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Business Technology Management Advisory Board welcomes new members

Mar 13, 2014

The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University has welcomed several new board members representing globally renowned organizations to its Business Technology Management (BTM) Advisory Board.

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Beedie welcomes inaugural part-time MBA cohort

Jan 22, 2014

The Beedie School of Business is pleased to welcome the first cohort of students to its newest graduate program, the part-time MBA at Surrey. The new cohort was welcomed to the school at an opening reception and orientation at the SFU Surrey campus on January 10, with classes beginning the following week. “We are very pleased by the caliber of students in the program, as well as their enthusiasm and commitment to this opportunity,” said […]

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Beedie’s Business Technology Management Certificate awarded first national accreditation

Jun 18, 2013

The Certificate in Business Technology Management at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business is the first Business Technology Management program in Canada to be awarded national accreditation. The accreditation is the result of a rigorous process of program evaluation conducted by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), and the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT). “This is a milestone achievement in the development of the BTM program at SFU,” said Dr. Dianne Cyr, […]

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SFU’s Beedie School of Business launches first MBA for Surrey

May 28, 2013

Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has announced another first with its MBA program at Surrey, one of Canada’s fastest-growing major cities and an important economic hub for the south Fraser region and British Columbia. The part-time Surrey MBA program will meet the needs of a growing number of managers, entrepreneurs and business leaders seeking to enhance their business skillset without skipping a beat in their professional careers. Featuring the same curriculum as SFU’s […]

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Beedie undergrads examine election’s effect on public transit

Mar 20, 2013

A group of Beedie school of Business undergraduate students explored how the forthcoming provincial elections will affect issues in public transit at an event held at SFU’s Surrey campus last week. The event, Get On Board SFU, featured guest speakers Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at SFU, former Board Member of Metro Vancouver & Translink, and recent recipient of the SFU President’s Award for 2012; City of Surrey councillor Tom Gill; and Nick […]

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Beedie Professor Dianne Cyr nets prestigious Most Cited Paper Award

Mar 11, 2013

Dianne Cyr, a professor of management information systems at the Beedie School of Business has received an award for most cited paper from the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. The prestigious award is given to the paper with the highest number of citations (excluding self-citations) between 2010 and 2012, and is a strong measure of the paper’s reach within the academic community and beyond. The winning paper, ‘‘Colour appeal in website design within and across […]

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Beedie MIS Prof. brings networking for women to major conference

Aug 31, 2012

Professor Dianne Cyr continued the Beedie School of Business’ long history of supporting women in business when she organized and hosted a networking event for women in information systems at a major conference recently. The Beedie-sponsored networking reception was part of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), held in Seattle, Washington from August 9 to 11. AMCIS is the annual research conference of the Association for Information Systems, the premier global organization for academics, […]

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Visiting Netherlands researcher at crucial intersection of Internet and health promotion

Apr 3, 2012

Rik Crutzen, a researcher from the Department of Health Promotion at the CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care in the Netherlands, is a visiting scholar at the Beedie School of Business this year. He is working with award-winning Beedie School of Business faculty member Dianne Cyr on e-loyalty and website content issues in the context of health care and health promotion and marketing.

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Certificate of Business Technology Management (BTM) addresses labour market needs

Oct 31, 2011

The recently-launched Certificate of Business Technology Management (BTM) - a program that enhances academic and career opportunities for business undergraduates immersed in the realms of technology and innovation - continues to garner significant student body interest at SFU's Beedie School of Business.

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