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SFU Beedie takes home first place in 2022 BC MBA Games

Dec 12, 2022

A team of SFU Beedie MBA students celebrated a big win after taking home first place in this year’s BC MBA Games, hosted at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business from October 28 to 30. The BC MBA games, launched in 2015, is an annual competition held every October in British Columbia. With approximately 125 participants from business schools across the province, it is the largest gathering of MBA students in Canada. […]

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Winners named in first virtual i2I Venture Pitch competition

Nov 5, 2020

The annual i2I Venture Pitch Competition went ahead in a virtual format for the first time this year, as scientist-entrepreneurs graduating from the Invention to Innovation program at SFU’s Beedie School of Business pitched their research-based innovation ideas to a panel of judges with science commercialization, seed investment, and legal expertise. The year long, part-time Invention to Innovation (i2I) program develops entrepreneurial mindset in graduate scientists and engineers and enables them to create and commercialize solutions […]

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Beedie graduate programs ranked among world’s best for integrating sustainability

Oct 18, 2016

The Beedie School of Business has been ranked as one of the top 25 graduate business schools in the world for its dedication to integrating sustainability into the education of future business leaders.

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SFU Net Impact Competition connects MBAs with a passion for sustainability

Mar 19, 2015

Western Canada’s most sustainability-conscious MBA students will return to the Beedie School of Business in April to compete in the second annual SFU Net Impact Sustainability Case Competition.

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SFU Beedie MBAs net podium finish at World Economic Forum

Jan 27, 2015

A team of MBA students from the Beedie School of Business showcased their knowledge of sustainability at the 2015 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, earning the silver medal at the Business for a Better World case competition.

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BIV Sounding Board: SFU’s Beedie School of Business looks south

Jan 7, 2015

The following article was published in Business in Vancouver’s Sounding Board December edition.

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New Dean welcomes Beedie graduate students

Sep 2, 2014

As the first day of the new academic year heralds the start of a journey for students beginning their programs, this year also marks a landmark for the Beedie School of Business, as it finds itself under the tutelage of a new Dean.    

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24 Hours Toronto: Specialized MBAs on the rise

Aug 11, 2014

The following is an excerpt from the full article published in 24 Hours Toronto on August 11, 2014, and features comment from Beedie School of Business associate dean Ian McCarthy.

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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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EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership boosts First Nations postsecondary enrollment

Aug 26, 2013

The following article was published by The Georgia Straight on August 21, 2013. When Eldon Yellowhorn attended Simon Fraser University in the early 1990s, he was one of two First Nations graduate students, and he says he was among fewer than a dozen indigenous people enrolled at the institution. Now the chair of the department of First Nations studies at SFU, Yellowhorn notes that a lot has changed since then. The university now has more […]

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