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SFU Beedie celebrates 20th anniversary of CaseIT international MIS case competition

Mar 21, 2023

In February 2023, SFU’s Beedie School of Business celebrated the 20th anniversary of the CaseIT international MIS case competition. This annual event brings some of the world’s top undergraduate business students to Vancouver to compete in a challenging week-long case competition that tests their analytical and presentation skills. This year’s competition was particularly special, as it marked two decades since the first CaseIT competition was held at SFU Beedie. Over the years, CaseIT has become […]

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SFU Beedie’s CaseIT thrives in first online edition

Mar 12, 2021

The student organizing committee behind CaseIT, the leading international case competition focusing on management information systems (MIS), faced a daunting challenge as they planned the 2021 event. The competition attracts top business students from high-calibre business schools all over the world to compete and network with one another in close collaboration. With international travel and in-person meetings impossible, the organizers were sent back to the drawing board with no precedent to follow, as they created […]

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Beedie students strike gold at APEX Global Case Challenge

May 13, 2016

Beedie School of Business undergraduate students continued their impressive form at global case competitions in 2016, earning the gold medal at the prestigious APEX Business-IT Global Case Challenge, one of the world’s premier management information systems case competitions.

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Podium place for Beedie undergrads at APEX case competition

May 12, 2015

A team of Beedie School of Business undergraduate students earned the bronze medal in the prestigious APEX Business-IT Global Case Challenge, regarded as one of the top management information systems (MIS) case competitions in the world.

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CaseIT competition marks 11 years at the top

Feb 3, 2014

Schools from across the globe will gather in Vancouver this week to compete at CaseIT, the Beedie School of Business’ annual undergraduate Management Information Systems (MIS) case competition. The competition will be held from February 5 to 8, and will encompass a corporate networking event, a discussion panel, and a 24-hour case deliberation. This year’s case will focus on the topic of “Big Data”, a collection of data sets so large and complex, that it […]

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Anthony Chan – TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award winner 2013

Aug 23, 2013

Anthony Chan’s long-term affiliation with the Beedie School of Business has given him a unique insight into the needs of the students – one that not only benefits those he teaches, but as the winner of the TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award for 2013, has undoubtedly benefited him too. Chan, a lecturer in Beedie’s Management Information Systems (MIS) area, actually studied for his undergraduate degree at Simon Fraser, where he majored in MIS. After […]

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Singapore silver for Team Beedie at APEX Global Case Challenge

May 23, 2013

The Beedie School of Business continued its recent winning form in university case competitions by grabbing the silver medal at the high-profile APEX Business-IT Global Case Challenge. The competition, hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU) from May 12 to 16, is regarded as one of the top management information systems case competitions in the world, and this year featured 24 top universities from as far afield as Germany, Denmark, Hong Kong, Australia, and the US. […]

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Canadian Universities Sweep 10th International CaseIT Competition

Feb 26, 2013

The following article was published by the CIO Association of Canada “The Future of Canadian IT is in Good Hands.” For the first time since its inception in 2004, the International CaseIT competition, hosted annually by MIS (Management Information Students) at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, and co-sponsored by the CIO Association of Canada – Vancouver Chapter,  three Canadian teams have captured all three podium spots. This year’s sixteen qualifying teams hailed from […]

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Undergrads take CaseIT challenge to the world

Nov 14, 2012

In 2004, two Beedie School of Business undergrads founded the SFU-hosted CaseIT, an internal undergraduate case competition focused on management information systems (MIS). In the years since, the competition has grown to become the largest MIS case competition in North America, with teams participating from all over the world journeying to Vancouver and the Simon Fraser University campus to compete. Yet, rather than being surprised by the success of the competition, founders Paul Cyr and […]

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Beedie-hosted CaseIT competition draws global class

Feb 9, 2012

by Joanne Leung Some of the world’s most prestigious business schools met in Vancouver for CaseIT 2012, an annual international undergraduate case competition with a strong MIS focus designed to find the best and brightest in strategic IT case analysis. Hosted annually by Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, CaseIT is an entirely student-organized event in which 16 university teams compete in a 24-hour case deliberation. The winners of this year’s CaseIT competition were: […]

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