Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 2
Apr 06, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 2, 2010.
National & World News
- SFU Business prof Judy Zaichkowsky was in a CTV News story on so-called “penny auctions”. They are, she said, “quite an attraction”. But, typically, while online bids for goods may go up by a cent at a time, you have to buy “credits” to be able to make a bid, and a credit may cost you as much as a dollar. And if you’re not the winning bidder for the item, the money you spent on bidding is gone, or may be gone, depending on the website. “It’s a lot like gambling.” The item also ran on Toronto’s 24 Nightside show.
Education
- The Prince George Citizen reported that prof Mark Wexler of SFU Business will receive the Paz Buttedahl career achievement award for 30 years of applying his scholarly work on ethics to business, government health care, and other fields, and for engaging the broader community in a dialogue about ethics.