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Elicia Maine and Lisa Papania earn 2017 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards

Oct 5, 2017

Beedie School of Business faculty members Elicia Maine and Lisa Papania have been named winners of the TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award for 2017. This award is the highest teaching honour of its kind at the Beedie School. Every year, students, faculty, and alumni of the Beedie School of Business nominate instructors teaching in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs for this prestigious award. Up to two awards are presented each year to instructors based […]

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Beedie students showcase sustainable products

Nov 26, 2014

Beedie School of Business students continue to contribute to Vancouver’s Greenest City by 2020 goals with the kick-off of Products for a Circular Economy, a four-day event that showcased sustainable products of the students’ own creation.

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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.

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SFU Entrepreneur of the Year Competition showcases Beedie innovation

Nov 27, 2013

Two teams of students from the Beedie School of Business took their place on the podium at the sixth Annual SFU Entrepreneur of the Year Competition. This year’s competition took place at the SFU Surrey Campus on November 16, and brought together SFU’s finest entrepreneurs in a Dragon’s Den style competition to compete for funding and resources to take their venture to the next level. Second place at the competition went to Salvedge Bags, a […]

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Combining innovation with sustainability

Mar 24, 2013

Undergraduate students create innovative products to aid Vancouver’s green goals. The City of Vancouver has set itself the ambitious target of becoming the greenest city in the world by 2020. And while the action plan set out by the city is comprehensive, many smaller initiatives in the community are often overlooked. One such example of these initiatives is occurring at the Beedie School of Business, taking advantage of a partnership with the City of Vancouver […]

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Students’ sustainable products boost Vancouver’s Greenest City bid

Dec 10, 2012

A group of undergraduate students at the Beedie School of Business have been helping Vancouver achieve its target of becoming the world’s greenest city by 2020 through a class project with a distinctly sustainable theme. This past fall, students in the class Business 443: New Product Development, taught by Lisa Papania, were tasked with conceptualizing, designing, producing, marketing and selling a product or service involving used textiles and clothing. The project encouraged the students to […]

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