Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – Jan. 23

How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of January 23, 2009

Andrew von Nordenflycht, assistant prof in SFU Business, wrote a guest column in the Financial Post pages of National Post on the possibility of law firms becoming publicly traded corporations. “Professional regulations around the world prohibit non-lawyers from sharing ownership in law firms. But these prohibitions were recently lifted in Australia and in the United Kingdom, and an Australian law firm went public last year. This has renewed debates within the Canadian and U. S. legal professions about following suit.”

Canwest News Service distributed its own newsfeature saying grad schools and community colleges are getting more student applications because of a generally unfriendly job market. Among those quoted was Kirk Hill, executive director of the career management centre in SFU Business. He estimates job offers have fallen by 25 per cent in the last month or two. We saw this story in the Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader-Post and Edmonton Journal.

The New Westminster NewsLeader picked up a story from last week’s Surrey-North Delta Leader, in which marketing prof Lindsay Meredith pointed to slumping consumer spending. “If consumers stick their hands in their pockets, nothing’s going to happen. They’re the demand engine that drives everything.”