Sam Thiara honoured by Vancouver Board of Trade’s Leaders of Tomorrow
Sep 16, 2011
Sam Thiara, Manager of Student Engagement and Recruitment at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, has been recognized for his longstanding engagement and leadership by the Leaders of Tomorrow program (LOT) of the Vancouver Board of Trade.More...
Beedie Celebration – Thursday, September 15, 2011
Sep 14, 2011
Andrew Petter, President and Vice-Chancellor, Simon Fraser University is pleased to invite you to celebrate the Beedie family’s extraordinary gift to Simon Fraser University to create the Beedie School of Business. Thursday, September 15, 2011 Beedie Celebration Concert 1 pm – live band: The Dudes Convocation Mall, SFU Burnaby Campus Beedie School of Business Gathering 2:30 pm – Meet and greet, light refreshments West Mall Complex, Third Floor, SFU Burnaby Campus Enquiries: events@sfu.ca or 778-782-5913 For […]More...
SFU MBAs arrive in Singapore for sustainability study
Sep 13, 2011
A team of four MBA students from Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business are in Singapore to meet with stakeholder groups from government and industry, and to conduct field interviews and research. To get to the Asian city-state, they developed a project plan that garnered top billing in a prestigious international competition – and it could now leave a lasting environmental impact for Singapore’s economy. SFU graduate business students Kathleen Williams, Peter Konefal, Eva […]More...
Business student lands worldly scholarship
Sep 12, 2011
Contact: Jevta Lukic (in Paris), lukic.jevta@gmail.com Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 778.782.9017; Marianne_Meadahl@sfu.ca Link to govt release: http://at.sfu.ca/bsmefl Photo (supplied): http://at.sfu.ca/AejtnZ Simon Fraser University student Jevta Lukic is among eight B.C. post-secondary students to receive the Premier’s One World Scholarship, a provincial award that encourages international education. It’s fitting that the young business student is in Paris for the announcement.More...
Upwardly Mobile: Career magazine profiles Beedie graduate Diana Martins
Sep 12, 2011
Diana Martins, CA – Senior Tax Accountant, Ernst & Young, and a Beedie School of Business BBA 2007 graduate, was recently profiled in Career Insider: Accounting Magazine. Martins’ interest in accounting, according to the profile, was sparked during her first year of studies at Beedie. Earlier this year, she was promoted to the position of senior tax accountant after an annual review. “I like the variety that comes with my job,” she says. “One day […]More...
Visiting scholar Heyin Hou on research inspiration and living on Canada’s West Coast
Sep 9, 2011
VANCOUVER– Heyin Hou, a visiting scholar at the Beedie School of Business who recently concluded his one-year visit, has left the business school and SFU community with his poignant and inspired thoughts on not only academia, but also his experiences living in Vancouver and Canada.More...
Interview with John Pigeon – Admissions Advisor at the Beedie School of Business
Sep 6, 2011
John Pigeon, Admissions Advisor for Simon Fraser University’s MBA program, recently spoke to F1GMAT about the program. The interview is shown below: F1GMAT: SFU Beedie Full-time MBA program has put emphasis on building a foundation in business management. How is the program designed to help MBA candidates get real world Business Experience? John Pigeon(SFU Beedie): The Full-time MBA program is focused on both strategic management and working within groups, as a leader and a contributor. We focus the […]More...
Flash mobs don’t influence consumer spending
Sep 2, 2011
Contact: Philip Grant, philipstanleygrant@gmail.com, 604.779.3050 Derek Moscato, SFU Beedie, derek_moscato@sfu.ca, 778.782.5038 Dixon Tam, SFU PAMR, dixont@sfu.ca, 778.782.8742 Link to video: http://at.sfu.ca/ToZfer An operatic flash mob video from Spain convinced Simon Fraser University’s Philip Grant to try the same in Vancouver to gauge whether the phenomenon puts consumers in the mood to spend money.More...
SFU business school gains global kudos
Sep 2, 2011
From Business in Vancouver online, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 08:55 Two university studies place Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business as one of the world’s top 100 business and management research post-secondary institutions. China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked SFU’s business school in the top 75 on its 2011 academic ranking of the top 500 universities in the world, which was released earlier this month.More...
Academic rankings put Beedie among elite class of global business schools
Aug 26, 2011
Two university surveys published in recent times have reconfirmed that the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University ranks among the best globally in the realms of business and management research. Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s 2011 Academic Ranking of the Top 500 World Universities, released in August, has placed Simon Fraser University among the top 75 schools internationally in the category of economics/business – a testament to both the Beedie School’s research output and […]More...