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Business In Vancouver: Schools pave path to indigenous business success
Jan 19, 2016
More First Nations students navigate post-secondary business training as indigenous high school graduation notches to all-time high.More...
Beedie hosts Aboriginal Canadian leader Phil Fontaine
Oct 1, 2015
Tremendous progress has been made in the last few decades in improving relations between Aboriginal peoples and resource development, caused by what can be described as, “A seismic shift in attitudes from both sides.” And though the future is clouded in uncertainty, there is cause for hope that this trend will continue.More...
Vancouver Sun: Aboriginal-focused MBA links western business ideas with First Nations perspectives
Jun 8, 2015
The following article was published by the Vancouver Sun on June 5. By Tracey Sherlock.More...
Beedie PhD Bryan Gallagher nets SSHRC Storyteller award
Jun 3, 2015
Beedie School of Business PhD student Bryan Gallagher has been selected as one of five winners of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) 2015 Storytellers contest.More...
Beedie PhD Simon Pek wins prestigious Doctoral Student Paper Award
Mar 23, 2015
A research paper by Beedie School of Business PhD student Simon Pek has received the Best Doctoral Student Paper Award at the 56th annual Western Academy of Management Conference.More...
Top MBA: The First Nations and Business in Canada
Feb 27, 2014
The following article was published by TopMBA.com on February 27, 2014, and features comment from Ulrike Radermacher, Associate Director of the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership at the Beedie School of Business. The welfare and rights of the indigenous people of Canada – or First Nations, as they are collectively referred to – are of pressing concern at a time when many companies wish to develop Canada’s wealth of natural resources. Recent oil […]More...
First Nations trip a transformational experience for SFU MBAs
Aug 9, 2012
This past April, five of them, along with SFU MBA alumnus Lerato Chondoma and MBA Academic Director Dave Hannah, explored and engaged Vancouver Island Indigenous communities in the context of not only business development, but also their traditions, beliefs and customs. The group set off on April 23 to visit Nuu-chah-nulth communities on Vancouver Island – including Tseshaht, Ucluelet and Ahousaht – over the course of six days. The latter First Nation is the largest Nuu-chah-nulth Nation and home to Shawn Atleo, recently re-elected as national leader of Canada’s Assembly of First Nations. During the excursion, the students visited a myriad of leading Indigenous entrepreneurs, small- and medium-sized businesses and government agencies. These included Nuu chah nulth Economic Development Corp., First Nations Wildcrafters, Ucluth Development Corp., Iisaak Forest Resources, Tseshaht Market, White Raven Consulting and Les Sam Construction. They also met First Nations leaders, including Michelle Corfield, an Executive in Residence at the Beedie School of Business and Chair of the Legislature at Ucluelet First Nation and Trevor Jones, CEO of Ucluelet Economic Development.More...
SFU’s new MBA program targets growth in indigenous economy
Jun 26, 2012
The following article was published by The Vancouver Sun on June 23, 2012. Squamish Nation Chief Ian Campbell, like other indigenous leaders across B.C., sees accelerated business opportunities as key to his com-munity’s future. To that end, the 39-year-old chief is one of several first nations leaders signing on for a new business degree pro-gram offered by Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. “I see this as an opportunity to develop skills in business […]More...
Celebrating a new era on National Indigenous Peoples Day
Jun 21, 2012
As Canada reflects on National Indigenous Day and a new era for Indigenous peoples in the country, Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business is moving quickly towards the September commencement of its Executive MBA in Indigenous Business and Leadership. The program is one of many indicators that First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are entering a new era in which their communities and nations can return to prosperity. The new EMBA, the first of […]More...
Ahp-cii-uk partnership seeks to build build ocean-going canoe for Tseshaht community
Nov 2, 2011
The Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht is the first aboriginal community to pursue funding under a system developed by the Aviva Insurance Company which involves online voting to select finalists for community grants. Tseshaht has proposed the a project to build an ocean-going canoe and a canoe shed, thereby reviving important traditions within the community (carving, paddling, visiting its traditional territories, interchanges with other coastal communities) and engaging its young people. Although Tseshaht was a whaling community in the past, for the last generation or so, Tseshaht has not had a canoe that is seaworthy enough to take on the ocean. This is an opportunity to renew that tradition.More...