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SFU Beedie faculty member receives KD Tocher Medal for research into spread of rumours on social media

Jan 24, 2024

SFU’s Beedie School of Business congratulates Assistant Professor Chaitanya “CK” Kaligotla on receiving the KD Tocher Medal from the Operational Research Society (ORS). The award recognizes Kaligotla’s paper Diffusion of Competing Rumours on Social Media as an outstanding contribution to the philosophy, theory or practice of simulation published in the Journal of Simulation. The paper, based on research conducted by Kaligotla for his doctoral thesis, is co-authored with Enver Yucesan and Stephen E. Chick. It […]

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SFU triumphs in 2023 BC MBA Games: Celebrates first place in academics and hosts first ever all-Indigenous team

Jan 17, 2024

  SFU’s Beedie School of Business was the proud host of the 2023 BC MBA Games December 1-3, riding on the momentum of their victory in the 2022 competition. This year’s event saw participation from teams representing University Canada West and Vancouver Island University. Events included academic, sports and spirit categories, all centred on the theme of ‘Decolonizing Business’. This approach challenges systems and practices rooted in historical colonial systems that devastated the economic and […]

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SFU Beedie professor Natalie Bin Zhao awarded Mitacs grant

Sep 8, 2022

SFU Beedie Professor Natalie Bin Zhao has been awarded a Mitacs grant to understand the business insider’s perspective on medical device recalls, and how that perspective affects opportunities for organizational learning and improvement. The $15,000 award will also help support Professor Zhao’s research assistant and PhD student. Professor Zhao’s proposed research seeks to understand the CEO’s role in a firm’s response to product failures, including failure correction through leader modelling fallibility (LMF). LMF refers to […]

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SFU Beedie professors awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

Jun 16, 2022

SFU Beedie professors Rekha Krishnan, Rajiv Kozhikode have been selected to receive an Insight grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRHC). The Insight program aims to support and foster excellence in social sciences and humanities research intended to deepen, widen and increase our collective understanding of individuals and societies, as well as to inform the search for solutions to societal challenges. In start-up accelerators, women are not only evaluated alongside men but […]

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“Dare to do things differently”: Retiring faculty remember SFU Beedie’s unconventional early beginnings

May 4, 2022

Starting with its early commitment to community engagement and innovation, Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has embraced a radical and unconventional ethos from the beginning. Originally established as the Faculty of Business Administration in 1982, SFU Beedie has, since its inception, celebrated academic freedom and dialogue by bringing in diverse, progressive, interdisciplinary and innovative faculty. “We thought of ourselves as a radical campus at the time,” says Blaize Horner Reich, RBC Professor of […]

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The Ali Dastmalchian Memorial Fund

Apr 8, 2022

SFU’s Beedie School of Business is pleased to announce the Ali Dastmalchian Memorial International Study Abroad Award, in memory of our late dean, Dr. Ali Dastmalchian. Ali was an avid supporter of students’ international experiences and a driving force behind SFU Beedie’s internationalization strategy. To honour his leadership and to continue his vision to strengthen SFU Beedie’s global outlook, friends and colleagues donated generously to establish an endowed award in his name. This new award, […]

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2021 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award winners announced

Mar 15, 2022

Shauna Jones and Michael Parent have been named the winners of the 2021 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards, the highest teaching honour of its kind at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. Parent is a professor of management information systems and marketing at the Segal Graduate School of Business, while Jones is a senior lecturer well-known for teaching BUS 202 – Foundations in Collaborative Work Environments. Each year, SFU Beedie students, faculty, and alumni nominate their favourite […]

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Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson named SFU’s first Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion

Jan 5, 2022

Following extensive community consultation, an international search, and approval of the SFU Board of Governors, Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson will be SFU’s first Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion (VPPEI). She will begin April 15, 2022. Yabome has deep connections to the SFU community. She is both an alumnus and a current adjunct faculty member of the Beedie School of Business, and will become an associate faculty member as of her start date. She is well known to […]

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From “energizing” to “yikes!”: Faculty members talk about their return to in-person teaching

Nov 30, 2021

We recently asked five faculty members to describe their return to in-person teaching in one word. Kathleen Burke, a university lecturer in the Beedie School of Business, said the experience was “energizing.” Taco Niet, an assistant professor in the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering, chose “surreal.” Leanne Johnson, a lecturer in the Master of Publishing Program, gave us “yikes!” Ash Parameswaran, a professor in the School of Engineering Science, said it “felt really good” (we […]

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Twin BBA alumni leverage family entrepreneurial gene

Aug 25, 2015

Beedie School of Business alumni Haley and Maney Grewal share more than just their looks. The twin brothers also share a passion for entrepreneurial endeavours – one that was nurtured in the Beedie BBA program.

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