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Financial Post: Teaching women to be more confident about their achievements

Sep 26, 2013

The following article was published in the Financial Post on September 25, 2013. Colleen Collins likes to illustrate the difference between men and women moving up the executive ranks with an anecdote. “If a woman sees a job with 12 requirements, and she can meet 10 of them, she won’t think she’s qualified to apply. But a man with only two of [the 12] skills believes he is,” says the former associate dean for Simon […]

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Higher learning offered in Surrey city centre by Beedie School of Business

Sep 6, 2013

The following article was published by BC Business on September 3, 2013. The Surrey campus opens its doors to the city’s first graduate business program. After years of asking for more local business programs, Surrey will see its first MBA program launch in January. The part-time degree was created for SFU’s Surrey campus after years of consulting with local business organizations and businesses themselves, according to Colleen Collins, associate dean of the Segal Graduate School […]

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Looking South: Beedie teams up with b-schools in Brazil, Mexico and the U.S. to offer Americas MBA

Dec 14, 2012

By Remy Scalza On a Sunday evening in late August, 53 business executives from as far as São Paulo, Brazil, and as near as Delta, B.C., gathered in the Bill Reid Gallery in downtown Vancouver.  In the shadow of totem poles, they bowed their heads for a welcome song and prayer, feasted on traditional barbecued salmon and marveled at masterworks of aboriginal art. Then, they got down to business: a lecture from a leading legal […]

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Americas MBA cohort converges upon Vancouver

Aug 23, 2012

The Beedie School of Business has this past week played host to visiting students from the USA, Mexico and Brazil, as the Americas MBA for Executives cohort gathers together in Vancouver for the first time. The Americas MBA is an elective stream in the EMBA program at SFU, which brings together students from participating institutions in the four largest economies in the Americas to work together and study business practice and management issues across different […]

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CMA and Beedie School of Business team up to offer SFU CMA/MBA Combined Program

Jul 26, 2012

The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and Certified Management Accountants of British Columbia have come together to deliver the SFU CMA/MBA Combined Program – an innovative and unique program that combines the strategic leadership core of CMA and the results-focused curriculum of the SFU MBA. The curriculum will allow qualified applicants to expedite and reduce the cost of working towards their CMA designation upon completion of their MBA. The highly-regarded designation is […]

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B.C. MBAs Go Global With BRIC Partnerships

Apr 11, 2012

The following article was published by BC Business Magazine on April 2, 2012 as part of their MBA guide. BY REBECCA TAY, BC BUSINESS MAGAZINE Local schools broaden their international focus to include Brazil, Russia, India and China. Say “BRIC” to any economist, analyst or politician and the response will almost invariably be that the countries represented by the acronym – Brazil, Russia, India and China – will dominate the global economic landscape in coming […]

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