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SFU’s Beedie School of Business to welcome new MBA cohorts

Dec 14, 2023

SFU’s Beedie School of Business will welcome two new cohorts to the MBA degree programs, beginning September, 2024—an online cohort of our part-time MBA program and an early career cohort of our full-time MBA program “We are continuing to innovate in our program design and delivery to provide students more options and flexibility to fit their needs. Students everywhere can now access our world-class programs and resources and continue their journey as future leaders,” says […]

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Award-winning innovation training program expands nationally

Jun 1, 2020

Aspiring scientist and technology entrepreneurs across Canada can now access SFU Beedie’s ground-breaking skills training program, Invention to Innovation (i2I). The announcement follows the successful completion of a pilot program offering the program in British Columbia and Alberta in partnership with Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that fosters growth and innovation in Canada by solving challenges with research solutions from the best academic institutions. The i2I Mitacs Skills Training Pilot is based on the i2I Graduate […]

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SFU Beedie entrepreneurship program wins global award, expands with Mitacs partnership

Apr 21, 2020

Invention to Innovation (i2), offered by SFU’s Beedie School of Business, has won international recognition after being highlighted among the annual Innovations That Inspire named by AACSB International (AACSB)—the world’s largest business education network. i2I is a transformational entrepreneurship experience that equips graduate scientists and engineers with the frameworks, perspectives and techniques to develop an innovative mindset and commercialize their inventions while overcoming marketplace challenges. Innovations That Inspire, an annual initiative run by AACSB, recognizes […]

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International experience inspired bank chief’s diversity push

Feb 12, 2020

Sandra Stuart (BA ’16), HSBC Canada’s President and CEO, can point to the experience that inspired her to fight for greater diversity and inclusion at the bank. “It was when I went to Brazil, and I recognised the challenges faced by women,” she says. “I was one of the few senior women—there was me and another lady, that was it. And it just struck me like a bolt of lightning: ‘This isn’t right’.” Stuart worked […]

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SFU Beedie alumnus takes healthy eating to the great outdoors

Dec 16, 2019

From tree planting in remote areas of BC to pitching his start-up business on CBC’s Dragons’ Den—via the European Union and a stint in corporate banking—Denis Mikhailov’s career path has been anything but orthodox. Mikhailov, a graduate of SFU Beedie’s Full Time MBA program, is the Founder and CEO of Nomad Nutrition Ltd, a venture that creates healthy dehydrated meals aimed at outdoor enthusiasts. A keen climber and adventurer who would take week-long excursions into […]

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SFU Beedie hosts Indigenous leadership courses

Nov 29, 2019

Leading figures in Indigenous business and politics gathered at the Segal Graduate School in October and November, 2019, for the Indigenous Leadership Series, hosted by Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. The series comprised two credit courses delivered in partnership with the University of Arizona, and two SFU executive courses. The credit courses were offered from October 18-20, covering Building Native Nations and Making Change Happen, and were taught by Stephen Cornell and Miriam […]

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SFU Beedie celebrates 50 years of its Executive MBA

Dec 13, 2018

Alumni, faculty and staff of SFU’s Beedie School of Business spanning the past five decades gathered in Vancouver for a special reception celebrating the 50th anniversary of the school’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program. SFU President Andrew Petter addressed the audience of more than 200 at the event, honouring the evolution of the business school and contribution to the university as a whole since its foundation. Petter shared the stage with Ali Dastmalchian, SFU Beedie’s Dean, […]

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SFU Beedie to host Indigenous governance program

Feb 28, 2018

SFU’s Beedie School of Business is partnering with the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona to host June in Vancouver (JiV), a new program in Indigenous governance, economic development and business. The two-week interactive program offers a series of eight non-credit courses, running from June 4 to 16, 2018, at SFU Beedie’s Segal Graduate School in downtown Vancouver. Students who complete six courses in either program are eligible for a non-credit certificate from […]

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Beedie hears Dr. Danielle Martin’s three big ideas to transform healthcare

Dec 1, 2014

The Canadian healthcare system is one that Canada can rightly be proud of – but that is not to say that there is not work needed. Specific improvements relating to equality, cost, and access would address the challenges faced by the system, for the benefit of all Canadians.

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HSBC Bank Canada and Teck win SFU diversity awards

Sep 17, 2014

A trio of awards recognizing outstanding efforts in promoting diversity in business were presented today at the Simon Fraser University 2014 Nancy McKinstry Awards for Leadership in Diversity.

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