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AACSB BizEd Magazine profiles Beedie Mobile: What’s App-enin’ At B-Schools

Nov 21, 2011

That was the case for the Beedie School. A team of five SFU computer science and business students created Beedie's app as a 13-week project for an interdisciplinary course, "Foundations of Innovation" in 2010. Jan Kietzmann, who teaches the course, planned to make iPhone app design a general focus for the course. But he says it was a "natural progression" to shift the focus to creating a Beedie School app. The team was guided in the project by Kietzmann; Moscato; Dan Shapiro, the dean; and Andrew Gemino, associate dean of undergraduate programs and associate professor of management information systems. After the course ended, Moscato continued to work with the students to perfect the app before its release five months later in spring 2011. "Although the project was introduced to the students from 'up top,' the students really loved the idea and took it upon themselves to identify where and how an app could help improve their lives as students," says Kietzmann. The students decided that the Beedie School app should be an information hub. They wanted it to integrate the school's Twitter and Facebook feeds with links to announcements about current research from school faculty and graduate students, says Justin Lee, a member of the student team.

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Burnaby advertising company meets with Dragon’s Den

Nov 17, 2011

BY JANAYA FULLER-EVANS, BURNABY NOW Ads on Naps co-founders Jag Manhas and Phil Chow entered the Dragon’s Den voluntarily, and survived. Manhas, a British Columbia Institute of Technology student and Chow, a Simon Fraser University alumnus, took part in a mini Dragon’s Den at SFU’s Surrey campus on Sept. 9. The advertising company sells high-definition ad space on napkins, which are supplied free of charge to businesses in Canada. The Ads on Naps team went […]

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