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Five Management Education Highlights from the 2012 Academy of Management Meetings
Oct 5, 2012
by David Rubeli Shauna Jones and I attended the 2012 Academy of Management (AoM) meetings in Boston, MA. In this article, I share five conference highlights that are relevant to the Beedie B.BA program and graduate programs at the Segal School: 1. Deep explorations of reflection and action learning at MIT Sloan 2. Henry Mintzberg’s inspiring MED Division Keynote 3. Clayton Christensen and David Teece on innovation in business schools 4. Exciting research on experiential […]More...
SFU Beedie PhD alumnus on the appetite for business education in China
Jul 6, 2012
The following article was published by The Globe and Mail on July 5, 2012. Unlike in North America where students typically look like they want to leave 10 minutes before the scheduled end of a class, in Beijing Majid Ghorbani’s lectures often run 10 minutes overtime, or longer. “Students in China can’t seem to get enough. They make me feel like they really want to learn,” says the recently transplanted Vancouverite, now an assistant professor […]More...