Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – May 28
May 31, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 28, 2010.
National and World News
- The Canadian Press reported on a study from SFU Business prof Peter Tingling that found rich NHL clubs don’t necessarily draft better.
“The conclusions of Tingling and co-researcher Kamal Masri aren’t going to make NHL scouts happy. They conclude being able to spend a lot of money on scouting doesn’t make a team more successful at the draft.
“‘We looked at how much money the teams are worth, the quality of their decisions and we could basically find basically no relationship whatsoever,’ Tingling said Thursday from Burnaby, B.C. ‘Our research shows there’s no relationship between having more money and making better decisions.’” |
We saw the story in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, and as far away as the Halifax Chronicle-Herald and the Cape Breton Post. It was on CanadianBusiness.com, as well.
Education
- CBC-TV carried a story on students who used Twitter and Facebook skills to nail summer jobs. Among those quoted was employer Milun Tesovic, co-founder of the MetroLyrics.com website and an SFU Business student. The story didn’t identify him as being from SFU, but did say of Sam Chan: “He found his summer job, web-marketing at SFU, through Twitter, and he’s already onto his next gig, with an online sports publication based in Ohio.”