 | Beedie School of Business NewsMore First Nations students navigate post-secondary business training as aboriginal high school graduation notches to all-time high. Read More... |
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 | Beedie School of Business NewsHumans must fight the inherent animal emotions within them and train themselves to think carefully in order to make successful investments. Capitulating to fear and greed will only result in investments failing, much like the recent crash in the Chinese stock market. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsA new website co-founded by a recent graduate of the BBA program at the Beedie School of Business is helping connect retired professionals with organizations seeking professional expertise. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe Beedie School of Business brought together some of the world’s leading experts on social inequality to share research and engage in meaningful discussion on how organizations and institutions contribute to or mitigate inequality at the Inequality, Institutions and Organizations Conference. With social inequality remaining a profound issue for both developing and developed societies, the conference sought to further explore the increasing problem of inequality growing in developed countries in conjunction with the growing power […] Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsBeedie open innovation research ranked tops on SSRNJun 11, 2013Research from two Beedie School of Business PhD students has become a top paper on the subject of open innovation for 2013, with almost 500 downloads on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a leading repository of business academic papers. The paper, “The Theory of Crowd Capital”, was authored by Beedie PhD students Prashant Shukla and John Prpić, and examines the increasing number of organizations using IT to engage dispersed populations of individuals for knowledge […] Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe spring series of CKNW 980’s “The Chief Executives” continued with Gregg Saretsky, President and CEO of Canadian airline WestJet, sharing his vision for employee engagement with CKNW host Bill Good in front of a live audience at the Segal Graduate School. The event was part of an ongoing partnership between the Beedie School of Business and prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW News Talk 980 to bring leadership and business insights from some of Canada’s […] Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsManagement narrative: How poetry informs businessDec 12, 2012While Kathleen Burke’s inclusion of poetry in a management class is relatively rare, it is a practice that is garnering growing acceptance. In a recent article, Harvard Business Review author John Coleman made the case that reading and writing poetry can be a valuable component of leadership development. Read More... |
 | Beedie School of Business NewsThe following op-ed article was authored by Daniel Shapiro and published in the Vancouver Sun on October 14, 2012. Opinion: Province should be home to high-growth entrepreneurs, but Canada lacks the necessary network of resources. By Daniel Shapiro, Dean of the Beedie School of Business. Ryan Holmes, founder of Invoke and the CEO of HootSuite, one of British Columbia’s fastest-growing start-ups, made something of a revelation at a recent presentation at the Beedie School […] Read More... |