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Graduate student team selected for exclusive Hult Prize competition

Jan 15, 2016

A team of Beedie School of Business graduate students has qualified from a field of over 25,000 applicants for the prestigious Hult Prize, the largest student competition in the world.

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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.

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Enactus SFU nets fourth consecutive Western Canada Regional Championship title

Mar 31, 2015

A team of five Simon Fraser University students has netted the title of Enactus Canada’s Financial Education Challenge Western Canada regional champion – the fourth consecutive year a team from Enactus SFU has taken home the title.

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BBA Chantelle Buffie wins national entrepreneurship competition

Mar 28, 2014

A new student venture that will provide a dedicated communications channel for residential property managers and tenants has won the Newcomers category at the National Business & Technology Conference entrepreneurship competition.

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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 […]

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Beedie named Academic School of the Year at JDC West

Jan 23, 2013

SFU’s Beedie School of Business captured the Academic School of the Year award at the prestigious JDC West case competition, held from January 18 to 20 at the University of British Columbia, edging out stiff competition from 11 other leading Canadian business schools to claim the title. The Academic School of the Year award is presented to the team which achieves the highest overall finish in the JDC West competition’s ten academic categories. In addition, the […]

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BBAs gear up for JDC West

Jun 27, 2012

The 2013 JDC West business schools showdown is six months away, but the SFU Beedie team is already hard at work to prepare for the prestigious competition. Over the past few weeks, candidates for SFU Beedie’s JDC West academic team partook in the new case competition cohort, taught by instructor Tara Immell. The students did practice cases and presentations to develop their understanding of how to analyse cases and work as a team. The team […]

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Beedie Olympics delivers SFU spirit and funds for Right to Play

Jun 22, 2012

BURNABY, BC– As the world gears up for the forthcoming London Summer Games, a new Olympics tradition is also coming to SFU’s Beedie School of Business. The Beedie Olympics is a new student engagement initiative aimed to strengthen the Beedie community – and raise money for the global sporting charity Right to Play. The unique on-campus event will be the first of its kind to bring together faculty, alumni, and undergraduates through friendly competition. Through […]

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Beedie students to lead the charge at upcoming SFU entrepreneurship showdown

Feb 1, 2012

by Joanne Leung Both students and alumni from SFU’s Beedie School of Business have been selected to compete on February 11 for $5000 in cash prizes at the upcoming Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize Competition, which will take place at the Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver. The start-up competition is organized by SFU Venture Connection, recognizing excellence in business development among early-stage clients participating in the VentureSpark program. Of the seven finalists—the […]

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Beedie undergrad is SFU’s Student Entrepreneur of the Year

Nov 24, 2011

The founder of a burgeoning online instant gift card company is Simon Fraser University’s newest Student Entrepreneur of the Year. Matias Marquez, an undergraduate student in the Beedie School of Business, took the honour at the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) annual competition held on Nov. 19. His company, Buyatab.com, Canada’s leading digital gift card processor is a “software-as-a-service” digital gift card processing technology that becomes embedded onto its customers’ websites. According to Marquez, thousands of merchant locations across […]

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