honoured with the 2013 Dean’s Student Service Award in recognition of her contribution to the Beedie community through extra-curricular activities. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe following article was published in the Vancouver Sun on March 25, 2014, and features comment from Beedie School of Business Professor Mark Wexler. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsA team of Beedie School of Business MBA students has earned a top three finish at the prestigious HEC Montréal Sustainability Challenge 2014 case competition. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsA team of undergraduate and graduate Beedie School of Business students captured the silver medal in the recent Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) Risk Management Challenge. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe following article profiles Beedie School of Business undergraduate student Ravneet Dhaliwal, who this week received the BASS Student Impact Award at the 2014 BASS Banquet, the Beedie School of Business’ signature undergraduate networking event. Ravneet was profiled as part of the Beedie Engaged campaign, a celebration of the Beedie School of Business’ outstanding BBA students. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsSimon Fraser University Professor Rosalie Tung has been voted as President-Elect of the Academy of International Business (AIB) Executive Board. She will serve a three-year term, to commence from August 2014, initially as President-Elect before progressing to President in 2015, and finally Past President from 2016. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsStudent project helps land Juno nominationMar 16, 2014Beedie School of Business teachers have a reputation for innovative class assignments with an emphasis on experiential learning. One such group project in the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership has resulted in an outcome that will be familiar to those with an interest in music – a Juno Awards nomination. Read More... |
 | CommunityEnactus SFU earns triple gold at Regional ExpositionMar 14, 2014A trio of Enactus SFU teams has advanced to the national finals after taking home the gold in their respective categories at the Enactus Western Regional Competition. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsSocial entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a hot topic in business circles these days – indeed, the Beedie School of Business has a social innovation laboratory and venture incubator, RADIUS, dedicated to the subject. So what exactly is social entrepreneurship? Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University has welcomed several new board members representing globally renowned organizations to its Business Technology Management (BTM) Advisory Board. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie student female leaders named Women of PromiseMar 12, 2014On the same day that Hillary Clinton delivered an impassioned speech in Vancouver about the role of women in business, five Beedie School of Business students were honoured by the Vancouver Board of Trade (VBOT) for their contributions as female leaders in the community. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe prize for successfully starting a business can be exceptional, and tremendously rewarding – yet 75% of startups fail within the first year, as a result of failing to think their finance requirements through. So what is the secret to raising the capital required for businesses to make it past the hazardous early stages? Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThink of a typical MBA class. Does your mind’s eye see a class of smart, intense men? Well, you’d be wrong – if you were at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. This year, the full-time MBA program – that classroom you were thinking of – is comprised, more than half, of females. (Who are equally smart and equally intense.) Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBarbara Dunfield, Chief Financial Officer of Sennen Potash Corporation and a graduate of the Executive MBA at the Beedie School of Business, has been named among the winners of Business in Vancouver’s Influential Women in Business Awards 2014. The BIV Influential Women in Business Awards recognize influential leaders in their industry and the business community at large who have committed time and resources to mentor other women in business and contribute their expertise on corporate […] Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsTop MBA: The First Nations and Business in CanadaFeb 27, 2014The following article was published by TopMBA.com on February 27, 2014, and features comment from Ulrike Radermacher, Associate Director of the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership at the Beedie School of Business. The welfare and rights of the indigenous people of Canada – or First Nations, as they are collectively referred to – are of pressing concern at a time when many companies wish to develop Canada’s wealth of natural resources. Recent oil […] Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsSudheer Gupta, an associate professor at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, will share details of a study on how entrepreneurs in developing countries are finding innovative ways to solve some of society’s “most wicked problems,” as part of SFU President’s Faculty Lecture series. The lecture will be held at SFU’s Surrey campus on February 27 at 7 p.m. Gupta collaborated with Infosys Ltd., a global IT services company based in India, to carry […] Read More... |
| Beedie School of Business NewsThe Beedie School of Business’ interdisciplinary social innovation lab and venture incubator, RADIUS, in conjunction with Ashoka Canada, will host the second annual SFU Changemaker Showcase, a celebration of the brightest ideas and social innovators at Simon Fraser University. The SFU Changemaker Showcase will provide an opportunity to celebrate some of the brightest ideas and innovators at SFU who are working to foment positive change in the community and beyond. It will feature three TED-style […] Read More... |