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Business and design combination yields Facebook job for BBA Taylor Ward
Oct 6, 2016
Taylor Ward’s student experience has been tailor-made for success.More...
HQ Vancouver: Growing a global hub of premium and performance apparel in B.C.
Jan 21, 2016
Unbeknownst to many of its residents, British Columbia is home to a cluster of head offices in the premium and performance apparel sector – and the province should strive to leverage the unique advantages it has to offer to entice organizations to set up head offices here, and nurture those less-developed ones that already call B.C. home.More...
Province: SFU student designs insoles that would generate power to charge Vancouver
Jan 28, 2015
Student’s concept of insoles that would store electricity when we walk snares berth in international design competition.More...
Beedie partners with Emily Carr to tackle sustainability through entrepreneurship
Sep 8, 2014
This summer, undergraduates at SFU’s Beedie School of Business and Emily Carr University showcased and sold sustainable products of their own design in the culmination of the interdisciplinary entrepreneurship platFORM program.More...
Active Design
May 17, 2013
By David Dunne, adjunct senior fellow at the Beedie School of Business. As you settle into the firm, yet cozy, seats in your brand-new BMW, you immerse yourself in your surroundings. The smooth feel of the steering column as you gently caress it: uncannily, it seems to caress you in return. The new-car smell, that chemical bouquet that shouts opulence and sensuality louder than words ever can. The coloured lights and indicators, meticulously arranged to […]More...
David Dunne delivers business design to SFU’s MBA programs
Jul 5, 2012
Whether it’s in the delivery of state-of-the-art smart phones or innovative health care, design thinking is an increasingly critical element for businesses and organizations in 2012. For David Dunne, Beedie School of Business Adjunct Senior Fellow, the intersection of design and business translates into major challenges and opportunities for managers, entrepreneurs and other leaders. Design thinking is defined as approaching management problems as designers approach design problems. Though it has been traditionally associated with product and service design, it also has important implications for management, something recognized increasingly by both academic research and the business press. Dunne, an award-winning management educator, author and consultant who is jointly appointed with the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, joined Simon Fraser University earlier this year. He combines international experience as a senior executive with an outstanding record as an academic.More...