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Business In Vancouver: Schools pave path to indigenous business success

Jan 19, 2016

More First Nations students navigate post-secondary business training as indigenous high school graduation notches to all-time high. 

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Beedie hosts leading Canadian financier Stephen Jarislowsky

Jul 31, 2015

Humans must fight the inherent animal emotions within them and train themselves to think carefully in order to make successful investments. Capitulating to fear and greed will only result in investments failing, much like the recent crash in the Chinese stock market.

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BBA grad connects retired professionals to part-time employment

Jun 29, 2015

A new website co-founded by a recent graduate of the BBA program at the Beedie School of Business is helping connect retired professionals with organizations seeking professional expertise.

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Beedie hosts Inequality, Institutions and Organizations Conference

Jun 11, 2013

The Beedie School of Business brought together some of the world’s leading experts on social inequality to share research and engage in meaningful discussion on how organizations and institutions contribute to or mitigate inequality at the Inequality, Institutions and Organizations Conference. With social inequality remaining a profound issue for both developing and developed societies, the conference sought to further explore the increasing problem of inequality growing in developed countries in conjunction with the growing power […]

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WestJet head talks effective employee engagement: CEO Series

Apr 25, 2013

The spring series of CKNW 980’s “The Chief Executives” continued with Gregg Saretsky, President and CEO of Canadian airline WestJet, sharing his vision for employee engagement with CKNW host Bill Good in front of a live audience at the Segal Graduate School. The event was part of an ongoing partnership between the Beedie School of Business and prominent Vancouver radio station CKNW News Talk 980 to bring leadership and business insights from some of Canada’s […]

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Management narrative: How poetry informs business

Dec 12, 2012

While Kathleen Burke's inclusion of poetry in a management class is relatively rare, it is a practice that is garnering growing acceptance. In a recent article, Harvard Business Review author John Coleman made the case that reading and writing poetry can be a valuable component of leadership development.

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Bridging the Digital Divide

Jun 21, 2012

Beedie App Brings Software Engineers, Business Professionals – and the World – Closer Together. In 2010’s hit film The Social Network, a young Mark Zuckerberg knows he has just launched something special when – out of the blue – a fellow Harvard student asks him to “Facebook me.” Simon Fraser University’s Justin Lee, a fourth-year accounting student in the Beedie School of Business who helped develop the pioneering new Beedie iPhone app, hasn’t quite experienced […]

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