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Beedie Group celebrates 60 years in business

Apr 4, 2014

Family that runs B.C.’s largest industrial property developer are also front-rank philanthropists.

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Alannah Cervenko aims high after MBA experience

Aug 24, 2012

Beedie School of Business MBA student Alannah Cervenko has accomplished a lot in the last year of her life. But as she prepares to move on from the MBA program to one of the world’s largest mining companies, she intends to use the experience she has gained from it in order to accomplish even more in the future. Cervenko graduated from UBC in 2006 with a degree in Psychology, before going on to work as […]

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Students Pluck Management Case from Vancouver Hockey Riot

Jun 22, 2012

Undergrads parlay business lessons from post-Stanley Cup mayhem into victories at global ethics competition. For British Columbia hockey fans and observers of civic affairs, 2011 will be remembered for the troubling Stanley Cup riots in the aftermath of the Vancouver Canucks’ Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins. The event is something many of the city’s residents would like to forget. But for a team of students from the Beedie School of Business, the riots […]

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MBAs connect fellow students with leading women executives

May 30, 2012

Two graduate business students at Simon Fraser University are putting their business acumen to work for the benefit of young women hoping to make positive strides as future leaders, managers and entrepreneurs. Alannah Cervenko and Alice Longhurst, graduate students in the MBA program at Simon Fraser University, created the Graduate Business Women’s Council for the Beedie School of Business in 2011. To date, their primary focus has been raising awareness amongst the membership about upcoming […]

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