Beedie MBAs reach finals of Whitman Case Competition
Mar 12, 2013
A team of Beedie School of Business MBA students will travel to Syracuse University, New York, on March 22 to compete in the finals of the prestigious Whitman Case Competition. The team earned their spot after their preliminary executive summary placed them in the top six from almost 30 teams. The annual competition, run by the Whitman School of Management, draws teams from invited schools across North America. Competing teams have only a short time […]More...
Beedie student Tamara Hombrebueno to judge TalentEgg Awards
Mar 12, 2013
Beedie School of Business undergraduate student Tamara Hombrebueno has been selected as one of 200 top students from across Canada to judge the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards. The TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards are presented to the employers who best illustrate how to achieve outstanding results in campus recruitment. The awards provide employers who hire Canadian students or recent graduates with student perspective on campus recruitment. Each year TalentEgg selects top […]More...
Beedie Professor Dianne Cyr nets prestigious Most Cited Paper Award
Mar 11, 2013
Dianne Cyr, a professor of management information systems at the Beedie School of Business has received an award for most cited paper from the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. The prestigious award is given to the paper with the highest number of citations (excluding self-citations) between 2010 and 2012, and is a strong measure of the paper’s reach within the academic community and beyond. The winning paper, ‘‘Colour appeal in website design within and across […]More...
SFU students design social media plan to help isolated Marpole seniors
Mar 8, 2013
The following article was published by The Vancouver Courier by Stanley Tromp, contributing writer. A group of business students has created a social media plan to reduce the isolation of seniors living alone in Marpole. Last week, the students designed a “web” of coloured yarn in front of Marpole library on Granville Street near 70th Avenue, to symbolize both physical community connections and the Internet’s interconnected web. Passersby wrote their names on papers hung onto […]More...
Information and fit key to understanding outsourcing opportunities: Beedie research
Mar 7, 2013
While politicians and economic leaders continue to speak to the virtues or pitfalls of outsourcing by companies and countries, the resulting benefit or lack thereof, accrue to organizations on a case by case basis – hinging on information, resources and skills – according to new SFU research. Entitled “Understanding outsourcing contexts through information asymmetry and capability fit”, the research article was authored by Beedie professors Ian McCarthy and Jan Kietzmann, and University of Winnipeg professor […]More...
CKNW CEO Series set to return to Beedie School of Business
Mar 5, 2013
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW News Talk 980 are teaming up once more this spring to bring leadership and entrepreneurship insights from some of Canada’s foremost business minds to SFU. “The Chief Executives” program will bring a selection of the country’s top executives – ranging from Canadian airline WestJet to fashion giant Aritzia – to SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus in an exclusive series of interviews. […]More...
First Nations Chief Satsan discusses Idle No More at Beedie event
Mar 5, 2013
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and SFU Public Square hosted Satsan (Herb George), hereditary chief of the Frog Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation on March 1 at SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus, as he talked about the story behind the Idle No More movement and its relevance to all Canadians today. William Lindsay, director of the SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples, introduced Satsan, who is also a member of the Advisory Board […]More...
Entrepreneurship competition pays dividends for BC economy: Beedie study
Mar 4, 2013
A new study by the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University makes the case for mentored entrepreneurial competition as a means to contributing to the British Columbia economy. The research report, entitled “New Ventures BC Economic Impact and Entrepreneurial Research Impact”, was co-authored by Beedie Professors Elicia Maine and Pek-Hooi Soh, and Beedie MBA alumnus Lee O’Donnell. To date, more than 1,400 aspiring B.C. entrepreneurs have entered the competition, with 36 winning major […]More...
Trio of winners at Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize competition
Mar 4, 2013
The following press release was published by SFU Public Affairs and Media Relations. The founders of three young startup companies are sharing the spotlight as winners of the second annual SFU Venture Connection Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize competition. The award recognizes excellence in business development among early-stage clients. The three will share prizes totaling $5,000: WittyCookie is an all-inclusive digital agency that specializes in building high-quality websites at affordable monthly rates. Co-founders are Michael Cheng and Elvin […]More...
Making a difference in the classroom: A visual summary
Feb 28, 2013
As part of the annual teaching workshop and luncheon held on November 2, 2012, Jason Toal, Interaction Specialist from the TLC, was asked to create visual summary of the workshop. This visual summary (below) is designed for purposes of perception and to augment our visual understanding. The major topics of discussion from the World Cafe are captured here, and provide a reference for ongoing dialogue about teaching, globalization, experiential learning and technology. To learn more […]More...