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Italian fashion students learn what it means to be a Canadian
Jul 31, 2012
Business students from Italy spent July in Vancouver as part of a unique collaboration between SFU’s Beedie School of Business and the Università Bocconi – and were given a crash course in Canadian culture as part of their visit. The visiting students from Bocconi, located in the fashion capital of Italy, Milan, and regarded as Italy’s top business and economics school, were paired with SFU students from the “Business 492: Management of Fashion Companies,” class […]More...
BC Business: Schooling Italia: Vancouver’s Fashion Industry
Oct 19, 2011
Visiting fashion students learn a thing or two about la dolce vita in Vancouver. Fashion is born from a region’s distinctive character. That’s the take-away message from a group of Italian students who came to Vancouver for a lesson in fashion management. Last July, 31 undergraduate business students from Milan’s Bocconi University travelled here for the Management of Fashion Companies course offered jointly by Bocconi and SFU’s Beedie School of Business. Six SFU students also took part in the […]More...
Business students make leap from high finance to haute couture
Jul 11, 2011
The Beedie School of Business class “Business 492: Management of Fashion Companies” has paired up undergraduate students from SFU’s Beedie School of Business with a cohort of visiting students from Bocconi, regarded as Italy’s top business and economics school, who are visiting Canada this summer.More...